Apologies!

Forgot to post the date and time of the January walk-through. It was Friday, January 30th. The focus of the walk-through was identifying areas for this year's improvements.

New Plantings

Here's a sample of some of the new plantings at Brittany Bay.

Left : A Coral Bark Japanese Maple Tree( 'Sango-kaku') replaced the Melaleuca tree which had outgrown the site. Summer foliage will be golden-green with reddish hints

Below Right : Re-landscaped area by 28 Shepardson. This area previously had two large trees, one of which had already caused major repairs to the sidewalk before it was removed. The new plants include a Peppermint Tree (agonis flexuosa) . The leaves smell of peppermint when crushed. It flowers between August and December.

Happy New Year!

All of the planned plantings for 2008 have been completed. There will be some additional mulch spread at the locations.

For 2009 plans call for:

1 - Mowing of ivy
2 - Selected hard pruning to facilitate maintenance
3 - Removing ivy at selected locatings and trying alternate ground covers
4 - Redesign area by 108 Parfait
5 - Other small projects.