Every year during the first week of June, the Wellington Garden Club joins with garden clubs across the country to celebrate National Garden Week, a project of the National Garden Clubs Inc.
On Monday, June 4, Wellington Garden Club members began National Garden Week by creating floral arrangements that were distributed to Wellington’s municipal offices, library, fire stations and the Mall at Wellington Green. Club members created wonderful arrangements and distributed them to the recipients. The club also received a proclamation from the Wellington Village Council and Mayor Anne Gerwig declaring the week of June 4-10 as National Garden Week.
“We are so grateful for the support our club receives from the Village of Wellington. National Garden Week is a wonderful opportunity for us to demonstrate our appreciation with floral gifts,” Wellington Garden Club President Carol Ralph said.
National Garden Week Chair Twig Morris added, “We are also grateful to Rachelle Crain, marketing manager at the Mall at Wellington Green, for providing the meeting room we used to create the arrangements.”
The Wellington Garden Club, founded in 1981, is a nonprofit organization with a mission to further the education of members and the public, including youth, in the fields of gardening, horticulture, botany, floral design, landscape design, conservation of natural resources, civic beautification and nature studies. For more information, visit www.wellingtongardenclub.org or find them on Facebook.
The National Garden Clubs Inc., founded in 1929, is a nonprofit organization headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. It includes many local branches in nearly every state and has more than 160,000 members. Its mission is to promote the love of gardening, floral design, and civic and environmental responsibility. For more information, visit www.gardenclub.org.
