PORTAGE, Ohio (AP) - A renovated rest stop along Interstate 75 in northern Ohio includes a small garden with native flowers and grasses designed to attract pollinating birds and bees.
The “pollinator habitat garden” covers one-third of an acre at the rest stop just south of Bowling Green.
The Ohio Department of Transportation says it will take a while for the garden’s 1,500 plants to take shape.
Joel Hunt oversees the highway department’s highway beautification and pollinator habitat program.
He tells The Blade (https://bit.ly/2t3xB1E ) newspaper in Toledo that the garden will become more colorful next summer and that it will be fully established in about four years.
A group of students, researchers, and others studying monarch butterflies, will help with maintenance.
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Information from: The Blade, https://www.toledoblade.com/
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