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• Responsible for 160 acres, 10,000 flowers, 1,000 plants,
12,000 trees, 15,000 tulips and daffodils
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• Budget is $1.5 million, they make an additional $650,000
by providing other services, such as snow removal, for
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• They employ 47 permanent workers and 50 students ,
and temporary help who maintain 30Q41ower beds,
maintain 31 miles of sidewalks and 100 acres of
irrigation, plow snow from 12 miles of streets, spend
60 work days a year cleaning up cigarette butts and 50
days a year recycling
• They have hundreds of flower varieties in over 300
flower beds, including lavender, litherum, zebra grass,
fountain grass, Russian sage, prairie dropseed, lamb's
ear, asters, hostas, cone flowers, prairie clovers, wild
pentunias, Indian grass, yucca, little bluestem and
buffalo grass.
Years of planning finally sprout
buffalo grass on campus landscape
By Pamela Storm
Staff Reporter
As Nebraska tries to brihg buffalo
back to its prairies, UNL is bringing
buffalo grass to campus.
Buffalo grass is a hearty, native
prairie grass. It is a tall, wild-looking
and takes a long time to grow.
So long, in fact, that there have
even been whimsical signs ^posted by
newly planted patches of buffalo grass
assuring students that, yes, something
will eventually sprout there.
Cather Garden, near the sidewalk
between Love Library and Burnett
Hall, is one of the more historical ar
eas with buffalo grass. The grass was
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planted five years ago, said Kim Todd,
campus landscape architect. The grass
takes the first season to root. By the
second season, the grass starts to grow.
Bud Dasenbrock, director of the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s
Landscape Services, said the garden
recognizes Nebraska author Willa
Cather’s dedication, love and hard work
on the prairie.
Buffalo grass is roaming in other
places around City Campus, including
patches along 17th Street, the southeast
lawn of Love Library, near the George
W. Beadle Center and grass was re
cently planted near “Old Glory,” the red
I-beam sculpture between Love Library
and Burnett Hall.
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