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Congratulations to Cinta Burgos!  Her entry to a recent City Garden Ideas post has earned her two tickets to the April 24th Vertical Gardening lecture by Patrick Blanc at the Museum of Fine Arts.
Tickets are still available for this lecture by Mr. Blanc, considered the inventor of the vertical garden.  I encourage interested gardeners to attend.
Here is part of Ms. Burgos’ winning entry:  “I am very excited about the vertical garden and the MFA Patrick Blanc talk in April.  I would love to go to the talk, but mostly to go with another garden enthusiast.  My question to him would be – can you make a vegetable garden a vertical garden and how do I do that on my 6th floor balcony with one brick wall, western exposure and all these seasonal changes?  I love growing flowers and seeing plants to start to regrow leaves in the spring but my biggest joy has been the 5 years that strawberries have continued to regrow, the herbs that come back after winter, and picking my own lettuce, tomatoes and beans.  That is about all I have been successful at on my Beacon Hill balcony but I would love to use the vertical space as well.
Congratulations Cinta!  Email me at janine@citygardenideas.com with your address and I’ll send your tickets along.  See you at the lecture!