After Registration, Free Plants? WHAT’S THE CATCH?

There’s never been one with CCGA Resources. It’s quite a challenge, and this team has done distributions so well, so successfully, with such attention to detail and advance planning, and still they do it. The generosity of growers donating so much material has a lot to do with it, and the bounty of plant material makes it a sweet problem for community gardeners. This autumn CCGA held an August 23, 24 and a September 27, 28 Perennial Distribution. The two-day project each time gave volunteers a little more leeway to identify the many types plants and enjoy the fine weather.

Once again, Elite donated over three thousand perennials to the Resources Committee for distribution. The Saturday 8/24 distribution drew 65 community gardens from all over the city, The selection of plants featured flowering yarrow, dianthus, calamagrostis, campanula, echinacea (many cultivars), hosta, several types of phlox and sedum, stachys, veronica ‘winterberry’ and over 900 salvia ‘May Night,’ as well as miscellaneous asters, euphorbia, gaillardia, heliopsis, penstemon and physostegia.

CCGA Resources thanks its volunteers, who came in all ages, for all their hard work on the perennial distribution August 25. Sam Taylor’s talented summer crew of high school students pitched in for both set-up and distribution.
Friday September 27, Scott Byron & Co., delivered two large trucks and a trailer packed full of perennials and shrubs to the Fall Plant Distribution site on Central Park. Scott Byron collected plants, as well as growers and landscapers Elite, Twixwood, Midwest Groundcovers, Mariani, Hoffie, and Montale Gardens for a total of over 4000 plants and shrubs for the event. Amazing! A great group of volunteers unloaded, sorted, and grouped all the plants in preparation for the distribution. Through their hard work, they completed the whole process just before the big rains moved in

on Friday. Thanks to, Scott Byron and donors, and thank you to the wonderful volunteers!