Caring For Creatures & Creation

Psalm 104:24-25: O Creator, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made the mall; the earth is full of your creatures.Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping thingsinnumerable are there, living things both small and great.
 
St. Luke’s has joined the Pollinator Pathway! We have planted more than 30 varieties of native perennials between the church and the walkway we share with the Granville Historical Society, to attract a variety of native bee, butterfly, moth and fly pollinators — every insect, plant, and bird we support is a beautiful member of God’s creation.
 
St. Luke’s Pollinator Pathway garden also provides soil nesting sites for local bees and a refuge for insects and birds stopping over along their migratory pathways. As these plants grow, we expect them to fill the beds with flowers and foliage, making our church a welcoming place for our beneficial insect friends.
 
Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow."
The Talmud
 
We are grateful for memorial funds use to purchase the plants and trust this garden is a fitting tribute to those who have shared their bounty with us. 
 
Psalm 96:11-12: Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it; let the field exult, and everything in it. Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy.

St. Luke’s Pollinator Pathways Plants:
Dwarf Bee Balm (Monarda sp)
Canada Milk Vetch (Astragalus canadensis)
Narrow-Leaved Coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia)
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
‘Soulmate’ Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias  incarnata)
Spider milkweed (Asclepias viridis)
Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)
Downy Sunflower (Helianthus mollis)
Winged Loostrife (Lythrum alatum)
Early Goldenrod (Solidago juncea)
Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)
Yellow Giant Hyssop (Agastache nepetoides)
Grey-headed Coneflower (Ratibita pinnata)
Purple Gayfeather (Liatris spicata)
Dwarf Gayfeather (Liatris spicala “Kobold”)
Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum)
Blue Mist flower (Conoclinium coelestinum)
Culver’s root (Veronicastrum virginicum)
Blue Sage (Salvia azurea)
Calico Beardtongue (Penstemon calycosus)
Red Rocks Beardtongue (Penstemon x Mexicali)
Pike’s Peak Purple Beardtongue (Penstemon x Mexicali)
Showy Beardtongue (Penstemon spectabilis)
Hairy Wild Petunia (Ruellia humilis)
Great Blue Lobelia (Lobeila siphilitica)
Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)
Narrow-leaf Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum tenuifolium)

For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love
And to both, bee and flower,
the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.

Khalil Gibran