Garden Club News
The Garden Club, with its long tradition of keeping the museums grounds beautiful, will be providing significant financial assistance for two large and important grounds improvement projects. The most visible will be a redesign of the landscaping by the front entrance parking area of the museum. Through a donation of services that the Garden Club acquired, Bridge Landscape Design will artistically arrange shrubs and other planting material to provide a more welcoming and obvious pathway to the front door. Mr. Bridge is known nationally for his landscape designs and implementations.
The second project is much less glamorous but something that has been a longtime in coming. Thanks to the donated services of Therrien Waddell, we have a comprehensive plan for repairing extensive drainage problems that exist throughout the museum property from a soggy court yard green to standing water by the basement door. Estimates for doing the work are over $30,000.
The museum just received an emergency grant of $15,937 from Montgomery County. The Garden Club membership took on the responsibility of matching the entire grant! Steve Pettit of Pettit Companies donated the final piece, $3,000, to make the full match a reality. We decided to do this because it benefits the entire museum community . We are very proud that we are able to help the museum with this project.
Special Thanks
We want to thank all those that came out to Christmas in July last weekend. Everyone seemed to have a delightful time. Catching up with friends and enjoying delicious refreshments prepared by Dayna Tucker. Together we completed many of the bows, forms for kissing balls and wreathes that we will use in December during our Greens workshop. Special thanks to those who coordinated this event: Penny Sidell, Diana Day, Marge Combs,and Meredith McCain.
September Program and General Meeting
In September, the garden club is doing everybody a favor: de-cluttering our houses and the environment and getting a beautiful piece of garden art in return! This fall, we'll embrace "upcycling," or sustainable creative reuse, learning how to turn our ordinary household undesirables into something better: extraordinary, functional, sustainable, and often pretty pieces. We will craft our way into a colorful fall by creating upcycled glass dish flowers. Please hunt through your cabinets and bring several pieces of unwanted glass or serve ware: plates, teacups, saucers, lamp shades, salt shakers, small glasses, bowls, etc. of varying size and shape, preferably 9" or smaller. If you have some to share with others, please bring them. In the meantime, search the web for "glass plate flowers" to be inspired! There is an $8 materials fee for this project. To help with planning, please RSVP to Chelsea Soneira, chelsea.soneira@gmail.com, by September 6.
September Program and General Meeting
In September, the garden club is doing everybody a favor: de-cluttering our houses and the environment and getting a beautiful piece of garden art in return! This fall, we'll embrace "upcycling," or sustainable creative reuse, learning how to turn our ordinary household undesirables into something better: extraordinary, functional, sustainable, and often pretty pieces. We will craft our way into a colorful fall by creating upcycled glass dish flowers. Please hunt through your cabinets and bring several pieces of unwanted glass or serve ware: plates, teacups, saucers, lamp shades, salt shakers, small glasses, bowls, etc. of varying size and shape, preferably 9" or smaller. If you have some to share with others, please bring them. In the meantime, search the web for "glass plate flowers" to be inspired! There is an $8 materials fee for this project. To help with planning, please RSVP to Chelsea Soneira, chelsea.soneira@gmail.com, by September 6.
