READERS’ ROUNDUP

Bookworm Gardens’ Changing Garden

Readers’ Roundup is an opportunity to participate in the selection, design, and installation of a seasonal garden space at Bookworm Gardens. Every year, the Readers’ Roundup Garden is a completely new garden space representing a different book. Bookworm Gardens partners with a school or community organization to collaboratively create a transformed, unique space. Together, we pick the book, brainstorm garden design, and help plant the garden. This space is planted in May and runs the course of the open season (through October 31).

Readers’ Roundup originally started as a radio contest in 1953 and was brought back in the form of a book report contest in 2011 at Bookworm Gardens. For years, students would submit their book reports with the chance to win a special prize. In 2017, Bookworm Gardens decided to offer the chance for partners to design a garden space.