b"C H A P T E R S E V E Nlittle water and fertilizer and minimal care.Gardens by McVickar dug up the plot, topped it with good garden soil, and put in plants readily available on the Cape, ones, as McVickar explained, with colors that were pleasing and would go well together.In an effort to go public, FCW applied for a Cape Cod Community Foundation grant, and that fall of '96 its request was approved. Friends received $1,000 to educate people on kindred environmental issues. That meant installing signs, writing pamphlets about the goals of grasses and garden, and making a display in Eldredge Public Library.Meanwhile, several articles appeared in local papersabout the demonstration garden.It wasnt long before committee regulars could spot which plants thrived and which were unhappy in the wind-blown Oyster Pond plot. Lee Kimball provides this wrap-up:Cardinal flower did not make it through the first winter.Dianthus has gradually disappeared.By 2002, the grass (panicum vergatusj had been removed. We found it to be invasive -bits of it are still popping up in the garden.Butterfly bush ('buddleia) has been added. The yarrow (achillea) has moved about in the garden and into the lawn! The goldenrod has thrived and has been thinned back. Part of the rosa rugosa will be removed and replaced; it has not bloomed well and has vicious thorns.The environmental garden as it looked during the spring of 2003.Some species did not care for the site, but others, such as gaillardia, turned out to be a great success.A species of rosa ragosa had to be removed:too many thorns, and it didnt bloom well.106"