2024 Events AND PROJECTS
- 2023 Annual report posted at maynardlifeoutdoors.com Nov 2023
- Donations from Boston Scientific ($300), Russell's Garden Center ($75), Maynard Community Gardeners, Marlborough Colonial Garden Club ($225) and Maynard High School Class of 2003 ($500 In memory of Daniel Mark)
- High Street, Maynard: planting by Maynard Scout Troup #130 as Ronan Rafter Eagle Scout project. Supported by a $250 grant from the Maynard Cultural Council, which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
- Photo: Acton-Boxboro High School Senior Community Service Day plantings of flowering quince at Acton historic site on April 26, 2024
2024: Planting efforts by student volunteers from Maynard and Acton, MAssachusetts
2023 Events and projects
- 2022 Annual report posted at maynardlifeoutdoors.com
- TOF display staffed at Maynard Library event for community organizations March 18, 2023
- Dedication of Marble Farm Historic Site May 2, 2023
- Donations from Assabet Valley Vocational/Technical High School, Butler Lumber, Thyme in the Garden
- Acton-Boxboro High School Senior Community Service Day plantings at Sylvia Street site April 28, 2023
Bench installed by Dept Public Works
at the Marble Farm historic site
2023: INSTALLATION OF SIX POLLINator 'ART POSTS' DONATED BY ARTSPACE HONEYBEE MEADOW COMMITTEE
2023: What Acton plantings will look like at maturity and the Marble farm historic site Dedication (5/2/23)
2022 EVENTS AND Projects
- Marble Farm Historic Site becomes an official park of Maynard, MA; construction started October 2022
- DONATIONS OF $100 or more received from: Maynard Community Gardeners (as donated plants), Middlesex Conservation District (as donated plants), Suzanne and Corey Weiss ($100)
- Planted 1200 dafffodils and 100 tulips in Maynard
- Planted six Beauty Bushes in Marlborough
- Planted 100 daffodils, two Purple Smoke Trees and two Winterberry Bushes in Acton
- ONLY IN MAYNARD coffee mug sales continue at several stores in downtown Maynard; profits to TOF
Daffodils and grape hyacinth blooming at Marlborough trail head
2022: plantings and blooms include wild-growing phlox and winterberry, also addition of signage
2021 EVENTS AND PROJECTS
- The proposal for creation of a part at the Marble family historic site was approved and construction will take place during fall of 2022 (see 2020 diagram)
- Four Royal Purple Smoke Trees (photo of full-grown tree) were planted at the Sylvia Street site, Acton
- Nine Beauty Bushes; north of Summer St, Maynard
- Nine Kousa Dogwoods; near High St., Maynard
- Bulb planting took place at existing and new sites in Acton, Maynard and Marlborough
- DONATIONS OF $100 or more received from Pam and Josh Mark, Suzanne & Corey Weiss, Susan & Kenneth Appel, Ilze & Herbie Greene.
- TO VOLUNTEER: Send your name, phone number and email address to damark51@gmail.com
Example of mature Royal Purple Smoke Tree
2021 Blooms (Maynard and Marlborough)
2019: DONATIONS AND VOLUNTEERS
2019 Donors page (for donations >$100)
*Maynard Cultural Council ($500) Pam Margules Mark & Joshua Mark
Maynard Community Gardeners ($300) Suzanne Weiss & Cory Weiss
Assabet River Rail Trail, Inc. ($250) Cindy Beck Goldstein & Roger Goldstein
Pamela Newton and John Houchin Lois K. Tetreault
Ellen C. Duggan Trust Pamela A. Agner Laura Moore
* This program is supported in part by a grant from the Maynard Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
TO DONATE: Make checks out to Assabet River Rail Trail Inc. This is a non-profit organization of volunteers who have been and continue to be involved in the creation, promotion and management of the Trail. ARRT has a website, Facebook page, and Wikipedia entry. MAIL THE CHECKS TO ME: David A. Mark, 10 Maple Street, Maynard, MA 01754. I will forward the checks to ARRT, which has established a TOF account. Include an email address and you will receive an email acknowledging your donation. Email addresses will not be shared with any other organization. Donate $100 or more and your donation will be acknowledged on the Trail Of Flowers website.
Trail Of Flowers volunteers for the 2018 planting of daffodils at the Marble Farm site.
creating the daffodil sculpture, which joins the daffodil blooms every spring
May 1, 2019: daffodil Blooms Near PEAK (brick entranceway to Marble Park removed in 2022)
May 4, 2019 the flower-viewing event
Volunteer bulb planters - fall 2019
Photos from PAST YEARs' tulip plantings at Summer, Maple and Brooks STREETS
