Starting this fall, the Historic Brookhaven Neighborhood Association’s Community Maintenance and Enhancement Committee will benefit from a new garden club initiative, the Bloom Brigade. The Brigade is chaired by residents Toni Rhett and Bonnie Copeland and has 10 additional Club Estates Garden Club members.

 

Each Brigade member is assigned to a green space near her home or with which she has a personal connection. Members are charged with keeping their “eyes on that triangle,” according to Toni. Vermont and Mayson Ravine Parks are also part of the effort.  

 

The HBNA committee and its landscapers Callahan Landscape will continue to oversee the parks and do any landscaping work, including maintenance. The Brigade members will regularly look for any landscaping needs, such as dying plants or storm debris, and alert the HBNA.

 

The garden club has also committed to award $5,000 in grant money specifically to beautify the triangles and parks. The 2025 funds were awarded recently. The HBNA community maintenance and enhancement committee will collaborate with Brigade members on ideas and implementation of awarded funds.

 

SUBHEAD = HBNA Spiffing Up Memorial, Bow-Tie Triangles

 

Separate from the Brigade’s efforts, this month the HBNA beautification committee is working on the Blue Star Memorial triangle (at the intersection of East Brookhaven and Brookhaven Drives) and the “bow tie” triangles at the intersection of East Brookhaven and Lakehaven Drives and Davidson Avenue.

 

At the memorial triangle, the HBNA funded lifting tree limbs to provide more sun for lower vegetation and planting limelight hydrangeas and variegated liriope, according to Christy Campbell, who chairs the HBNA community maintenance and enhancement committee. Some benches will be repositioned as well. At press time, the committee had provided pinestraw at the bow-tie triangles and was working on a plan for planting.