BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Friends of the Robbins Town Gardens - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Friends of the Robbins Town Gardens X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Friends of the Robbins Town Gardens REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190808T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190808T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190805T220105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190805T220106Z UID:1104-1565253000-1565260200@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Town Garden Work Session is cancelled for this week only. DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/town-garden-work-session-is-cancelled-for-this-week-only/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190731T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190731T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190728T193941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190728T193942Z UID:1101-1564561800-1564569000@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Town Garden Work Session DESCRIPTION:Town Hall Garden Work Session\n\n\n\n\n \n Wednesday July 3\, 2019 \n\n \n @ \n \n 8:30 am \n \n \n – \n \n \n 10:30 am \n \n \n\n\n\nMeet Mona at the Carriage House and work in the Town Hall Garden. \n\n\n\nWork plan: weeding\nnear town hall for a while\, then weed the shrubs near pool and lawn oval.\nSpot watering if needed. \n\n\n\nWe provide free parking permits for parking near the carriage house. Wear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long handled tools and garden carts. URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/town-garden-work-session-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190725T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190725T223000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190724T000344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190724T000345Z UID:1097-1564043400-1564093800@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:G DESCRIPTION:Time:  8:30 – 10/10:30 am   Serious rain will cancel.  Or a rain call will be made by 7:30 am. Work Plan:  Weeding\, pruning\, clearing invasives around Whittemore Robbins House & the Reflecting Pool Meeting place:  Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave.\, Arlington Ctr.) Parking:   We provide free parking permits for parking near the Carriage HouseWear gloves.  Bring water and hand tools if you want.  We have long-handled tools and garden carts. \n\n\n\nEmily Snyder & Patsy KraemerEmily’s cell / text:  617-750-0106_ URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/g/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190711T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190711T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190709T123547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190709T123548Z UID:1084-1562833800-1562841000@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Town Garden Work Session DESCRIPTION:Work Plan:  Work in the town garden to do some pruning and light weeding. Meeting place:  Meet Patsy Kraemer at the Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave.\, Arlington Ctr.) Parking:   We provide free parking permits for parking near the Carriage HouseWear gloves.  Bring water and hand tools if you want.  We have long-handled tools and garden carts. URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/town-garden-work-session/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190703T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190703T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190630T230247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190630T231044Z UID:1076-1562142600-1562149800@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Town Hall Garden Work Session DESCRIPTION:Meet Mona at the Carriage House and work in the Town Hall Garden. We\n provide free parking permits for parking near the carriage house. Wear \ngloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long handled \ntools and garden carts. URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/town-hall-garden-work-session/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190627T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190627T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190624T204622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190624T204623Z UID:1028-1561624200-1561631400@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Town Gardens Work Day DESCRIPTION:Work Plan:  Spreading mulch which will be brought to work areas for spreading by town summer interns. Meeting place:  Meet Emily Snyder at the Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave.\, Arlington Ctr.) Parking:   We provide free parking permits for parking near the Carriage HouseWear gloves.  Bring water and hand tools if you want.  We have long-handled tools and garden carts. URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/town-gardens-work-day/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190619T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190619T100000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190618T140220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190618T141721Z UID:1003-1560933000-1560938400@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Town Garden Work Day DESCRIPTION:Meet Mona at the Carriage House and work in the Town Hall Garden. \n\n\n\nWe provide free parking permits for parking near the carriage house. \n\n\n\nWear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long handled tools and garden carts. URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/town-garden-work-day/ CATEGORIES:Work END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190530T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190530T220000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190523T185707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190618T140947Z UID:981-1559205000-1559253600@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Work plan DESCRIPTION:Meet at the carriage house and work in the Whittemore Robbins House Garden. \n\n\n\nParking:   We provide free parking permits for parking near the Carriage House \n\n\n\nWear gloves.  Bring water and hand tools if you want.  