wish lists/flowers/St. Louis

G* H*

Thank you Tom for the plug on St. Louis community 
gardens.  Actually, we do not insist that our gardens 
have ornamental borders, we just make vast 
quantities of perennials and annuals available each 
year and the gardeners put them to immediate use in 
borders and feature beds as they see fit.  The 
gardens fill out wish lists for particular plants and the 
demand gets higher every year.  The gardens look 
terrific.

We amass the plants through our Great Perennial 
Divide.  Individual back yard gardeners divide and pot 
their plants, bring them to one of a dozen collection 
sites throughout St. Louis.  We also have digging 
crews that will help senior gardeners and those with 
large donations.  Nurseries and growers donate 
extras that we winter over as well.  We see that they 
get good homes. This year, more than 20,000 potted 
and labeled perennials were distributed.  

the event is gathering notice nationally, as we were in 
Country Living Gardener, on newstands now! and in 
Easy Gardener now long off newstands.  anyway, 
visit our website for more info. Gwenne

Gwenne Hayes-Stewart, Executive Director
Gateway Greening
P. O. Box 299 St, Louis MO 63166  314-577-9484  FAX 314-577-9435

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