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        Title: Sweet Fields Do Lie Forgot

        Pot's location: Court and Vine streets, downtown.

        Artists: Staff of Jack Rouse Associates, downtown.

        Explanation: Staff members wanted to pay homage to early days of the company's neighborhood and the Canal Street (now Court Street) Market. “We decided to overturn the pot and have its bounty spilling out, reclaiming the market's original home and overtaking the steel structure that memorializes the old Market Building,” says Scot Ross. “We recalled Andrew Marvell's 1681 poem “The Mower Against Gardens” in which he sings the praises of untamed nature — like our garden that has toppled out of its container to run wild. The phrase we borrowed from thepoem, “Sweet Fields do Lie Forgot,” conjures up the ghosts of the harvested fields that once occupied this entire block.”

        Who planted it: Julie Weinel, horticulture manager for the Cincinnati Horticultural Society. Plant advisers: West Hills Greenhouse and Jan Laine. Plants include castor bean, a tall annual with large, striking foliage similar to a maple leaf; sweet basil, an herb with a spicy fragrance and green, dome-shaped foliage; zinnia “Profusion Orange,” vibrant flowers that attract butterflies; and cardoon, with deeply serrated leaves that can be harvested for food.

        Sponsor: Jack Rouse Associates.

        Artist-decorated and professionally planted flowerpots and planters, part of “Cincinnati Blooms,” will be in downtown Cincinnati, Hyde Park Square, Newport and Covington through September. Information at Cincinnati.Com.

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