It’s hard to believe that summer is well and truly over and fall is upon us! But that doesn’t mean there isn’t still time to enjoy native flowers blooming in Stuyvesant Cove Park!
And if you’d like to help us put the Park to bed for the winter, our last Park Volunteer Day of 2015 will be held on Saturday October 31 from 10am-1pm. Pizza lunch will be provided by the Stuyvesant Cove Park Association, and if you’d like to come, please RSVP to dina[at]solar1[dot]org. You will need weather-appropriate clothes (layers are good at this time of year) and close-toed shoes. we’ll provide the tools, gloves and other supplies you’ll need to get the job done.
And now for the list of species you’ll see blooming in the Park over the next couple of weeks:
Summer is flying by, isn’t it? Labor Day is less than a month away, and parents are counting the days until school starts again! But in Stuyvesant Cove Park, the flowers of summer are still blooming, and if you take a walk in the Park this week, here’s what you’re most likely to see:
As we approach the end of July, more flowers are blooming than ever. If you want to see native plants at their lushest and most productive, now is the time to pay a visit to the Park.
The official start of summer is coming up with this weekend’s Summer Solstice, but the weather has already turned pretty summery! And the Park is showing it, as it transitions from spring to summer foliage.
Rachel Frank will be presenting a performance based on rewilding, an environmental practice that seeks to reestablish the landscape’s former ecosystems and increase sustainability by reintroducing species to areas in which they had formerly thrived but have since gone extinct. In Frank’s performance, actors wearing American bison head masks will symbolically rewild Stuyvesant Cove against the backdrop of the East River and views of Brooklyn and Queens. Performing in Stuyvesant Cove, a park established on land that was once an abandoned industrial site, this performance is part of a larger project, which uses the concept of rewilding to explore how we think about the landscape around us—its past, present and sustainability into the future.