Photograph: Workers loading mulch to spread around the courthouse square plants and trees on Saturday morning. (Photograph by Freddie Herpin.)
BOBBY ARDOIN
Editor/Consulting Writer
Landscape architect Greg Brandl and members of his St. Landry Parish Courthouse beautification crews were busy Saturday morning watering the numerous planted flower beds and attending to the live oak trees which could be approaching an increasingly stressful existence due to the recent lack of rain.
In addition to providing water for the trees, Brandl had his workers place moss around their bases and root systems in an attempt to contain moisture and provide a source of nutrients.
According to several online gardening websites, spreading moss near the trees also helps the tree bark from damage.
Brandl, during an interview with St. Landry Now.com photographer Fred Herpin, said that meteorologists think St. Landry and surrounding parishes won’t obtain much measurable rainfall until Sept. 10.
