Landscape Design

Two years ago the Glenwood School started a landscape design club in hopes of redesigning the front of our school to make it more visually appealing. The design process started with the help of Claude McKenzie. He showed us how to use the computer to design our project. Pam Keithly was later brought in to help Claude and the club to choose which native plants to use. Once the design process was finished, our school started planning in the Spring of 2010. Darren Jones helped tear out the shrubs that had previously been in the planting beds and then replace the soil with nutrient rich top soil. Darren then planted several new trees in the fall. The leadership class helped out by weeding and preparing the space for planting in the spring. For the May Enrichment Day we started planting. We used a wide range of native plants and grasses including: dogwood (red and yellow twigs), burning bush, mock orange, kinnikinnick, black eyed susans and rosa rugosa. Now the plants are starting to really fill and we think the landscaping process has been a huge success. We are now looking for our next landscape project in front of the gym.