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Village Green Newly Landscaped |
Renovation of the older Village Green apartments was
finally completed in 2013. GPIP Board members Bob Shipman
and Deborah Kent volunteered their design services creating
new foundation plantings. The following spring, GPIP
volunteers, in partnership with students from the Regional
AgriScience and Technology Program at Glastonbury High
School, planted shade trees and shrubs at the Village Green
Community Center. Then, later in the summer students and
volunteers partnering with American Landscaping and
Irrigation, LLC, added a paved patio for the residents’ use.
Now the Village Green residents are thoroughly enjoying
their new outside living space.
- Chairperson: Jeff Hill |
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In spring 2006, GPIP volunteers along with Village
Green (formerly Knox Lane) residents placed 15 planters in the senior housing
complex. 3 planters are outside the community center while
the others are placed in groups of 3 in the four clusters of
houses. Volunteers planted the planters and gave the
residents instructions on how to care for them.
Shortly afterwards, GPIP planted gardens at the Village
Green entrance. Overgrown yews once hid the housing center
from view, but as a summer concert played on the Hubbard
Green, GPIP volunteers replaced them with ‘Home Run’ Roses,
‘Gold Tide’ Forsythia, and Euonymous ‘Moonshadow’ providing
color year round. Bob Shipman’s design also added 3
ornamental trees.
Inside the complex are clusters of GPIP containers
where our volunteers plant annuals in late May to provide
summer color. GPIP volunteer Della Winans chose to use large
planters instead of planting garden beds based on our
experience at Center Village. Many seniors and residents
with limited mobility can’t get down to "ground level" to
tend to a traditional garden. Planters bring the garden up
to the seniors' level enabling them to become active
participants in the planters' upkeep.
A very special thanks to The Housing Authority of
Glastonbury who maintain the entrance plantings at Village
Green. Also to Marco Solis and the residents who care for
the 15 containers throughout the summer. |
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