Planting Day

Today I helped Patsy and Katie plant flowers for Grandma and Larry.

The nickname of Rochester is the "Flower City".  It was called this since 1850.  Every year there is a big Lilac Festival that is a 10-Day Free Festival located on 120 acres of Highland Park in Rochester and attracts people from all over the country.  Today was the last day for this year but we didn't get a chance to go.  Instead we planted out own flowers.

From 1823-1849, Rochester was known as the "Flour City" because once the Erie Canal reached Rochester in 1823 flour was produced here and shipped out on the canal.  The Erie Canal is what made Rochester a city.  The Erie Canal goes from Albany to Buffalo.  There's a song about the canal, written by Thomas Allen in 1905 and you can play it here:




Here are pictures from our planting.

These are the flowers they brought over to plant.

This is how great they looked after we were done.