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Members of Dig and Dream Garden Club in Centennial, Colorado, measure the success of their volunteer gardening programs by the effectiveness of their efforts and impact on the community.

Garden club members James Pickering, Victoria Schmidt and Marilyn Sotelo.

The garden club was the recipient of the 2020 Ames Tool Grant and uses the tools it received on this project, as well as at the club’s other projects, including the Pickens Technical College Rose Garden and the Ronald McDonald House gardens. The garden club also garnered an NGC 2020 Plant America Grant. The garden club also garnered an NGC 2020 Plant America Grant.

Dig and Dream Garden Club members use the tools and garden wagon they received from a 2020 Ames Tool Grant at the butterfly garden at Smoky Hill Library. Prior to earning the grant award, members furnished their own gardening tools on the project and even needed to tote water in buckets for the lack of a garden hose. The cart, and other needed items, furnished by the Ames Tool Grant, simplified garden chores, especially in the transport of plants and other materials.

Garden club members volunteered in shifts on workdays to comply with area COVID-19 guidelines.

We hope everyone has been safe during this trying time of Covid-19 and staying home. But, the good news is, it’s spring time and our gardens are awakening from a long winter sleep!

Our Spring Newsletter is now on the website. It’s chocked full of information and articles, book reviews and local garden clubs news. Check it out, and other older newsletter editions!

https://coloradogardenclubs.org/newsletters/

Get out and enjoy the warm sunshine and new growth! The tulips and lilacs are blooming and many other flowering plants are starting to show their colors, and it’s now (hopefully) time to start planting seedlings and other annuals! Just keep an eye on our cooler evening temps, and cover up those tender plants if your area has a frost warning.

Please share your garden pics with us! And don’t forget to tell us which Garden Club you belong too!

Happy Gardening!

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The Colorado Federation of Garden Clubs is an affiliate of the National Garden Clubs, one of the largest and oldest gardening organizations in the world. CFGC is self-supporting, relying on members dues, grants, donations and fundraising for financing our programs and projects.

The Colorado Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. serves and supports our community through education, conservation, horticulture and landscape design.

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