Stretch Our Parks: Invasive Plant Removal at Lockwood/Elmwood Housing Complex

Come help work on this exciting new habitat restoration project!

The Earth Sangha Wild Plant Nursery made a generous donation of multiple native plants to the habitat restoration project on the Lockwood/Elmwood senior housing complex in Arlington. [They also gave us plants to help us on our other sites in the corridor.]
On Nov. 20, property management and partners Northern Virginia Bird Alliance, Arlington Regional Master Naturalists, and Tree Stewards of Arlington and Alexandria plan to build deer exclosure cages and then plant all donated items. (If we don't protect them from the deer they will eat up all of our baby plants!)

Please join us on Wednesday November 20 to help get these valuable native plants into the ground! There are three basic jobs (building cages, digging holes, planting plants) that need to happen that morning and we're starting a bit earlier than normal (9am) to give us a leg up on finishing by noon.

We will meet at 8:50 am in the parking lot at Upton Hill Regional Park, 6060 Wilson Blvd, Arlington VA 22205. (There is no parking available on the housing complex site, which is immediately adjacent to Upton Hill Regional Park.) Enter the park at 6060 Wilson, drive to the top of the hill, turn left at the top and pass all park facilities until you reach the end of the lot. The group will walk the short distance next door to the site. Wear closed-toed shoes, long pants, sunscreen, and bring drinking water. We will have tools, gloves, and insect repellant. If you have any questions, please direct them to Joan Haffey ([email protected]) or Carolyn McGavock ([email protected]).

Pls sign up on Sign Up Genius so Joan expects you! The 11/20 slot - https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D48AFAC23A6F85-46970234-invasive#/