PRIDE and

 “Our Community - A More Colorful Place”

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There are many things a community can do to improve their appeal, but few can compare to the immediate impact of colorful flowers.  Dr. Alan Stevens, Extension Floriculture Specialist in the Department of Horticulture at K-State has announced a new program, “Our Community, a More Colorful Place”.  In partnership with Kansas PRIDE, the new program seeks to build community pride through more people, planting more flowers, in more places.  Relieve the blahs by adding the spice of colorful flowers to our communities.  Color our world by planting flowers at the entrance to city hall, along our streets, planters downtown, in front of our businesses, in our parks and spots of colorful flowers in each of our front yards.  Everyone can play a part in making our community a more colorful place.

Think of your community as it is decorated during the December holiday season.  Bright lights and ornaments downtown, in businesses, and in each of our front yards.  Why do we decorate our communities for the holidays?  We feel the holiday decorations make our community a better place to live, work, shop, and play.  Many families have a tradition of riding around and enjoying all the holiday decorations.  Our quality of live is improved.

Wouldn’t making our communities a more colorful place during the spring, summer and fall by planting flowers everywhere also improve our quality of life.  We can take great pride in living in a community that embraces flowers and a quality environment.

Our Community, A More Colorful Place is a great community development, PRIDE program.  One that can be accomplished with realistic resources while having an immediate visual impact.

The Our Community, A More Colorful Place program is supported by K-State Research & Extension through the Prairie Star annual flower program (prairiestarflowers.com) and technical, flower growing information through County Extension Offices and the Master Gardener program.