Placitas Memorial Garden

The Memorial Garden is located behind the Las Placitas Presbyterian Church in the Village of Placitas, Hwy. 165, 7 miles east of !-25. The garden is a place where the community may memorialize loved ones and is a demonstration garden for native plant horticulture and acequia-based drip irrigation. The garden features stone benches, a ramada, a stone pulpit, inscripted granite slab, and a pond. The garden is available for viewing morning to evening daily.

Protocol:
1. Give talk about garden at specified training class and have sign-up sheet. Set up group email list of volunteers for communication.
2. Arrange workdays with church grounds chairman and/or church office to avoid conflict with church events (usually 4 group workdays per season and individual weekly maintenance beginning in March and going until end of October). First spring workday (usually 3 – 4 hours) consists of cleaning the pond, repotting pond plants, raking dead leaves, trimming back perennials, feeding plants as necessary, raking the path, and general cleanup. All other workdays will consist of a less amount, but similar type of work, and on occasion spreading gravel and/or mulch. Weekly maintenance takes one-half hour to an hour each week throughout the growing season following the printed weekly task list – about an hour a month during winter months.
3. Arrange for a tour of the garden and some type of educational program for Master Gardeners and/or the community.
4. Bring your own garden tools marked with your name or some identification
5. When performing weekly maintenance, inform chair by email or phone what you accomplished and of any problems/suggestions.
6. Act as consultant with church about appropriate memorial plantings.
7. Submit report to MG Coordinator at end of year, if asked to do so, and submit total number of hours (can be approximate) worked by MGs to Church Grounds Chair for his year-end report.