Bellevue Forest Garden Club
The Bellevue Forest
Garden Club was founded in 1968. Helen Livingstone is its founder.
It was dedicated to sharing horticultural information to its members and
interested guests. The topics are selected by members and are designed to
appeal to a broad range of interests. Some of this past year's topics
have included flower arranging, a talk on the history of the Bellevue Forest
area, slide shows on the Rose Garden (by the head Rosarian) and Butterfly
gardening (Smithsonian), center piece creations, cooking (bread pudding by our
own Master Chef Hank McEntee), a book review by the author, etc..
The Garden Club meets the
2nd Thursday of each month. A luncheon is served at 12:30pm followed by
the business meeting and program. The Garden Club also does work with the
elderly participants in the day care program at Madison. The Garden
Club distributes a newsletter that includes information on conservation,
horticulture and nutrition.
We have plans to increase the information on this web page to include, a "Lovers of Gardening and Nature" component? In time we plan on adding its officers, special programs or field trips. Plus, we may add good gardening stuff that's local in nature. Betty Ann Beardsworth is Training Chairman for the 2002 Master Gardener Class and does a Horticulture column in the monthly Garden Club newsletter, which we could add here.
We could put interesting stuff about the Stream Monitoring program; the ParksWatch program; the County Tree Steward Program (training going on now), etc. We also had a program last year on co-existing with wildlife. We could have pointers on how to discourage those critters you don't want and encourage those you do (plus perhaps conflict resolution with one's neighbors!).
Links to other Botany oriented web sites.
Regardless, there is lots more to follow, so please check back...
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