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Landscape Contractor / Design • Build • Maintain (LC/DBM) (ISSN 2150-9093), is published monthly by Landscape Communications, Inc. 14771 Plaza Drive, Suite M, Tustin, California, 92780 Phone: 714-979-5276; Fax: 714-434-3862. Online version (ISSN 2150-9170). Copyright 2014 by Landscape Communications, Inc. Printed in the U.S.A. All rights reserved. Contents may not be reprinted or otherwise reproduced without written permission. Periodicals postage paid at Tustin, CA and additional mailing offices. Subscription Inquiries: Send new or renewal notices or change of address (send both new and old addresses) to Landscape Contractor / Design • Build • Maintain, P.O. Box 1126, Tustin, CA 92781-1126. Subscriptions: Licensed Landscape Contractors free of charge. Others: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii & Canada, 12 issues, $34.95, 24 issues, $55.00, Mexico: 12 issues, $65.00 per year. Additional copies may be purchased by contacting LC/DBM at circulation@landscapeonline.com or 714-979-5276 ext. 115. Postmaster: Please send address changes to Landscape Contractor / Design • Build • Maintain, P.O. Box 1126, Tustin, CA 92781-1126. In celebration of National Public Lands Day, Union Station's Columbus Plaza recently received a complete face lift. Project EverGreen, Ruppert Nurs- eries, the Union Station Redevelopment Corpora- tion, and the National Park Service, organized and supported station partners and community volun- teers as they enriched the garden at Union Station, located in Washington, D.C. Restoration efforts included laying new grass seed, weeding, mulching, power washing the hardscape and more to provide Union Station with the grand entrance it deserves. Union Station and the Columbus Plaza facing the station's main entrance are uniquely situated in one of the city's busiest and most historic addresses at the foot of Capitol Hill. Union Station Redevelopment Corp. funded the plants' costs and coordinated the participation of more than 20 staff and community volunteers to in- stall the plantings in collaboration with NPS, Project EverGreen and its contractor volunteer partner, DC area-based Ruppert Nurseries, which delivered the nursery stock and mulch, and donated onsite crew labor and project oversight of USRC volunteers. NPS National Mall staff provided the removal of dead plants, site preparation and tools needed by the nearly 30 combined donor volunteers at the Colum- bus Plaza Garden. The in-kind donations of nurs- ery stock, organic materials, equipment, and labor preparation and planting from all of the participat- ing contributors totaled more than $30,000 in value. "Given the sheer scope of this landscaping en- hancement, we're grateful to our volunteers, the NPS staff and Project EverGreen's partnership with Ruppert Nurseries, without whom this needed res- toration of Union Station's Columbus Plaza Gar- den would not have been possible," said Corinne Schieffer, outreach and communications manager at USRC. Project EverGreen also worked with Ruppert Nurseries, the German Embassy and the National Park Service earlier this year to revitalize the Ger- man-American Friendship Garden at the Washing- ton Monument entry. "Preserving and enhancing national green space treasures, like the Union Station's Columbus Plaza or the German-American Friendship Garden, is part of Project EverGreen's mission to promote the value of well-maintained green spaces," said Cindy Code, Project EverGreen's executive director. If you have a project where landscape services were donated pro bono, you can submit your Off the Clock proposal to: stewardship@landscapeonline.com or call Larry Shield at (714) 979-5276 x125. Story Ideas? DBM LC Above: Project EverGreen, partnering with Ruppert Nurseries, the Union Station Redevelopment Corp., and the National Park Service, came together to organize and support station partners and community volunteers in a large-scale effort to restore and renew the Columbus Plaza Garden landscape. Above, Right: The restoration of Union Station Garden in Washington, D.C., included replanting more than 600 new junipers and ornamental grass plants. Photos courtesy of ru PPert Nurseries Historic Union Station Garden Restoration By Jeff Fenner, Partner of B Communications November 2014 55 Off the Clock