Eastwood Pop-up/Drop-in Plant Sale Benefitting the Dixon Branch Greenbelt Guild & Entry & Whitehaven Gardens by Amy Martin My crazy schedule is making it hard to stage a weekend plant sale in the park. So we’re doing it drop-in style. I need to keep the plant tray for future plant…
by Amy Martin, Gardens & Greenbelt Coordinator The short block of Whitehaven off Lake Gardens, which was the back entrance to the apartment complex, was closed off by the city due to speeding traffic. This was done at Eastwood Neighborhood Association’s request, so we created the raised Whitehaven Garden to…
Feb 22 Sun at 1 amWhitehaven at Lake Gardens Join in the rebirth of the Whitehaven bed. It’ll be fun and easy. Bring as big a shovel as you’ve got. Dallas Parks & Recreation delivered a large load of compost. It’s in a pile in front of the raised bed….
by Amy Martin, Eastwood Gardeners coordinator While the entry garden is dormant, Eastwood Gardeners’ project in February and March will be the raised garden bed at the closed block of Whitehaven next to the apartments, located off Lake Gardens between Sylvania and Easton. When speeding traffic entering the apartments’ Whitehaven…
Eastwood Gardeners Muffins & Mimosas Plant Sale Sip some mimosas, munch on some muffins, and peruse a fine array of plants grown with love in Eastwood, acclimated to our weather and soil. Let’s bring beauty to our neighborhood and support important pollinators. Help Eastwood Gardeners raise funds for the Entry…
by Amy Martin A few of us gathered to keep the entry garden looking fresh. The team has been keeping the garden watered through all this heat, so we expected a lot of weeds. And there was a bit, mainly from this beast, bindweed aka native morning glory. Alas, in…
by Amy Martin Eastwood Gardeners team leader Sharon Holmes was insistent — we need monthly (4th Saturday) weeding sessions for the Entry Garden. I drive by the pollinator garden at Peavy and Easton all the time. Sure looks fine. But she knows what she’s talking about, so let’s do it….
The Eastwood entry garden is looking great! Red blossoms are bursting on the Turk’s caps and hummingbirds have already found them. The lantana is wild with yellow flowers and butterflies. The other wildflowers are looking fine as well. Let’s keep it that way! Monthly garden days begin on 4th Saturdays…
by Amy Martin Let’s talk a bit about the entry meadow behind the garden. It’s a mess, overgrown with brome grass that’s now gone to seed because the city did not respond to pleas to mow it. According to experts, if brome grass is mowed short for a few years,…
by Amy MartIn It had been years since the entry garden sprinklers did anything more than gurgle. Dirt and plants had consumed the sprinkler heads. Some had been knocked off by city mowers. The water main box had been crushed by something very large and no water emerged at all…
by Amy Martin The Eastwood Diggers (our name for this go round) convened to finish prepping and planting the Peavy half of the entry garden. A big task! Lots of rosinweed roots to dig out — a lovely, overambitious native plant that took over the garden during its two years…
After a long period of neglect, today the Eastwood entry garden at Creekmere and Peavy came back to life. Many thanks to Sharon Holmes, Keith Marcom, Francis Shaner, and myself, Amy Martin. Planning on a two-hour garden session, the results of our labors were so exciting we kept at it…