From 28th Ward Alderman Lyda Krewson:
Dear Delmar Sunflower+ Friends
The Delmar Sunflower+Project is an initiative to activate, beautify and develop 51xx Delmar – near Third Degree Glass.
Want to help? Visit our new website http://www.delmarsunflowerproject.com – see the fun video from last year.(Thx Carrie Zukoski). Click gofund.me/rx6u2jgto Contribute on line… $10…$20… $50… $250… $1,000… it all helps!
Mike Owens, above, and Jim Dwyer, below, spent yesterday (Thursday, 4/30) tilling the beds in advance of the first work day, Saturday, May 9.
Our first work day is Saturday May 9th at 9am. Just show up to help! We will be spreading mulch and preparing for planting.Come have fun in the dirt with us!
Last summer over 150 volunteers planted and tended 15,000 sunflower seeds… that is 30 rows… 375 feet long… 9 inches apart… ! The result was beautiful, stunning, fun, and very hopeful.
The owner, CWE Housing Corporation, is a not for profit 501c(3). Funds raised will go towards soil testing, equipment rental, tilling, grass cutting, Mo Botanical Garden consulting, signage, taxes, and the monarch butterfly garden.
Come have fun in the dirt with us!
Saturday May 9 – Mulch and clean up – 9am
Saturday May 23 – Seed Planting Day – 9am
Saturday June 6 – Weeding & Maintenance –
Saturday June 20 – Transplanting & weeding
Sunday July 19 … Sunflower Sunday Celebration 6pm (tentative)
Many thanks from the “Delmar Sunflower Team”.
Richard Reilly – Missouri Botanical Gardens
Don Koster – Washington University School of Architecture
Jim Dwyer – Central West End
Doug Auer – Third Degree Glass
Lyda Krewson – Alderman Ward 28
Mike Owens – Dirt Farmer J
Many thanks to our sponsors Mo Dept of Conservation; BoWood Farms; Mo Botanical Gardens; Washington Univ & Many Many Volunteers !!