April showers bring May flowers, thanks to Floretum volunteers

It’s all smiles despite the showers as Floretum volunteers dig in. L to R Diane Cantwell, Patti Greene, Cyndy Norman, Janice Carr.

Floretum Club President Tia Scarce gets both hands dirty.

Thanks to an awning generously put up by City Parks crews, the volunteers were able to stay (mostly) dry.

Completed basket liners were returned to the greenhouses, where they’ll wait to be moved to the downtown hanging basket flower poles starting June 1.

It was quite an organized and efficient production line, as the volunteers got all 148 baskets planted in an hour.

While not a member of Floretum, Monique Tran of Edmonds heard about the basket planting event and couldn’t resist. “I love living here and really want to pitch in and help,” she said.

Once again this year, members of the Edmonds Floretum Garden Club gathered on a rainy April morning at the City of Edmonds greenhouses in City Park to plant the liners that will fill the city’s hanging baskets with floral beauty and color all summer long.

Floretum volunteers filled 148 baskets with more than 1,500 plant starts raised in the city greenhouses — all in about an hour.

Formed in 1922, the Edmonds Floretum Garden Club has a mission is to bring floral beauty to Edmonds. In addition to the hanging baskets, Floretum members plant the downtown corner gardens and the gardens at Hazel Miller Plaza, provide scholarships to horticulture students, and maintain the plants in the Edmonds Library.

The baskets will remain at the Edmonds grounds maintenance facility in City Park for a few weeks while they grow and begin to flower. City crews will install them throughout downtown starting June 1.

— Story and photos by Larry Vogel

Mary Kay Sneeringer says:

April 10, 2018 at 5:23 pm

Thank you all! It is always an exciting day when the flower baskets make their appearance around town. I can’t wait to see what you’ve grown this year!

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