Friends of Oak Cliff Parks

FRIENDS OF OAK CLIFF PARKS (FOCP) looks after the horticulture in Oak Cliff's historic parks: Lake Cliff Park, Kiest Memorial Gardens, and Kidd Springs Park. We also work to enhance and maintain the Kiest Conservation Area. 

Every week, we spend two mornings with our volunteer corps in the parks, weeding, planting, pruning, mulching and (especially in the Conservation area), removing privet and other invasive plants. In addition to the standard maintenance activities, we carry out "big" beautification and park improvement projects, such as: 

- Installing information signs in all the parks with information about the parks' history, design and planting schemes

- Planting several large beds in Kiest Memorial Garden with native Texas perennial plants to delight park visitors, pollinators and butterflies alike 

- Replacing roses that succumbed to rose rosette disease with a Crepe Myrtle demonstration Garden in Lake Cliff

- Creating a rain garden and erecting water barriers to prevent soil erosion near the entrance in Kidd Springs

- Installing bat houses in the Kiest Conservation Area

Our Needs

To do the work we do, we need tools for our volunteers, plants, mulch & compost for the beds. In addition to these ongoing costs, we also need funding for bigger projects. This coming year, we are raising money for the installation of additional pollinator beds in Kiest Memorial, the restoration of the Pineapple Fountain in Lake Cliff and the replacement of some nandina beds in Kidd Springs with more ecologically beneficial and esthetically pleasing planting.