2025 Summary of B&G Landscape Volunteer Work
As we end 2025 and look forward to 2026, we wanted to give you a summary of all the work our dedicated B&G landscape volunteers have accomplished this past year.
In 2025 our volunteers planted 45 bushes, 206 perennials and 9 trees. In addition, volunteers watered, pruned, trimmed, edged, fenced, and weeded all over our 24 acres.
Total logged B&G landscape volunteer contribution was 641 hours. If we apply an average $120 contractor rate, that equates to $76,920 of saved association money or $418 per unit. Total cost for plants and materials was about $3,000. This included tools that we will be using in future years.
Area behind Building 45, before & after
One of B&G’s goals is to increase the health of our landscape with biodiversity. When Overlook was developed only a few types of plants were installed. Our new list of plants includes a variety of native bushes such as winterberry holly, staghorn sumac, snowberry, buttonbush, cinquefoil, native trees such as tamarack, river birch and alders, and native perennials such as sunflower, Joe Pye, marsh milkweed, iris, and grey-headed coneflower. In addition, we seeded and sodded many areas that were in need of grass.
Next year our volunteer projects will include revamping gardens, installing plants in sparse gardens, and continued monitoring of water needs and new plantings. We are already assembling a list of trees, bushes, and perennials to plant beginning in early May, and making proposals to the board for volunteer landscape projects.
B&G Landscape Committee
