As we reach the end of summer, we are doing the gardening work required to prepare for late fall and winter. We’ll be weeding and deadheading plants at Taft Hill Park on Sunday, September 16, 2018 from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm (days are getting shorter so our gardening ours change to reflect that). Time allowing, we will do some work at Adams Park across the street as well.
Anyone willing to help out is always welcome.
This article by Dan Burden, Blue Zones Director of Innovation and Inspiration, and the nation’s most recognized authority on walkability, bicycle & pedestrian programs, street corridor & intersection design, traffic flow and calming, and road diets, reminds us why we need trees around us.
https://www.bluezones.com/2018/09/22-reasons-trees-in-cities-keep-us-healthy-and-save-us-money
Renovations at the Roslindale Branch of the Boston Public Library, which include eliminating the green spaces outside the library, are scheduled to start this fall. In advance of the destruction of the garden at the library, RG&C wanted to save as many plantings as possible, using them at other parts of the square or setting them aside for future use or sale.
We had the good fortune to have the services of several Boston University students to help with the work of digging up plants and shrubs at the library and, for the items being replanted immediately, lugging them over to Adams Park and Taft Hill Park and then planting them in their new locations.
Thank you to the students who took time from settling into life at BU to help us get this work done.
The next round of gardening work in the Square has changed date and location.
On Wednesday, September 5, 2018 from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm we will work on the small green space planted at Lee Hill Road and Washington Street across from Healy Field weeding and cleaning up the vinca bed there.
As always, we welcome anyone to join us in keeping green space in Roslindale Square attractive and healthy.
On Tuesday, August 21, 2018 from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm, we will meet at the Alexander the Great Park and the traffic islands at Robert and Corinth Streets and Belgrade Ave. to do our usual gardening work.
We’re delighted to have anyone who wants to get their hands dirty join us to keep these public green spaces looking good.
On Tuesday, August 7, 2018 from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm, we will meet at Savage Mini-Park (on Belgrade Avenue across from the Roslindale Village T Commuter Rail Station) to do our usual gardening work at Savage and at the T Station hillside across from Savage.
We’re delighted to have anyone who wants to get their hands dirty join us to keep these public green spaces looking good.
It’s time again to work on keeping up our public green spaces.
On Saturday, July 21, 2018, from 9:30 am to 10:30 am, we’ll be doing gardening work at Taft Hill Park across from Wallpaper City.
Stop by and help out. You don’t need to know anything about gardening; we’ve got experienced gardeners happy to work with neophytes, experts, and anyone in between willing to pitch in to keep Roslindale green.
Roslindale Green & Clean will NOT be gardening on Tuesday, July 10, 2018, from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
With the high temperature today forecast to be 95℉, we’re going to skip heat stroke and drink iced tea in the shade.
We hope you do the same.
On Tuesday, June 26, 2018 from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm, we will meet at Savage Mini-Park (on Belgrade Avenue across from the Roslindale Village T Commuter Rail Station) to do our usual gardening work at Savage and at the T Station hillside across from Savage.
We’re delighted to have anyone who wants to get their hands dirty join us to keep these public green spaces looking good.
RG&C is grateful to everyone who chose to buy plants available at our 2018 Plant Sale. RG&C raised money that will support ongoing efforts to maintain attractive green spaces in Roslindale Square and purchasers got great plants that have a history of thriving in local gardens.
