Vegetation Maintenance
About the Vegetation Maintenance Division
The Vegetation Maintenance division maintains the City’s public gardens, planted streetscapes, and stormwater bioretention facilities to add to Takoma Park’s neighborhoods’ beauty and enhanced environment.
Division Objectives
- Provide maintenance of public spaces and Rights of Way as needed, including plant care, mowing, invasive plant management, and litter pick up.
- Perform garden and turf management using the principles of Integrated Pest Management and Ecological Horticulture.
- Renovate City garden and landscape areas as needed.
- Maintain existing garden and landscaped areas, including those related to stormwater treatment.
- Provide mowing Services for all turf on City-owned spaces from spring through fall.
- Provide snow and ice removal on sidewalks along City-owned facilities and parks after winter storm events.
Initiatives & Projects
Circle Woods Restoration Project Coming
Takoma Park is excited to have been the recipient of a grant from PEPCO to perform environmental improvements in the Circle Woods property. Circle Woods is located in Ward 2 with pedestrian entrances in the 6600 block of Cockerille Avenue and 6700
Poplar Avenue. The city acquired the property in 1995 with the goal of preserving the floodplain from development.
Read the article in its entirety on Page 3: Circle Woods Restoration Project Coming
Electrification of Mowing Equipment
Instead of replacing the aging zero-turn mower with more gas-powered equipment, we switched to an electric mower and purchased a commercial-grade electric weedwhacker. Besides reducing our gasoline use, significantly reduced idle sound is another benefit of electric mowing equipment. As funds allow, we will continue our conversion to electric equipment over the next couple of years.
Quick Links
- Contact Us
- Curbside Collection Services
- Fight the Bite
- Snow Removal
- Stormwater Management Program
- Traffic Calming Regulations
- Tree Care and Resources
- Utility Contact Information
- Vegetation Maintenance
Join the City Nature Challenge 2024!
- Friday, April 26: Stuart Armstrong (Philadelphia and Holly Ave) from 1-3pm
- Saturday, April 27: Circle Woods (Poplar Ave & Circle) from 10am-12pm
The City Nature Challenge is a friendly competition form of a bioblitz—an opportunity to observe and document plants, insects, animals, and fungi on a particular site.
In April 2023, the City hosted its first City Nature Challenge event. While the City is new to hosting, some of our residents are veterans of the project are active in documenting living organisms through the iNaturalist website.
This event took place over one weekend, in 482 cities across 46 countries. Participation in the annual event has been steadily growing since 2018. The D.C. Metropolitan area ranked fifth worldwide for participants and ninth for the number of species logged!
This year’s City Nature Challenge will take place at:
- Stuart Armstrong Garden, the naturalized City site at Philadelphia Ave and Holly Ave on Friday, April 26 from 1-3pm
- Circle Woods, a two-acre site located between Cockerille and Poplar Aves that has been a focus of ongoing environmental restoration work, on Saturday April 27 from 10am-12pm.
This event is a fun way to get out and explore our natural world and meet neighbors! Click here for more information on how to join the 2024 City Nature Challenge: https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/
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