July, 2001, The West Salem Garden Club came to life, emerging much
as the early buds of spring. It has grown as the result of a small group
of neighbors who love people,love gardening, and love to share their ideas and
knowledge of gardening.
Among the activities the garden club is involved in are:
- The West
Salem Garden Club Cottage Garden Tour
- The first five years we held our Cottage Garden Tour every year, then after the fifth year, we cut back to every other year.
- Always held on the first Saturday in August.
- West Salem opens 10 to 12 gardens for the tour.
- Visitors from all over the state have come to enjoy our gardens.
- Dollars raised through the sale of tickets go back into the neighborhood for such things as purchase of our Historic markers.
- Garden of the Week
- Each year beginning in May the Garden
of the Week Program begins and continues
through the end of August.
- The Garden of the Week program awards outstanding gardeners with a sign placed in their garden for one week at a time.
- That gardener then moves the sign to a new yard.
- Flower Planting Projects
- In the early spring, the garden club plants bulbs in the park and other public areas in the neighborhood - provided by the Keep Winston-Salem Beautiful Program.
- Also, the garden club plants annuals and perennials each year
in Granville Park, using flowers donated by the Keep Winston-Salem
Beautiful Program.
The West
Salem Garden Club meets once a month - always the third Thursday of each
month at 6:30 PM. Our meeting location varies, depending on
what activity we have going on that month. Check out the West Salem Neighborhood Calendar: WSNA CALENDAR
NEW GARDEN CLUB OFFICERS, elected January
2009
PRESIDENT: Joann Reed, joannsweetjo@yahoo.com
TREASURER: Greg Levoniuk, glevoniuk@triad.rr.com
Co-SECRETARYS: Allegra Strohman, astrohman@triad.rr.com
Patricia Olmstead, polmstead48@gmail.com
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