Saturday May 18, 6:30 PM Winfield Robbins Memorial GardenCash Bar, Savory Hors d’Oeuvres, Music and Theater.Tickets: $25.00 in advance, $30 at the door Available at the Town Hall Select Board office, the Book Rack orthe Chamber of Commerce Pay Pal https://bit.ly/2G23o8PCelebration 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
The Friends of Robbins Town Gardens and the Arlington Historical Society are Co-Sponsoring a lecture by Lucinda Brockway titled Polishing a Masterpiece: Rediscovering Arlington’s Winfield Robbins Memorial Gardens . The talk will be held at Town Hall Tuesday April 30th at 7:30 PM. People are encouraged to walk through the Winfield Robbins Memorial Garden before the talk to see the newly restored and operating reflecting pool. Admission is free for members of the Historical Society and of the Friends of Robbins Town Gardens. Like 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.…
On April 20, 2024, Earth Day, the Friends of the Robbins Town Gardens sponsored a clean-up day in the gardens between the Library and the Town Hall. The morning was wet and rainy, but by noon it was just cloudy and a comfortable temperature to work outside. So we started out in the early afternoon with a good group of volunteers. Several members of the Arlington Rotary, the Arlington Garden Club, and other Arlington residents joined the Friends of the Robbins Town Gardens to help “spruce up” the garden in preparation for the spring and summer seasons. Fixing the fence Leftover leaves and sticks from the winter beneath the shrubs were bagged for disposal in more than twenty-five leaf bags, generously donated by Shattuck Hardware. Volunteers removed a lot of…
Our 3rd Annual Garden Party has now been scheduled. It is a fund raiser for the benefit of the Robbins Town Gardens.
Hello Garden Friends,I want to remind you of our annual meeting on November 20 at 6PM in the Library Community Room. We'll go over what we accomplished this past year, elect new people to the board and new officers and gather suggestions from you about what you would like to see us work on in the future. If you've ever wondered what our organization does, are interested in joining our Board of Directors, wanted to help out with our work in the garden, or wanted the chance to suggest things we might want to do, we would love to see you. We'll have tea, coffee and nibbles. Hope to see you there.Yours for the GardenChristine Harris - Current President
Hello Garden Friends,I wanted to remind you of our annual meeting on November 20 at 6PM in the Library Community room. We'll go over what we accomplished this past year, elect new people to the board and new officers and gather suggestions from you about what you would like to see us work on in the future. If you've ever wondered what our organization does, wanted to help out with our work in the garden, or wanted the chance to suggest things we might want to do, we would love to see you. We'll have tea, coffee and nibbles. Hope to see you there.Yours for the GardenChristine Harris - Current President
As we make progress in replanting, pruning and tending to the garden we'll post updates on our work here so you can follow along. We'll also let you know the help we need either on our work day - Thursday - or watering during the week. If you would like to help us with that please send an email to frg2018@gmail.com Many thanks This past Thursday , 5/19 JoAnn Robinson, Meredith Zona and Mona McKindley spent quite a bit of time cleaning up the winter creeper in the upper woodland. They removed the excess wintercreeper along the rocks where it is to be preserved and groomed, by raking with a steel tined rake and hand trimming. They got half of the area done, filled three leaf bags and were tired…
Work Plan: PURCHASED & READY TO PLANT TOMORROW 5/11: 7 x 12 flats = 84 ‘pachysandra terminalis’: Please bring your digging tools, talents and, if you have it, & fencing+stakes Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.) Parking: We provide 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. We look forward to seeing you – Emily Snyder and Patsy Kraemer
Work Plan: cutting the wintercreeper where it cascades over the rocks Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.) Parking: We provide 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. We look forward to seeing you - Christine Harris, JoAnn Robinson, Mona McKindley
Work Plan: We will be cutting some of the pachysandra back and thin pruning the part we are keeping that trains over the rocks. Making a space for the leucothoe near the water works bunker and transplanting it. Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.) Parking: We provide 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. We look forward to seeing you - Christine Harris, JoAnn Robinson, Mona McKindley
Work Plan: Help prune the suckers off crabapple trees. If it rains heavy with lightening, we cancel and try again next Thursday. Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.) Parking: We provide 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. We look forward to seeing you - Christine Harris, JoAnn Robinson, Mona McKindley
Work Plan: TBD Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.) Parking: We provide 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. Emily Snyder and Patsy Kraemer
