Updates

Hi everyone.  It has been an intense month of urban green.  We've had a lot happening...in fact so much happening that we haven't had a moment to update this blog--but here we are with an update.

In august, David Newton, a professor in Guilford's art department brought his First Year Experience class by to help in the garden and explore the museum.

Then along came the brilliant and excited young ladies from Chattam Hall in Virginia.  They all had cameras so we'll post those pictures too.  Most exciting, perhaps, was that the Guilford students helped design the layout for our completed bottle wall and the young women from Chattam Hall put in our first plantings.

Yep! we got plants--rosemary, thyme, sea grass, black-eyed Susan's, and...ohh!  yes! we have moon vines!! moon vines---big hunking giant white flowering moon vines.  If I might make an editorial aside--moon vines are the most metaphorically depressing plant ever.  They are rely on lush, thick, fast growing vines that produce large, beautiful white blossums that open only at night and by the next morning they have collapsed on the ground dead...OH THE TRAGEDY!--

So ahead of us is the production of 10 more flourescent light planter boxes to install on the wall, a bamboo arbor with muscidines (Bamboo has been soaking and now curing for almost 6 weeks), another bottle wall, and well...we need to advertise our new bird house--its really nice, made from an old doll house with a peep through window from inside the museum...so if you know any birds looking for a home--let us know.  in short...everything is coming along quite nicely.