2008 Report for Poplar And Pine
Year
2008
Number of volunteers
43
Total volunteer hours
131
Number of events
11
Number of trees planted
12
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1 blue spruce, 1 rubber tree, 1 red oak, 3 crab apple, 1 aristocrat pear, 1 Cleveland pear, 2 Cherry Akebono, 1 Kwanzan Cherry, 1 Dogwood
Number of shrubs planted
14
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11 Euonymus, 3 dwarf boxwoods
Number of perennials planted
148
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5 Black eyed Susans, 6 Blue Fescue, 1 butterfly bush, 21 catnip, 8 coreopsis, 3 daisies, 34 day lilies, 3 dwarf boxwoods, 11 euonymus, 2 flats euonymus ground cover, 10 hostas, 4 lavenders, 11 loriope, 1 ornamental grass, 1 flat pachysandra, 1 flat creeping phlox, 6 russian sage, 7 sage, 4 speedwell blues, 17 variegated loriope, 1 flat of vinca ground cover, 2 yarrow
Yards compost spread
1.00
Yards mulch spread
5.00
Summary
Residents of Blatchley and Pine streets started the Poplar Street Greenspace group last year. While the Poplar Street Greenspace group was only formerly organized into a Greenspace group last year, the leading advocate, Alderwomen Migdalia Castro, has been active in several different Greenspace groups since 2004. Migdalia is devoted to beautifying her neighborhood and to encouraging community involvement and activities with the aim of making the neighborhood clean, safe and full of life. In an effort to increase participation in Greenspace activities, the group spread its activities this summer between many different streets, drawing diverse people from across central Fair Haven. As a result, three new Greeenspace groups may have been launched from this summer's efforts. This group met 12 times this summer to plant trees along curb strips and in front yards and transform twenty barren curb strips into flowering perennial gardens. The group met their main goal of beautifying the streetscape on Poplar Street by planting the curb strip areas around Poplar and Clay street with flowers of every color and adding five new shade and flowering street trees.
