The Oregon Garden

I've been slacking in my blogging duties but I've decided there's no time like the present to get back to things.

Last time I left you my team had just gotten back from Mendocino and we were newly formed.

Flash forward literally a month and I'm 5 days away from being home for winter break.

So what exactly have I/we been doing this past month? I bet you thought I'd forgotten, but rest assured, all will be explained in due time.

Blue 2's Round One spike is doing Habitat Restoration at the Oregon Garden. For the first two weeks we literally spent the day gutting out two pond cells in the A-Mazing Water Garden. Over the past few years the Water Garden has become over taken with so many invasive species that it no longer has the ascetic appeal worthy of it's name. However, because there are so many invasive plants in the pond cells and because of the type of plants they are, there really is nothing else that can logically be done but removing everything from the pond draining it and starting over.

Our Second phase of round one is working in the actual wetlands of the Oregon Garden. Now we're trimming back brush and cutting down trees so that visitors can actually see the wetlands function as opposed to assuming they are there.

The last phases of our time here will consist of building outdoor classrooms, trail building, tree planting and more invasive species removal. But just to give you a taste, here's a slide show of photos taken thus far.