PLANT LINCOLN ROAD - JUNE 28th

Hi Ocean Avenue Tree Club Friends!

The Flowers on Ocean event on June 7th was awesome, and now it's time for us to share to love with Lincoln Road between Ocean and Flatbush!  Because a number of the Ocean Avenue tree pits were already planted by awesome neighbors before June 7th, we have "lovely leftovers" to share!  I checked in with LinRoForma (the group that planted the flowering planters on the Lincoln Road bridge) and they would love to have the tree pits planted.  Here's the deal:

SATURDAY, JUNE 28th - 1pm

- Meet in front of 125 Ocean Avenue 

- Bring gloves and gardening tools with you - this is a casual get-together of  gardeners - we don't have sponsorship this time so come prepared with your own stuff. 

- Anyone want to volunteer to bring water and/or snacks?

- There are about four tree pits that we need to plant plus three more that just need mulch as the tree roots are too large to plant around.  This is 1/10th of Ocean Avenue so it should be an "easy day".

 - We will move flowers, compost and mulch (only a small amount) from 125 Ocean to Lincoln Road.  If you have a handcart, wagon or wheelbarrow - bring it!!

- We will follow the same flow-of-work that we did for our Ocean Avenue event - see below checklist for a refresher.

- We don't have new tree/flower care signs for this event, but if someone wants to volunteer to make some, below is how I did it for Ocean Avenue!  There are also free down-loadable signs from MillionTreesNYC here - http://www.milliontreesnyc.org/downloads/pdf/Treebedsign2.pdf.  I teach and just don't have time to make them this "last week of school" week - let me know if you want to take the lead on this!

RSVP to me if you can make it so I have a head-count - alvmusick(AT)gmail.com!

Hooray!

Amy Musick

Ocean by the Park Tree Club

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Event Captains!

A big THANK YOU to the June 7th Event Captains!

Vicki, Paul, John & Crystal

Kim, me (Amy), & Brigitte

Kate & Crystal

Emily

Captain tool kits!

A special shout-out to Jay from the NYC Parks Department - a special addition to our team thanks to First Deputy Commissioner Liam Kavanagh who supported and attended our event - THANK YOU!

More Photos from June 7th

Thank you John & Emily Schoolman for these fantastic photos of neighbors at work!

Some more fun photos from our planting event last Saturday!

So much fun!

Phases on Ocean/Before and After!

Flowers on Ocean:  A Day of Planting  - the June 7th event did not happen over night...

Over the last number of years, neighbors on Ocean Avenue have requested new trees for our block from MillionTreesNYC (phase 1) .  Seeing the interest in trees and greening on the block, Ocean by the Park Tree Club was formed in the spring of 2013 and rallied to receive a Neighborhood Beautification Grant from the Brooklyn Borough President's office (then Marty Markowitz - not sure if the grant will be back this year - keep your fingers crossed).  As a result, we received beautiful wrought-iron tree guards up and down the block in late October of 2013 (phase 2).  After the tree guards were in, we decided planting flowers in all of the newly enlarged - and now enclosed - tree beds would be the next step, so we wrote and received a Citizens Committee for NYC grant - and planting we did (phase 3)!

BEFORE

AFTER

PS:  Bulb planting in the fall - phase 4 here we come!  More to come!

Flow of the Day!

STEP 1 - Check-in, snacks, sign-up for drawing

STEP 2 - Volunteers rally around a tree bed for a tree and flower care training.

Here is the check-list that was covered in the training

List is based on the one provided through the Tree Care Captain program provided by MillionTreesNYC - http://www.milliontreesnyc.org/html/care/tree_captain.shtml

Each tree bed received two Lily Turf (or Liriope, labeled) and four Hosta (label is not showing for some reason)

STEP 3 - Get to work!

More photos are coming soon!