MapleCreek garden attracts butterflies

A gift spearheaded by MapleCreek Chaplain Becky Ebb-Speese has provided plants for a new butterfly garden at The Woods at MapleCreek in Grand Rapids. Pastor Becky directed that memorial gifts for her father, retired Lutheran pastor Kenneth, Ebb, be used for the garden. Pastor Ebb lived at The Woods at the end of his life. “He loved gardening, so we thought that the butterfly garden would be a good place to use his memorial contributions,” said Pastor Becky. Jodi Wise and Osmin Reyes, activities aides at The Woods, planted butterfly-attracting plants, including herbs, coneflowers, cosmos, black-eyed susans and Shasta daisies (photo). Beth Terborg, life enrichment coordinator for The Woods, hopes to add more plants, a nectar feeder, a butterfly house, and maybe a small tree.