Green Industry Council Makes Donation
to Greensboro Park

By Jodie Carter

The Center City Park project includes the installation of concrete pavers for a large patio area, rock seat wall and ornamental planting areas. All materials and labor were donated by local Green Industry Council members.

The Green Industry Council’s (GIC) Triad region has made a donation of labor and materials to create the Center City Park in downtown Greensboro, N.C. The project includes the installation of concrete pavers for a large patio area, rock seat wall and ornamental planting areas.

“We [council members] designed the installation and donated the materials to create the city sitting garden,” says Mark Peters, president of the Green Industry Council and owner of Piedmont Carolina Nursery and Landscaping. “We [GIC] took this area from bare ground and built a patio and retaining wall, and installed all the plant materials.”

The GIC took this area from bare ground and built a patio and retaining wall to complete a community seating area that will be a focal point for the park.

Local members of the GIC donated everything from the irrigation system, concrete pavers and retaining wall blocks, to plant materials and mulch. Donated plantings include cypress, crepe myrtles, laurels, and ornamental grasses and Shasta daisy’s in the perennial beds, just to name a few. GIC members (landscape contractors and other volunteers), also donated the time and equipment needed to build the patio, retaining wall and irrigation system, installing 30 to 40 varieties of plants, and laying almost 70 yards of mulch (also donated).

The GIC will also complete a seating area that will be a focal point for the park.

”We are very excited and appreciative to the Green Industry Council for undertaking the completion of the park seating area,” said Ray Gibbs, president of Downtown Greensboro, which is overseeing the development of the park on behalf of Action Greensboro.

The Green Industry Council is an association representing growers, landscape contractors, irrigation contractors, arborists and almost everyone in the green industry.

The mission of the Green Industry Council is to establish unity among the diverse segments of the North Carolina green industry and to provide an umbrella of advocacy, education, public promotion and governmental liaison based on the needs of the regional chapters and to the benefit of the green industry statewide. GIC represents the green industry as a steward of the environment and an advocate of water conservation. For more information log on to www.ncgreenindustrycouncil.org