Gift of Life Garden Donations
Donate today, and you could select a flower or tree to be planted!
On the last step of the donation process, before submitting your donation, you will be able to select a Plant, Engraved Brick, or Gift of Life Garden T-Shirt as a thank you for your contribution!
Gift of Life Garden
The LifeServe Gift of Life Garden is a sustainable, welcoming community space highlighting those ensuring the stability or benefiting from the community blood supply. Your donation helps to sustain the local blood supply and community garden.
It honors the businesses, churches, schools and individual community members that play a vital role in ensuring that a stranger has access to the “gift of life”.
The garden is located at LifeServe's headquarters facility at 5625 NW Johnston Dr. Johnston, IA 50131.
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It honors the businesses, churches, schools and individual community members that play a vital role in ensuring that a stranger has access to the “gift of life”. The garden’s sole purpose is to honor the commitment it takes in the communities we serve to ensure that when needed, blood is available. Like a community’s first responders, the community blood supply is handled locally…it is a locally controlled national resource. It is vital that blood be on the shelf when it is needed. To be sustainable, the community blood supply must be nurtured and cared for much like a garden.
Engraved Brick
Engraved Brick Leave your or a loved one's legacy in the garden by customizing a brick. $150
Arctic Fire® Red-Osier Dogwood
Cornus stolonifera 'Farrow', or Arctic Fire® Red-Osier Dogwood, is a native deciduous shrub cultivar known for its bright red stems in winter and deep burgandy fall color. The Arctic Fire® Red-Osier Dogwood typically grows 3-4'' tall in a dense, rounded growth habit. $90
Bloodgood Japanese Maple
Acer palmatum var. atropurpureum 'Bloodgood, or Bloodgood Japanese maple, is an ornamental deciduous understory tree cultivar known for its deep burgundy foliage. The Bloodgood Japanese maple typically grows 15-20' tall with a rounded to broad-rounded canopy with lower branching habit. $750
Cheyenne Spirit Coneflower
Echinacea 'Cheyenna Spirit', or Cheyenna Spirit coneflower , is an herbacious perennial cultivar known for its mulit-colored, vibrant blooms. The Cheyenna Spirit coneflower typically grows 2-3' tall with an upright growing habit. $50
Decadence® Dutch Chocolate False-Indigo
Baptisia 'Dutch Chocolate', or Decadence® Dutch Chocolate False-Indigo , is an herbacious perennial cultivar known for its dark purple- brown blooms. The Decadence® Dutch Chocolate False-Indigo typically grows 1.5-3' tall in a bushy-mound growth habit. $100
Double Take® Scarlet Flowering Quince
Chaenomeles speciosa 'Scarlet Storm', or Double Take® Scarlet Flowering Quince, is an ornamental deciduous flowering shrub known for bright red early blooms. The Double Take® Scarlet Flowering Quince typically grows 3-5'' tall in a dense, spreading growth habit. $100
Hello Yellow Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa 'Hello Yellow', or Hello Yellow Butterfly milkweed , is an herbacious perennial cultivar known for its bright yellow summer blooms. The Hello Yellow Butterfly Milkweed typically grows 1.5-3' tall. $25
Tulip Tree
Liriodendron tulipifera, also known as tulip tree, is a large deciduous overstory tree native to eastern North America. The tulip tree typically grows 60-90' tall with a pyramidal to broad conical habit. $750
Mandarin Lights Azalea
Rhododendron hybrida 'Mandarin Lights', or Mandarin Lights azalea, is an ornamental deciduous shrub cultivar known for its deep orange blooms that emerge before its foliage. The Mandarin Lights azalea typically grows 4-5' tall in a small, mounding form. $90
Charles Joly Lilac
Syringa vulgaris 'Charles Joly', or Charles Joly lilac, is an ornamental deciduous shrub cultivar known for its showy, fragrant, late spring magenta blooms thatcan remain persistant for up to 4 weeks . The Charles Joly lilac typically grows 4-6' tall in a spreading/ suckering growth habit. $150
The garden will broaden understanding of the importance of a community having a sustainable blood supply through:
Honoring individuals who ensure a sustainable blood supply through their work, volunteering, or blood donation.
Recognizing individuals who have and continue to benefit from a sustainable blood supply.
Educating about the importance of a sustainable blood supply.