Lincoln Landscaping, a unique and innovative Organic company, has partnered with the Bogota School Board of Education, the school Principal Damon Englese, and Superintendent Letizia Pantoliano to design and install a planting at the E Roy Bixby School. In an effort to turn a school around and to create a positive environment where the students want to come and learn the most important factor is leadership. Bixby School Principal Damon Englese and Superintendent Letizia Pantoliano fit the bill, and was a key in the transition of the outside grounds into a mass of perennial color planted in a vibrant rich compost. Principle Englese informed me that other than leadership, the most important thing in turning a school around its overall appearance of the building and grounds.

Something old, a classic brick building has gotten a facelift with a modern set of front doors and a new set of stairs, something new. Combined with a bold blue paint the rails compliment this balance of old and new. Feeding off of Englese’s and Pantoliano’s passion, Lincoln has created a wonderful garden featuring color in spring and fall where students, faculty and administration are working. However, for those summer months we have a few surprises for people who are still working. To create a year round green backdrop for the color, something borrowed we transplanted a boxwood hedge that was out near the sidewalk, ineffective there, the new location makes them pop.

And that being – the outside of this school was “our classroom” and you can view the results on our E. Roy Bixby Page to see if we passed the test when Lincoln Landscaping went to school.