Above: A Southborough company donated services for the Native Plant Garden at the Library, as did community volunteers. (images contributed and from Facebook)
Earlier this summer, I shared a call for volunteers to help plant and maintain a new Native Plants Garden at the Southborough Library. Thanks to the Open Space Preservation Commission which is overseeing the project, and volunteers who answered the call, the garden is shaping up.
OSPC asked me to share a public thanks from them and the Library for the donated services of Riverside Services. The Southborough based company laid critical groundwork for making the garden possible. The company donated the services of two masons to repair stone walls and regrade the drainage swale at the planting area of the new garden:
We particularly want to thank Brian Mandeville, Riverside Vice President, for offering to provide expert services free of charge, Riverside Landscape General Manager Jason Scott, and masons Darbin and Jose for their excellent work rebuilding the stone walls.
While I’m sharing those thanks, I thought I’d share an update on work by other local volunteers.
As I previously shared, some AMSA students have been lending a hand. Since I last posted about them, the girls helped with the “plant by numbers” approach the OSPC organized for the garden. They inserted numbered pink flags in the plot to identify which variety of plant should be planted there. (As you can see from the garden layout, a path is being left through the center to make it easier for future volunteers to weed and maintain the garden.) The students also inserted corresponding number flags in each pot and helped “de-slug” the plants. Below are some pics that were shared on Facebook.
Last week, other community volunteers who registered to help have been planting and mulching (using salt marsh hay). Here are more photos that were shared on Facebook.
If you are interested in lending a hand, you can reach out via ospcnativeplantspollinators@gmail.com.
