City Gardeners





Valerie Lowery@ZEON
04/23/99 08:10 AM

Peggy in Louisville and others:

Yep!  I'm here in the Derby City along with my co-worker, Betty, who will
de-lurk sometimes to comment on this list.  My company has its fair share
of gardening enthusiasts.  Betty maintains a company-sponsored cutting
garden (affectionately called the "Memorial Garden") and we have a junk
garden of cast-off plants from home gardeners along the security fencing on
the back property.  Our chemical plant has a fish pond on the property that
is landscaped by employees.

For everyone else, we're in Louisville, KY, where now is the height of the
Kentucky Derby Festival which runs on May 1 this year.  The city is
sprucing up to welcome out-of-towners to the Derby.  Lexington, the other
major city in KY that is deep into horses and tobacco, is home to Keeneland
Race Track.  Why do I mention all of this?  We have an organization,
Operation Brightside, that plants beautiful "gardens" at all of the ramps
to and from the expressways, in major medians downtown, and along major
tourist attractions around town.  It's awfully nice to see those and get
good ideas for your own garden.  You can easily see what will do just find
in KY clay soil without much help from you.  No one gives these native
plants any extra anything once they are planted around the city, yet they
flourish.  But not a one is located in shade!!!  All are full sun plantings
of native plants.

Does anyone else have an organization like this in your town?  Ours also
gives away free plants to schools, businesses, and other organizations to
plant along the sidewalks or in community gardens.  A really swell bunch of
people!

Val in KY
zone 6a


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