Campus Gardens
Garden Niches – The Entryway
An invitation to our campus, the Entryway Gardens include all the landscaping along the frontage and the driveway. Plants are generally low maintenance, drought resistant, native species, deer resistant and look good year-round. While some maintenance is done professionally, volunteer help is needed at particular times in the year.
Garden Niches - The Welcome Garden
At the top of the hill at the driveway split, this small garden welcomes folks into campus with a directional sign and is anchored by a lovely flowering cherry tree surrounded by perennials. Maintained totally with volunteer help, this garden requires some weeding and deadheading of flowers.
New Rock Stream garden - an erosion diversion project financed by an ERUUF Foundation grant using native plants.
The newest addition to our landscaping, the rock stream garden was installed in 2024 to provide more visual interest when walking into the plaza and to prevent erosion from rain water runoff. Native plants are the stars of this garden. Volunteers help keep the garden free of weeds, branches and pine cones.
Garden Niches – The Memorial Garden
ERUUF's Memorial Garden provides a peaceful, secluded place to reflect and meditate, hold memorial services with interment of ashes, and memorialize a loved one with a plaque. In 1980 members used existing landscape from the original home on the property to create this garden nestled in a pine grove. Maintained totally with volunteer help, this garden needs a lot of care removing pine cones, branches and weeds.
Garden Niches - The Zen Garden
The Zen Garden elements present a "mindscape" in which the raked sand might represent ripples or waves on the water of the sea or lake, the pruned bushes wooded hills and mountains in the distance, and the large rocks islands and cliffs. Feel free to step into the garden and rake your own pattern, opening your mind to the process and excluding all outside thoughts.
Garden Niches – Native tree and pollinator garden
Best viewed from the board walkway, this garden was established in 2021 after a number of large trees were removed to increase sunlight reaching the solar panels on the Care building roof. Smaller, native trees form the new canopy. A pollinator garden was planted below to control weeds and slow the flow of water. This garden needs lots of weeding!
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