Gardeners,
Send me pictures of your pits with their Spring blooms!
Here's 19th& 9th, north side with Chewey wondering why I am making him sit still:

First flowers of Spring

It is so heartening to see the bulbs beginning to bloom. Walking by the grape hyacinths, tulips and daffodils just makes me happy. I've put down hundreds of seeds and can't remember what or where. Summer's blooms will be a big surprise.
Flower Power!

Daffodils at 20th St. & Ninth Avenue (why are they looking away?)

 See if you can spot the cigarette butts.

Hudson River Park is looking for volunteers

They got hit bad by the Sandy storm surge.
So if you want even more gardening in your life, email them.
Contact Matt Post, director of horticulture. mpost@hrpt.ny.gov

And check out their website at hudsonriverpark.org

Cold, Dark and Dead

Spring seems so far away. The only things of note in my pit are the garbage and cigarette butts. Still I got this note from Christine Quinn's office and thought a few of you might still be interested in things like mulch. In the meantime, stay warm. Think green thoughts.

MulchFest 2013

Please join the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and GreeNYC in recycling your Christmas trees into wood chips.  Bringing your tree to a designated city park to be recycled into mulch will nourish plantings across the city!  You can also take home your very own bag of free mulch to use in your backyard or to make a winter bed for a street tree.

MulchFest 2013 is happening this Saturday and Sunday, January 12 and 13 from 10:00AM to 2:00PM.  

There are chipping locations, where you can drop off your tree and pick up a bag of mulch and drop off only locations all over the City.  To find one closest to you please visit http://www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/mulchfest.   

You can bring your tree to a drop-off site from Wednesday, January 9 through Sunday, January 13.  Leave your tree with the Parks Department and they will recycle it.

Free Daffodils for our Pits

Mark your calendars: Daffodil bulbs are coming! Free from the Daffodil Project. I have ordered 1,100 and they arrive October 21. We should also be getting mulch, hopefully around the same time.

A Grand Proclamation

Everyone had a terrific time at the Proclamation last week and Sen. Tom Duane made time in his busy schedule to stand with us. Melanie in Speaker Quinn's office is making copies of the Proclamation so every gardener can have one and the large framed version is currently with Paul. If you would like to have it for a week, it can circulate. Just send me an email request.

There are lots of pictures and I will post them on the Facebook page. But here is one from Lisa at 20th & 8th. (Note our signature cosmos and Dennis's vase of pit flowers which he presented to Speaker Quinn)
A golden cosmo to Sen. Duane, Speaker Quinn and all our gardeners. Flower Power!

Our Proclamation

A proclamation honoring the all the hard work of the club's gardeners will be read Wednesday, August 22 at City Hall at 1:30pm. Congratulations to gardeners and supporters alike.
Flower power!