Museum of Transportation

This week we traveled to the Museum of Transportation to help April sustain her native plant gardens and plots. One the first day we pulled our Bermuda grass. Which has the some of the strongest grass roots I have ever seen! Also on the plot we pulled out foxtail to clear a nice opening to transplant sustainable native plants. At the museum they have grown towards sustainable native plants because they can endure the climate of Missouri weather as well as last through the winter and continue to flower from year to year. It is also important to use native plants because they are good habitats for local wildlife that help promote and save habitats and protection of wildlife. We finished off the day by transplanting beauty berry from the entrance plot to the museum to a cleared out plot. Our second visit we continued to pull out the stubborn Bermuda grass. The Bermuda grasses has a rhizominous root system (mass of roots) meaning the roots grow out of the nodes liking creeping root stalks. We then planted the wildflowers: bergamot, golden Alexander, false beardtongue, and rattlesnake master. All of these native plants made the small plot look much better than when we started. Even though we were all quite exhausted after volunteering it was cool to see and learn about native plants and a local facility that is working towards sustaining our native plants.

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