Gardening Update, October 8th

Last year at some point we installed a recycled-brick edging around the landscape bed at the CCC Museum.  Its primary purpose is to define what is “bed” and what is “lawn”, enabling us to better manage the weeds in the bed.  Encouraged by how well that has turned out, I felt that the same technique could be used around the uphill side of the Rain Garden (the downhill side is already defined by the water control berm).  Today we installed this edging, shown below, using bricks reclaimed from brickwork of outdated and demolished park structures.

Our only other garden maintenance of note today was to move a fence-wire tree protector from the CCC Field where it was no longer needed, to the Native Plant Garden where the deer have been eating the new shoots off of an elderberry bush.  After completing these two tasks, Eric and I rewarded ourselves with a hike around Beaver Lake to inspect vernal pools and take photographs.  The Parasol Mushroom was an irresistible photo opportunity.