Educational Articles

“Sharing knowledge about pollinators and wildlife and their importance in our ecosystem is particularly important to the VillageWalk Garden Club. We meet on a regular basis to increase our knowledge about sustainability, recycling, horticulture, native plants, wildlife and many other topics.

But it’s not enough for us to keep this knowledge inside the Club. We are excited to be able to use this website to share our knowledge with VillageWalk residents, as well as people outside of the community. We encourage you to bookmark this site and refer to it often. We will populate this page with new educational articles as they become available.

Latest Article

Have you ever wanted to make changes to your gardening habits to increase its long-term sustainability? Check out our advice in the latest article from our Horticultural and Wildlife Education Committee.

Littoral Zones: Click Here to read the article.

Library (Previous Articles)

Click on a specific article below to learn more about the subject. (Note: The article will open in a new browser window. When you finish reading the article, please close that window to return to this page.)

Topic of Article (in alphabetical order)	Link to Article
Artillery Ferns: One person’s weed is another’s house plant or ground cover.	Click Here
Atala Butterfly: Rare and Endangered butterfly.	Click Here
Bald Cypress Trees: SWFL residents for millions of years.	Click Here
Ball Moss: Helpful to the environment.	Click Here
Blue Carbon: The carbon that is captured by the world’s oceans, salt marshes, mangroves, and seagrass beds.	Click Here
Cleaning & Sharpening Tools: Clean tools work more effectively and extend the life of the tool.	Click Here
Coontie, A Cycad: The most beautiful, fruitful, productive, interesting, and educational VWGC Butterfly Garden attracts loads of insects, birds, butterflies — and visitors.	Click Here
Coreopsis: The Florida state flower.	Click Here
Cuban Brown Anole: The most seen lizard in Florida.	Click Here
Flight of Monarch Butterflies: Learn how far these beautiful butterflies migrate every year.	Click Here
Growing Bromeliad Pups: A How-To guide to grow your very own bromeliad plants.	Click Here
Lubber Grasshopper: A destructive garden pest.	Click Here
Limpkins: The most annoying bird in the world.	Click Here
Littoral Zones: Keys to well-balanced lakes.	Click Here
Mosquito Challenge: How much do you know about our fellow FL residents?	Click Here
National Butterflies Day: Interesting facts about nature’s flying paintings.	Click Here
Native Plants and Sustainability: Learn about the many advantages of using native plants to create sustainable ecosystems.	Click Here
Osprey: Elegant open-air hunters.	Click Here
Pop Quiz: How much do you really know about Florida wildlife?	Click Here
Recycling: Garbage and Our Earth: A Tour of Lee County Recycling Facility.	Click Here
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird: Just as important to plant pollination and bees and butterflies.	Click Here
SWFL Native Plants: Highlighting a few of the native plants that attract birds.	Click Here
Southern Live Oaks: Old, Regal, and relics of a bygone era.	Click Here
Whisk Ferns: Leafless and rootless but critical to our habitat.	Click Here
Zebra Longwing: Florida’s official state butterfly.	Click Here
Zinnias: Flowers that attract butterflies with bright, bold, and tropical colors.	Click Here