CHESTER, Vt. – Nothing says summer like flowers in bloom, and now they are all around Chester for residents and visitors to enjoy, thanks to busy Chester Townscape (CT) volunteers.
Many bridges are sporting special balustrade boxes holding the 360 flowers that students at River Valley Technical Center in Springfield grew and planted for Townscape in an ongoing cooperative arrangement that allows larger plants nurtured in greenhouses to appear in public. CT volunteers then picked those boxes up and mounted them on bridges around town.
Meanwhile, at the Chester town garage, CT volunteers organized more than 600 flowers that they planted in whiskey barrels, pots, and window boxes on view throughout town, plus myriad large pots they planted and delivered to the homeowners and businesses that had ordered them.
At the Brookside Cemetery wall garden in the middle of town, CT volunteers replaced the springtime welcome of daffodils by planting a line of 90 SunPatiens and begonias that should provide continuous bloom all summer until frost.
Chester Townscape volunteers will keep all these summer plantings and the public garden spots – at the information booth, gazebo, and Pocket Park on School Street – weeded and watered for the season. The flowers and the care those areas are given by volunteers demonstrate the beautiful, thriving, and special place that is the Town of Chester and its caring community. Thank you to all who support Chester Townscape’s work.