planting bushes in the MetroPark
Water Wheel
Down by the river
riparian planting witch hazel,
nanny berries, hop tree, button bush,
black haw viburnum
with shovel and muscle and weight of work
in mud and dirt and root and rock
planning for future
paying for now
growing earth
going good
repairing medicine wheel
– Smith, 4.2.2014
We helped plant bushes in the MetroPark to stabilize the watershed. This is our third planting, the second by a river, and the most difficult . . . ground mostly rock and root. 40 volunteers got 150 bushes planted in an hour.
Riparian = relating to or living or located on the bank of a natural watercourse (as a river) or sometimes of a lake or a tidewater
planting bushes in the MetroPark