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The History of The Cedar Valley Arboretum - 2000

Paul Kammerdiner • October 13, 2021

We have now arrived at the two thousand’s, despite all the fears of computers causing the end of the world (remember y2k?), we kept on chugging along at the Arboretum. For whatever reason, there was not much in the way of photos or other documentation for this year. I have to be content with showing you what I have, beginning with what the CVABG looked like. The body content of your post goes here. To edit this text, click on it and delete this default text and start typing your own or paste your own from a different source.

Even though the service road off the entrance now extends to the West to the Head House, there is no parking lot down there, so we still use the small space around the tower.

 

This next photo really gives us some perspective, looking back from now. Notice, to the West, no Rose Garden. To the North (the bottom of this photo), everything ends at the fence. To the West, there are no Arrival Gardens, just the Nursery and then the Head House

The next photo from March shows the beds for the Community Gardens, we have planted some type of conifer trees along the fence to the North and the shelves remain from the Bonsai display but they will be taken down this year to make way for a new feature (shown later in this article)

I know there was a Fall Harvest Festival but no photos of it were in the archives.

 

Remember in 1999 that a ceremonial ground breaking took place for a new Children’s Garden. This is the year for the project to begin in earnest. This document outlines that beginning

Searching for documents for this year I came across a site file on the head house, I find this one line in the history summary: “2000. Office was built in the Head House.” I do know that prior to this year, this building was used for equipment storage, so am assuming that a space was made for an office, probably for the Executive Director. It was still there in the West left side corner, when I first volunteered here in 2009.

 

Again, I have little in the way of documentation for this year, but if you look closely at the next photo that is a repeat of one of the first shown, you can see evidence of the continuation of the community and individual gardens. The community gardens are on the right side of the photo and left would be the Iris beds, Raised beds, and the Herb-garden. Top right, in front of the parked cars I think are the Green Scene gardens. Look at the top of the picture by the tower, the little blue box is the porta potty.

In an article in the View written by Arnold Webster, I find reference to an espalier being planted on the new fence adjacent to the community gardens. It is called an Apple Wall in the article because it is composed of apple tree branches. Espalier, according to Wikipedia, is an ancient form of training tree branches against a flat surface, usually fruit trees. 

Only one photo of a volunteer that I know for sure comes from 2000. This is Tim Spengeler.

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