Help Save Blake Lane! Invasive management in October

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Photo:  FMN Jennifer Pradas

Saturdays, October 8, 15, 22 and 29, 2022
10 am
Blake Lane Park parking lot
10033 Blake Ln, Oakton

Two years ago, a group of citizens saved Blake Lane from being turned into a school. Now they need to save the park from invasive plants. The area is covered with bittersweet, porcelain berry, wisteria, mile-a-minute, stilt grass, Japanese honeysuckle, and others. They need help pulling and digging. They also need help maintaining a pollinator garden that the Girl Scouts planted a few years ago.

Pollinator garden photo: FMN Jennifer Pradas

The site leader for the Fairfax County Park Invasive Management Area Program will be hosting a workday almost every Saturday in October at BLake Lane Park in Oakton. There will NOT be a workday on Oct 1. Volunteers are asked to bring gloves, water, a snack, bug spray and long pants.

They hope to see you there! Please let Jennifer Pradas know ahead of time if you are planning on coming.

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  1. Karen Ampeh
    Karen Ampeh says:

    Thanks to all for helping clear up this beautiful natural habitat of these invasive plants. A little effort goes a long way in helping the native plants in their competition with these smothering invasives. I’ve seen that over the past year, the results of the efforts are a much nicer habitat/natural environment although at first it seems overwhelmingly difficult, it isn’t.

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