We have long-handled tools and garden carts. URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/work-plan/ LOCATION:Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House\,\, 700r Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, Massachusetts\, 02476\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190523T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190523T100000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190517T163210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190523T184820Z UID:970-1558600200-1558605600@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Work Plan 5/23 DESCRIPTION:Join Mona to finish the spiny branches piled on the small cotoneaster in areas 2 & 3 and work on rabbit fencing in area 7. Work group will also dig out some daylilies near the coffee tree\, trim the juniper trees and will lightly cultivate the mulch near the Deutzia. \n\n\n\nAnyone wishing to help should bring their gardening hand tools\, weed bucket\, sunscreen\, hat\, gloves\, water and bug spray. URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/work-plan-5-23/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190518T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190518T193000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190428T204017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T193535Z UID:902-1558204200-1558207800@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Come Celebrate restoration of the Reflecting Pool DESCRIPTION:Cash Bar\, Savory Hors d’Oeuvres\, \n\n\n\nMusic and Theater. \n\n\n\nTickets: $25.00 in advance\, $30 at the door \n\n\n\nAvailable at the Town Hall Select Board office\, the Book Rack or the Chamber of Commerce \n\n\n\nCelebration sponsored by the Town of Arlington\, the Friends of Robbins Town Gardens\, the Arlington Historical Commission\, the Cyrus Dallin Museum\, and the Arlington Garden Club URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/come-celebrate-restoration-of-the/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190516T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190516T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190502T020722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190517T180526Z UID:933-1557993600-1558002600@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Work Session DESCRIPTION:Our plan for 2019 is to hold work sessions in the Town Hall Gardens on alternate Thursday mornings starting Thursday\, May 2nd. \n\n\n\nSerious rain will cancel.  Or a rain call will be made by 7:30 am. \n\n\n\nWork Plan:  Weeding\, planting\, topdressing with compost in some areas\, rabbit protection in some areas\,  and scouting for pests and diseases. Check one dogwood in Area 1 has anthracnose due to all the rain and might need to be replaced. We will see when the leaves are fully open. \n\n\n\n Rabbits are eating the cotoneaster and have begun chewing on the bark of the old azaleas.  Install garlic stakes on new cotoneaster at grotto. Spray after the next rain with Critter Ritter or Deer-Off. \n\n\n\nAreas 3 and 4 still have dead wood and a large dead crown in a dogwood in Area 4 that needs surgery. Areas 3 and 4 at the lawn oval have invasive plants but we will remove them next year when there are dogwoods to replace and more mountain laurels and Korean Azaleas to infill the existing ones. \n\n\n\n**There will be a demo of heading back the overgrown Japanese Yew in Area 4 next Thursday.  Discussion will include preserving the shape as well as reducing the size in height and girth.  This may include follow-up pruning in six months to redirect those sprouts that shoot straight up. \n\n\n\nWe will continue this technique on some of the other oversized shrubs in area 3 and 4\, with the understanding that the azaleas\, mountain laurels and Mountain Pieris are supposed to be clusters or masses growing into one another. \n\n\n\nInvasive vines will sprout up so ongoing removal will continue each week.  Digging the root out is best.  Just cutting the top is okay if the root is hidden.   \n\n\n\nMona will talk about elm tree cultivars at the next garden club Thursday work session. \n\n\n\nUpdate \n\n\n\nPruned one overgrown upright Japanese Yew area 4. Sprayed rabbit deterrent and use granule fox urine  P E W! Areas 2\, 3\, 4 Piled spiny branches on the small cotoneaster as an experiment area 2  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe can cut bits of thorny rose and barberry and stick it all around the plants.  \n\n\n\nParking:   We provide free parking permits for parking near the Carriage House \n\n\n\nWear gloves.  Bring water and hand tools if you want.  We have long-handled tools and garden carts. \n\n\n\nEmily’s cell / text:617-750-0106 URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/work-session-2/ CATEGORIES:Work END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190509T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190509T210000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190505T164910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190506T200601Z UID:947-1557430200-1557435600@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Volunteer Coffee DESCRIPTION:Calling all Gardeners interested in helping to maintain the Robbins Garden-  May 9\, 7:30pm coffee Dear folks\,  As hopefully you have noticed\, the WInfield Robbins Memorial Garden – the one at the center of Town located between the Library and Town Hall\, is slowly being restored.  The reflecting pool is repaired\, the Indian restored and the garden at the side of town hall and the area around the Indian have many new plants.  As we move into Spring\, we are planning how these areas as well as the resst of the garden will be maintained this year.The Garden Club and the Friends of Robbins Town Gardens will be working on alternate Thursdays – weeding\, pruning\, watering and checking on the overall health of the older and newer plants.  We need volunteers to help us with maintenance this summer.  To get an idea of how many volunteers we might have who will be willing to help us\, we are hosting an evening coffee/tea gathering on May 8 at 7:30  in the Lyons room at Town hall.  At the gathering we’ll be going over the various tasks the two groups will be working on\, introducing you to key people who will be helping with this effort – master gardeners and historic gardeners who will be on hand to oversee our work and teach us about garden maintenance.Volunteer commitments usually run 2-4 hours / week with lots of flexibility from week to week.We look foward to meeting you.Christine HarrisPatsy KraemerEmily SnyderMona McKindleyJoAnn RobinsonRobert Cunniff URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/volunteer-coffee/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190509T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190509T103000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190504T120840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T202512Z UID:939-1557390600-1557397800@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Work Session DESCRIPTION:Extra work session\, May 2nd was rained out. \n\n\n\nSerious rain will cancel.  