MedianGreen
MedianGreen is responsible for landscaping and maintaining the medians in Green Valley under a licensing agreement with Pima County. The medians set apart Green Valley in welcoming residents, visitors, and workers. The landscape designs use native plants and hardscape, such as rocks and boulders. Recently, Pima County has included art in opportunities in landscape design.
Volunteers donate their time to caring for the plantings until they are mature enough to survive natural desert conditions. For example, volunteers water the native plants using cisterns to keep the plants from drying out. The Santa Rita Fire District (formerly the Green Valley Fire District)fills the cisterns with water provided by the Community Water Company of Green Valley as an in-kind contribution.
Once stable, Pima County maintains the medians insofar as resources are available, especially for the removal of storm-downed branches and trees, dead vegetation, and weeds. Without the county/ community partnership with MedianGreen, Pima County acknowledges that it would not be able to meet the expectations of the community to keep the newly landscaped medians in their current condition, let along continue to landscape those that have never been refurbished.
To date, MedianGreen has planted over 95 medians. Signage in the medians acknowledges the contributions of HOA and business sponsors, grantors and doners. Since 2020, the MedianGreen Committee has turned its primary attention to the maintenance of these medians, many of which have not been upgraded since their initial landscaping.
MedianGreen is now partnering with the Green Valley Gardeners to carry out the necessary cleanup of the medians and future upgrades.
The brochure seen below was produced by the Green Valley Gardeners.

Display of artwork on the La Canada Drive, and Esperanza Boulevard corner median. Susanne Blodgett, far right, poses with artists Kathleen Richter, far left, and Nancy Schultz, center. Copyright: Ellen Sussman / Special to Green Valley News, November 5, 2017
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