Urban corner gets garden

Volunteers give vacant site a natural touch

By Tom Beal
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.22.2008

The vacant northeast corner of Broadway and Country Club Road is being redeveloped to accommodate a larger population — of birds, bees and butterflies.
In the past month, an army of volunteers with picks and shovels joined a guy in a grader to transform a flat lot filled with scrubby mesquite and landscape invaders into paths, ridges and mounds that will direct rainwater to feed basins filled with native vegetation.
Out with the Bermuda grass; in with the sacaton. Goodbye oleander; hello wolfberry. Farewell African daisy; welcome desert marigold.
The work is being led by the Ironwood Tree Experience with design assistance from the Watershed Management Group. Additional labor is supplied by the Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona.

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