Join us for a fun evening:
25th Annual Neighborhood Gardens Tour
Celebrating 27 Years of Community Gardening in Cincinnati
Thursday, July 24, 5:30- 8:30pm
The 2008 Neighborhood Gardens Tour is a celebration of Children’s Gardens.
This year’s tour showcases three of our city’s outstanding community-based children’s gardens. These gardens were selected to highlight their commitment to and work with children. The gardens provide opportunities for children to plant, grow and harvest vegetables, dig for worms, compost, eat healthy food, and of course, the opportunity to get dirty.
Participating Children’s Gardens:
Peaslee Neighborhood Center’s Children’s Garden
The Peaslee Neighborhood Center's Edible Schoolyard is one of the core components of its literacy-based curriculum for early childhood education. Activities in the Edible Schoolyard are directly related to classroom curriculum. The outdoor space serves as a gathering place for community building that fosters an increased connection to the natural world. In creating gardens and art, children and families experience working together as well as celebrating the results of their work. The garden is a place where people might gather to barbecue or just enjoy green space in an inner-city neighborhood.
Race Street Children’s Garden
The Race Street Children’s Garden was established in 1989 and today the garden hosts weekly sessions of the Summer Sprouts Program serving the children in the immediate neighborhood. The garden provides the children a safe green place to play and garden during the summer. Community life is explored when the fruits and vegetables grown by the children are harvested, prepared and eaten at snack time, as well as shared with the neighbors.
UC Childcare Center Garden
The University of Cincinnati’s Childcare Center Garden includes an herb and vegetable garden, apple orchard and butterfly garden – even a hill for children to dig in! The children explore with all their senses by touching the plants and seeds, smelling the flowers and herbs, looking at the colorful flowers and plants as well as hearing the plants blow in the wind. The garden has become a special place for pre-school children and teachers to enjoy the natural world through multi-sensory experience, creative play and gardening.
WHEN: Thursday, July 24, 2007, 5:30 – 8:30 pm
WHERE: Civic Garden Center, 2715 Reading Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
- Transportation from CGC via air conditioned buses is provided
COST: $10.00
To reserve your place on one of the busses, we need to hear from you no later than July 6. Please make your reservations by calling 513.221-0981, Ext. 18.
The CGC acknowledges and thanks Whole Foods for providing refreshments for the Neighborhood Garden Tour reception.
Plant of the Week
Check back weekly to find out what's blooming, growing, or being featured as our plant of the week at the Civic Garden Center and/or the Hauck Botanic Garden! .
 
Koelreuteria paniculata, or Golden Rain Tree, is an open-branching, irregularly shaped, deciduous tree with a rounded crown which typically grows 30-40' tall and is just as wide. This tree "stems" from China and has pinnate or bipinnate (feather like) compound leaves up to 18" long. In spring, leaves emerge as pinkish bronze to purple, mature to a bright green in summer, and in fall turn to yellow. The tree blooms in early summer showing a full display of bright yellow flowers on long, terminal panicles, 12-15" long. After the flowers fall (emulating a golden rain) seed pods present that resemble brown, papery Chinese lanterns.
But, not every plant of the week is a "good player". So many viable seeds are produced by this tree that gardeners should be concerned about its weedy potential. Although it has become more popular over the last few years (some groups have even given away free saplings), gardeners would be well advised to consider other tree options besides Koelreuteria paniculata.
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