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Polishing a Masterpiece: Rediscovering Arlington’s Winfield Robbins Memorial Gardens

Town Hall 730 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, Massachusetts, United States

Members of the Friends of Robbins Town Gardens and the Arlington Historical Society are invited to attend a special program. Lucinda Brockway will be speaking on “Polishing a Masterpiece: Rediscovering the Winfield Robbins Memorial Garden”. The program will be held at Arlington Town Hall on Tuesday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to […]

Work session

Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House 700r Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, Massachusetts, United States

Demonstration on pruning Japanese Yews! Our plan for 2019 is to hold work sessions in the Town Hall Gardens on alternate Thursday mornings starting Thursday, May 2nd. Serious rain will cancel.  Or a rain call will be made by 7:30 am. Work Plan:  Weeding, pruning, clearing invasives around Whittemore Robbins House & the Reflecting Pool Parking:   We […]

Work Session

Extra work session, May 2nd was rained out. Serious rain will cancel.  Or a rain call will be made by 7:30 am. Work Plan:  Mulching, with the help of DPW interns, in bare areas throughout the gardens. UPDATE ON WHAT WAS DONE: Area 3 & 4: We began the cutting back of some overgrown mountain […]

Volunteer Coffee

Calling all Gardeners interested in helping to maintain the Robbins Garden-  May 9, 7:30pm coffee Dear folks,  As hopefully you have noticed, the WInfield Robbins Memorial Garden - the one at the center of Town located between the Library and Town Hall, is slowly being restored.  The reflecting pool is repaired, the Indian restored and the […]