Green Power with Parkway Partners Newsletter
March 1, 2010

Green Greetings

Parkway Partners empowers residents to improve green spaces and works closely with the City of New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways.

March 2010
  • Annual Tree and Plant Sale
  • March 13, 9 to noon: Tomatoes, Iris & Color!
  • Operation Helping Hands
  • Releaf New Orleans to the East

  • March 13, 9 to noon: Tomatoes, Iris & Color!
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    Return to 2nd Saturday Program for tomatoes and to replace frozen plants. We'll have hardy trees, IRIS, Citrus, and flowering shrubs to replace those frozen and forlorn. Many varieties of tomato plants for sale including: Cherokee, Yellow Pear, Stupice, Sunmaster, and Brandywine plus colorful bedding plants. At 10 a.m. Macon Fry, the Garden Guy, will talk tomatoes in the greenhouse.


    Operation Helping Hands
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    Parkway Partners works with homeowners in the Catholic Charities Helping Hands program to create an easy, low maintenance garden for the newly renovated homes of elderly Orleans residents. Master Gardeners and other volunteers work together with Nell Howard, pictured here planting a fruit tree.


    Releaf New Orleans to the East
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    New Orleans East has a bare skyline, so we are concentrating efforts into that area. Lana Pierre poses with Nell Howard and her new street tree. Parkway Partners has planted over 7,000 trees through ReLeaf New Orleans as neighbors band together for the effort.


    Annual Tree and Plant Sale
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    This is a BIG plant sale with the greatest educational support from the city's experts. The Department of Parks and Parkways staff will help you make the right plant selections and offer guidance on expansive landscape ideas or single plant selection. Bring pictures of your gardening challenges for personal consultation.

    Dan Gill will be offering a workshop on Flowering Trees and will broadcast live from the Department of Parks and Parkways site in Gentilly. It is the happening plant place, Saturday, March 27 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon next to Dillard University.

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