Ten volunteers from the garden club came together this week for a four-and-a-half-hour work marathon in the Miller Street and Children’s Gardens at the Belfast Free Library. Making the gardens look sharp was made easier by Chris Lougheed of Perfect Edge Lawn Service in Knox, who generously donated five cubic yards of compost for the project! Thank you, volunteers, and thank you, Chris!
Before it looks better, it looks. . .strangely bare. Public Garden volunteers worked with Belfast Department of Public Works employees to clear the Post Office Square garden of vegetation this week, moving trees to replant in the patch forest at Wales Park and potting perennials to use in the twelve other public gardens planted and maintained by the BGC. When complete, the new Post Office Square garden will make the area safer for pedestrians and drivers and more attractive to pollinators. Safer footing will be a boon to those passing through the garden from Church Street, and unobstructed views for…
For many visitors, the thirteen public gardens maintained by the Belfast Garden Club are their first inkling that Belfast is a very special place. Go to the post office, the library, the public landing at the harbor, the police station, the city park, the cemetery, the city hall, the Coast Guard station, or to the loo* and you’ll find the handiwork of some very adept and dedicated club members who don’t mind getting their hands dirty. Although summer will be the time to showcase each garden individually, now’s the time to give a shout-out to some of the hardest-working members…