San Antonio Botanical Garden

The cleanup at the Garden for the Blind began early on Saturday morning. Chairperson and organizer, Jackie Compere, coordinated the team of volunteers form the Herb Society. We found out that the gardening staff was in need of help planting fifty papaya trees, as well, so we pitched in to help with that, too.

Our reward will be all the papayas we can eat!

Jackie (bending down, l.) and Judi (r.) decide where aromatic plants should go in the Garden for the Blind.

Michael Belisle (r.) helps out a Botanical Garden professional botanist in the papaya garden. The glass conservatory is in the background.

Jessica, a young Herb Society volunteer, waters one of the 50 newly-planted papaya trees.

People planting pots and pots of papayas. There needs to be one male to two females - papaya plants, that is.

Michael, Brian, and Jackie resting on their papaya-planting shovels - it was a job well done for a good cause.