Carla Kenyon

Carla Kenyon has been a mainstay at the Arboretum for nearly ten years. I consider her the VERY first volunteer to strap on the gardening gloves and show up willing to work and encourage - season after season, year after year. She does not shy away from floods, freezes or felcos. More than once she has whispered in my ear, Rosie the Rivetor-style: "You CAN do it." Each year for my birthday, Carla comes to the arb with my traditional gift – new blue tarps – and like a rite of equinox, the annual leaf raking commences. In the springtime it is Carla who nudges me to get the Zoysia thatched and fertilized. Best of all Carla is an award-winning teacher of AP Statistics and Economics, mother of three and a crackerjack quilter.