In collaboration with Chabad of West Houston, Inc., the Friendship Circle Garden of Love will be an inclusive community garden with handicap accessible planter boxes for vegetables, fruits, and flowers, five variety of fruit trees, a rose and wildflower garden, koi fish pond and reptile pond, organic honey beehive, mediation gazebo and garden benches, and water fountain!
The Friendship Garden will offer educational classes and programs structured to teach participants about the plant and insect life native to this region. Group courses will be available by appointment.
PHASE ONE
COMPLETE
PHASE TWO
COMPLETE
PHASE THREE
COMPLETE
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PHASE FOUR
PARTIALLY COMPLETE
Phase IV plans include the installation of irrigation and water lines for the fountain, water features, and ponds. This phase also include the construction of a medication gazebo in the northeast corner of the garden, water fountain installation, approximately 9,600 ft² of dirt work to level the gardening areas, construction of elevated planter boxes, and the placement of a koi fish pond in the east area of the garden.
PHASE FIVE
INCOMPLETE
Phase V begins by building an interior fence along the south wall of the garden which will be lined with 120 feet of rose bushes, placement of garden benches and handrails along the sidewalks, the planting of five different varieties of fruit trees and a wildflower garden, construction of a reptile pond in the southwest corner of the garden, installation of a honeybee hive (which will not be accessible to the public) in the northwest corner of the garden, and construction of a personalized yahrtzeit brick path under the fruit trees.
FINAL PHASE
INCOMPLETE
During the final phase of the project community members will be allowed to help fill the planter boxes with soil and fertilizer. The east pond will have koi fish and the west pond will have soft shell turtles placed in them. Community members may assist with planting flowers and vegetables in the elevated planter boxes, and the exterior perimeter fence panels will be removed allowing a public view of the beautiful Friendship Garden.