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232 DARWIN D. MARTIN HOUSE // CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT concurrently with the design of the adjacent understory shrub composition. 6. Remove and Replace Walkway Curb Edge: Remove reconstructed non- contributing curb edge along walk and replace with a curb edge representative of the historic condition. The curb should include no concrete tinting (or matched to the adjacent walkway) and control joints should be designed integral to walkway. 7. Plant West of Driveway Areas: Design and plant an evergreen tree and naturalistic woody shrub composition along the west side of the driveway that interprets the visual and spatial relationships present during the Period of Significance. The composition should serve to create some level of varied enclosure along the property boundary while also preserving the existing beech and maintaining visitor program circulation routes. A distinct visual separation of plantings should be created between the historic core boundary and the adjacent visitor center parcel, which serves to distinguish the historic property from the administrative parcel. Existing plantings on the administrative parcel should be modified or removed in order to not appear historic or as a continuation of the historic vegetation. 8. Plant East of Driveway and Walkway Areas: Design and plant deciduous woody shrub compositions along the east side of the driveway that recreate the visual and spatial relationships present during the Period of Significance. 9. Plant Front Raised Planter: Design and install a planting composition of climbers and perennials within the front raised planter that reflect the character documented from historic records. 10. Accommodate Pedestrian Traffic on Turf Areas: Design and install specialty or reinforced turf profile for lawn area between the Floricycle garden steps and the Jewett Parkway sidewalk which mimics the look and feel of traditional turf lawn. It should be designed to accommodate limited daily pedestrian traffic. 11. Plant Western and Eastern Ginkgo Trees: Plant Ginkgo trees (Ginkgo biloba) in the locations documented on the west and east sides of the driveway. The final precise locations should be determined concurrently with the designs of the adjacent planting compositions. 12. Remove and Replace Bollard: Remove existing PVC bollard and replace with a permanent removable bollard that is compatible with other permanent security features and is subordinate to the landscape. 13. Plant Eastern Tree and Shrub Areas: Design and plant a naturalistic shrub and small tree composition in the far eastern limits of the unit that is representative of the visual and spatial relationships present during the Period of Significance. The composition should be compatible with the adjacent Floricycle unit treatment and should be designed concurrently. However, the composition within the Jewett Frontage unit should not carry forward the same seasonality and bloom time sequence characteristics as the unit-based Floricycle. 14. Plant Cast Urns: Urns should be planted with seasonal annuals and perennials or other interpretive plants from the section list for urns. The habit and character of plants in urns should reflect, as much as possible, that seen in the limited photographic documentation. 15. Plant Second Floor Planter Box: Design and plant a composition of trailing vines and perennials that will exhibit a dense curtain-like character (rather than singular, loosely spaced strands) documented from the Period of Significance. If possible, the second floor planter should be filled with soil media to promote more vigorous trailing plant growth and more accurately represent the character as seen from the interior windows. An investigation should be performed on the capacity for the planter to perform under these historically intended conditions. H H H H H H H M M L