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| Park Stewards at the Panhandle on Saturday, May 13 |
Here's a late update about our stellar May Workday. Above all, it was a pleasure to be out in the park, on a warm and sunny spring morning. We focused our efforts in the central area of the Panhandle, near the restroom and playgrounds, with a focus on the mound (an area planted last year with a variety of drought tolerant native plants). In addition to weeding, we also spread a huge pile of wood chips around the mound to insulate the plants during the dry months ahead and make the area look its best.
We also added a few additional plants into our more established, diverse rain garden planting, and trimmed back a few of the rapidly growing plants. The May workday was also a chance to say thank you to Frankie, a Rec and Park employee, for his months of steady and friendly staffing of the community workday. We said hello and started getting to know Brian, a new staff person who will be assigned to work daily in the Panhandle and to support the community workday in the future.
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| Woodchips making the mound look nice for the spring |
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| Yarrow and sticky monkey in the mound setting up for a nice bloom |
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| Noting that the dryer weather is allowing progress on the capital improvement work. |
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| A fallen eucalyptus branch had been cut up and ready for removal. |
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| And the truck that was unlucky to be below said branch was awaiting removal and donation |
