Announcing the 4th Annual Sakura Fall Planting Day. Come help plant and care for the trees with us!

Place: North Park, by the Boat House (see map below)
Date: Saturday, November 10, 2012, 10:00 to 1:00.
Content: Plant young cherry and other native trees; mulch, water, stake and install deer protectors.
Clothing: Work clothes you can get dirty (Sakura Project T-shirts are welcome!), work gloves, shovels.
Organizer: Pittsburgh Sakura Project

• Light refreshments will be served at the end of planting. To help us plan, please RSVP to Yoko Motoyama
• To lighten our environmental impact, please bring your own cup and chopsticks or utensils.
• Pittsburgh Sakura Project assumes no legal or financial liability for accidents or injuries during and after this event.

Click here to download the poster.

Have you seen the beautiful flower garden in North Park at the intersection of Babcock Blvd. and Wildwood Rd. where the cast-iron canon is? This garden was started seven years ago by master gardeners certified by the Penn State Extension program. It has been giving us joy from spring to fall.

August 18 was Penn State Extension’s third educational field day. (They have a similar demonstration garden in South Park and also hold a field day on the same day.) Sakura Project has been invited to introduce our project all these years. This year we gave away water bottles and bookmarks with calligraphy. We enjoyed talking with people and browsing other booths such as compost group, tree/pest group, mushroom society (many wild mushrooms were displayed), herb, tomato (tomato tasting of a dozen different varieties), garlic (garlic tasting of several different varieties) groups, shortbread tasting and more. The highlight was to mark the most beautiful flowers in the flowerbeds with blue flags.

Thank you very much to those who volunteered at our booth.

Don’t miss next year’s field day!