Donate Now, and Dedicate Part of the 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.
Donate To The Gift of Life 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’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.
What
Donate today, and you could select a flower or tree to be planted!
Engraved Brick
Leave your or a loved one's legacy in the garden by customizing a brick.
$150
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Baptisia Midnight
Baptisia Midnight is an herbacious perennial cultivar known for its deep blue blooms. It typically grows 1.5-3' tall in a tall, spreading habit.
$100
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Japanese Maple
Bloodgood Japanese Maple, is an ornamental deciduous known for its deep burgundy foliage. It typically grows 15-20' tall.
$100
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Cheyenne Spirit
Cheyenne Spirit coneflower is an herbacious perennial known for its mulit-colored, vibrant blooms. It typically grows 2-3' tall.
$25
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Cornus Farrow
Cornus Farrow is a native deciduous shrub known for its bright red stems in winter and deep burgundy fall color. It typically grows 3-4'' tall.
$100
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Decadence Dutch
Decadence Dutch Chocolate False-Indigo is an herbacious perennial known for its dark purple- brown blooms. It typically grows 1.5-3' tall in a bushy-mound growth habit.
$100
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Double Take
Double Take Scarlet Flowering Quince is an ornamental deciduous flowering shrub known for bright red early blooms. It typically grows 3-5'' tall.
$50
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Hello Yellow
Hello Yellow Butterfly milkweed is an herbacious perennial known for its bright yellow summer blooms. It typically grows 1.5-3' tall.
$25
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Tulip Tree
Liriodendron tulipifera, also known as tulip tree, is a large deciduous overstory tree. The tulip tree typically grows 60-90' tall.
$750
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Lord Baltimore
Lord Baltimore hibiscus is an herbacious perennial known for its large, bright red blooms. It typically grows 4-5' tall in a shrubby fashion.
$100
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Mandarin Lights
Rhododendron hybrida 'Mandarin Lights' is an ornamental deciduous shrub known for deep orange blooms. It typically grows 4-5' tall.
$100
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Charles Joly
Syringa vulgaris 'Charles Joly' is an ornamental deciduous shrub known for its showy, fragrant, magenta blooms. It typically grows 4-6' tall.
$25
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WHERE
The garden is located at LifeServe's headquarters facility at 5625 NW Johnston Dr. Johnston, IA 50131.
The first phases of plants have been planted and bricks purchased prior to May 2024 have been engraved.
why
The garden will broaden understanding of the importance of a community having a sustainable blood supply through:
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Honoring individuals who ensure a sustainable blood supply through their work, volunteering, or blood donation.
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Recognizing individuals who have and continue to benefit from a sustainable blood supply.
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Educating about the importance of a sustainable blood supply.
how you can help
You can support the Gift of Life Garden by making an online donation.
Classy Pay, the payment processor, offers a safe environment for donor data with Level 1 PCI compliance and SSL Security, built on Amazon Web Services. Credit card or debit card data is never stored.
our partners
Thank you to the LifeServe Blood Center Facility Committee, The City of Johnston, BNIM, Hansen Company, Confluence, Formation Group, Civil Design Advantage, Raker Rhodes Engineering, Modus, and Wells Fargo.
public art
We are looking to incorporate a custom art piece in our donor garden to represent the connection individuals, businesses, organizations, and groups, have to our community blood supply. Please complete the contact us form if you are or know of a group or individual interested in sponsoring a public art commission or for more information.