Historical November–December 2007 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
The SDCC Beautification Committee has planted and watered many trees during this dry summer of 2007. Many of these trees were replacements for trees lost to storms or development. At the culde-sac on DesPeres at Washington, old junipers were removed by the City.
With permission, we replaced them with three Loblolly Pines with maintained flower gardens at their bases.
The City planted a tulip tree, and in the adjoining green space, we replaced two flowering crabapples. At the DesPeres/Pershing pocket park, we replaced two red buds lost to the ice storm, and planted a sassafrass tree.
All three have colorful flower gardens at their bases, with rock borders. Along the sidewalk, another missing tree was replaced with a flowering plum, to match the other flowering plum trees.
On the 5700 block of DeGiverville at the cul-de-sac, we replaced a red maple lost during Metro construction.
A flowering crabapple, rose-of-sharon, and another red maple were planted along the sidewalk which borders the parking lot. At Laurel and 5700 Pershing, an old iris garden was lost to Metro construction. For the 2007 Breakfast Garden Tour, we rebuilt and replanted that garden with iris, daylilies, lambsear, zinnias, marigolds, new soil and a decorative retaining wall. Planting trees and gardens is the small part of the job. Keeping them weeded and watered, in triple-digit weather and multiple droughts, is the big challenge. Along with last year’s trees in Lucier Park, the Beautification Committee will water, weed, and mulch these trees for two years, until they are established.
The mulching will never stop, and in heavy droughts, they will be watered again.
This attractive variety of trees will bring shade and beauty to many parts of Skinker-DeBaliviere for years to come.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, November–December 2007.
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