Jacksonville Garden Club strives to beautify city
May 21—The Jacksonville Garden Club, an organization for those who enjoy gardening, has busied itself with projects to beautify the city of Jacksonville this spring.
Members of the club recently worked in Buckner Park planting Texas sage and verbena in the oval flower bed. They planted daylilies, petunias, marigolds and lantana in other areas of the park as well as surrounding the old Oak tree stump with flowers.
The club placed a new park bench along the Patriotic Pathway in memory of Sue Adams. The Patriotic Pathway is a walkway paved with bricks inscribed in honor or in memory of military veterans.
Another project of the club involved sprucing up the rose garden at Twin Oaks Nursing Home.
In an effort to educate, as well as make Mother's Day a little brighter, club members visited Joe Wright Elementary to teach first graders how to plant marigolds from seeds. The children received flower pots, which they painted and in which they planted their marigolds. The students were to nurture the marigolds into full-grown flowers to be given to the mothers on Mother's Day.
The Jacksonville Garden Club also awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Uriel Rosales.
