PRESIDENT
Ada Shissler

VICE PRESIDENT
Charlie Hart

TREASURER
Allen Myers

SECRETARY
Susan Rosica

GRAPHIC ARTIST
Bob Radigan

WEBSITE/EMAIL
Paul Reynolds

CREATIVE WRITER
Susan Reynolds

PUBLICITY
Anne Mitchell

SPEAKERS BUREAU
Ric Base

Volunteers
Carolyn Musgrave
Debbie Staley

SANIBEL CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
Erick Lindblad,

SANIBEL CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
Dee Serage
Landscape/wildlife Educator

CITY OF SANIBEL
Judith Zimomra
City Manager

CITY OF SANIBEL
Robert Duffy
Planning Director

CITY OF SANIBEL
Ken Pfalzer
Deputy Planning Director

John Sibley, Tylor Compton, Ada Shissler, and Rusty Farst

Sanibel School Green Team tours Periwinkle Partnership Native Garden. Click on image to watch video.

Progress:

At the end of October 2006, 2200 trees have been planted. This represents approximately 2/3 of plan. The balance is on hold until the completion of slated city projects dealing with safety and drainage issues.
Funds for the planting of these trees came from Department of Forestry grants along with matching funds from the City of Sanibel. The city also matched $32,000 in Periwinkle Partnership contributions for planting of larger canopy trees.
With any project of this magnitude questions are raised by contributors and public. For that reason the Partnership has prepared the following Q&A:

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY DEAD TREES?
Some may appear to be dead but are in fact stressed and mav revive. Trees that have lost their leaves are most likely to survive. Those that have dead leaves clinging to the branches will probably need to be replaced. The city has a two-year warranty with the landscaper guaranteeing replacement of dead trees.

The Partnership

Sanibel Beautification

Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce

Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation

The City of Sanibel took immediate steps to initiate the restoration of Periwinkle Way, by applying for local, state, and federal funds, and by recruiting and commissioning the ecological urban planners Vanasse-Daylor to create a masterplan.
Following extensive community outreach for suggestions and support, a master plan has been created which goes farther than just replacing the invasive, non-native plants with friendlier and sturdier native varieties. With consideration for the needs of the island community as a whole, this plan addresses broad safety concerns, provides for amenities such as garden rest areas, bike racks and drinking fountains, and includes distinctive signage to add to our sland ambience. Three island civic organizations also joined together to assist the City in raising funds to implement these plans: the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation, Sanibel Beautification, Inc., and the Sanibel Captiva Chamber of Commerce. Collectively we are known as the Periwinkle Partnership.

MANY have come forward wishing to contribute to the recovery and to make an impact on the future "look" of Sanibel. Please click here to see how you can participate.

click here to see the plan

Sanibel Beautification celebrated its eighth anniversary with a reception and garden tour at the recently completed native plant garden at the Periwinkle Way/Palm Ridge intersection.

The garden is one of the first and the largest of the areas being developed by the Periwinkle Partnership of Sanibel Beautification, the City of Sanibel, the Chamber of Commerce and the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation to restore vegetation destroyed by Hurricane Charlie.

Attendees included City officials, members and representatives of the above organizations, and volunteers from Sanibel Beautification, the Lion’s Club, the Association of Realtors, and Master Gardners
who had participated in the planting of the garden.

Jenny Evans from the native plant nursery
at the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation presented an interpretative tour of the garden, pointing out that many of the 26 native species found there are rare, threatened, or endangered. She described the
characteristics of the various plants and detailed their importance and function in our island ecology.

Ada Shissler, President of Sanibel Beautification and the Periwinkle Partnership, welcomed the guests and thanked them for their participation in the creation of the garden.“This is more than a pretty place,” she said. “In addition to providing comfort, convenience, and safety for the users of the shared use paths, it will help to educate visitors and residents about the function and importance of native plants.” “When completed, hopefully by the end of this year, the Periwinkle Partnership plantings will be an example of a community working together to overcome the devastation of a natural disaster by creating
something of lasting natural beauty which will grow more lovely over time.”