May Happenings
The garden season is starting! Join us for our first meeting on May 3.
Upcoming events
All of our events are free and open to the public.
At garden meetings, you can meet other garden members, learn how to get involved, and become a member. At garden workdays, all are welcome, no experience necessary. Tasks include pruning, weeding, composting, and repairs.
- Friday, April 24, 7:15pm-8:15pm: Julius Caesar. Shakespeare in the Garden.
- Saturday, April 25, 1:30-3:30 and 5:30-7:30: Julius Caesar. Shakespeare in the Garden.
- Sunday May 3, 11-12: Garden meeting.
- Saturday May 9, 12-5: Holi Celebration. An Indian festival of colors and food to welcome spring. Organized by garden member Yash.
- Saturday May 9, 1-2: Ecological City Parade. An urban ecological pilgrimage featuring a spectacular procession with 21 sustainability site performances celebrating climate solution initiatives throughout the community gardens, neighborhood, and waterfront on the Lower East Side of New York City. Organized by Earth Celebrations.
- Sunday May 10, 3-4: Garden Tree Walk with Local Nature Lab. Learn about the trees of the garden and our neighborhood.
- Saturday May 16, 11-1: Look! Meet Your Neighborhood Plants workshop. We will look closely at plants together and learn how to identify them, and understand their relationships with each other, animals, and humans. Organized by garden members Surya and Catherine.
- Sunday May 17, 11-12: Garden meeting.
- Sunday May 17, 12-2: Garden workday.
- Friday May 22, 6-7: Lost in Cyprus Opera. Adaptation of Handel's Tolomeo by Opera Essentia.
- Saturday May 23, 6-7: Lost in Cyprus Opera. Adaptation of Handel's Tolomeo by Opera Essentia.
- Sunday, May 24 6-7: Rain date for Lost in Cyprus Opera.
- Monday, May 25 6-7: Rain date for Lost in Cyprus Opera.
- Sunday, June 7 11-12: Garden meeting.
- Sunday, June 7 12-2: Garden workday.
At the Garden
Both mayapples and Virginia bluebells are spring ephemerals, a group of woodland wildflowers. Spring ephemerals are among the first to pop up every season, quickly blooming, setting seed, then going dormant all within a few weeks before the trees leaf out and cast their shade. In woodland ecosystems around New York and at our garden, spring ephemerals are an important food source for early-emerging pollinators such as bumblebee queens.
See you at the garden,
Catherine
greenoasisnyc.org