The City of Salem is rolling out a new plan called “The State Street Corridor” …and to that end we attended a recent neighborhood meeting where we were to sit around some tables and “brainstorm”…and the idea of planting came up, and trash, and this reminded us of the “State Street Renewal” group of the […]
Tag: tree planting
Person-Shaped Nature…
Lots is going on in the person-manipulated natural world today in Salem. First a visit to Gaiety Hollow, the Lord and Schryver home garden, where a crew of volunteers were putting down newspaper mulch in an effort to tame the hideous aegopodium…a nasty weed. on to Martha’s where Big Trees Today (I love them, they […]
Postscript: The Dogwood
You may remember we recently lost our old dogwood tree…but my birthday present was the planting of a new tree!!! Here’s the old tree… …and the white flag marking the spot where the new tree was to go… OF COURSE there was a problem…the boxwood hedge… which Felix said would have to go…we said nope. […]
