About 20 Xcel Energy employee volunteers from the Denver CO metro area put the finishing touches on the Audubon Colorado Wildscapes habitat garden at the Cherokee Generating Station in downtown Denver.
Volunteers planted hundreds of plants and shrubs, reported Pam Butler, Manager of Customer & Community Relations. She said that the project was made possible through funding from the Chairman's Environmental Fund and helps take our partnership with Audubon Colorado to a new level.
The Cherokee power plant is the setting for most of the company's public plant tours in Colorado, including many tours for business and community leaders, Butler said. ''Now during public tours, we can feature the garden and our partnership with Audubon, helping to promote Wildscapes.''
Colorado Wildscapes is a local adaptation of the national Audubon at Home program, which promotes transforming ordinary landscapes into habitat for birds and other wildlife. Cherokee's Wildscapes garden features native low-water-use plants that are easy to grow and maintain. It also has several hand-sculptured watering rocks with shallow pools carved into them for birds and butterflies.
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