[Neighbors] Standards of care for 'Greens'/Parks

[Heather Gordon via Neighbors_nobhill-nm]

Good morning everyone,
I had a question regarding the standards of care for the city 'greens',
those swaths of medians termed greens rather than parks, but seem to be
under ABQ Dept of Parks care. On today's morning walk I noted that the city
park division was again at Hermosa Green (at the junction of Laurel Dr and
Parkland Cir SE), installing pansies and birds of paradise, in very careful
ordered lines. From my observation over the last few years, at least three
times a year they put in new flowers; this spring they already planted and
removed pansies and oriental poppies. Usually they'll do one more
installation in September, and remove it the week after Balloon Fiesta.
On my same walk today I noticed them weed-whacking the flowers in the
Carlisle median; usually they'll just blast through them, killing some of
the plants in the process. And then of course we are familiar with the
Amherst green, which is cared for by the considerate neighbors rather than
the city. From what I understand, there has been an issue getting the city
to put down landscape cloth and rock on the Amherst green.
Is Hermosa Green 'sponsored' somehow? Does it have anything to do with the
neighborhood association? The workers there this morning were in city
trucks, so it didn't appear to be volunteer effort. There seems to be a
disparity of care between the three examples I just mentioned, and I
wondered what could account for the difference, and of course how to get
some of the same attention applied to Amherst.
Thanks, Heather
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