Just as the nonprofit group unveiled plans to plant a vibrant wildflower meadow at Irwin Park, the New Canaan Garden received approval from town officials to kickstart a dogwood grove at the Weed Street park.
The venerable New Canaan Garden Club has big plans for this area of the park, including four dogwoods (eventually, hopefully a full dozen) to go in now and a wildflower meadow beyond. Credit: Michael Dinan
Things will start off with four dogwoods going in just off of the Flexi-pave footpath toward the northwest corner of Irwin (near enough to Wahackme) and “will not interfere with the playing fields,” club member Katie Stewart told the Park & Recreation Commission at the group’s regular meeting Oct. 8.
“It’s timely because they should be planted right now, and the long-range plan would be to do a total of 12, so there would be this wonderful bloom all at once,” Stewart said.
The commission unanimously approved the effort.
This photo, provided by the New Canaan Garden Club, shows the path across Irwin Park’s great lawn (now a Flexi-pave path) with some daffodils in bloom.
Irwin Park has benefitted from several Garden Club-led upgrades—not only did the group plant 5,000 daffodils on the Great Lawn that bloomed this spring, the club on Sept. 30 also planted five new trees near the park’s entrance as part of a larger beautification plan.
Many New Canaanites are looking forward to the wildflower garden, in particular—under a plan that will use the same system the town’s DPW highway chief, Mose Saccary, used to create the lovely patch at 123 and Parade Hill, which bloomed this summer.