Join San Carlos Green in Maintaining our Native Vista Park
San Carlos Green will be holding another Vista Park work day on Saturday, August 8th
Many
invasive weeds have begun to creep back and it is important that we continue to pull them before they go to seed. Each year it will get easier as we reduce the number of weeds and nurture the native landscape to take over.
Join
us in maintaining this restored native landscape and educational resource
Guy Wallace, Superintendant of San Carlos Parks, stands with San Carlos Green task force members Ann Iverson and Margaret Desmond. Ann and Margaret led the Vista Park restoration project.
San Carlos Celebrates Newly Restored Native Landscape at Vista Park
Mayor Lewis presided over a ribbon cutting at Vista Park on June 14, celebrating the acheivements of San Carlos Green, the Parks and Recreation Department and more than 65 community volunteers in restoring this unique native landscape and educational resource.
Gachina Landscape Management, a commercial landscape company that maintains the Crestview neighborhood, has contributed many hours of labor, irrigation supplies and consultation. The mayor presented Gachina with an award and thanked the many volunteers that have made the restoration possible.
"Vista Park is not only a model native landscape, it also serves as a model for citizen action," said Mayor Brad Lewis. "San Carlos has demonstrated what enlightened citizens working together can achieve."
Interpretive signage has been developed and installed at the park to help visitors understand the benefits of native landscapes and to educate them on plant species that they can use in their home gardens.
Create a vital and
self-sustaining native landscape which serves as an environmental model for our
community and beyond
Reduce the use of water
and eliminate the use of chemicals
Act as a pollinator
garden for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and other
species
Provide an educational
resource for our schools and members of the community on our native landscape
and sustainable gardening practices
Sign up to Stay informed and get involved at Vista Park
Gachina Landscape Management, master gardeners, native plant society members, a professional native restoration biologist, our
San Carlos Parks and Recreation Department and over 65 volunteers haved all contributed to the success of this community project.
Weeds are aggressive and it will take persistance to stay on top of them and not let them take over. This gets easier with time. In the fall, we will approach the entire meadow in an attempt to
completely irradicate all the non-native weeds and grasses. The two experimental plots at the south end of the park have been installed to discover the best method to do this. The more successful method will be used this coming fall and native grasses and wildflowers will be planted to take hold over the winter.
If
you or your child need opportunities for community service, or would
like to be more involved, we have work still to be done! Please contact
ann@iversonmarcom.com to make arrangements.
VistaPark is located at the North end of Crestview Drive (directions
here).
The Vista Park landscape was planted on March 1. Thanks to our partners Gachina Landscape Management for making this all possible!
The installed MP Rotator irrigation heads use 60% less water than conventional spray heads.
The Crew from Gachina Landscape Management. Thank you so much for all your Contributions!
Vista Park weeding days: Some very productive . . . and thirsty volunteers!
