George Eastman Museum

Once the show is done, the show is taken down, most of the product is given away to my volunteers. They're allowed to come in as a thank you for helping us out. The rest is given to a couple of community organizations that use them around the neighborhoods to plant up in the corner gardens that you'll see around the city, and then some of it does get composted. What we do find is that the neighborhood knows when I compost, because once they're in the compost bins, it seems people come by and pick up bulbs for free. Not a problem. I'm glad people are using them. Once the show's done, we now have to clean up the mess. That's over 2,500 pots that need to be scraped and cleaned, washed and sterilized, to be ready for the following show. So the show basically goes on from June to June. During the rainy days during the summer, we're washing the pots, we're getting things ready. So it is a year end, year round endeavor for the Eastman House to put this show on for you.