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[0:30] we started to grow things and we made
[0:33] the gardens up top because it does run
[0:35] right up to Essex Street it's the whole
[0:37] strip right here and last year our CG
[0:41] became our new sponsor and they have
[0:44] been very generous with allowing us to
[0:45] do a lot of different things including
[0:47] adding the five containers that you see
[0:50] over across the street and it's a labor
[0:54] of love that's what it's become it's
[0:56] like how can we make this so beautiful
[0:58] in the spring summer and fall because in
[1:00] the winter as you may have seen it
[1:03] doesn't look very good it's a wind
[1:05] tunnel and everything gets collected in
[1:07] there right right yeah so this is
[1:12] startup time and we have another crew
[1:14] helping us this morning weed and trench
[1:18] this so the mulch can go down and the
[1:20] flowers will go in and the only flowers
[1:23] on this section the lower section are
[1:26] the ones in the containers not any other
[1:29] plantings and all the rest are up above
[1:32] our perennials it's really fun and the
[1:36] biggest most wonderful part of this
[1:38] adventure is all meeting and seeing all
[1:42] the people who really appreciate it and
[1:45] say thank you every day their computer
[1:48] traffic as you can see is huge right
[1:50] here and people actually look forward to
[1:53] it
[1:54] seeing what's gonna happen next
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[2:07] so the essential things are like at rug
[2:10] you can see there's one on the island
[2:12] over there
[2:13] various trowels a shovel pitchfork Rose
[2:20] food different kinds of Clippers and
[2:24] scissors I have to show you this this is
[2:29] battery-operated cream so you turn the
[2:32] top the nozzle goes down you push the
[2:36] button and it sprays an even layer of
[2:39] weed preventer on the strip it's really
[2:42] good and fast that's about it
[2:47] so your truck is always full of good
[2:48] stuff
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[3:31] okay hi I'm Charlene and I work for the
[3:34] Beautification Committee for the traffic
[3:36] island people we do the traffic islands
[3:38] in the in the city right now we're on
[3:41] Washington Street and we're at what we
[3:44] call the hosta gardens there were three
[3:46] gardens here and run right along
[3:49] Washington Street we planted this a few
[3:52] years ago I think maybe three years ago
[3:54] and we have mainly lost Asiya we need to
[3:58] replace some because we lost some over
[4:00] the winter but these hostas will go into
[4:04] sleep during the winter and then you'll
[4:07] see them sprouting up and that's what
[4:08] they're you know they're little past
[4:10] that point now they're coming up
[4:11] sometimes these hostas will bloom so you
[4:15] get long stems and blooms late in the
[4:17] summer so today what I'm doing is I'm
[4:20] planting a few grasses it looks like
[4:24] that and what we're trying to do is just
[4:27] trying to put some variation in this
[4:29] garden to offset that all the green
[4:31] color and to fill the spaces with
[4:33] something else so the eye is attracted
[4:35] to something else as people walk by it's
[4:38] pretty much it we're trying to work for
[4:40] soil here it's a very very dense soil so
[4:44] we've been working a lot with that we
[4:45] have to consider that we have a lot of
[4:47] shade here from these trees so we
[4:50] consider that with what we plant here
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[5:24] hi I'm Kim Driscoll I'm the Mara Salem
[5:27] and so pleased to be at the annual
[5:29] beautification committees plant sale
[5:30] this is just one of the many things the
[5:32] Beautification Committee does in Salem
[5:34] if you've ever driven around our
[5:35] community and seen wonderful islands or
[5:38] frankly any green space the
[5:39] Beautification Committee has had a hand
[5:41] in that please to really celebrate this
[5:43] all-volunteer organization and all that
[5:45] they do to keep our city looking
[5:46] beautiful sparkling and allowing
[5:48] community members to come together to
[5:50] make green spaces come alive
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[6:09] hello good morning welcome to the Salem
[6:12] Beautification Committee plant sale in
[6:14] May it's our annual fundraiser and the
[6:17] money goes towards supporting our
[6:19] efforts for cleaning up the traffic
[6:21] islands and buying mulch doing all kinds
[6:23] of good things like that we have a
[6:25] variety of plants here a number of
[6:27] annuals and perennials and this year we
[6:30] have pollinators we're very proud of
[6:32] that because we're trying to support
[6:33] bees and butterflies and creating homes
[6:37] for them here in Salem Massachusetts so
[6:39] join us every year in May and Saturday
[6:42] on a Saturday on the common and come
[6:44] down and buy your plants thank you very
[6:45] much
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[7:19] my name is Annie Scott of thrive design
[7:23] I'm an ecological landscape designer
[7:25] working with native plants and I've been
[7:30] in the Salem area for about three years
[7:33] now and I'm new to the Salem
[7:36] Beautification Committee today at the
[7:39] plant cell we're selling native
[7:41] pollinator plants which people have been
[7:45] really receptive of these plants all
[7:48] help provide food and shelter for the
[7:50] native pollinators
[7:52] this plan is liatris it's a plant that
[7:56] does well in dry sunny conditions it has
[8:00] a beautiful purple spiky flower later in
[8:04] the summer this is mountain men it's one
[8:07] of my favorites and also it's the
[8:11] perennial plant of the Year voted by the
[8:14] Garden Club of America it is a very
[8:17] fragrant plant that does well in moist
[8:20] conditions and it attracts lots of local
[8:25] bees and the third plan is butterfly
[8:30] weed this is has orange flowers and it's
[8:35] loved by the Barnum and Mark burnouts
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