Repair Library's Japanese Garden

On the morning of January 28th we discovered that the Japanese Garden at the Carbondale Public Library had been vandalized. All of the limbs were cut off of two Japanese maples, boulders were unseated from the retaining wall, the stone bench and flagstones were cracked, plants trampled, signage pulled from the earth and cracked in half.

The garden was built from 1985-1988 by the Evergreen Garden Club, and has since been lovingly maintained by the club's volunteers. Year after year, they've raised funds and generously donated their own time, money and materials to plant, weed, trim, and mulch the garden. In 2012 they commissioned a beautiful stone retaining wall, artfully crafted by a local mason, thoughtlessly damaged by vandals.

There is a Japanese word, Kintsugi, which refers to finding beauty in repairing that which is broken. This campaign is an act of Kintsugi. Please join us in this act of beauty.

Needs:

$840 masonry repair
$428 replacing and planting 1 large Japanese maple
$133 labor to plant 1 donated tree
$599 replacing mulch, damaged plants, path stones
$500 annual maintenance
$____ any further donations will be used to maintain and enhance the Japanese Garden

Donors will receive a thank you acknowledgement from the Carbondale Public Library for their tax deductible donation.

Thank you.