2019 Report for Dover Beach Park

Year

2019

Number of volunteers

5

Total volunteer hours

46

Number of events

9

Number of trees planted

2

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1 American holly, 1 pin oak

Number of shrubs planted

8

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Dwarf American holly, false spirea, clethra, arrowwood viburnum, cranberry viburnum

Number of perennials planted

15

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Cheyenne spirit coneflower, mercury rising coreopsis, creeping phlox

Yards mulch spread

6.00

Summary

This season, Dover Beach focused its efforts on the fenced-in garden by Front Street and Bailey Street. Gardening under I-91 certainly has its difficulties – trash, dumping, noise – but the Dover Beach volunteers have managed to transform the space into a veritable urban oasis, where birds and pollinators are frequently found tucking into the site’s fruit trees and fragrant bushes. With the help of Common Ground high schoolers, the volunteers laid an incredible three tons of mulch and planted eight shrubs, fifteen perennials, and two trees. The group also weeded and mulched at Dover Beach’s two butterfly gardens at the beginning and end of the season, making sure that all the greenspaces across the site were cared for.