The Fall Harvest Festival got some local news coverage this year

Let’s take a look;

It has only been a few years since we planted the beautiful Catalpa trees in the center of the parking lot but like all living things, trees can get diseases. In this case an untreatable fungus killed all of them and they were removed.

In order to repair the landscape a row of Honey Locust trees was planted in this spot.

We were able to establish a hard surface path that connected the tower hill activity lawns with the Shade Garden. Funds provided by the Northeast Iowa Community Foundation.

Enabling Garden

The following is a quote from the site files

“Modernizing the Enabling Garden was a major emphasis of the 2009 season. The greenhouse was no longer useful to the Arboretum and was removed with the cement walls lowered, covered and remodeled into a large raised bed to match other raised beds in the space. Volunteers from the Cedar Falls Kiwanis civic group remodeled the base of the greenhouse with no cost to the Arboretum. The metal frames were also removed from each of the shade structures and replaced with flat shade cloth strung with heavy rope. Along with the metal structures, the white lattice was removed. The “Maintenance Men” completed the final touches on the renovation to modernize the space. The clean lines and more open space allowed the gardens to shine, rather than the structures.”

Several smaller gardens were removed and returned to sod this year. They were some directly West of the Herb Garden, around the tower, and nursery beds East of the Children’s Garden

My favorite thing to do, wander around the Arboretum and just take it all in.

Found a note that said we got 3 Maple, 6 Serviceberry, and 3 Dogwood trees with a Green Scene grant.

Time for the honor roll, whether I have your names or not, volunteers are the best!

Howard Craven

Randy Robinson

Maurine Crisp

John Miller

Maurine Crisp and Linda Schulte

Kathy Payne

Community Garden volunteers

Howard and Roberta Craven           Linda Fisher

John, Kelly and Renee Fisher           Mary Fratzke

Nancy Friedman                             Jack and Diane Golden

Sandy Hunter                                 Paul Kammerdiner and Melinda Young                     

Yolanda Little                                  Janet Ludolph

Cassie Luze                                     Pat McGivern         

Beth Primrose                                Tim Spengler

Mona Storm                                  Stephanie and Curtis Witte

Dorothy Wright

Let’s just keep going, on to next year