Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - In celebration of Spring, during the first week of April Puerto Vallarta Garden Club members planted 45 Primavera trees, 45 Amapas trees and 148 Bougainvilleas along Insurgentes, Avenida Mexico and Olas Altas. This augments the dozens of sidewalk planters already adorned with trees and Bougainvilleas along Basilio Badillo, Encino and Augustine Rodriguez streets.

The Garden Club raised the money for these plantings through annual membership dues and planter box sponsorships. Sponsors can choose the wording on a tile affixed to a planter-box. Many residents and visitors have chosen to memorialize a loved one or to dedicate a planter to their personal love of Puerto Vallarta.

Puerto Vallarta Garden Club is in the process of planning the first annual Puerto Vallarta Bougainvillea Festival in 2013. Floral festivals are well known tourist magnets. Washington D.C.'s Cherry Blossom Festival is the single biggest draw for tourism in the U.S. capital. Tourism is Puerto Vallarta's biggest industry, and this festival can draw many more visitors to our part of Mexico; enhancing local businesses and its resident's livelihoods.

If you are interested in making Puerto Vallarta more beautiful, tourist friendly and increasingly prosperous through planter sponsorship, or PVGC membership, or for more information please visit the PV Garden Club website, or contact Carlos Mendoza at carlos.vbgardens(at)gmail.com or (322) 223-6182.