Community coming to life with flowers
News Release:
KALAMAZOO, MI – This is a busy time for Kalamazoo in Bloom, who is getting ready to plant flowers in Kalamazoo and Portage as part of their annual planting season. Since 1984, Kalamazoo in Bloom has highlighted the area’s world renowned hot bedding industry, first with flower festivals under the name of Kalamazoo County Flowerfest, and now with community planting days.
Hundreds of volunteers are recruited from schools to garden clubs, to help plant over 90,000 flowers across the community, and to plant familiar structures, the peacock in Kalamazoo’s Bronson Park and the canoe on S. Westnedge, across from Old Westnedge Avenue in Portage.