Saturday, April 24, 2010 – Sunday, April 25, 2010, 1-4pm

Celebrate Spring on the Upper West Side! Enjoy a blaze of Spring tulips at our Annual Tulip Festival, All are welcome. Free Admission.

We are celebrating our 22nd year of tulips in bloom. You are invited to visit the beautiful West Side Community Garden while the tulips are in full color!

In addition, during the month of April we invite one and all to bring a camera to the garden, capture the beauty, and enter our first annual Tulip Photo Contest 2010.

For festival information, please contact:
Mira S. at 212-875-0632 (day) or
Jackie B. at 212-316-5490 (evening).

Everyone is welcome, all ages, at this community planting festival, trowels and shovels are provided, bring gloves and dress warmly. There will be a brunch/Turkey lunch for the workers on both planting days. Planting will be in the garden West 89th Street, West 90th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenue. For more information call Tom Thies 212 369 6183, Jackie at 212 316 5490 or email westsidecommunity@gardener.com

Also needed, People to help with food- Chili, cookies, cakes, pies, welcome

THIS WEEKEND SATURDAY NOV 7, 11AM-4PM there will be a preplanting cleanup. Perennials must be marked or removed, leaves raked,  toolshed cleared out, and compost turned.

There also will be a preplanting tulip sorting party  Thursday November 12 on West 94th Street 10 am-4pm. Call Tom Thies for more information. Everyone is welcome for all activities.

Tea and homemade cookies were served, along with ice water for thirsty visitors. The Garden is proud of its service to the community; we are open every day of the year.

The Garden attracted many new members, new donors, and many professional photographers. One of them was Lee Snider. Some of his wonderful photos are below.

New Garden member Alison Yobage took some lovely photos, too:

More photos can be found at:   http://wscgtulips09.shutterfly.com/

For more information on joining or contributing to our Garden, please contact Brad Smith 212 749 6861 , or Jackie Bukowski, evenings at 212 316 5490.

The Cherry and Magnolia trees are in full bloom the tulip display is underway, and everything is beautiful. In the Vegetable garden woodchips have been laid along the Garden path to soak up puddles ( until we reinstall a more permanent pathway)

There is plenty of work to do, We’ll be there working 11:30-3,4 Saturday and 1 until 4 Sunday.- plant Pansies and water the already planted pansies along the paths of the Flower garden and planted in the beds, watering the Pink Impatiens in the tree pits, and watering the trays of Sweet Williams, Pansies and Violas lined up along the Vegetable Garden Fence, picking up trash, and getting the Compost bins turned and waterbarrels turned. If you have spare half hour- water.

It’s been pretty dry the last week and a half. Be careful if you water in the Tulip beds- put the hose on the ground for ground soaking only DO NOT hold the hose and water from above, it damages the Tulip display. ! We also need a couple of folks to sit by the gate and greet people, and keep an eye on the Contribution Jar. The energetic might like to haul a few books out to sell.

We’ll be there working 11:30-3,4 Saturday and 1 until 4 Sunday.Attention Vegetable Gardeners – there are free vegetable seeds in the toolshed. There’s also fertilizer- and don’t forget the sacks of compost by the gate.