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Together we can help make Glastonbury a more beautiful, greener place to live.
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Local Partnerships
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Love Garden |
Spring of 2012 will find colorful perennials and
annuals along with 6 park benches and an underground
irrigation system at the newly renovated Tercentenary
Park/Love Garden.
GPIP will donate 6 ornamental trees and the yew hedge to the
area as part of a community partnership that also includes
the Community Beautification Commission, Town Center
Initiative, the Town of Glastonbury and Country Gardeners.
The original garden was planted in 1993 as part of
Glastonburys 300th celebration. |
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Fire Houses 3 and 4 |
After a meeting mid-June 2011 with Jamie Feldman,
Captain of Company #3 fire house and owner of American Yard
Services, Greg Foran, superintendent of the Town Parks and
Rec. dept., and several GPIP Board members, a partnership
developed to replace the existing overgrown landscaping on
the sides and front of both fire houses.
Jamie provided the new design for the fire houses and GPIP
offered to purchase the perennials and shrubs.
An unusually warm fall turned out to be the perfect planting
time so after all the existing landscaping was torn out by
American Yard Services, volunteers from GPIP and the fire
houses turned out 2 weekends in a row to provide the
manpower of installing all of the new plants.
What had once been a casual conversation between Fire Chief
Michael Thurz and Greg Foran was now a reality. We hope to
do the same for Company #1’s landscape in the future. |
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Nature Conservancy: American Elm Restoration |
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In June of 2011, 70 young elm and silver maples were
planted along the Salmon Brook at Riverfront Park thanks to
The Nature Conservancy’s Connecticut River Program.
Partnering with GPIP, Great Meadows Conservation Trust and
the Town Beautification Committee, volunteers from all the
groups braved swarms of mosquitoes, broken shovels and
poison ivy to plant the young trees. Five species of disease
resistant elms were alternated with the silver maples to
block any spread of disease that might be spread from root
to root. The young trees will produce many seeds in the next
several years. These seeds will find their way into the
surrounding flood plains adding a continuing sustainability
to the project. |
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East Glastonbury Library |
Volunteers from the East Glastonbury Library
partnered with GPIP in late summer of 2009 to take out
overgrown plantings in two areas in front and on the side of
the 'Little Red Schoolhouse'. Shrubs, grasses, perennials
and spring bulbs were planted to create 4 seasons of
interest with relatively low maintenance in a design created
by GPIP member Deborah Kent.
While GPIP paid for all the plants, the volunteers who work
at East Glastonbury Library will take care of the plantings
that should look beautiful for decades. |
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