Monday, Sept. 18, 2017 – Fall Leaves & the Women’s Garden & Main St., The Lyon Drug & Arbor, Liriope Beds at the Vis. Ctr, Sis. Johnson & Sage Cuttings

The Locus trees in the Women’s Garden are shedding their fall leaves fast. The mess they cause requires Elder Kyle Johnson and Elder Cantwell to use the powerful backpack leaf blowers to clean them up two to three times a week. It will be an ongoing project for the next three months as all of the other trees shed their leaves too.

On Old Main Street too, the leaves require constant removal. While the Service Elders blew the leaves off of the street and sidewalks onto the lawns, Sis. Johnson, Lani and I pulled weeds and cleaned all of the historic sites on the west side of Old Main Street like The Tin Shop, The Print Shop, The Post Office and the John Taylor Home. Then we moved across the street and cleaned the flowerbeds of the Jonathan Browning Home & Gunsmith Shop.

 

Our final stop before lunch was the Lyon Drug & Herb Garden. This site is a favorite of ours because it is so large and full of a large variety of unique heirloom plants and herbs. The beautiful arbor is also a crowd favorite with its vines, flowers and gourds all over it. We love to pull weeds at the Lyon Drug Herb Garden. 

After lunch Elder Kyle Johnson and I pulled weeds from three more of the Liriope beds. As visitors come into the parking area of the Visitor’s Center these Liriope beds are some of the first things they see and we want to always keep them free and clear of weeds.

 While we cleaned the Liriope beds, Sis. Johnson had a special assignment from Richard, our boss and FM’s Horticulturalist. She got to take rooted cuttings from a variety of heirloom aromatic sage plants. She particularly enjoys these plants because they smell so good. This task is the ultimate “Aroma Therapy!”