Dear Friends,
ZAC’s 2018 Fall Arbor Day is almost upon us! This is but our first step in a long-term plan to beautify our ZAC grounds for our members. The interest in this event has been fantastic and we are looking forward to a fun and exciting day of environmental and community service!
We need all the assistance we can get to make this a successful event – whether it’s digging, planting, mulching, or keeping our on-field volunteers well-fed and refreshed, we could really use your help. If you have not already done so, please RSVP Persis Driver (email or 630-453-7837) or Zenobia Damania (email or 630-697-8947) as soon as possible.
We would also be grateful for any donations or contributions to help offset the planting and landscaping costs. If you’d like to donate to the event, you may do so by clicking on the button below, or in-person on the day of the event.
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Please note: We have received several requests for sponsoring trees in memoriam. Unfortunately, we still have considerable debris on our grounds that needs to be cleared before we can identify and allocate plots for them. We are going to defer the sponsorship and planting of trees until Spring next year, when we will be in a better position to have a thorough landscape design.
We will instead focus our time and energy on planting a selection of bushes, shrubs, hedges, and several other small annuals and planters in key locations around our property, carefully curated to bloom from Spring through Summer. Please read on to see what we will be planting.
Viburnum: carlesii ‘cayuga’
A distinctive cultivar with spicy fragrant 4-5 in. white flowers that appear from pink buds in late April and continue over a long period.
Quantity being planted: 2
Syringa: patula ‘Miss kim’
Shrubs or small trees prized for their showy and fragrant blooms in late spring. Abundant and fragrant pale lavender blossoms, which fade to an icy light blue.
Quantity being planted: 2
Philadelphus: Mock Orange
Pure white, deliciously fragrant 2″ double flowers bloom late spring and again in late summer. Snow White is very useful as a backdrop for roses or perennials and has exceptional dark green foliage that stands up to summer heat.
Quantity being planted: 2
Hydrangea
Flowers open pure white then turn pink and will be an extremely dark rosy-pink in the fall. Blooms on this super-hardy and easy to grow hydrangea are produced on new wood, which means that you will see flowers even after even the harshest winters.
Quantity being planted: 2
Viburnum: trilobum
Redwing Viburnum is covered in stunning white lacecap flowers held atop the branches in late spring. It has attractive dark green foliage which emerges brick red in spring.
Quantity being planted: 4
Syringia Persica: Persian lilac
Deciduous shrub whose upright, slightly-arching branching clad with lanceolate, dark green leaves and sweetly-fragrant, pale violet flowers in small but broad panicles bloom, often profusely, in May.
Quantity being planted: 3
Juniperus: Chinensis ‘sea green’
A popular and beautiful evergreen landscape shrub for general garden and massing use, features an arching, sprawling branching habit with downturned tips, very attractive, deep green needle-like foliage.
Quantity being planted: 1
Euonymous: Alatus ‘compactus’ (dwarf burning bush)
A dense, mounded, spreading, flat-topped, multi-stemmed shrub that is particularly noted for its fiery red fall foliage color.
Quantity being planted: 1
Clematis
The queen of vines has a long season of bloom from early July through September, and some of the plant kingdom’s most beautiful flowers.
Quantity being planted: 1
Date: Saturday, September 8th
Time: 10:00am till work gets done.
RSVP: Persis Driver (email or 630-453-7837) or Zenobia Damania (email or 630-697-8947)
Nourishment: Tea, coffee, lunch, and snacks will be organized for all participants. To help with providing food items to sustain our community members through the day, please email or call Roshan Rivetna at 630-340-8272.
This Arbor Day event is an opportunity for families – parents, children, grandparents, cousins, uncles, aunts, and friends, to work together towards a common goal. Needless to say, this has the potential to strengthen friendships, deepen family connections, and help our younger generations see that as adults, we don’t only talk about being ecological scientists, but follow through on that promise with action. So please, let us come together on this day to plant, laugh, and grow!
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Thank you!