Dracut Garden Club: Projects

OUR MOST RECENT PROJECT
"Dracut's 9/11 Memorial" Our club has been asked by town officials to select appropriately colored plants and decorate the town's 9/11 memorial with them. The memorial will contain a beam from the Twin Towers. See the blog main page for event details.

OUR STANDING PROJECTS

"Celebrate the Earth"
This annual observance includes the planting of a magnolia tree in Veterans' Memorial Park.

Dracut Memorial Day Plantings
Planting take place at Town Hall, Library Front Garden, High School Monument, and the Time Capsule.

Dracut Old Home Day
The club has a booth at the Dracut School Complex for fundraising and community outreach activities.

Dracut Junior Garden Club
Meetings and activities are at the Brookside Elementary School.

Maintenance of Town Gardens
See "Gardens we Maintain" tab for photos of these gardens.

GARDEN VARIETY at our OHD Booth

Besides raffling huge, theme baskets, we sold a variety of items at our Old Home Day booth on September 10, including but not limited to:

*12-month calendars with garden photos

(see samples below)

* wallet calendars

* large magnets with garden photos

* mouse pads with garden photos

(see sample below)

* note paper with garden photos

* hand-crafted items

We still have some of these items, and we'll offer them for sale at our regular club meetings.

Below are photos of some of the items that are still available.

Our work on the 9/11 Memorial Project is done!

ABOVE: Views of our completed plantings at the site of Dracut's 9/11 Memorial

BELOW: Some of the Dracut Garden Club's members worked on a recent Monday evening to complete the floral display. In the first photo below, four of that crew are planting silver leaf Dusty Miller and purple petunias among the rocks to the side of the new stone bench.

The second photo below shows the site before we began our work.

The third photo below shows the start of our planting at the site of Dracut's 9/11 Memorial.

DGC to help with new 9/11 Memorial

Another project has come our way. Dracut has acquired a piece of our country's history. A steel beam from the Twin Towers has been placed at the fire station property in East Dracut, near the Ogonowski family farm.

With the above words, our Horticulture Chair, Gail Morressette, began her message to club members. Our town is once again calling on us to pitch in, this time with a very special project. Gail is calling us to action in order to accomplish the task of planting red, white, and blue flowers around the monument and shrubs on either side of a nearby bench.

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