Photos from our July Workday in the Panhandle

On Saturday, 20 volunteers turned out to be part of our monthly community workday in the Panhandle. A group of alumni of the Truman Scholars program helped to fill out our ranks. 

About half of our group got to work raking the lawn between Ashbury and Masonic. 

The other half of the group went to work planting a selection of new plants purchased with funds from our program sponsors. The new plants are still small, but as they grow they will fill in the edge areas of our rain garden.

Like the plants previously selected for the rain garden, the new plants are California native plants that typically grow in this region. Our new species included the following:
Berberis repens (Creeping Mahonia, aka Creeping Oregon Grape)
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus var. repens (Creeping Blueblossom)
Lupinus albifrons (Silver Lupine)
Artemisia pycnocephala 'David's Choice' (Coastal Sagewort)
Woodwardia fimbriata (Giant chain fern)
Satureja douglasii (Yerba buena)

Workday coming up this Saturday, July 12

This Saturday, we've got more native plants ready to add to our rain garden next to the children's playground. We're also expecting to welcome a special volunteer group to supplement our numbers and get more good work done for the park.

See you this Saturday, beginning at 9 am!

We'll be at the normal time and place:

Saturday July 12
9 am - 11:30 am
Meet at the Panhandle Bulletin Board
Tools and gloves will be provided