Category: Garden Clubs

Another beautiful member garden!

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Noreen a member of “Top of the World Garden Club” in Gunnison, Colorado. She lives off the grid at 9,500′, where the days reach highs only in the 70’s. Here is an assortment of photos of her flowers, garden, little waterfalls, and small pond.
Noreen says that this year, due to the Coronavirus, she planted the flower planters from seeds, except for the petunias which she bought. In the flower planters are Nasturtium, Violets, and Petunias edged with Carpet of Snow Alyssum.
The flowers in the area around the little waterfalls and pond are all perennials:  Blue Clustered Bell Flowers, Poppies, Bleeding Heart, Day Lilies, Salvia, Sedum, Pink Sea Thrift, Flax, Lamium maculatum ( Purple Dragon or Spotted Dead Nettle ), Tall Phlox ( not yet bloomed ), and Phlox ground cover.
Floating in the pond are Water Hyacinths.  There are two planters at the narrow sides of the pond with bog plants. One has Yellow Flag Irises, the other Water Poppies.
The photo with the white bike is a garden area in front of our guest cabin. The flowers are mostly Sweet William.
And, the pink Poppies are in the front of her house. You may use which ever photos you wish. I live off the grid at 9,500′. The days reach highs only in the 70’s.
We hope you all enjoyed Noreen’s virtual garden tour!

Lovely in Loveland!

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Lovely in Loveland!

Loveland Garden Club, recently did a virtual garden tour of members gardens. They usually have a members tour the third week in June, but due to COVID-19, it was canceled.

Leone Person of Loveland Garden Club is sharing her short slide show of her garden in Loveland, Colorado.

Leone says, “You will see that I have lots of shade, thus many brunneras, hostas, plumbego, lily of the valley, hucheras, bleeding hearts and begonia, lobelia and fuschia baskets.  The back yard affords me a little more sunshine around the grass oval for some roses and lots of partridge feather and lavenders! By the garage is what refer to as my ‘WAG’ garden (with the iron bed and pedestal sink); it is an enter at your own risk area or you could be snapped up by a huge bind weed or prickly lettuce!! Off to side of that area is the large Cheyenne Mock Orange which I highly recommend everyone have, provided you have the room! Their fragrance is heavenly, use almost zero supplemental water and are totally carefree. There are now hybrids that are much smaller and nearly as hardy. I have some of both.”

And, here is a photo from Linda Hollingsed, also a member of the Loveland Garden Club, of her colorful patio! Don’t you just want to hang out there?

Patio Garden

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Greeley Morning Garden Club Celebrates 60 Years!

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Greeley Morning Garden Club was organized and founded in May 1956 by garden lovers and active community volunteers. The club has continuously implemented community beautification, service and education projects in Greeley since its inception. The club is a member of the Colorado Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. and the National Garden Clubs, Inc. On July 19th, 2016, the Greeley Morning Garden Club held a community open house to celebrate sixty years of gardening and to thank the many community partners and recipients of the club projects over the years. Special recognition was given to a current club member who was one of the founding members of the garden club and who has been and continues to be a significant contributing member over the sixty years the club’s existence, Mary Fagerberg.

The community open house and celebration was planned over several months which included interviews and an extensive article, complete with photos of our garden club members working at one of our school-based projects, printed in the local Greeley Tribune newspaper. The open house was advertised in print, on the radio and by direct mail. Former club members were located and invited as well as members from other Colorado Garden Clubs. The Colorado Federation of Garden Clubs president, Louise Niekerk, attended as well as members of Northern Colorado Garden Clubs. Representatives from local businesses, City of Greeley Forestry department, community non-profits and interested community members pushed event attendance to close to seventy-five.

Greeley Morning Garden Club members presented a slide show of the club’s many contributions toward community projects and displayed club scrapbooks from the many past and current club activities. The scrapbooks, detailing the club’s past sixty years, were a highlight of the day, provoking memories of people, places and a way of life sixty years in the making. They presented an outdoor history of Greeley and, as such, will be placed in the Greeley History Museum for current and future generations to view.

The club provided appetizers, punch and coffee as well as a cake to commemorate the occasion. The club president recognized the many community partners who have graciously supported the club projects. The many gardening projects were also acknowledged and given renewed support by the club president.

It was day of celebration, recognition and renewed support between the Greeley community and the members of the Greeley Morning Garden Club. Cheers to another sixty years of gardening!

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