To the editor:
Clean, green and beautiful: Isn’t that what we want our community to look like?
Nashville and Brown County are getting ready for the onslaught of tourists that arrive in the fall. They come because we are “beautiful.” Saturday, Sept. 10 was National Planting Day, a fall initiative of Keep America Beautiful, of which Keep Brown County Beautiful is an affiliate.
This fall, you can add to the beauty of your own yards by planting native species of trees, shrubs and plants. Native plants support our pollinators and promote the health of honeybees, and native plants provide the needed sustenance to our native wildlife that depend on them.
Keep America Beautiful provided Keep Brown County Beautiful with four pollinator plants that you can find in front of the Brown County Parks and Recreation office in Deer Run Park: witch hazel, viburnum, butterfly weed and phlox. Witch hazel blooms normally from the end of December to mid-March. You might want to go take a look!
We know trees, shrubs and flowers bring natural beauty to infrastructure and build environments that everyone enjoys, as well as helping to reduce litter, spur economic growth and enhance the social health of our community. Join in and do your part this fall and plant native plants that increase pollinators and beauty. They will help the environment and make you smile.
For more information about Keep Brown County Beautiful, call Cathy Paradise at 812-327-9617.
Cathy Paradise, president, Keep Brown County Beautiful
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