Events & Happenings

The Memorial Garden Gets an October Facelift

Back on October 14, twelve garden club members pulled themselves out of bed early and worked on both the Memorial Garden and the butterfly garden(at the library). They pulled out old plants, weeded and planted 30-35 new plants to make the garden look better now that the hot and rainy summer is over.  The Memorial Garden looks quite nice and is ready for the annual Foundation Memorial Service in early November after we place a few more plants.  Click the page title to see the photos.

2022-11 Urban Forest by Chris Kincaid

Fascinating talk by Chris Kincaid about trees within Osceola County. It certainly showed us all how important it is to have and to look after trees of all shapes and sizes. For more pruning advice we were advised to go to https:// hort.ifas.ufl.edu/woody/instructional-videos.shtml to see how to do the job correctly. https://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/woody/instructional-videos.shtml

2022-11 Memorial Garden tidy up for Veterans Day

A party of garden club members came together to tidy up the Memorial garden after Storm Nicole raged through the community. Begonias where planted around the garden in rememberance of the Veterans on November 11th

Mount Dora Plant and Garden Fair

 Mark your calendars for the 28th Annual Mount Dora Plant and Garden Fair Saturday & Sunday, November 12th & 13th in beautiful Donnelly Park in the heart of historic, downtown Mount Dora. Some of Florida’s finest growers will be on hand with their best native and exotic plants that will work perfectly with your next garden project.  Join us for two days of outdoor shopping and a downtown full of restaurants, cafes, galleries, boutiques and more… www.MountDoraPlantandGardenFair.com Sponsored by:  Lake County – Real Florida Real Closeand Visit Mount Dora

Spring Flowers

Want to take a field trip on your own? You might want to visit the Festival of Fine Arts & Flowers at the Orlando Museum Art.

Mosquitos and Us

At our March 16 membership meeting Cherrief Jackson, with Clarke Environmental Mosquito Control, gave a timely lecture about controlling mosquitos here in Celebration.  Florida is a good breeding ground for these insects and it takes a multi-prong attack to keep them under control so we can go out and enjoy the great outdoors. We need to be so very careful not to damage the natural resources around us and Clarke Control is working hard to keep both us and the environment protected. Cherrief gave a fabulous lecture, and we all left the meeting with a better understanding of how mosquitoes are controlled in Celebration and what we can do to take charge on own properties. For anyone who would like …

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2022-01-27 Trip to Leu Gardens

On Thursday, January 27 the club had 15 people travel to Leu Gardens for a look at the vegetable and pollinator gardens. Director Robert Bowden gave us a two hour tour of their gardens and we learned about veggie gardening in Central Florida. He discussed soil preparation and amendments, fertilization, watering, timing and varieties to use. Then he talked about the various butterflies they try to attract and the plants they use to feed both the adult and larval stages of a butterflies life.  Afterwards some of us went to lunch at a nearby restaurant

Founders and Veterans Day

November 13 2021 Founders and Veterans day parade The garden Club managed to walk in the parade this year as well as doing their living flag. This year it was filled with Petunias.  Barbara and Marge gave the Garden Clubs tribute to the Veterans.

2020-05-23 Memorial Day

This morning we had a very safe and beautiful Memorial Day flag ceremony at Founders Park. Good social distancing was observed and if town hall runs their future programs the way this one was run, we will be in pretty good shape. The weather was great for this moving ceremony.  The Garden Club supplied a wreath honoring our fallen service men and our own Marge Hudec gave a very nice speech presenting the wreath to the town.  Thank you Marge!!  And thank you other Garden Club members for coming to this event and supporting our veterans, honoring those that gave their lives in defense of our country and supporting Marge. July 4th events are cancelled in the town and our next …

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