America in Bloom Program
Friday, May 9th, 2008
This year the Northfield Garden Club is promoting the America in Bloom program here in Northfield. This stems from a national non-profit organization which encourages the business community and private citizens in a city to join efforts and celebrate the assets of their city and to enhance its appearance as an attractive place for which to work, live and visit.
Local groups must register by late winter their intent to participate in the program. In Minnesota this year, there are only four cities participating- Red Wing, Bemidiji, Northfield and Buffalo. The Northfield Garden Club has contacted almost all of the businesses in Northfield to encourage everyone to "get on board". There is a color theme for the program and this includes the use of the following annuals in either containers or annual bed plantings - hot pink petunias, hot pink wave petunias, lime green sweet potato vine, and dark colored coleus.
The program has several areas - not just the flowers. It promotes tidiness, environment, community involvement, heritage, landscape areas, and also the floral displays. In July, 2008, there will be nation-wide judging of the cities that have registered. In 2007 Red Wing, MN was a winner in the program. Let’s have Northfield on the list of winners for 2008!
We will be trying our best to stock as many of these annuals as we can but we do encourage everyone to pre-order what they think they’ll be needing so we can try to have them available!
