Treez Please
Common Ground
A pocket park at Broadway and Kensington
It began here, with the transformation of an empty parcel into beautiful green space for the enjoyment of neighborhood residents and wildlife.
Our first work party poses for the camera after three hours of digging, planting, pruning, and hauling on September 22, 2007. Standing from left to right are Catherine Powers, Robert, Brian Moschella, Ralph Malmer, Frank Bishop, and Ginny Morgan. Below are Mary June Tartan, Tim Raridon, Debra Weaver, and Jean Engle.
Our Treez Please tree at the Fellows Riverside Gardens was beautiful and constantly visited and enjoyed by people, squirrels, birds of many colors and other creatures. The tree, a 10' Blue Spruce, formerly the top of a much larger tree from a Park thinning project, was decorated with Treez Please sticker ornaments and more importantly with peanut butter pinecones, halved orange and lemon cups with sunflower seeds and popcorn and cranberry garlands. We left a seed container with a scoop by the tree so that people could refill the cups. By the end of the event a squirrel (or a committee) had gnawed the lid off and were feasting straight out of the container!
The Gardens by Candlelight event on December 14 was a very popular event and there were folks everywhere enjoying the trees, the luminaria-lit pathways, the ice-carving, story-telling and of course the hot cocoa and cookies. A number of Treez Please members were present and many friends visited.
The Winter Celebration ran from December 6 - January 4 and every time we stopped over to refill the treats on the tree, volunteers and staff told us about visitors' positive comments about our tree and also the enjoyment of just watching the wild life that came to feed. There was even talk of keeping the tree up as a known center for food was being established. But after the tree blew down on a number of days (once while Susie was observing), it was decided that our tree would be taken down at the end of the celebration. We certainly don't want to wear out our welcome and any future collaborations!
It was a great experience and we are already signed up to do it next year!
Our Treez Please tree at the Fellows Riverside Gardens was beautiful and constantly visited and enjoyed by people, squirrels, birds of many colors and other creatures. The tree, a 10' Blue Spruce, formerly the top of a much larger tree from a Park thinning project, was decorated with Treez Please sticker ornaments and more importantly with peanut butter pinecones, halved orange and lemon cups with sunflower seeds and popcorn and cranberry garlands. We left a seed container with a scoop by the tree so that people could refill the cups. By the end of the event a squirrel (or a committee) had gnawed the lid off and were feasting straight out of the container!
The Gardens by Candlelight event on December 14 was a very popular event and there were folks everywhere enjoying the trees, the luminaria-lit pathways, the ice-carving, story-telling and of course the hot cocoa and cookies. A number of Treez Please members were present and many friends visited.
The Winter Celebration ran from December 6 - January 4 and every time we stopped over to refill the treats on the tree, volunteers and staff told us about visitors' positive comments about our tree and also the enjoyment of just watching the wild life that came to feed. There was even talk of keeping the tree up as a known center for food was being established. But after the tree blew down on a number of days (once while Susie was observing), it was decided that our tree would be taken down at the end of the celebration. We certainly don't want to wear out our welcome and any future collaborations!
It was a great experience and we are already signed up to do it next year!