Where are the flowers?
I am asked often why the Grove does not have any flowers, you know, flowers boxes on the streets, flowers hanging from the light poles, things like that. I don't know why. Now that all the poinsettias are gone from places like Mayfair, the Grove is very blah these days.They were promised. Where are they? It's turning out to be a bland January around here.
Some have talked about guerrilla gardening, nothing like this example here, from another city -- a newspaper box made into a planter -- but I wouldn't be surprised if things started popping up on streets like Fuller.
posted by Tom Falco at 1:00 PM
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Len Scinto:
A while back a bunch of use put ferns and flowers in the boxes by the trees on Commodore...They generally didn't do too well. I think mostly got trampled.
Unfortunetly we live in a city where everything is stolen........Yes even flowers!
Sad.
A community Garden would be nice in the Grove.
There are community gardens in West Grove though they are for vegetables.
Is there a florist in the Grove? Aside from flowers at fresh market?
Anchorage has beautiful hanging flowering plants on the sidewalks. Surely if they can do it a village where things bloom year round can do it.
Maybe a collection and donations from a nursery.
I have a garden I started on the corner of Day and 27th. Lots of natives mixed with some butterfly favorites. Some has been trampled or mowed, but many are still kickin. I need to get out their and prune soon.
Grove Guerrilla Gardener
The BID has been working on an RFP for hanging planters in the Village Center.
Plants and flowers need maintenance, specially when they grow in high traffic area. Ferns do not do well in hot Florida summers, I have been trying to grow one for years and only had luck in the winter.
It's not that the ferns were stolen or tramples, yes a little trampling happens, but mostly they just did not keep well.
We need some flowers that love heat and sun in the summer and apparently severe temperature shifts in the winter .. Then just continuously re-plant them like they do on the rotunda at old Cutler/Le June/Sunset...
A one-time effort is not likely to keep.
How about asking gardening companies sponsor little gardens for a month or quarter year, then replace them with a new company (and new look) when the seasons change?
Ant yes, there are florist in the grove, Blond Tulip at Mayfair and Coconut Grove Flowers on Commodore have always been my favorites, but there is one in Florentino plaza also but I have not shopped there yet. We are abundant in florists, just not flowers.
I never understood why everyone is so eager to discard poinsettias first thing in January as if they were a Christmas tree. They are a seasonal flower, and could certainly serve to liven up the place at least through January.
By the way , I love the Guerrilla Gardening newsflower box. Maybe we should do a bit of that around here in the spring. Turn it into an impromptu Grove Event, since we are so good at that.
Speaking of making things look nicer, what happened to the much hyped Lebo bike rack at Peacock Park? I notice that it is gone and there is a generic bike rack in its place. Is that temporary? Can you sleuth this out Grape?
The flower baskets are coming, look for them soon.
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