The Plainfield Public Library is one of the most seen Plainfield faces we have here in the city, I do not know what the statistics are but living across the street from the library I can tell you that there is not a day that I have seen the library empty. This year, the past few weeks, I have seen young students being guided to the library by their teachers and I have seen buses that come full of young faces. We also know that the Plainfield Public Library is, aside from being a library, a place that is full of resources for the community. Add to this that the library is also a place where one can find art exhibits that come from a wide range of artists, the most recent one, from our own community students. So, for the past months I have been impatiently waiting for Spring because there is one little thing that I believe those of us who garden can do for our Plainfield Public Library. Interested? Please read on.
Last week I approached Joe DaRold, Director of the Plainfield Public Library, to see if the Library would like to get a fresh bouquet of flowers from Plainfield gardeners. I am talking about the flowers, or greenery, that we have in our yards. Nothing fancy. Nothing that involves spending money. Just a simple bouquet of flowers, freshly cut, from somebody's garden here in Plainfield.
The idea was welcomed and today the first bouquet was delivered. It took me about half an hour to assemble it and another 5-10 minutes to drop it off (admittedly I live across the street from the library). The flowers will most likely stay fresh for few days and then by Monday, or Tuesday, new flowers will be needed to replace what is there today. Here is my invitation to you to help give flowers to the Plainfield Public Library, that gives so much to us as a community. The hope is to renew flowers on weekly basis, I figure there will be about 25 weeks from today until the end of the "flowering" season. The needs are simple and can be filled by what your garden and your imagination tells you. Please help to bring the sight of flowers to those who visit our Plainfield Public Library. If you are interested and would like to help please reach out to me to coordinate dates, I can be reached via e-mail at pellum9 (at) aol.com. The library will thank you and so will many more!
Today's bouquet was assembled with "bridal veil" spirea, hosta leaves, white dogwood branches, abelia flowers, cranberry bush flowers, "Harry Lauder's Walking Stick" leaves, red vein enkianthus and purple smoke bush leaves. Assembling bouquets is fun and it allows you to play around with different combinations that you might not thought about when planting (I know it happens to me all the time!) but it also allows one to really, really, take the time to look -and smell- at what grows at your garden! Please share your garden with us!
