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[Music]
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we started to grow things and we made
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the gardens up top because it does run
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right up to Essex Street it's the whole
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strip right here and last year our CG
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became our new sponsor and they have
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been very generous with allowing us to
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do a lot of different things including
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adding the five containers that you see
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over across the street and it's a labor
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of love that's what it's become it's
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like how can we make this so beautiful
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in the spring summer and fall because in
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the winter as you may have seen it
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doesn't look very good it's a wind
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tunnel and everything gets collected in
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there right right yeah so this is
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startup time and we have another crew
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helping us this morning weed and trench
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this so the mulch can go down and the
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flowers will go in and the only flowers
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on this section the lower section are
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the ones in the containers not any other
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plantings and all the rest are up above
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our perennials it's really fun and the
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biggest most wonderful part of this
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adventure is all meeting and seeing all
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the people who really appreciate it and
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say thank you every day their computer
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traffic as you can see is huge right
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here and people actually look forward to
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it
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seeing what's gonna happen next
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[Music]
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so the essential things are like at rug
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you can see there's one on the island
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over there
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various trowels a shovel pitchfork Rose
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food different kinds of Clippers and
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scissors I have to show you this this is
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battery-operated cream so you turn the
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top the nozzle goes down you push the
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button and it sprays an even layer of
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weed preventer on the strip it's really
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good and fast that's about it
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so your truck is always full of good
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stuff
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okay hi I'm Charlene and I work for the
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Beautification Committee for the traffic
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island people we do the traffic islands
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in the in the city right now we're on
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Washington Street and we're at what we
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call the hosta gardens there were three
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gardens here and run right along
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Washington Street we planted this a few
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years ago I think maybe three years ago
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and we have mainly lost Asiya we need to
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replace some because we lost some over
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the winter but these hostas will go into
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sleep during the winter and then you'll
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see them sprouting up and that's what
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they're you know they're little past
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that point now they're coming up
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sometimes these hostas will bloom so you
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get long stems and blooms late in the
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summer so today what I'm doing is I'm
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planting a few grasses it looks like
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that and what we're trying to do is just
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trying to put some variation in this
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garden to offset that all the green
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color and to fill the spaces with
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something else so the eye is attracted
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to something else as people walk by it's
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pretty much it we're trying to work for
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soil here it's a very very dense soil so
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we've been working a lot with that we
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have to consider that we have a lot of
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shade here from these trees so we
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consider that with what we plant here
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hi I'm Kim Driscoll I'm the Mara Salem
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and so pleased to be at the annual
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beautification committees plant sale
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this is just one of the many things the
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Beautification Committee does in Salem
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if you've ever driven around our
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community and seen wonderful islands or
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frankly any green space the
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Beautification Committee has had a hand
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in that please to really celebrate this
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all-volunteer organization and all that
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they do to keep our city looking
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beautiful sparkling and allowing
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community members to come together to
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make green spaces come alive
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[Music]
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hello good morning welcome to the Salem
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Beautification Committee plant sale in
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May it's our annual fundraiser and the
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money goes towards supporting our
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efforts for cleaning up the traffic
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islands and buying mulch doing all kinds
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of good things like that we have a
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variety of plants here a number of
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annuals and perennials and this year we
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have pollinators we're very proud of
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that because we're trying to support
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bees and butterflies and creating homes
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for them here in Salem Massachusetts so
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join us every year in May and Saturday
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on a Saturday on the common and come
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down and buy your plants thank you very
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much
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[Music]
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my name is Annie Scott of thrive design
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I'm an ecological landscape designer
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working with native plants and I've been
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in the Salem area for about three years
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now and I'm new to the Salem
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Beautification Committee today at the
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plant cell we're selling native
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pollinator plants which people have been
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really receptive of these plants all
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help provide food and shelter for the
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native pollinators
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this plan is liatris it's a plant that
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does well in dry sunny conditions it has
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a beautiful purple spiky flower later in
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the summer this is mountain men it's one
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of my favorites and also it's the
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perennial plant of the Year voted by the
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Garden Club of America it is a very
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fragrant plant that does well in moist
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conditions and it attracts lots of local
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bees and the third plan is butterfly
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weed this is has orange flowers and it's
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loved by the Barnum and Mark burnouts
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