Old tree labels were worn and damaged.
On Thursday December 20th the Friends began the process of adding and changing the tree labels in the Public Garden with the help of a volunteer, Richard Williams. This is a first step in providing a valuable educational service to the users of the park. Each label will contain the following information: Species common name, botanical name, botanical family name, date planted (if known) and donor inscription (if the tree was donated in honor/memory of a loved one). Over the course of the day over 60 labels were installed with another 50 to go.
Richard Williams affixing a label to a Crabapple tree in the Boston Public Garden.
In this first installation we began with the trees located along the edges of the newly paved pathways and continued around the Lagoon towards the Japanese Bell. The next 50 will target the main walking paths that leads users around the Lagoon, past the Goody Flag Pole and towards the Hadassah Gate or the Charles/Boylston Street corner. Please look out for us over the next week as we finish this phase of the tree labeling project. Stop and say hello, give our volunteer a big thanks or pause to learn more about the amazing collection of trees in the Public Garden.
