Mill Creek Towne Garden Club Reflections – 2022

Happy Thanksgiving! We are grateful to our community for your support!

Although we began our 2021-22 garden club meetings outside, we resorted to Zooming due to rising infection rates. In February, our own master gardener, Lauren Hubbard, showed us how to extend the growing season and harvest year-round. By March, we returned to in-person meetings.

Another member and master gardener, Heather Whirley, not only displayed a variety of herbs, but also explained the importance of these plants. In May, we invited a beekeeper who not only shared her extensive knowledge of beekeeping, but brought many pieces of equipment, samples of honey, and even products she made from beeswax. (Yes, a shopping opportunity!) As a reminder, when we host special
presentations at our meetings, we always invite the community to join us at Mill Creek Parish.

Our garden club also sponsored a “stream-clean-up” in April and appreciated all the additional participants. Two of our members shared their gardens in the Mill Creek Village “Walk Around Towne” event. The three entrances to MCT, Roslyn, Shady Grove, and Miller Fall, as well as the Mill Creek Drive Circle, keep several of our members busy with weeding, transplanting, watering, pruning, and erosion control!

We not only worked, but enjoyed each other’s company at our Happy Hours, a holiday gathering, and an end-of-year celebration at Botanero’s this past June.

Finally, just last month our garden club presented a video entitled “Monarchs and Milkweed” followed by a recap of the Butterfly Bandwagon project. We invite you to jump on “our bandwagon” to get inspired and learn more about nature in our MCT community. As always, thank you for continuing to support the MCT Garden Club.

Beth Giannone
President, MCT Garden Club

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