URI Gives Back Day - Bulb Planting

On Oct. 10, 2009, 250 University community member volunteers, including 175 URI 101 freshmen, planted 5,000 tulips, narcissus, and other spring bulbs around the Quadrangle and other pre-selected locations. URI Master Gardeners volunteers were on hand to assist in the mass planting.

The planting was made possible through the generous support of Washington Trust. The Bank donated thousands of daffodil bulbs in 1991 to help URI celebrate its Centennial, and then partnered with the University and local communities for several years thereafter with a South County Beautification Program. The daffodils planted over those years still bloom today, making late spring a beautiful time to visit the URI campus and the South County region.

Generous support also came from Robert Weygand, vice president for Administration, the Feinstein Center for Service Learning and URI Lands and Grounds Department.

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