Let’s turn West Wash Park into an oasis for native plants, butterflies, and birds.

Our volunteer and refugee crews help neighbors replace unused grass with native plants for a fraction of the normal cost.

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Oasis is a project to turn West Wash Park into a gigantic botanic garden. Imagine drinking your morning coffee and watching hummingbirds sip from beautiful native flowers and taking your daily walk through a neighborhood transformed into a vast Oasis of native plants, butterflies, and birds. That’s our vision. Volunteer with us or get plants in your yard and let’s make it happen.

Native plants are beautiful and low-maintenance. They sip water and butterflies, bees, & birds love them.

Kentucky Bluegrass, by contrast, is a voracious water consumer, costs a lot to maintain, and is “ecologically, dead space” in terms of biodiversity.

Let’s plant your West Wash Park yard

Fill out our request form and we’ll stop by to discuss your project. On game day, our volunteers or refugee crew will shape the land, add mulch, and plant. For our volunteer projects you only pay for materials. For our refugee crew, to whom we’re providing needed work opportunities, the total cost includes their time as well.

Volunteer with us

Our volunteers make it happen. We get together about once a month to roll up our sleeves, get our hands in the dirt, and scheme about how to turn West Wash Park into a gigantic botanic garden. It’s fun, good for the environment, and a great way to meet people.

Need Maintenance? We got you covered.

Our refugee crew is available to keep your Oasis in tip top shape, whether we planted it for you, you did it yourself, or someone else did it for you. Year-round, we weed, remove debris, and add decorative rocks. In the warm months, we also add new plants and keep things nice and tidy. Your Oasis will sparkle.

How it all came to this

Deb (hard at work shoveling on the left), West Wash Park’s resident Mayor of Plants, is always out in her front yard working and chatting with folks as they walk by. Many of them say something to the effect of, “I’d love to do this to my yard, but I don’t know how to do it.” So we decided to create a corps of volunteers who care about the local environment, plants, birds, bees, butterflies, and the such to help neighbors dream the impossible dream. In these parts, there’s plenty of community-building and planting. So volunteer with us, even if you have no experience with this stuff, and help us turn West Wash Park into an Oasis.

Learn more about our work in the West Wash Park Neighborhood Association newsletter.

Deb’s Sustainable Gardening Top 10 List

Other ways to create your oasis

We’re totally supportive of DIY projects and high-end landscape architects if you’d prefer one of those routes. For the DIY types, here’s everything we’ve learned about how to create an oasis. For a high-end landscape architect, contact us and we’ll send you a list of professional landscapers we recommend. Of course, if you want our volunteer or refugee crew to take it on, just fill out our form and we’ll be in touch.