Garden tours — and plant sale — this weekend in Prospect Park and Longfellow
The annual Prospect Park Garden Walk will take place Saturday, June 23, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., with something new this year: a plant sale outside Pratt Community School, 66 Malcolm Ave. SE.
The free Garden Walk will cover 20 Prospect park gardens in a variety of types: perennial and annual, vegetable and flower, shade and sun. The tour will highlight innovative uses of space and growing conditions, especially shade.
Maps for the tours will be available the day of walk at the plant sale, Schneider Drug, Signature Restaurant, Cupcake and Pratt corner of University Ave. SE and SE Bedford.
Proceeds from the plant sale will benefit Pratt Elementary School, Just Older Youth (JOY) Club and programs for Buckthorn removal.
For more information, call John Wike at 612-341-3641 or email him at wike0006@umn.edu.
On Sunday, June 24, head to the Longfellow neighborhood for their 2007 Rain Garden Tour, 4–6 p.m., starting at Longfellow Elementary School, 3017 E 31st St.
The free tour, sponsored by the River Gorge Committee of the Longfellow Community Council, will highlight a mix of residential and large-scale rain gardens with a variety of native plants and cultivars, highlighting innovative uses of rain barrels and rain chains. You will have the opportunity to talk with homeowners and see photographs. Information on rain gardens and native plants will also be provided.
You may pick up a tour map at Longfellow Elementary School. All the gardens will be within easy walking or biking distance. For more information, call Hillary Oppman 612-722-4529, email her at hillary@longfellow.org or visit www.longfellow.org.
last revised: July 2, 2007