Read a great story here by Sean Kirst: 

Saturday morning, at Forman Park: Volunteers to plant 300 red tulip bulbs

http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index.ssf/2013/10/post_546.html#incart_river_default

How do you build community?   The dictionary defines community as a feeling of fellowship with others as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. Yes. That’s what’s what’s happening here, as volunteers come together to create a sense of stewardship of place, as well as fellowship.  It’s happening through a grassroots effort to take on the tough job of maintaining public improvements through voluntary efforts, and build a sense of ownership.

This stuff doesn’t happen overnight.  It takes time.  Just like planting.  That’s an apt metaphor for this phase of the Corridor, as we work together to keep these public improvements lovely and enjoyable as community assets.  It’s the highest form of planting together for the future.

All good work takes time, patience and nurturing.  Join us to help in that effort.  Working with the www.thebulbproject.org, the Syracuse and CNY Police Retirees Association, and residents, neighbors and area businesses, we’re hosting another fall beautification day this Saturday at Forman Park and planting tulips.  It’s part of a larger effort to begin to build a colorful corridor of flowers to complement the new streetscape and facade improvements being made along the Corridor.

We’re also taking orders from businesses and property owners along the Corridor who want to plant red tulips, and we hope to have a larger planting effort along the district in November, with an even larger one next fall.

If you are a property owner along the Corridor and interested in planting red tulips, let us know and we’ll help make arrangements for bulbs.

Or, if you’d like to plant your own red tulips this fall, here are some handy planting tips:

http://www.wikihow.com/Plant-Tulip-Bulbs