landscaping excellence award, oct 2007 goes to...
Seemingly back from the dead, the landscaping around Fields Crossing has been completely reinvigorated. At last count, 30 dying to totally dead dead deadsky (Beatlejuice reference) plants were pulled out of the ground to make room for lively replenishments. After a summer of looking as if Fields was in the midst of a landscaping labor strike, things seem to be back on track. Here's another shot of the front: 
The north side of the building is a continuous line of shrubs:
The Jackson street side is now home to a slew of new cypress!
All new mulch was layed down:
To give you a small glimpse of what everyone in the neighborhood has been staring at all summer, here's a little unfortunate taste:
HORROR!
TRAGEDY!
SHEER TERROR!
There was also a slight weed problem:
But those nightmarish images are now a long distant memory. Keep up the good work, Fields. Now break out the water hose!
5 comments:
Nice pictures, Hero :)
Our building is looking good...now we need to turn around the untidy people who make the trash area a mess. How difficult is it to use the empty bin? Why pile your garbage in a bin that is already full? What is going on with the elevator floor? My suspicion is that the dogs are traking in the dirt.....
If dogs were tracking in the dirt there would have been paw prints. The dirt in the elevator and the lobby looked like it had been splashed or dropped.
Good point. The other big area of garbage is by the construction site of Metro Homes - on the edge of the empty Monroe Center lot. That area needs to be cleaned up.
green is green, but those 'cypress' (really arborvitae) are the cheapest things going. they also need to be tied up when it snows as the snow weighs pretty heavily on its limbs. From the looks of some of the 'dead' pix, whoever planted them didn't think to break up the roots once out of the pot to avoid rootbounded-ness. But all in all, a nice improvement.
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