Reedy Creek Coalition

Join Reedy Creek Coalition and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay for a rain barrel workshop on September, 30 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Westover Baptist Church.  Come home with a rain barrel.

Link for registration and information 

Rain Barrel Information

Adding a rain barrel to capture water from your roof can help improve water quality in our watershed.  Appropriate landscaping can help too.  The Yard Design Tool below will help you develop a plan for a rain garden or conservation landscape in your yard.

Yard Design Tool

The more rain barrels, rain gardens, conservation landscapes, and trees we have in our watershed, the better our water quality for ouselves and for aquatic life.   Every rain barrel, every landscape makes a difference.   Collectively, we can have a positive impact!

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This is why Reedy Creek Coalition supports the use of native species….

http://www.bringingnaturehome.net/gardening-for-life.html

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Reedy Creek kids (and maybe even their parents) may be interested in an event at Bryan Park.  This is from the Friends of Bryan Park website…

“Water quality is an important matter; not just for fish and ducks . . . . everyone needs access to clean, safe water. Learn how to diagnose the health of Bryan Park’s streams by sampling and identifying aquatic macro-invertebrates.  Meet at the Nature Center from 2-3:30 pm.”

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Reedy Creek and a small tributary, Crooked Branch, flow through Crooked Branch Ravine Park.  This small, passive park is home to many native trees, shrubs, and perennials that could be lost to advancing invasive plant species, particularly English ivy and privet.  Reedy Creek Coalition members are planning to have a workday once each month to remove invasive species.  Our efforts will focus on 1) removing ivy from trees and other plants that are significant sources of seed and 2) monitoring and removing small patches of non-native plants and seedlings from an area that is not yet severely impacted.

• Please consider joining us on Sunday, May 14 from 1-3 p.m.
• We will meet at the end of Northrop Street where there is a path into the park.
• Bring gloves, pruners, and, if you have one, a small saw for cutting large ivy vines.

Come work with us under the beautiful oak, hickory, maple, sassafras, holly, beech, black gum, sweet gum canopy.

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Reedy Creek and a small tributary, Crooked Branch, flow through Crooked Branch Ravine Park.  This small, passive park is home to many native trees, shrubs, and perennials that could be lost to advancing invasive plant species, particularly English ivy and privet.  Reedy Creek Coalition members are planning to have a workday once each month to remove invasive species.  Our efforts will focus on 1) removing ivy from trees and other plants that are significant sources of seed and 2) monitoring and removing small patches of non-native plants and seedlings from an area that is not yet severely impacted.

• Please consider joining us on Sunday, April 2 from 1-3 p.m.
• We will meet at the end of Northrop Street where there is a path into the park.
• Bring gloves, pruners, and, if you have one, a small saw for cutting large ivy vines.

Blackhaw viburnum (Viburnum prunifolium) is leafing out and just starting to set some buds.  This plant is fairly common in this little patch of woods.

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Reedy Creek and a small tributary, Crooked Branch, flow through Crooked Branch Ravine Park.  This small, passive park is home to many native trees, shrubs, and perennials that could be lost to advancing invasive plant species, particularly English ivy and privet.  Reedy Creek Coalition members are planning to have a workday once each month to remove invasive species.  Our efforts will focus on 1) removing ivy from trees and other plants that are significant sources of seed and 2) monitoring and removing small patches of non-native plants and seedlings from an area that is not yet severely impacted.

• Please consider joining us on Sunday, March 5 from 1-3 p.m.
• We will meet at the end of Northrop Street where there is a path into the park.
• Bring gloves, pruners, and, if you have one, a small saw for cutting large ivy vines.

We intend to continue these efforts on a monthly basis and and hope that you will join us.

This lovely little evergreen is easily found in the park, but will not survive as English ivy spreads.  The plant blooms in late spring.  Please help save the native plants of Crooked Branch Ravine.

Wintergreen, Chimaphila species

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