August 12, 2024 Program and Business Meeting "on the go"
For our August meeting, the Club was on the go to three different gardens. First we visited Nancy Brown's garden followed by a visit to "A Little Lavender" where owner, Nancy Lapinski, showed us her farm with a shop and discussed the growing of lavender. Her shop is open daily 9 AM-6 PM at 4270 E. 46 Rd, Cadillac, MI. Our last stop was at the home of Kathy Simon. We visited her garden and had our business meeting too. Nancy and Kathy are club members. It was a wonderful social time and way to appreciate the different aspects of gardening.
July 19 & 20, 2024: Cadillac Festival of the Arts
Cadillac Garden Club members greeted festival attendees at a booth on Friday, July 19, while they made centerpieces for the Cadillac Arts Council's Art and UnWined event in the evening using home grown flowers. On Saturday Club members did three demonstrations of floral design.
Centerpieces were sold after the event. Thank you to everyone who made this a fun and successful event, and to those who stopped by to meet the Cadillac Garden Club members.
July 8, 2024 Program: Palate Pleasing Plants
Holiday Home Tour, December 2, 2023: Ode to Old & New
Sound Garden July 2023
July Program: Flower arranging with Marla Courtney
Loda Lake Wildflower Sanctuary: Field Trip on May 15, 2023 with botanist, Carolyn Henne
In the early 1930s, the Michigan Garden Clubs Inc. found land that they asked the National Forest Service to designate as a wildflower sanctuary. It took until 1950 to seal the deal and the area (south of Baldwin) has been a protected sanctuary since then. It is part of the Huron-Manistee National Forest. Eight Cadillac Club Members & guests joined the Forest Service botanist for a very informative walk. It is worth the drive and is an every changing environment.
Holiday Home Tour, Dec. 3, 2022 |
Something new and excited in the Sound Garden, July 27, 2022: In addition to new mid-summer blooms, a new musical instrument, The Fungi Phone, has been added to the Sound Garden by the Garden Club with support from the Cadillac Arts Council.
July 16, 2022 Flower Show sponsored by Cadillac Garden Club:
The floral arrangements and horticulture specimens entered into the 2022 Flower Show went beyond expectations. Even though the show was small, every entry was worthy and the judges were VERY impressed with the Cadillac talent. The floral arrangements were creative, artistic, followed the theme well, intriguing and were just plain beautiful. The horticulture specimens illustrated the effort, time and love that gardeners have for their plants.
The floral arrangements and horticulture specimens entered into the 2022 Flower Show went beyond expectations. Even though the show was small, every entry was worthy and the judges were VERY impressed with the Cadillac talent. The floral arrangements were creative, artistic, followed the theme well, intriguing and were just plain beautiful. The horticulture specimens illustrated the effort, time and love that gardeners have for their plants.
Spring 2022 in the Sound Garden
Huge shout out to community volunteers, Trevor, Angie and Tammy who joined Garden Club members, Kathy, Denise, Sandy, Diane, Kay, Elsa and Sue on June 11 at the Sound Garden for maintenance work. The group got a lot accomplished in 2 hours and their hard work is appreciated. All of those who visit the garden thank you!
Huge shout out to community volunteers, Trevor, Angie and Tammy who joined Garden Club members, Kathy, Denise, Sandy, Diane, Kay, Elsa and Sue on June 11 at the Sound Garden for maintenance work. The group got a lot accomplished in 2 hours and their hard work is appreciated. All of those who visit the garden thank you!