Last week the City of Oshawa's downtown outdoor planters were once again filled with SPRING FLOWERS! Wonderfully uplifting to see these bright displays of nature's colours! A big thank you to Oshawa staff for this work. I know many Oshawans appreciate the continued successes of City greenhouse staff in producing some of the most pleasing municipal flower displays in the GTA!! Sidenote: each year when I first see the spring flowers blooming in the planters along the sidewalks in Oshawa's downtown I whisper THANK YOU BARRIE, because when visiting the City of Barrie in the spring of 2021, on seeing how attractive Barrie's downtown planters looked with tulips and pansies, I spoke with their horticulturalist and then followed-up with a motion to Oshawa Council to initiate its own spring flower downtown planter program, which was approved