A group of gardeners in the Bedford-Stuyvesant received the main prize this year for the best plants in the area.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden awarded Stuyvesant Avenue in the nomination «the greenest block in Brooklyn» in 2017.
The sidewalks of the quarter, to get a Laurel wreath of the winner, full of flower beds and tubs. There, on Stuyvesant Avenue, live including Serge Vastel and Sylvia Alexander, who brought up and nurtured their gardens day after day.
Alexander said that he had inherited a love of gardening from his mother, Mary Powlett, who lives in the house since 1967. Sylvia doesn’t care not only about their flower gardens, but also helps neighbors to get rid of weeds, fertilize and water the flower beds.
«I help everybody just because I want everything to be beautiful» to share it. According to her, the geraniums are her favorite colors.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden said that they had a lot of contenders. At the ceremony on Monday, the President of a gardening club Scott Medbury said that Stuyvesant Avenue «had to fight».
«That was really a gambling contest. The participants were at such a high level that the judges had a long debate, decide which quarter will be the winner in 2017, » he says.
Two blocks of Prospect-Lefferts Gardens Lefferts Avenue between Bedford and Rogers avenues, and Lincoln Road between Bedford and Rogers avenues — took second and third places in the competition. Quarter Boerum Hill, took home the main prize in the nomination «the greenest shopping district». There were also prizes for the best window flower bed, the garden city and landscaped gardens.
Alexander said it was «amazing feeling» to win this award. Glad it not only for myself but even more for my mom.
«I can’t do it. I feel so good. She always wanted to do… to be part of something big» — shared joy Sylvia.
According to the materials DNAinfo
