Located at 116 Riverneck Road, the Donald Burbank Gardens is the Land Trust’s first property in East Chelmsford.  The land was a bequest of Donald Burbank, a long-time tree surgeon in the greater Lowell area.  It is home to many wonderful flowering trees.

Mr. Burbank took great pride in his trees and gardens.  To honor his memory, the Land Trust is going to maintain his plants as well as add a native and pollinator friendly garden.  There’s a lot of landscaping and planting in our future! The new pollinator garden is in the works and protected from rabbits and deer with a double fence; it is at the left edge of the property.

Here is an inventory of the flowing plants on the site prior to the native plant garden:

• Burgundy Heart Redbuds. (Red leaves, purple flowers)
• Eastern Redbud(pinkish flowers)
• White Magnolia(white flowers)
• Elizabeth Magnolia (yellow flowers)
• Weeping Cherry (pink flowers, bigger of two)
• Yoshino Cherry Tree (white flowers, smaller of two)
• Hydrangea (white flowers)
• Kwanzan Cherry tree (pink flowers)
• Cherokee Brave Dogwood (pink flowers)
• Mulitple lilac bushes (purple flowers)
• Multiple rhododendron (red and purple flowers)
• Thundercloud plum (purple flowers, light purple flowers)
• Fruit bearing pear tree
• peach tree
• Azaleas
• PJM Rhododendrons
• cherry trees (back, right of property)
• dogwood next to the Cherokee Brave
• crabapple (non-fruit bearing)
• Honeysuckle shrub
• Northern Catalpa Tree
• lots of lilies
• lots of daffodils
• Hosta
• bee balm flowers