Dirt + Water + Perspiration=
Sunrise and District 5130 combined re$ource$ and with Sunrise' Carolyn Anderson, Community Philanthropy Chair's grant writing skill yielded a District Matching Grant to create an herb and pollinater gardeen.
Project Manager Alina organized the perspiration volunteers including her parents and yours truly and a colleague to add the floral finishes.
First, thank you so much for attending the Living Room work days this
weekend! Some of you came one day, and several of you came both days!
Amazing! Without the generously donated time and energy of volunteers
like yourselves, this garden project would not have been feasible.
Saturday:
• We cleared the garden of previous annual planting
• We cleared re-sprouting Bermuda Grass
• We dug out the rain garden
• We dug out the holes for our trees (Some of the soil fought us the
whole way!)
• We planted the trees
• Put in the rocks to stabilize the overflow pipe from the tank to the
rain garden
• Finished installing last segment of bender board for the path
• Created label for all the native plants
Sunday:
• Installed all the native plants (each prepared for its new life with
water and soil amendment)
• Installed all iris and tube rose in point garden
• Installed irrigation transport line and emitters for trees and native
plants
The list is shorter for Sunday than for Saturday, but those of you who
came on Sunday know that it was plenty of work and no picnic in the
heat!
Thank you all for your hard work. With the flowers and habitat we
planted this weekend, we helped make the world more beautiful and
resilient this weekend!
Regards,
Alina Nuebel
Conservationist, Conservation Works
