Visit your community gardens

This Saturday, Aug. 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., is the Parade of Community Gardens. The Hale, Page, Diamond Lake Community Garden is at 49th Street and Bloomington Avenue, and the Triangle Garden is at the intersection of Park Avenue and 51st Street, just south of Minnehaha Creek.

The Triangle Garden, relatively new to the neighborhood, is an attractive 1,200 square-foot community flower garden, created and supported by neighbors from the adjacent blocks. It has beautiful red cannas in a center circle and wood chip paths. The center path and the paths to the corners are bordered by annuals. The beds between the paths are planted with a mixture of colorful perennials and annuals.

Neighbors donate plants and remove weeds as necessary. Many people walk through it each day.

Over 50 people have participated in the creation of this community garden.
Maps, brochures and garden descriptions are available free at www.gardenworksMN.org. For more information contact
Kirsten Saylor at ksaylor@greeninstitute.org or at 612-278-7123.