By Sadie Hunter
Organizations all over Indiana have taken on projects and have planned celebrations for the state’s 200th birthday.
In Noblesville, a neighborhood group, the North Harbour Garden Club, along with the Garden Club of Indiana, Inc. will give a floral tribute to the state flag with the planting blue and gold flowers.
“Garden club members statewide will use these colors in their many civic projects, including plantings at parks, municipal buildings, libraries, schools, nursing homes, etc., as well as their own homes,” said Deborah Frankel, North Harbour Garden Club member. “The public is encouraged to join in this bicentennial celebration with blue and gold floral plantings in their locale.”
Frankel said any size planting will show pride in Indiana’s flag and be a fitting celebration of Indiana’s 2016 Bicentennial.
For more on the bicentennial project, visit www.gardenclubofindiana.org, or call the North Harbour Garden Club at 877-3516.
Suggested flowers
Blue flowers that grow well are:
- Ageratum
- Browallia
- Cornflower
- Heliotrope
- Lisianthus
- Lobella
- Love in the mist
- Nemophila
- Pansy
- Petunia
- Salvia
- Scabiosa
- Statice
- Tohoka daisy
Suggested gold and yellow flowers include:
- Calendula
- cape daisy
- California poppy
- Celosia
- Coleus
- Dahlia
- Gazania
- Lantana
- Marigold
- Mums
- Pansy
- Petunia
- Rudebeckia
- Snapdragon
- Strawflower
- Sunflower
- Zinnia
