What’s so exciting about a new Garden Club today? It can be a very effective unit for solving neighborhood beautification or maintenance issues and provide a relaxed sociable environment for the exchange of information among the members of similar plant, soil and landscaping problems.
Several residents of Parkview recently organized a Garden Club along these lines for men and women. The membership’s gardening knowledge ranges from novice to expert. What makes the gardening group somewhat unique — all the members live within approximately a twelve block area, thus it is very neighborhood oriented. They are currently in the process of sprucing-up Limit Walk which bisects the neighborhood and placing yellow trash receptacles with flip tops at convenient intervals along the walk.
In addition to the local clean-up project, they meet once a month and usually have an in-depth discussion of a specific gardening topic of mutual interest to all, prepared for each meeting either by a guest speaker or one of the members. Other activities in the planning stage include trading plants, an informal garden tour and helping the Parkview Agents with park maintenance. Also, they wish to aid young people in developing an interest in gardening by explaining or demonstrating its impact on urban ecology, which is of such vital importance to everyone today.
Any Parkview resident that wishes to attend the meetings may contact Mrs. Joyce Hancock at 862-8943 for additional information about the club.
Originally published in The Paper, May 1973.
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