The Woodlands Garden Club members do not let grass grow under their feet during the summer!
The Woodlands Garden Club meets the second Tuesday of each month, September through May and during the summer months, club members are busily preparing for the coming year. Programs are selected; speakers are secured; research for educational programs is done; tours and pilgrimages are planned; horticultural and design workshops are planned; local, Federation, state, district, regional and national gardening activities and events for the coming year are noted; the club yearbook/directory/calendar is typed, edited, proofed and printed and made ready to hand out at the first meeting in September; members type and work on award entries to be submitted by November 1 for state, regional and national awards and recognition; And, it is the perfect time for members to check out a couple of good books on gardening from the club’s small but excellent library.
We’re also getting ready for the Wildflower Festival.
We are drying flowers – members dry flowers during the summer months to be used on
the club’s famous Christmas ornaments which are sold during the fall and at The Woodlands’ Wildflower Festival. An ornament-making workshop is held during September. The sale of the ornaments and plants represents one of the club’s major fund raisers.
And we are potting plants – club members use the summer months to thin and separate plants while potting extras to be sold at the fall Wildflower Festival. With nearly 100% club participation, club members donate plants or money to the popular event held in The Woodlands each fall in late September or October. Each pot will have a label giving the common and/or botanical name of the plant and club members are always on hand at the booths to answer gardening related questions.
