Sorry all, I was a bit slow to appreciate how accommodating the weather would be this weekend. Too early to do serious yard work around the house at my end, so I thought 10-12 AM might work for some without other plans to do some preliminary invasive clearing off trees on the Rt 50 shoulder […]
Rt. 50 Shoulder Restoration and Beautification Project Taking Shape!! Thanks to the efforts of our hardy volunteers, we planted some 29 native species saplings last Saturday on the Rt. 50 shoulder. The cedar, sumac, holly, and redbuds should do well in the shoulder and overshadow the stakes in a few years. A main problem in […]
All, Sorry for the last minute notice, but after many weeks of waiting for approval, BMCA received the VDOT permit to plant trees for our Rt. 50 Shoulder beautification project yesterday. We will have a tree planting event THIS SATURDAY starting at 10 AM, gathering at in the grassy section of the shoulder at the […]
Well it wasn’t that scary after all for Halloween — except for all the trash the combined team of BMCAers, ARMNers and skateboarders [for Arlington Skatepark] pulled out of Powhatan Springs Park!! It was a beautiful day and we had a great turnout of folks from the three organizations. They planted new native plant species […]
We have been working on getting the Rt. 50 shoulder beautification and restoration project organized for many months and finally may get it off the ground. We hope to organize a planting party in November or early December assuming the weather is accommodating. A few people have asked for an overview, so I put together […]
All, Powhatan Springs is having a major makeover. Summer work by the County has drastically reduced the invasive ground cover – it looks almost scary back in the woods (see pictures below). So we thought for Halloween it would be good to get out and take advantage of the County’s work. The removal of the […]
APS has not started construction for the Ashlawn school access at Montague Street by the end of September after all. We don’t know the reasons for the delay and why construction did not begin in September as APS had told us at the community meeting on September 8. APS recently updated us that they would […]
Arlington Public Schools (APS) held a community meeting on September 8 to explain their recent design changes and next steps for constructing the new access to the backside of the school from Montague Street. APS said they plan to start construction this month and it would take a little over two months to finish the […]
We are clearing several areas around the neighborhood of their invasive species — particularly the English ivy and Euonymus that have grown up the trees — in conjunction with the BMCA Parks Committee and with the help of the Master Naturalists of Northern Virginia and the Arlington County staff. So far, we concentrated on Powhatan […]
Beautification Committee – Some more progress on beautifying and tidying up the neighborhood is being made. Upton Hill Park finally finished covering the small hillside with grass at the entrance to the park and our neighborhood at Wilson Blvd. and Livingston St a few weeks ago. The grass plus the small retaining wall will greatly […]