Landscape Committee

By Mary Sapp, Chair 

The 2024 Fall Workday, part of I Love Lakeport Day, will take place on Saturday, October 5, starting at 9:00 a.m. in Triangle Park. This is a great opportunity to get to know your neighbors better while doing your part to improve the community where you live. Please email msapp@miami.edu if you are willing to help.

Complete Landscaping has applied FlightControl three times, which seems to have reduced the number of geese visiting Lakeport’s grass and dock and made cleaning the dock less onerous (earlier it required daily cleaning).

Volunteers put down a mixture of small gray and lighter pond pebbles in the two-foot area between the Lakeport dock and the RA path. Teenagers (and others) have been throwing the larger river rocks (and even seven of the 18-inch steppers that were originally embedded in the river rocks) into the lake. Two of the steppers have been retrieved from the bottom of the lake and replaced, and our hope is that others can be found and saved as well. 

Nine shrubs (four in Triangle Park, two next to the rain garden, and three next to the RA path to the pool) and two perennials in Triangle Park were replaced by Meadows Farms at no cost since they were under warranty. Unfortunately, due to the heat this summer and despite efforts by volunteers to water, some of the plants have died. Fortunately, the warranty from Meadows Farms allows us to have free replacement plants installed if we pay for the labor, which we plan to do after the hot weather is over. 

Riverbend Landscapes & Tree Service was here to remove a live black locust tree, one dead oak tree, and the dead half of a chestnut oak tree, and to trim six other trees (see photos below). They also ground the stump at the intersection of Sunrise Valley Drive and the RA path to the pool (see photos below).  

Owner Peter Stone has continued removing poison ivy (which keeps growing back) in several locations in Lakeport as well as vines growing around trees.

Please remember that owners and residents are not allowed to remove or add plants in common areas without the permission of Lakeport’s Landscape Committee, and we ask that they consult with us before paying to have branches overhanging their property removed.