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WAGONS CIRCLE FOR BBG SALE

By Lisa J. Curtis
The Brooklyn Paper

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Using red wagons as shopping carts, amateur gardeners, collectors and horticulturists alike perused 20,000 plants at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s annual sale, May 2-4. The event was a fundraiser for the garden’s education programs for children.

Among the shoppers and flora spotted on the Cherry Esplanade on May 2 were (left to right) Elizabeth Schell, and her son Arthur, 3, choosing perennials for their backyard garden in Gowanus; proud members of the BBG for more than 50 years, Dorothy and Philip Blatt, selecting a basil plant; miniature roses; and overflowing red wagons.

Highlights of the sale included a large assortment of shade plants, which can thrive in sun-deprived urban gardens and window boxes; and a "children’s garden," where plants sold for just 50 cents. (Hopefully, the bargain blooms will spark an early love of the pleasures of tilling soil.)

Sponsored by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Auxiliary, the sale featured 37 varieties of clematis vines, which are prized for their fragrance and frequent blooming. Because of their vertical design capabilities, experts recommend vines for small urban gardens, too.

Thousands attended the event which offered indoor and outdoor plants, herbs and tomatoes, exotic tropicals, shrubs and trees, native plants, pre-bonsai, hanging plants and rare plants.

The next BBG benefit, "Return to Treasure Island: Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Eighth Annual Family Party," will be held on June 6, from 6 pm to 8:30 pm. Tickets are $50 each, or $200 for a family of four.

For more information about Brooklyn Botanic Garden (900 Washington Ave. at Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights) call (718) 623-7200 or visit the Web site at www.bbg.org.

All photos: The Brooklyn Papers / Jori Klein

©2006 Community Newspaper Group

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John Dunn from Midwood says:
At the followng link,

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/29/19/29_19bbgsale.html

there is a photo of Dorothy and Philip Blatt, my in-laws. Sadly, Philip Blatt passed away this past Auust 20th.

My questin is, would it be possible to obtain the file for their photo? Whoever took that picture did a wonderful job.

My e-mail address is ambertec@ieee.org

Thank you.
Oct. 2, 2009, 10:33 am

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