First, for those who do not want to remove the plants and relocate them, the perennial plants such as irises and day lilies will be removed and placed on your sidewalk/driveway.  You can relocate these into other parts of your garden.  If you have irises and hostas you don’t want to relocate, please contact Dorothy at Dorothyyli@comcast.net as she will be happy to take orphaned irises and hostas.

Second, you may notice that the mulch will NOT be covered up to the tree trunk.  This is intentional and should be left this way.  Do NOT fill the gap with dirt or mulch.  Do NOT plant flowers right next to the tree trunk.  This is to ensure the health of the tree flare and roots.  We understand that in a forest trees and flowers grow wherever they want.  Our yards are not a forest and we are complying with a tree specialist to ensure our trees stay healthy, continue to grow and stay for a long time.

Third, as a reminder, Dorothy Li is the project manager from our co-owners overseeing the tree beautification project.  You will see Dorothy walking through the yards to take pictures after our services have been completed. If you have questions, contact us at board@jmadev.foxglenassociation.org.  Dorothy will receive questions from the Fox Glen Board.

Fourth, the future plans for our public area trees and the individual yard conifer trees are in the plans for year 2022.  This is a multi-phased project. Once our existing trees are all taken care of, we will move to the next phase which is to have a tree and landscape expert recommend where we can add new trees.

Lastly, our care of the existing trees is not a one-shot deal.  With the mulching in place, this will need to be refreshed in all the common areas every 2 to 3 years.  We pay for this maintenance through our dues.  We ask the co-owners not to mulch the common areas trees themselves or change the mulch ring. If you have questions, please contact the board at board@jmadev.foxglenassociation.org.

The first phase of our project was to determine the health of our trees and the mulch ring size.  This was completed several weeks ago.  The second phase was to ensure the health of our trees by ensuring our tree flares are allowed to “breathe” and that any roots tangling the tree flare are removed.  Guardian completed this last week.

The next and last phase will be the mulch rings.  Garrett Landscaping will be mulching our trees Monday the 17th and 18th, weather permitting.  For more information on mulching, please see the attached document provided to us by Guardian.

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It’s very unfortunate and beyond our control – I just found out that our irrigation system won’t be turned on until mid-June.  See the email thread below with Jeff.

If we’re lucky, rainfall will keep our lawns in reasonable shape until the irrigation system is turned on 3 weeks from now.  If dry patches develop, the only choice we co-owners have is to water ourselves.  I wish it were otherwise.

Mowing, trimming, and lawn treatments (fertilization, weed control) are unaffected.

John Antos

From: Jeff Dobbs <jdobbs@thecondopros.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 8:37 AM
To: John Antos <jmantos@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Irrigation system turn-on date?

Yes, I know.  I tried but they are completely booked out and already behind schedule due to Covid.  Because Fox Glen start-up is a 2 day job, they could not realistically see 2 days’ worth of cancellations between now and then.  As I said, it is my fault the system was not ready for them.  I take full blame.  Sorry.

From: John Antos [mailto:jmantos@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 7:18 AM
To: Jeff Dobbs
Subject: RE: Irrigation system turn-on date?

Are you sure those dates are right?  That’s 3 weeks from now!  So we fell to the end of the line??

John Antos
Fox Glen Association
board@jmadev.foxglenassociation.org

From: Jeff Dobbs <jdobbs@thecondopros.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 6:33 AM
To: John Antos <jmantos@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Irrigation system turn-on date?

Hi John,

We were initially scheduled for Monday and Tuesday of this week but because of my absent-mindedness, I could not get Pittsfield Township out to install the meters until yesterday.  Therefore, we had to swap dates with another community and are now scheduled for the 17th & 18th.  Hopefully, we won’t get too dried out by then.  Sorry.

Jeff

From: John Antos [mailto:jmantos@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1:33 PM
To: Jeff Dobbs
Subject: Irrigation system turn-on date?

Hi, Jeff,

Do you happen to know when Garrett plans to turn on our irrigation system?  The lawns are looking very healthy right now, but hot weather is approaching.

John Antos
Fox Glen Association
board@jmadev.foxglenassociation.org