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President’s Message:
May, the month of sunshine, blooming flowers, and endless possibilities.
- Unknown -
If you are taken by the idea of exploring new possibilities, Quiet Waters Park in May will be a good place to start.
To begin the exploration, you can be present when Fairies arrive in new homes in the Park. To celebrate their arrival, a festival will be held on Saturday, May 17th, beginning at 2pm in the Holly Pavilion with music, refreshments, fairy wands, and costumed celebrants. The Fairy Houses will be available for viewing all along the Holly Trail – some houses are many-tiered and welcome large fairy families, and others snuggle under a plant, shyly awaiting a solitary fairy. The houses will be visible until June 22nd when they magically become invisible! Children of all ages are invited to come visit the Fairy Houses while they are in the Park.
To celebrate their 50th Anniversary, the Annapolis Watercolor Club will hold a special exhibit from May 21 to July 6, 2025. Since this is their “Golden” Anniversary, all the paintings in the exhibit will contain the color gold, producing a golden shimmer throughout the exhibit! This is a juried exhibition and prizes will be awarded at the Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony on Sunday, May 25th from 1:30 to 3:30 in the Visitor Center.
Throughout the park you may have noticed cleared areas with young plants – these are areas where invasive species have been removed and new, native plants added. Several of these areas are the result of the Watershed Stewards activities in the park last summer - the plantings are beginning to grow and become more visible. The Urban Oasis, created by Annapolis High School Baccalaureate Program students, will have a new Wayside sign and information about the benefits of native plantings.
Beginning in May the Friends will be implementing a new program called, “Native Roots Restoration.” Our goal is to remove and replace more large patches of the most challenging invasives – Chinese Privet, Bamboo, Oriental bittersweet and Wineberry. We plan to provide identification signs for the replacement plants so that you can identify appropriate plants if you want to replace invasives in your home and neighborhood gardens. The insects, birds and bees in your yard will be especially pleased by a healthier habitat and their numbers should increase!
If you are curious about what the Friends of Quiet Waters Park do and how we do it, please attend the annual Membership Meeting which will be held this year on June 9th. All members are welcome and can vote for the Board of Directors slate which will be presented in next months’ newsletter, and hear from each of the Committees about their plans for the upcoming fiscal year which begins on July 1, 2025. More details about the meeting will be in the June newsletter.
See you in the Park!
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