What to do with 100 Pots of Crocuses?

On the third of April this year, I received a message that Solomon Boye, the Community Gardens Coordinator for Parks Forestry and Recreation, was giving away free pots of crocuses that have been forced. P&R were hoping they may find good homes with a variety of good causes such as community gardens, seniors homes, school gardens, churches, where-ever, and make people happy and remind them of spring. The message indicated that Solomon Boye thought there may be two boxes at least for each community garden.

That was wonderful news, so I left a message with the Park Supervisor for our park. ...Little did I expect that they would drop off 100 pots of crocuses!

Later on the message was updated to: "There are gadzillions of crocuses in dark saffron yellow and deep two toned purple. They haven't bloomed yet. You can stick the whole pot in the ground and then replant after blooming (each pot has about 12 blooms)."

So we set about planting some for our own garden, and distributing them to other Community Gardens and Community Groups. As well, Jamie, with a truck, set off to the pick-up point and gathered some more. We gave some to the new community garden in Christie Pits, and some to the Garden Party At Lutheran Redeemer. Then we gave some to the South Asian Woman's Centre that is near by, and some to the West End Flower Fairies. Jamie used his truck to drop some off at the H.O.P.E. Garden and some at FoodShare. Then we found out about the Bickford Park Planting Day, and invited them to come and pick up some pots of crocuses too. The group that does cleaning and greening in + came by and got some. And the Rankin Community Garden was able to get some as well.

Every Community Garden or Community Group got at least 10 pots each. Some of our community gardeners and neighbours took a few pots home or planted some in their garden plots.