Barclays Volunteers Plant a New Shade Garden at Sherman Avenue Garden
The fall is a great time to plant new shrubs and get them settled in the ground before the frost arrives. Recently Sherman Avenue Gardeners, with support from NY Cares hosted a workday with twenty-five Barclays Bank volunteers, where they weeded a large area in the shade of a willow and planted; pink and white astilbes, delicate cat tail-like cimicifugas, a heavily budded rhododendron and a variety of ferns and variegated euonymuses. They also built tables and benches, which will come in handy for the garden’s upcoming annual Halloween celebration. The plants were purchased from Larchmont Nursery with funds donated by Barclays. As luck would have it Larchmont threw in several flats of begonias and impatiens with the order so Sherman gardeners will be able to enjoy a little more color at the end of the growing season. Bronx Green Up generously assisted by transporting the plants from the nursery, donating 20 bags of mulch and setting up a compost system. Many community members came by to express their delight and look forward to spending many warm fall days in the garden.
Bronx & Manhattan Land Trusts 