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2021 #2 - Spring forward & cleanup activities

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Jai Shri Krishna to all visitors! Last few weeks have been quite busy @ the Vraj gardens. Sharing a pic of the residual snow still trying to stay back (on March 20): Last mound of snow trying to stay kool😎 Initial weeks included the following activities: Inspection of the grounds  Borders of the Butterfly Garden are falling apart (check the pic below) Check out the rotted border.  We will need some help from  volunteers to rebuild / restore the borders! 1 ornamental tree in the entrance central garden did not survive and we suspect it was infected with fungus and was dug out and removed (and trust me, even dead trees that have been in the ground are really a challenge to dig out - but it was a fun kinda challenge!             Read this part only if you want to know what was done -               - We found the root ball location for this tree (@ a foot away from the trunk)               -  We dug deep enough to be able to push our shovels from opposite sides               -  And convin