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Boston Blooms With Daffodils

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

A Patch of Green

Can You ID These Patches of Yellow in West Roxbury?

This environmentally friendly column is brought to you by West Roxbury Saves Energy, a community-based organization committed to spreading the word that individuals can make positive choices that save money as well as the planet.

  Green is good, but so is yellow — especially if it comes in the form of lovely daffodils popping up all around West Roxbury. Last fall Mayor Menino and the City of Boston gave away 40,000 bulbs in the "Boston Blooms with Daffodils" program to individuals and organizations willing to plant them in public spaces around the city. West Roxbury Saves Energy secured several hundred; we passed along some to local schools for their grounds and planted others around town. Responsible for daffs in one of the photos below through the same Boston Blooms program was the Evening Garden Club of West Roxbury. Today's challenge is to identify where these yellow beauties are blooming — the first five people to correctly name all four locations will …

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Rickie Harvey

11:46 am on Thursday, April 19, 2012

Nope; sorry. Try again? Also, there are four photos to guess!   more ›

Friday, October 28, 2011

A Patch of Green

Watch for Further Daffodil Developments in West Roxbury

This environmentally friendly column is brought to you by West Roxbury Saves Energy, a community-based organization committed to spreading the word that individuals can make positive choices that save money as well as the planet.

West Roxbury Saves Energy hopes you will enjoy watching for the splashes of yellow that will pop up next spring around our town because of our (and others') participation in the "Boston Blooms with Daffodils" program this month. The City ordered more than 120,000 daffodils, and Mayor Thomas Menino offered some 40,000 of these to individuals and organizations willing to plant them on city property on October 22 and 29. WRSE wanted to make sure that West Roxbury benefited from this initiative, and we were able to dig some holes and bury some daffs ourselves as well as pass a hundred or so along to the Lyndon School. Katie Tunney, principal of the primary grades at the Lyndon, arranged for one of her science teachers to use the bulb planting …

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