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SUNDAY ON THE TERRACE

By Bob Lee, Board Member Liaison to the Landscape Committee

out to this year’s event and you might
walk away with some decorative
pots, planters, gardening supplies,
flowers, fertilizer, soil, mulch, stand-
alone plants or one of BrightView’s
custom planters!

Special Thanks
The Landscape Committee would
like to thank those who were instru-
mental in making Sunday on the Ter-
race the success it is today. Among
those individuals is Mary Jane Lloyd,
who went on to chair of the Land-
scape Committee for more than a
decade and now, at age 96, resides in
Richmond, Virginia. We are also
grateful to her close friend and fellow
Learn about which summer plants work for our environment here at WAL. Landscape Committee member, the
Photo: Wes Norman late Polly Klein. Of course, we can-
not forget the two generations of
One the most popular activities at clement weather forcing us to host it WAL residents who’ve served with
Watergate is the annual Sunday on indoors. distinction on the Landscape Com-
the Terrace event the Landscape mittee. Your service is greatly appre-
Committee sponsors. This event typi- Event Overview ciated.
cally attracts about 80 – 120 resi- Sunday on the Terrace has grown in
dents, so come on out on May 19 to popularity and attendance over time. On the Brickman/BrightView side,
the Lower Terrace at 1 p.m. and see Beyond advice on pots and planters the Landscape Committee wants to
what it’s all about! that may best work on WAL balco- thank three employees who’ve pre-
nies, attendees learn how to care for sented at this event for more than 20
How It Began the plants and help them to survive years. We thank our current present-
Sunday on the Terrace was the idea Washington D.C.’s unpredictable er, John McLeod, who is Bright-
of two former longtime Watergate summer weather from Brightview’s View’s Plant Health Care Manager
residents, Polly Klein and Mary Jane instructors. Topics covered include for Northern Virginia. A note of grat-
Lloyd. At the time both Klein and proper soil amounts, mulch and ferti- itude goes out to our previous pre-
Lloyd were Landscape Committee lizer to use, watering tips (be sure not senters, Steve Sullivan, who served as
members. In the late 1990s, they pro- to overwater potted plants), and inter- Brickman’s Director of Technical
posed the idea that the Association’s esting or exotic plants that thrive here Services for 25 years and Todd
landscape contractor – Brickman at WAL with proper care. Thompson, BrightView’s Alexandria
(now known as BrightView) – con- Branch Manager.
duct a seminar that taught residents After the talk from BrightView, we
how to properly plant summer flow- typically plant five or six large plant- Sunday on the Terrace 2019
ers in their balcony pots and planters. ers, each of which is calibrated to This year’s Sunday on the Terrace is
The seminar was so successful it was adapt to different conditions at WAL scheduled for May 19 from 1:00 –
decided that this should be an annual – morning or afternoon sun, intense 3:00 PM on the Lower Terrace. We
event. Each year since, BrightView sun or extreme shade, or something in hope you will join us. You can walk
partnered with the Landscape Com- between. The event concludes with a away with information to help make
mittee to stage this event on our Low- raffle for event attendees with items your balcony summer-ready and per-
er Terrace, where it’s been every year donated by both the WAL Landscape haps some supplies to help you get
with the exception of one year’s in- Committee and BrightView. Come started!

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