Horticulture By The Numbers
Mount Auburn is that rare thing: an island of peace, where contemplation holds sway, and trees, as well as memory, are allowed to grow rich and full over time. To walk this place and talk about the beauty and wonder of trees and their gift to our world made a deep, centering kind of sense to me, and so I was so pleased to have a chance to visit with donors and Friends of Mount Auburn in May, to celebrate the launch of my book, Witness Tree, and visit some of the more remarkable trees on the grounds together— though it is of course hard to choose. Trees give us peace, solace, beauty, as does Mount Auburn. Thank you Mount Auburn Cemetery for all you do for the community, today and always.
A $ 5,000 Feed a Bee Grant funded the establishment of a rich new habitat in Mount Auburn’ s southwest corner. The Bee Garden and Apiary, completed in the summer of 2017, is filled with abundant flowering plants that provide a food source to sustain the native and managed bees who pollinate our plants. Mount Auburn’ s Bee Garden was one of 58 pollinator projects in 31 states and Washington, D. C. funded through the Bayer Bee Care Program.
Horticulture By The Numbers
41,825 annuals produced in greenhouse for floral tributes and annual care plantings
• Planted this year:
63 trees 344 shrubs 1,400 bulbs 7,050 perennials and groundcovers
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65 % of new plantings added this Fiscal Year are late flowering varieties to add late spring and summer seasonal interest
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Mount Auburn is that rare thing: an island of peace, where contemplation holds sway, and trees, as well as memory, are allowed to grow rich and full over time. To walk this place and talk about the beauty and wonder of trees and their gift to our world made a deep, centering kind of sense to me, and so I was so pleased to have a chance to visit with donors and Friends of Mount Auburn in May, to celebrate the launch of my book, Witness Tree, and visit some of the more remarkable trees on the grounds together— though it is of course hard to choose. Trees give us peace, solace, beauty, as does Mount Auburn. Thank you Mount Auburn Cemetery for all you do for the community, today and always.
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Lynda V. Mapes Author, Witness Tree, Seasons of Change in a Century Old Oak May 2017
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