Big Award to Rogers Park Garden Group

Congrats to the Rogers Park Garden Group on a spectacularly successful first year! Pamela of the Rogers Park Garden Group sent this nice note: Rogers Park Garden Group and the Loyola Park Keepers have been awarded 2nd place in Mayor Daley’s Landscape awards for community landscapes (Region 2) for the planting at Circle Park (Morse @ Loyola Park). Thanks so much for all of your support in making the first year of the garden group a smash success. It takes a lot to get the word out about a new endeavor and we are grateful to and appreciative of those who have helped. The Rogers Park Garden Group is about all of us who live here irrespective of anything else. Disagree as we might in as diverse a community as we are, as Quentin Crisp said, “flowers are language even a baby can understand” – and something we can all agree on. I know we’ve enjoyed meeting and getting to know so many Rogers Parkers. To continue these efforts of community beautification and camaraderie we are going to be planting 750 tulip bulbs in and around the Loyola Park planters at the east end of Morse Ave. on Sunday Nov. 4 at 11 a.m. (Sun., 11/11 will be our rain date). We’d love for folks to come on out and help. 750 bulbs is a lot of planting! We are also going to plant the parkway corner(s) at Jarvis and Greenview on Sunday, Oct. 21 at 11 a.m. with the leftover plants from the garden sale fundraiser. All helpers are welcome. Come out and play in the dirt and get to know your neighbors. To volunteer for either or both plantings, please ping us at rpgardengroup@comcast.net. Pamela