Each year at the Veterans Day Ceremony Garden Club members create a United States Flag with flowers. After the ceremony veterans are invited to take one of the plants home with them.
2024 Celebration Veterans Day Ceremony
Community Support
Post-Milton Cleanup
Jeff Eriks and his son Lachlan brought their garden tools and met up with Brad Wagoner to reset trees and spruce up the library pollinator and memorial gardens. Several of our memorial program trees had been blown at a severe angle and one blown completely over. We staked and tied down trees where needed. At the memorial garden we found most of the low lying plants and shrubs in good shape. After cleaning up broken branches and such, we cut down two Yellow Trumpet Tabliabua trees that have blown over in each of the last three hurricanes. Their time was up this time as they could not be saved this time. All in all the trees and plants could have been in much worse shape.
We will have a better cleanup and planting get together at 8:00 on Friday, October 25. Please show up and help us get the gardens in good shape for the Foundations Memorial Service on November 2. Trimming, planting and weeding. Come prepared for an hour or so of work.
Add a Pollinator Garden to Your Yard
The Celebration Garden Club supports the planting of pollinator plants in Celebration gardens. These gardens attract pollinator insects and help increase their numbersby giving them food sources that are being wiped out through urban expansion and herbicide/pesticide use.
The Club has an anonymous donor who will reimburse half the cost of planting pollinator gardens! Just get your plants from Green Isle Gardens, near Clermont, and send the receipt and your contact information to docwags@gmail.com. You will be reimbursed as soon as your receipt is received.
Green Isle Gardens is a wonderful nursery with helpful staff who can help you with your plant list, even if you know very little about good pollinator plants for this area. You can also find a list of good pollinator plants online. So please help out the pollinators (butterflies, moths, and bees) while helping out your pocketbook. The Garden Club thanks you!
Before you start planting your own pollinator garden, it’s important to review theDesign Guidelines/Plant Guides and receive ARC approval. This step ensures that your garden not only supports our local ecosystem but also enhances the beauty of our community.
We Support Outdoor Learning
The garden club donated funds for four new, heavy duty picnic tables for the students of the Creation Village School. We also supplied protective coating material so that the tables will last a long time out in the extreme Florida weather. They are heavily used daily for outdoor classes.
