Time: 8:30 - 10/10:30 am Serious rain will cancel. Or a rain call will be made by 7:30 am. Work Plan: Weeding, pruning, clearing invasives around Whittemore Robbins House & the Reflecting Pool Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.) Parking: We provide free parking permits for parking near the Carriage HouseWear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long-handled tools and garden carts. Emily Snyder & Patsy KraemerEmily’s cell / text: 617-750-0106_
Work Plan: Work in the town garden to do some pruning and light weeding. Meeting place: Meet Patsy Kraemer at the Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.) Parking: We provide free parking permits for parking near the Carriage HouseWear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long-handled tools and garden carts.
Meet Mona at the Carriage House and work in the Town Hall Garden. We provide free parking permits for parking near the carriage house. Wear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long handled tools and garden carts.
Work Plan: Spreading mulch which will be brought to work areas for spreading by town summer interns. Meeting place: Meet Emily Snyder at the Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.) Parking: We provide free parking permits for parking near the Carriage HouseWear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long-handled tools and garden carts.
Meet Mona at the Carriage House and work in the Town Hall Garden. We provide free parking permits for parking near the carriage house. Wear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long handled tools and garden carts.
Meet at the carriage house and work in the Whittemore Robbins House Garden. Parking: We provide free parking permits for parking near the Carriage House Wear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long-handled tools and garden carts.
Join Mona to finish the spiny branches piled on the small cotoneaster in areas 2 & 3 and work on rabbit fencing in area 7. Work group will also dig out some daylilies near the coffee tree, trim the juniper trees and will lightly cultivate the mulch near the Deutzia. Anyone wishing to help should bring their gardening hand tools, weed bucket, sunscreen, hat, gloves, water and bug spray.
Calling all Gardeners interested in helping to maintain the Robbins Garden- May 9, 7:30pm coffee Dear folks, As hopefully you have noticed, the WInfield Robbins Memorial Garden - the one at the center of Town located between the Library and Town Hall, is slowly being restored. The reflecting pool is repaired, the Indian restored and the garden at the side of town hall and the area around the Indian have many new plants. As we move into Spring, we are planning how these areas as well as the resst of the garden will be maintained this year.The Garden Club and the Friends of Robbins Town Gardens will be working on alternate Thursdays - weeding, pruning, watering and checking on the overall health of the older and newer plants. We need volunteers…
Extra work session, May 2nd was rained out. Serious rain will cancel. Or a rain call will be made by 7:30 am. Work Plan: Mulching, with the help of DPW interns, in bare areas throughout the gardens. UPDATE ON WHAT WAS DONE: Area 3 & 4: We began the cutting back of some overgrown mountain laurels in area 3 and 4 in the lawn oval. Area 3 and 4 at the lawn oval has invasive plants but we will remove them next year when there are red flowering dogwoods and white dogwoods and more mountain laurels and Korean Azaleas to infill the existing ones. Area 3 and 4 is cleaned and planted and mulched. Rabbits are eating the cotoneaster and have begun chewing on the bark of the old…
Our plan for 2019 is to hold work sessions in the Town Hall Gardens on alternate Thursday mornings starting Thursday, May 2nd. Serious rain will cancel. Or a rain call will be made by 7:30 am. Work Plan: Weeding, planting, topdressing with compost in some areas, rabbit protection in some areas, and scouting for pests and diseases. Check one dogwood in Area 1 has anthracnose due to all the rain and might need to be replaced. We will see when the leaves are fully open. Rabbits are eating the cotoneaster and have begun chewing on the bark of the old azaleas. Install garlic stakes on new cotoneaster at grotto. Spray after the next rain with Critter Ritter or Deer-Off. Areas 3 and 4 still have dead wood and a large dead crown…
