Archive for June 15th, 2006
It Was a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Of course, I am biased, but after all, bloggers have the right to voice their opinion. But I had a checklist that I made long before the day of the event that I have used to rate this year’s garden tour successful.
This checklist would base my assessment as to whether the event was successful or not.
How was the weather? Beautiful.
Did everything come together so we started on time? Yes
How was the publicity? Brooklyn Sun News ran a feature on the tour 6/08/2006 and followed it with photos of the event today 6/15. The front page photo above the fold featured Paul Kirk and his beautiful Moss Roses. The Old Brooklyn News ran a beautiful ad for us and look for the feature article in the July issue. Cool Cleveland had us listed on the event page. Judge Ray Pianka and his videographer Sy filmed for over two hours in our neighborhood Sunday morning for a future segment on his cable TV show. He has promised to give me advance notice so that we will all know when to watch. Lots of publicity.
Comments from attendees: Had no idea these beautiful gardens existed here. How were the gardens chosen because we walked by many that we would have loved to see? A tea party, what a great idea. The hosts and hostesses were so gracious and willing to share their garden stories. Do you have a sign-up sheet so we can be contacted about upcoming events in the neighborhood?
Comments from gardeners: Next year we should…. If we have music we should be sure that it is at scheduled times…Should we choose the date now? This was fun. We are going to do it again next year, aren’t we?
And it only took me four days to recover.
Not only did we have the garden tour but OBCDC and Councilman Cummins and his Assistant, Johanna Hamm helped us organize a neighborhood clean-up along the tour route. We had streets swept, vacant lots mowed, and a crew of eleven people picked up trash and swept up broken glass on Saturday morning.
Thanks to all of you who helped make this year’s tour a success. And yes, we will do it all again next year because it WAS a beautiful day in the neighborhood.