SEASON 33 | MARCH 2021

11TH ANNUAL GARDEN PARTY

Come join us in a day of frivolity as we replenish our Nationally Certified Butterfly Sanctuary at The Butterfly Bar @The VORTEX. Over the past decade, we have actively cultivated butterfly vines, fed the caterpillars, and watched them emerge from their chrysalises as butterflies of many varieties. Celebrate with neighbors and friends of The VORTEX with a day of art, planting, live music, and renewal of the Earth. Bring a butterfly plant to add to our butterfly garden.

Live Music. Opportunities for plantings and education. Kids will love the Tiny Tails to You Petting Zoo. Arts and crafts kits provide hands-on opportunities for people to create their own butterfly-inspired artworks. The Butterfly Bar will be serving Garden inspired cocktails. Physically distanced seating and safety protocols in effect!

Donations of butterfly-friendly plants are much appreciated. These native plants would be great additions to the sanctuary: Milkweed, Milkweed, Milkweed (for the Monarchs), Shrimp Plant, Verbena, Frogfruit, Gregg’s Mistflower, Yarrow, Zinnia, and Snap Dragon.  Other plants that folks could also bring include Passion Vine, Coral Honey Suckle, Alamo Vine, Spicebush, Lantana, Sunflower, Flame Acanthus, Fire Bush, Bottlebrush, Bluebonnet, Indian Paintbrush, Salvia, Purple Coneflower, Turk’s Cap, Yucca (twist-leaf).  

Pottery, potting soil, mulch, & compost are much appreciated donations.

***Tillery Street Plant Company is our go-to nursery for all of our butterfly gardening needs.***

***We also use an extensive butterfly plant list from The Natural Gardener.***

Thanks for helping us make The Butterfly Bar @ The VORTEX a great community spot that butterflies and their human friends can enjoy! 

The Garden Party is funded and supported in part by VORTEX Repertory Company, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Tiny Tails to You, a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, and by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.