Bermuda Run Garden Club plants pollinator gardens

Published 12:00 am Thursday, July 31, 2025

By Lynette Wikle

For the Clemmons Courier

After a couple of months of relaxing and admiring the fruits of spring planting, the Bermuda Run Garden Club has resumed its community involvement by sharing the love of plants and caring for the environment. On Tuesday, July 15, several club and community members met in Kinderton to bring to fruition a long-awaited project. The Pollinator Committee met several times to discuss and plan the Educational Pollinator Gardens, located along the Blue Heron Trail that runs between the Bermuda Run town center to the Kinderton neighborhood.

Many articles have appeared lately discussing how the lack of pollinators is detrimental to our environment and for the existence of certain plants and wildlife. One of the core goals of the garden club is to bring awareness and to educate about plants and their role in our lives, so when discussion began about adding some color to the recently completed Blue Heron trail it seemed the perfect opportunity to make the plantings have a purpose beyond beautification.

Steve Genaway, Kinderton neighborhood contact person and Andrew Meadwell, Bermuda Run Town Manager were key to help this project get, not off, but in the ground. Bermuda Run Garden Club also wishes to thank James Atwood, who totally reworked the dry areas to get the ground ready for planting, and Christy Schafer and Stacy Cornatzer for their help as well.

You may be wondering about the plant selection. The garden club members have been growing their knowledge of the best plants to assist pollinators for some time. I have written here earlier that we have a Junior Gardener program at Davie Middle School to share this information, and we have had programs to broaden our knowledge. With this arsenal we selected plants that are full sun, drought and deer resistant. The plants feed all pollinator types and blooms will be found during three seasons. During the winter months the seeds will feed the birds. Plants such as Blue Star, Bee Balm, purple Coneflower and Joe Pye weed were used. Plants are clearly labeled with signage in the ground.

It is our hope that as you walk along the Blue Heron Trail you will appreciate the efforts of your neighbors in the garden club. The two gardens are located at the end of Lakeside Crossing and Pinewood Lane and at the opening of the tunnel that goes under I-40 at the split rail fences.

Coming soon is our semi-annual shredding event. This will take place Sept. 20 from 9 a.m. to noon, rain or shire in the Bermuda Run Town Hall at 120 Kinderton Blvd. We ask that you bring your documents in a brown grocery bag or similar size box. Items are $5 each and we accept cash only. The proceeds go to programs that benefit Davie County. We look forward to seeing you there.