Comments on: Take down the hanging flower baskets http://actlocallysf.org/blog/smartsolutionsblog/2007/10/26/take-down-the-hanging-flower-baskets/ The ActLocallySF Smart Solutions Blog Thu, 22 May 2008 20:10:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: Gretchen Cotter http://actlocallysf.org/blog/smartsolutionsblog/2007/10/26/take-down-the-hanging-flower-baskets/#comment-190 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:42:39 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/smartsolutionsblog/2007/10/26/take-down-the-hanging-flower-baskets/#comment-190 I have to agree that on a scale of one to ten, rape, theft, assault and homelessness are probably of greater concern to our city's residents than flower baskets. On the other hand, I applaud the attempts to beautify and greenify (is that a word?) SF by adding street trees and hanging flower baskets. Of course if the new greenery is not maintained and allowed to die then the net result is worse than having no plantings at all. How about have an "Adopt a tree" or "Adopt a flower basket" or some such program? I am one of the many "Adopt a Street" members and I take care of painting over graffiti in my immediate area. Maybe the city could do the same thing for maintaining street plantings. Where I live (22nd and Folsom) we don't have hanging flower baskets, but if we did, I would be delighted to water them on a regular basis. Perhaps there are people in the neighborhoods where plantings already exist where who would adopt them if such a program existed. Again, for society as a whole we need to address the social ills of crime and homelessness, but beautifying the city is important too.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 8</li> </ul> I have to agree that on a scale of one to ten, rape, theft, assault and homelessness are probably of greater concern to our city’s residents than flower baskets. On the other hand, I applaud the attempts to beautify and greenify (is that a word?) SF by adding street trees and hanging flower baskets. Of course if the new greenery is not maintained and allowed to die then the net result is worse than having no plantings at all.

How about have an “Adopt a tree” or “Adopt a flower basket” or some such program? I am one of the many “Adopt a Street” members and I take care of painting over graffiti in my immediate area. Maybe the city could do the same thing for maintaining street plantings. Where I live (22nd and Folsom) we don’t have hanging flower baskets, but if we did, I would be delighted to water them on a regular basis. Perhaps there are people in the neighborhoods where plantings already exist where who would adopt them if such a program existed.

Again, for society as a whole we need to address the social ills of crime and homelessness, but beautifying the city is important too.

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