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Lathrop School sprouts citrus, butterfly gardens
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A carpenter bee gathers nectar from the remaining flowers of the Allen Chickering sage in Lathrop Schools Butterfly Garden. - photo by ROSE ALBANO RISSO
You’d be hard-pressed to find a butterfly in the garden right now. But in no time, with summer break over and school back in full swing, the cultivated area behind the kindergarten playground at Lathrop Elementary School will not be a Butterfly Garden in name only. Principal David Silveira said the school just received a $100 grant through the California Native Plant Society.