Back on Friday, workers removed the rotting willow tree from the southwest corner of La Plaza Cultural on Avenue C and Ninth Street.
EVG correspondent Steven stopped by the community garden today... there is a pile of chips from the 40-year-old tree, nicknamed Cher, available to take...
Also, it appears that following the clean up after the removal, community gardeners found steps to a path inside La Plaza ...
Previously on EV Grieve:
A wake for the last willow trees at La Plaza Cultural
At the Weeping Willow Wake
[Photo from Sunday]
What a wonderful opportunity to pick out a tree that can be planted there, and, that will live for a long, lo-o-ooong time!
ReplyDeleteIf I'm not mistaken, the steps were put in as part of a fruit orchard walk in the spring (when a ton of fruit trees were planted, courtesy of Green Thumb). But the garden gets pretty shaggy in the late summer, and Cher took up a lot of space, so it was kind of hidden before.
ReplyDeleteCan we plant a new willow sapling?
ReplyDeleteI hope they plant some nice hardwoods like Ash,Oak Maple or Cherry trees. Willow trees my opinion not that attractive a tree there are suitable alternatives Willows attract insects and is a messy tree.
ReplyDeleteThe previous willow was amazing, seconding a new one.
ReplyDeleteThese lovely willows were a symbol of the East Village, and a sign that we are built on marshland.
ReplyDeletePlanted by the Johnny Appleseed of the East Village, Liz Christy, founder of the garden renamed the Liz Christy Garden, and the Green Guerrillas, which supports hundreds of community gardens across the city.
I don't know why they are not being replanted. Too big? Too soft? Too much shade?
I miss them so. So magical and majestic were they, in a quiet, sweet way. So much heritage, going back 40 years, when the gardens were built on hellscapes.