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MEXICO FEDERATED GARDEN CLUB 
Contact:
Laura Pitts, 2011 President 1603 Lakeview Mexico, Mo. 65265 573-581-7944
Email: lpitts@maain.com
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"Let Inspiration Bloom"
2010 News & Meetings
Fulton Garden Club Hosts 2010 Central District Meeting Mexico Federated Garden Club President’s Report
Central District Fall 2010
by
Helen Hynes, 2009 – 2011 President
The Mexico Federated Garden Club of Mexico, Missouri, has 19 members, 9 being active and 3 Life members.
Throughout the year we are involved in continuing projects. They are as follows:
Each spring our club teams with the Horticulture Instructor and students of the Hart Career Center in Mexico to assemble hanging baskets in their greenhouse lab for club members and others. We also help support the local FFA plant sale.
Twice a year our club sponsors a plant sale. The money from the sale goes
toward local scholarships and club gardening projects.
Each spring our club presents a student with a scholarship toward Horticulture and related fields. This year we were able to sponsor a $ 300.00 scholarship.
Our members assist in the care of the Audrain Medical Center Healing Garden directed by the City Parks Horticulturist.
On May Day we assembled May Baskets from our own flowers and greenery and delivered them to 28 residents of the Mexico Kings Daughters and Sons Home and 6 to women residents of the Mexico Veterans Home.
In May our club planted flowers at the Veteran’s Memorial in downtown Mexico.
Sometime during the blooming season our members deliver fresh flower bouquets to former club members.
We provide a garden club display at our city library one month during the year. This year a member displayed her butterfly collection in June which included National Garden Club week.
We design, purchase flowers/plants and plant and maintain 7 Community Gardening Beds in Mexico. We had an occasional Plant Booth at our local Farmer’s Market where members participated in the sale of plants.
Our members toured 6 member’s gardens and landscaping this spring.
At summers end we toured the Community Gardening Beds and the Healing Garden.
Each year we go on several Educational Tours. This year we toured the Native Plants Nursery at Brazito, Callaway Fields Nursery, Binders Apple Orchard and Alpaca Farm, Missouri Botanical Garden and Faust Butterfly House in St. Louis and next month, will be touring the Stark Nursery in Louisiana, MO.
In celebrating Arbor Day our club presented a $ 50.00 to the City Recreation Department during the city wide Arbor Day ceremony held at Teal Lake Park. The money is designated for the purchasing or planting of one or more trees. This year a white redbud tree was planted.
For the Mexico Parks and Recreation Events in April our garden club helped with roadside, park and lake trash clean-up. Our garden club also helped with the city Educational Event held later in the month.
In recognition of the Golden Days Daffodil project our club planted over 100 bulbs in our community containers which included 6 daffodil containers plantings at Teal Lake Residential Center, q city park and several of our community beds, plus, 100 bulbs in our members containers and beds.
For the Plant It Pink project our club planted 2 containers of pink annuals and perennials at a local residential home as well as planting our own variety of pink flowers in containers.
We will be planting trees and/or flowers with the competition of our next Habitat for Humanity home.
Under the direction of Laura Pitts, Garden Club member and Master Gardner, our members made leaf castings and observed how to make hyper-tuffa. Under the direction of garden club member and Master Gardener Linda Ahmann our members were guided in making terrariums.
A Plant Exchange was held at a member’s home where members brought 6 plants and exchanged them for 6 other plants.
A member from our club and a master gardener, taught an Edible Landscaping Class at the Scattering Forks Outdoor Center with members attending.
Our garden club teamed up with Earth Day at Scattering Forks Outdoor Center and supervised a children’s activity. On the City’s Art in the Park Day our club helped children make flower containers out of newspaper strips, place soil in the container and plant zinnia seeds in the container and took the project home to watch the growth to be planted container and all in their garden.
Our club took part in the National Bird Count out at the Scattering Fork’s Nature Center as well as at home.
Several members participated in applying for the Bird Sanctuary as well as the Hummingbird and Butterfly awards.
Our club gathered our own tomatoes and squash and delivered them to our local Help Center where needy families were able to use them.
On September 1, 2010, the Mexico Garden Club made the table arrangements for the Fine Arts Teachers Recognition dinner.
September 12, 2010 our club provided art activities to promote children’s respect for
beneficial insects at the annual Grandparents Day out at the Scattering Forks Outdoor Center in Mexico, Mo. See our new website at www.centralmo.org/mexicofederatedgardenclub.php
Click here to view the photos in the Sept. 2010 album _______________________________________________________________________________ Member Attend Landscape Design Refresher June 18, 2010 Landscape Design Refresher held June 18 in Columbia Missouri was a great success despite 90 degree weather. 26 participants from throughout Missouri enjoyed touring Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area, the Copperstone Subdivision, Stephens Lake Park and Flat Branch Park. Numerous ways of managing water were discussed from rain gardens to water features. Carolyn Fort attended the class. |
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