Glide-path garden: Moorings Park creates unique space with butterflies

Moorings Park residents are a green group. A number of them grow herbs for the senior residences’ dining room kitchen and vegetables for themselves.

They have built nesting boxes for the local birds and an osprey platform that has feathered friends using it.

And this week, they added butterflies to the list of local wildlife they’re helping to nurture, with a butterfly garden on its grounds.

The residents dedicated their garden Tuesday morning, releasing six kinds of lepidoptera in the garden. There are benches to enjoy the view and some 15 kinds of plants and bushes that offer nectar and food to butterflies; the project came from the efforts of residents Fred Yarrington, Ed Smith, Nate Benson and Eloise Ingram, a butterfly enthusiast who worked to create the right with Mike Malloy, a Naples butterfly enthusiast and landscape designer, as a consultant to create the space.