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Welles-Turner Memorial Library |
Main Street Front
Gardens
As you enter the Welles-Turner Memorial Library on the Main
Street side, you pass flanking gardens and a patio set off
to the left. In May of 2004, Glastonbury Partners in
Planting partnered with A. G. Edwards & Sons,
Inc/Glastonbury branch to redesign and renovate the gardens
at the library. GPIP members designed the gardens, ordered
plants, and arranged for the bluestone on the patio to be
reset. A. G. Edwards donated $3,000 to fund this project and
A. G. Edward’s employees donated their time to install the
gardens. This was our first corporate "Partnership", a great
success!
Rear Entrance Gardens
In the fall of 2007, Bob Shipman and Della Winans headed up
the project to re-design and re-plant the gardens at the
parking lot level entrance. Replacing the old daylily and
vinca plantings, these gardens now have a variety of spring
bulbs, roses that bloom most of the summer and evergreens
for winter interest. GPIP installed a drip irrigation
system. The Glastonbury Parks and Recreation Department
maintains these gardens.
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Co-chairs: Sandy Linfert, Karen Rottner |
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Each spring, new annuals are planted and all summer
the gardens are maintained by GPIP volunteers on a weekly
rotation. Then in mid-November they put the gardens to bed.
Annuals are removed and the perennials are cut back in
preparation for the winter.
A very special thanks to the GPIP volunteers who give their
time to the care of these beautiful gardens. A special
thanks, too, to Della Winans and Bob Shipman for designing
both gardens and again to Della for selecting and ordering
the all annuals that have been planted through 2009.
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