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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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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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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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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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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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