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If the rainy, concrete blues have you close to bashing your head against a wall, how about a little flora therapy to brighten your mood? Uplift yourself with a vibrant event taking place this week, May 2-9: NYC’s Second Annual Wildflower Week.
The initiative, started by Lady Bird Johnson, gives New Yorkers a way to connect to their natural heritage offering up a chock full of free activities including children’s events, and ecologically-minded walks and talks about the local NYC landscape including its native flowers, trees, shrubs and grasses. There’s something for everyone—even foodies like me—who can bite into dishes featuring edible wildflowers like wild ramps and fiddlehead ferns during the week’s Edible Natives event. Yum!
If mom’s a gardener, and you haven’t yet found that perfect Mother’s Day present in TreeHugger or Planet Green’s gift guides, why not make a day out of it and bring the queen bee?
Out-of-staters unable to attend can still tour the native flora of all five boroughs by clicking over the event’s Flickr page which boasts a bounty of beautiful NYC native plant photos. Feast your eyes on giant sunflowers, salt marsh grasses, blue violets and more—and kiss those rainy spring day blues goodbye!
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