Paine Garden
Committee Head: Suzanne Vocatura
Committee Members: Linda Angelucci, Jane Bybee, Laryn Gardner, Linda Linsata, Deena Powell, Meg Steiner, Helen Stock, Bhavna Tyagi, Elizabeth Kim
Goal: Create a beautiful intimate outdoor living space and a relaxing area where people can can enjoy the flowers and private conversation.
Description of work: Fall Clean up in Sept and October. Plantings in Spring, weeding, mulching. Summer watering and spot clean up.
Schedule:
Wednesday, September 21st ................................... 9:30am
Paine Garden fall clean-up
Thursday, October 27th ........................................... 9:30am
Paine Garden Clean-up
Wednesday, May 16th ............................................. 9:30am
Paine Garden Clean-up
Latest Update:
January, 2012: Paine Garden planter made it on the Senior Center Christmas Card! Hats off to the Garden Club!
Sept. 21, 2011
Helen & Liz worked the gardens this morning for a couple of hours, dead heading, weeding and cutting back the perennials.
Liz was kind enough to remind me - I came later between 12:00 - 1:45: fluffed up the mulch (careful not to disturb the drip lines), picked up any weeding remnants, covered the largely exposed drip lines with mulch, weeded extensively down the path inside the moon walkway, toward the field school, exposing the path & cobble stones, hosed off all the walkways cleaning them from dirt and weeds - just as my neighbor Tigg Johnson was arriving, who sits on the Board for the Council for Aging. She was so impressed with our commitment that she is going to serve gelato for the Board on the patio. She also said that she is going to see if they can instal a screen door at the patio to further invite people into the garden, as the walkways and plants glistened :)
I spoke with Doug MacDougall on the following:
His crew needs to and will - this week - weed wack around the perimeter of the Gardens - right up to the cobble stones - He informed me that they only weed wack every other time and I said that I mowed my lawn as a kid and I could get closer than that with a mower - he got the message and is happy to accommodate. There are weeds remaining around the perimeter of the garden on the inside of the cobble stones and I said that I planned on going back to weed this week after he weed wacks the outside jungle.
I told him that we need to replace the slender pretty hose with a fat & tougher one to eliminate the numerous kinks that basically render the hose useless. I mentioned even swapping it out with a hose somewhere under the relm of his authority. Again was happy to accommodate. Doug and I have known each other for years.
I think maybe I will trim the holly hedge - shaping it up a bit - will see when the time is right.
There is some pruning back of the trees/large bushes which we can do on or before the next clean-up.
We removed about 3 bags of weeds rather than leave it for Doug :)
Committee Members: Linda Angelucci, Jane Bybee, Laryn Gardner, Linda Linsata, Deena Powell, Meg Steiner, Helen Stock, Bhavna Tyagi, Elizabeth Kim
Goal: Create a beautiful intimate outdoor living space and a relaxing area where people can can enjoy the flowers and private conversation.
Description of work: Fall Clean up in Sept and October. Plantings in Spring, weeding, mulching. Summer watering and spot clean up.
Schedule:
Wednesday, September 21st ................................... 9:30am
Paine Garden fall clean-up
Thursday, October 27th ........................................... 9:30am
Paine Garden Clean-up
Wednesday, May 16th ............................................. 9:30am
Paine Garden Clean-up
Latest Update:
January, 2012: Paine Garden planter made it on the Senior Center Christmas Card! Hats off to the Garden Club!
Sept. 21, 2011
Helen & Liz worked the gardens this morning for a couple of hours, dead heading, weeding and cutting back the perennials.
Liz was kind enough to remind me - I came later between 12:00 - 1:45: fluffed up the mulch (careful not to disturb the drip lines), picked up any weeding remnants, covered the largely exposed drip lines with mulch, weeded extensively down the path inside the moon walkway, toward the field school, exposing the path & cobble stones, hosed off all the walkways cleaning them from dirt and weeds - just as my neighbor Tigg Johnson was arriving, who sits on the Board for the Council for Aging. She was so impressed with our commitment that she is going to serve gelato for the Board on the patio. She also said that she is going to see if they can instal a screen door at the patio to further invite people into the garden, as the walkways and plants glistened :)
I spoke with Doug MacDougall on the following:
His crew needs to and will - this week - weed wack around the perimeter of the Gardens - right up to the cobble stones - He informed me that they only weed wack every other time and I said that I mowed my lawn as a kid and I could get closer than that with a mower - he got the message and is happy to accommodate. There are weeds remaining around the perimeter of the garden on the inside of the cobble stones and I said that I planned on going back to weed this week after he weed wacks the outside jungle.
I told him that we need to replace the slender pretty hose with a fat & tougher one to eliminate the numerous kinks that basically render the hose useless. I mentioned even swapping it out with a hose somewhere under the relm of his authority. Again was happy to accommodate. Doug and I have known each other for years.
I think maybe I will trim the holly hedge - shaping it up a bit - will see when the time is right.
There is some pruning back of the trees/large bushes which we can do on or before the next clean-up.
We removed about 3 bags of weeds rather than leave it for Doug :)
Paine Garden address: 20 Alphabet Lane, Weston, MA