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Website Extra: More photos from Applewood

May 1, 2012 • 2 Comments

Here are additional photos from the Applewood feature in the May issue of Michigan Gardener. If you can’t find a copy of the print edition, click here to check out the May 2012 e-edition.

One of the two majestic burr oaks stands beside the rose garden, which also has many other perennials and annuals. (Photo: Sandie Parrott)

The branches of this sugar maple are allowed to grow down to the ground. “It is very happy with all the space, water, and fertile soil it needs,” said Program Coordinator Rebecca Stack. (Photo: Applewood Staff)

Above: Originally the caretaker for the farm and animals lived in the gate house, pictured in the 1930s. Below: It has housed the estate’s archives and now serves as intern housing. (Old photo: Applewood archives / New photo: Applewood staff)

The demonstration garden in the early 2000s. This used to be the farmland and is now utilized to show new plant varieties, plant combinations, herbs, and vegetables to the public. (Photo: Applewood staff)

This perennial hibiscus (Hibiscus moscheutos ‘Southern Belle’) is hardy to zone 4. It is cut back to 3 inches each fall. It comes up late in the spring, so having a permanent tag or stake in the ground is important so the plant won’t accidentally be dug up. (Photo: Ryan Garza)

Community garden unites neighborhood in “Seedfolks”

April 24, 2012 • Leave a Comment

NPR:

Seedfolks takes us to the heart of the city, specifically the city of Cleveland, and a neighborhood that has seen better days. It’s filled with people — mostly immigrants — who live in close proximity but barely share more than an occasional “hello.” They all stay in apartments surrounding a vacant lot that, in the course of this story, is transformed from a smelly junkyard into a lush community garden.

That garden in Seedfolks is like a big green magnet. It pulls in immigrants who yearn for vegetables they can’t find at local markets. It beckons the wounded who find a reason to live as they watch life sprout from little seeds. And it calls out to the elderly who find memories in the soil.

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Sunflowers will brighten up Woodward Avenue

April 13, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Detroit Free Press:

Planting is to begin in May for the Sunflowers on Woodward project, which is sponsored by the Woodward Avenue Action Association. The association is made up of local businesses and residents near Palmer Park and are dedicated to rejuvenating Woodward between McNichols and 8 Mile roads.

The group is trying to raise nearly $5,000 to plant more than 700 sunflowers.

“What we’re trying to do is create a positive image of Detroit,” said Norman Silk, a Palmer Woods resident who is one of the organizers of the project.

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