Coming Soon!

Next week, July 6, 2009, I start once again efforts to improve our main train station. Join me!

Monday 6th from 10 AM to 12 PM

Wednesday 8th from 9:30 AM to 11 AM

Thursday 9th from 9:30 to 11 AM

So? What has happened here lately?

Irises have been planted here and will be here in full bloom for all to enjoy next year. There is a plan to create an evergreen "fence" around this sign, if you would like to donate money, or an tiny, tiny evergreen, please send me an e-mail for more information about how to donate to: cres125@aol.com.


This picture was taken by the Plainfield Plaintalker, who did a story on us! Click HERE to read the story.

And believe me, not all we do is hard work.

Lillacs Are Coming to the Watchung & North Avenue Hill!

Lilacs, one of the most traditional shrubs one can have, are coming to the station to have their final home after being rescued from a neighbor who wanted to change her landscape.

From one big shrub, the lilacs were divided into 5 containers which hopefully will survive the transfer.

The lilacs are just the perfect shrub for our little hill facing Watchung Avenue which will be naked after we cut the two weed trees that took advantage of being hidden from sight.

Lilacs (let's all keep our fingers crossed for their survival), petunias, a nice groundcover (it hasn't been decided which one) and few other sun-loving flowers will soon welcome you to that part of the station.

And please, before you yank your plants, know that there are plenty places that would love to "adopt" them. Our small group of volunteers will gladly go to your place and dig them up for you.

Future Site Of Trees!

Thanks to Ms. Deborah Eadie, our NJ Transit's Adopt-a-Station liaison who got us the authorization to plant 3 beautiful flowering trees on this site. While we had made plans to make this site a home for sunflowers and cosmos, trees definitively will make a more permanent, not to mention beneficial, improvement than our original plan. We still plan to plant sunflowers and cosmos, but in a smaller scale. Can't wait to start planting!

If you would like to become a tree or plant donor, please contact us at cres125@aol.com. Your donation will be recognized with a sign made by NJ Transit.

One less site that bothers the eye

Sunflowers and Cosmos will do well at this sunny site. Maybe future plans, if allowed, will call for flowering trees. Maybe even a rain garden? Bold ideas!

Blooming Despite The Odds

In cleaning up around the stone wall on the E. Fourth Street this flower, which looks like a tulip, was fighting with litter and stones to bloom. We should soon give her some company.

Loosing The Suckers