Re: City Gardeners
Val and other listers,
I saw privately supported/public plantings when I visited North
Carolina three years ago. There were many large garden plots along the
highway right of way, outside Charlotte, NC. I was told the
flowers/plants were supplied by private individuals but the "gardens"
were looked after, more or less, by the dept. of highways. I was told
they were all native plants. They looked fine in October when I was
there, and I was told they looked beautiful all during the spring and
summer. Any listers from around Charlotte (or other places) add to this
description?
Around the lower mainland of BC, there are the usual hanging flower
containers in the summer (in New Westminster, for example), supplied by
the city. The highway on/off ramps usually have evergreen plantings,
and there are lots of spring bulbs (mostly daffs) along the median of
Hwy. 1 between Vancouver and points east, supplied by the dept. of
highways.
I guess this is somewhat off topic (i.e., some of these are annuals, not
perennials) but anything to beautify our living spaces is o.k. by me!
Cheers!
Betty (Delta, BC, zone 8, where there's a promising sunrise and two or
three sunny days in succession - a small miracle!)
lowery@teamzeon.com wrote:
>
> 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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