Fall Volunteer Work Day

Please join us for our annual Fall Work Day.  This year we will concentrate on weeding out invasive plants and spreading wood chips in new planting areas–and planting a few new perennials.

Bring work gloves and your favorite weeding tools (we have extras of both if you need them). Light refreshments will be provided

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Burdock Burr Bash–Volunteer Day

We need volunteers to remove the burrs from the burdock plants that are flourishing all over the park.  These velcro-like burrs not only stick to dog fur and create a nasty grooming hassle, but they spread their seeds far and wide.  Unless we take action now, while the seeds are still immature, we will have even more burdocks next year.  Volunteers will be asked to cut off the burrs and place them in trash bags for disposal.

We also need help weeding the driveway beds and doing other cleanup tasks in the park.

If you can join us, please bring pruners, work gloves, your favorite weeding tool and a small pruning saw if you have them — we have extras if you don’t!

Volunteer Opportunity–2025 Spring Weeding Day

Once again, we request the honor of your company at our Spring Weeding Day!  We will cut down invasive plants and weed the driveway entry gardens. Please wear suitable gardening clothes and bring work gloves and your favorite weeding tool (if you have one).  If not, we have extra gloves and tools.  No experience is necessary, and light refreshments, camaraderie and the glow of doing a good deed are free!

NOTES:

  • In case of iffy weather, please check the website.  Any cancellation will be announced on our events page, otherwise we’re on.
  • If you don’t see anyone in the entry gardens when you arrive, we may be weeding elsewhere in the park, Call or text  267-265-1202 and we’ll let you know where we are.

Volunteer Opportunity: 2024 Fall Planting Day at the Park

Please join us at our annual Fall Planting Day.  Over the years this event has brought much beauty and many ecological benefits to our beloved park.   Friends of WMC Park volunteers will work alongside our volunteer Master Naturalist, Michelle Detwiler, and the Lower Merion Parks & Rec crew to weed out invasives and plant native trees and perennials.   The capable township crew will do the heavy digging and planting work, while volunteers plant the perennials and do some weeding.  Come and go as you please, and do bring gardening gloves and your favorite weeding tool if you have them.  Extras will be on hand if you don’t.  Long pants, long sleeves, and sturdy shoes are advised, and light refreshments will be available.  We hope to see you there!

Plant Walk at West Mill Creek Park

 Join us for a Fall walk through West Mill Creek Park with Pennsylvania Master Naturalist volunteer, Michelle Detwiler.  Learn about the plants in our beautiful park starting at the new native gardens in the parking lot.  Other stops on the tour will include the wildlife garden, the Welcome garden, a new rain garden, and the recent stream bank restoration areas.  Join us for a celebration of the plant life that sustains this unique public space, and learn about new projects sponsored by the Friends of West Mill Creek Park.

We will meet at 2:00 pm in the parking lot. Please consider carpooling as the lot can fill up fast.  All ages are welcome!

2023 Volunteers

Many thanks to the volunteers at our annual Fall 2023 Planting Day:  Ellen Briggs, Michelle Detwiler, Karen O’Neil and Ellen Reese.  With the help of the hardworking Lower Merion Parks Department crew (which helped us out with the heaviest part of the digging), we added 123 native perennials and shrubs to those beds this Fall.  These included the beautiful yellow-flowered shrub St. John’s Wort, asters, grasses, and golden groundsel.  As always, we also benefited from the efforts of a few members (especially Ellen Reese) who frequently do a bit of unofficial weeding when they visit the park with their dogs.

2022 Volunteers

Many thanks to our 2022  annual Fall Planting Day volunteers Ellen Briggs, Michelle Detwiler, Karen Hinckley, Ellen Reese, Mark Wassmansdorf and Alan Wood.  These volunteers devoted 28 hours to planting around 350 beautiful native perennials in our new driveway entrance gardens.  The gardens were designed by one of our volunteers, Master Naturalist Michelle Detwiler of Wild About Native Plants.  As always, a few Friends of WMC Park members routinely do additional work weeding and maintaining our plantings throughout the park on an ad hoc basis during the gardening season.  They have not counted their hours but the benefits are there!