September 11 8:46 AM

We remember

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
Love leaves a memory no one can steal".

You may have heard that New York City's Battery Park Conservancy had commissioned Piet Oudolf, a landscape architect whose designs are known for their ability to elicit powerful emotions, to design a Garden of Remembrance down there by the waterfront, to honor the victims of the 9/11 tragedy.

It makes sense; after all: The site where the World Trade Towers once stood was founded by the Dutch in the 1600s, Oudouf himself is Dutch, and virtually all Spring bulbs come from Holland. But the fact that a Dutch landscape architect has chosen to feature Dutch-grown Spring bulbs for his Garden of Remembrance in a place named for cannons that were used centuries ago to help secure our Independence from Great Britain is really almost a coincidence; these choices have nothing to do with anyone or thing's history. Already planted at the site are 5,000 Crocus tommasinianus, which usually are the first crocus to appear in the Spring. There are also 500 bulbs each of the tulips 'Spring Green'--a tall, elegant lily-flowered type, and 'Queen of Night', this tulip had to have been included because it's dark red flowers appear black to the eye.

May We Never Forget
God Bless America