Just a few dozen steps from Gaynor is the Westside Community Garden on 90th Street, currently in full bloom for spring. The garden is also in the middle of its two-week Tulip Festival, which celebrates the more than 13,000 tulips that have been planted for the display.
For exploration, EC students were each assigned a special color in shades of yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, and white. Students were in charge of “hunting” for their color in the plants and flowers throughout the garden. When they found a match, teachers took pictures.
Then, all of the pictures of the plants and flowers were printed to make a graph of all of the different colors. EC students discovered that they found the most pink flowers in the garden 19, followed yellow, a close second with 17, and blue had the least with only 2 blue flowers discovered.
