Wellington Garden Club Awards Chair Twig Morris presented several members with awards from the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs (FFGC) at the club’s recent spring luncheon.
Kathy Siena won the FFGC Award for Outstanding Service during the 10 years she has been a member. She has served as WGC president, assistant District X director and Youth Contests chair. She currently serves as WGC Tree Planting chair, Youth Garden Clubs chair, co-leader of the Boys & Girls Club Community Garden, FFGC Earth Steward Recognition chair and WGC Facebook chair. Each year in September, she organizes the community-wide tree planting event for National Public Lands Day in partnership with the Village of Wellington.
Two new club members, Chrissy and Steve Wood, won the FFGC Arlington Dolly Morris Award for the landscape renovation they did in the 25-foot-by-25-foot back garden of their Wellington townhouse. This award is given to FFGC members who are non-professional gardeners who renovate an existing garden or install a new garden on their property. Chrissy and Steve accomplished this over a two-year period by adding trees and shrubs to create a private backyard oasis filled with colorful plants that attract many species of birds and butterflies and obscure the view of a duplex home behind their property.
In recognition of the outstanding work done by Jan Seagrave and Maria Wolfe to install and dedicate Blue Star and Gold Star memorial markers at Wellington’s Veterans Memorial, a Blue Star Memorial Pin was presented to each of them. It is quite an achievement for a club to install these markers in two successive years.
Former President Susan Hillson became a three-star member of the FFGC Tri-Council, which signifies that she completed all three of the National Garden Club’s schools: Environmental Studies, Gardening Studies and Landscape Design. In recognition of her achievement, Hillson received the FFGC Tri-Council pin and a certificate. Since she is also an NGC Accredited Master Flower Show Judge, she also received a Four-Star Member certificate from NGC.