Or a rain call will be made by 7:30 am. \n\n\n\nWork Plan:  Mulching\, with the help of DPW interns\, in bare areas throughout the gardens. \n\n\n\nUPDATE ON WHAT WAS DONE: Area 3 & 4: We began the cutting back of some overgrown mountain laurels in area 3 and 4 in the lawn oval.   Area 3 and 4 at the lawn oval has invasive plants but we will remove them next year when there are red flowering dogwoods and white dogwoods and more mountain laurels and Korean Azaleas to infill the existing ones. Area 3 and 4  is cleaned and planted and mulched.  Rabbits are eating the cotoneaster and have begun chewing on the bark of the old azaleas.   \n\n\n\nArea 1: This weekend we planted:Mountain laurels and Korean Azaleas in the middle of Area 1. Two types of cotoneaster adjacent to the Korean Azaleas Area 1 \n\n\n\nArea 2: This weekend we planted:Dogwoods among the pines in Area 2 \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArea 7:This weekend we planted: Thunberg’s spirea and blueberry and mock orange in Area 7 mixed in with existing other spirea. Arrow wood Viburnum behind the Kentucky Coffee Tree. We also put up a rabbit fence. We will extend the mulch  to the yew hedge when the mulch is available. We agreed the Sargent Crabapple that is trained as a standard needs to be replaced because it is the  wrong shape\, and it has a large  wound on the main trunk which will lead to disease. \n\n\n\nArea 5  The elm trees will be planted in the lawn oval. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nParking:   We provide free parking permits for parking near the Carriage House \n\n\n\nWear gloves.  Bring water and hand tools if you want.  We have long-handled tools and garden carts. \n\n\n\nEmily’s cell / text:617-750-0106 URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/work-session-3/ CATEGORIES:Work END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190502T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190502T100000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190502T014257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T020101Z UID:924-1556785800-1556791200@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Work session DESCRIPTION:Demonstration on pruning Japanese Yews! \n\n\n\nOur plan for 2019 is to hold work sessions in the Town Hall Gardens on alternate Thursday mornings starting Thursday\, May 2nd. \n\n\n\nSerious rain will cancel.  Or a rain call will be made by 7:30 am. \n\n\n\nWork Plan:  Weeding\, pruning\, clearing invasives around Whittemore Robbins House & the Reflecting Pool \n\n\n\nParking:   We provide free parking permits for parking near the Carriage House \n\n\n\nWear gloves.  Bring water and hand tools if you want.  We have long-handled tools and garden carts. \n\n\n\nEmily’s cell / text:617-750-0106 URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/work-session/ LOCATION:Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House\, 700r Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, Massachusetts\, United States CATEGORIES:Work END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190430T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190430T203000 DTSTAMP:20260415T094521 CREATED:20190428T201953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190428T202608Z UID:894-1556652600-1556656200@www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org SUMMARY:Polishing a Masterpiece: Rediscovering Arlington’s Winfield Robbins Memorial Gardens DESCRIPTION:Members of the Friends of Robbins Town Gardens and the Arlington Historical Society are invited to attend a special program. Lucinda Brockway will be speaking on “Polishing a Masterpiece: Rediscovering the Winfield Robbins Memorial Garden”. The program will be held at Arlington Town Hall on Tuesday\, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to arrive early and stroll the garden and see the restored reflecting pool. The program is free for members of the Arlington Historical Society and of the Friends of Robbins Town Gardens. Admission for non-members is $5.00. \n\n\n\nLike a work of Paul Revere’s silver or a master’s painting\, designed landscapes need some regular polish to look their best. The Winfield Robbins Memorial Garden\, between the Robbins Library and the Arlington Town Hall\, is such a landscape jewel.  In 1938\, the Olmsted Brothers were hired to re-imagine R. Clipston Sturgis’ Victorian garden into a less formal\, naturalistic garden setting for the famed “Menotomy Hunter” statue.  Their design\, and the park’s subsequent construction\, are documented through plans\, planting lists and Arlington Annual Reports.  Preserving these landscapes takes a special multi-focal lens that looks to the past\, the present\, and the future with an eye to budget\, maintenance and management.  Using examples from recent work at Castle Hill\, Naumkeag and other properties\, Lucinda Brockway\, Director of Cultural Resources for The Trustees\, will explore the process and the promise held in these treasured spaces.    \n\n\n\nBrockway states: “I believe that our cultural landscapes open a three dimensional textbook to the past for contemporary citizens. These landscapes existing on a village street\, an urban park\, backyard garden or woodland that has grown up over a former hayfield.  The details of their stories are written in light posts\, old trees\, curb edgings\, street widths and stone walls.  Each of us can learn to read their vocabulary if we only pay attention.  Revitalizing these landscapes is like polishing an old masterpiece\, igniting new life for another generation.” \n\n\n\nBio:LUCINDA A. BROCKWAY is the Program Director for Cultural Resources at The Trustees\, a Massachusetts conservation and preservation organization with eleven public gardens from Martha’s Vineyard to the Berkshire Hills.  Brockway and her team are deepening the public connection to plants\, plant collections and the beauty of public gardens across the Commonwealth with an eye to their resiliency\, sustainability and durability.  An award-winning landscape designer and preservationist\, Brockway’s work has been recognized by the Garden Club of America\, the Garden Club Federation of Maine\, the Massachusetts Historic Commission\, and others.  Her work has been featured in Old House Journal\, Colonial Homes\, Nineteenth Century and Accent as well as numerous professional and trade publications. URL:https://www.friendsoftherobbinstowngardens.org/event/polishing-a-masterpiece-rediscovering-arlingtons-winfield-robbins-memorial-gardens/ LOCATION:Town Hall\, 730 Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, Massachusetts\, 02476\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR