“Chuck: You mentioned recently the patio had some weeds that needed to be cleaned up. I took these photos today. The areas in the photo are student garden areas. I did see someone in one of the garden areas southeast of LAR last week. I am not clear if she was there to work in the garden or perhaps for other research work.
The following is a message from John Marlin. In this message, Marlin includes information about the wildflower display at Lincoln Avenue Residence (LAR), as well as photographs of the location:
Hello,
| Largely completed, ongoing main |
| Very Well, Student intern keeps plants going, native prairie plants on south side of building, front and courtyard, woodland garden, northeast corner |
| FS mows it every years, little weeding |
| suffering from invasion of violets, thought given to aiding those plants |
Laura Haber at Allen Hall is interested in potentially extending the Native Plants at LAR to include Allen, and the Dept of Landscape Architecture's Designer in Residence, Katy Kraszewska, is interested in potentially having students from the class "Natural Precedent in Planting" provide some site designs.
This project is ongoing, but all milestones in the SSC grant request have been met. Purchases of additional plants were made in multiple batches, and they have been added to beds on the south, east, and north sides of LAR in addition to the shared courtyard between LAR and Allen Hall. There are a few plants that still need to be planted, but most are in the ground at this time.
The Lincoln Avenue Residence Hall Living and Learning Community (LLC) is aware of the interest in increasing the number of campus locations with native plants. They would like to join the effort to plant Native Plant Species in selected areas around Campus. The goal of this project is to locate plants in places like the unused space between Allen Hall and Lincoln Ave. Residence.
Hello,
Most of you have had some direct involvement with the LAR LLC planting that is in progress. It started last spring and now has a ~$5000 grant from the Student Sustainability Committee. The past two weeks have seen a lot of progress as plants were removed from propagation beds and transplanted to the front and N side of LAR.
Here are a few shots with some of you featured. I will make more available later to individuals.
