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
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.
Field Trip – Festival of Trees Orlando
November 16, 2024
Fill in the Registration Form and you will be automatically registered for the Field Trip. You will receive an email confirmation. To make sure the confirmation does not land in your spam folder, please add the Garden Club email address –GARDENCLUBOFCELEBRATION@GMAIL.COM – to your contacts. Please be sure to purchase you tickets for the event in advance from EventBrite – Link to purchase tickets.
No Fields Found.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.
2024 Garden Club Scholarships
Last Spring, in partnership with the Education Foundation of Osceola County, the Garden Club awarded three $2000 scholarship. Two of the recipients sent us thank you notes – displayed below. We are happy we were able to play a small part in helping these three young woman as they embark on the next part of their educational journeys.
Be a part of taking the Great Southeast Pollinator Census
Donate 15 minutes of your time between 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday, August 24
Deer Woods Park in Celebration
Garden Club member Cindy Smith is calling on club members & Celebration residents to be a part of the Great Southeast Pollinator Census.
Garden enthusiasts in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida will counting pollinators on Saturday and Sunday this weekend. Cindy, who is working on her Master Gardener certification, will supervise counting at the new, pollinator garden in Deer Woods Park, and she is inviting you to help with the census.
Your job, should you choose to accept? Pick a plant in the park and watch it for 15 minutes, counting how many pollinators visit the plant during that time. Report your count to Cindy, who will be uploading the information to a website that will be recording counts from all four states.
As an added bonus, free LEMONAIDE (while supply lasts).
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.
A Little Help From Our Friends
Last spring members of the Garden Club planted a Pollinator Garden at the Celebration Library. Recently, students from the Creation Village School came out to do weeding an maintenance on the garden. We are so grateful for their help!
Luncheon Donations
Earth Day 2024
Monday, April 22 is Earth Day and the Garden Club
is looking for volunteers for two events.
We are having a Memorial Garden Clean Up starting at 8 a.m. (before the heat of the day). Anyone interested in helping please come with a trowel to dig out some overgrown ground covers, clippers to trim dead flower stalks and your weed pulling hands to spruce up the area. This will take an hour or two, so be sure to bring water! Meryl Rachin is heading up this Spring Cleanup.
The second event is a program at Town Hall in conjunction with Grand Manors. They are sponsoring an Earth Day event from 5:00-6:00 p.m. and we need 3-4 volunteers to help at a potting table. The town is supplying pots for the kids to decorate. We will fill those pots with potting soil and have seeds that they can plant and take home. We will supply them with a care sheet so that they can keep the plants alive after they sprout. Jaime Eriks will be leading this program.
If you can attend either event, please email us at gardenclubofcelebration@gmail.com