Garden club members help to decorate Haskins
HASKINS – The Village of Haskins is sporting its spring finest thanks to the efforts of members of
Haskins Friendly Town and Country Garden Club.
Prior to its lunch and May meeting last Thursday, members of the garden club gathered to make the town
planters and place them along the street in Haskins.
The club extends its thanks to the president, Carole Rives, along with her husband Randy and son Nathan,
who secured the plants for the planters and brought them to Herbie’s Restaurant parking lot for
planting. The Rives men helped fill the
big pots with soil and placed them in their locations for the club once they were planted.
After finishing the town’s planters we adjourned to Herbie’s for the meeting and lunch. Those in
attendance for the meeting were: Ruthann Beaverson, Darlene Bihn, Dorothy Cromley, Danilda Lee, Diane
Guthrie, Rives, Marilyn Smith and Patsy Vogelsong.
Rives began the meeting with a review of previous money making events (at various gardening meetings).
Bihn and Rives reported attending a design class in Delta which was considered "very
enlightening."
It was decided they will organize a design class for this area on Sept. 28 at Otsego Park with Bonnie
Allen teaching the class. There will be a meeting at Bihn’s house on Monday to brainstorm ideas for the
2011-2012 programs and gardening season. A discussion was held on officers for the 2011-2012 season.
Vogelsong asked for someone to consider the position of secretary for the coming year, as the other
offices will be retained by current officers including Rives, vice president Bihn and treasurer Lee.
A decision was reached to mail postcards to garden club members who have not been attending meetings, to
see if they wish to continue their membership. The meeting concluded with making of individual planters
by club members who purchased plants for their personal use.
Members also gathered in April at Home Depot, each member present made a bird feeder tree. Rives painted
birdhouse gourds and gave one to those in attendance.
On April 12, Bihn, Guthrie and Rives attended a flower design class which included angular, reflective
and tubular arrangements. It was held in Delta.
On April 14, Bihn and Rives attended a Regional I meeting in Napoleon. They helped plan for the fall
regional meeting which is about stone soup.
The regular meeting of the garden club for April was also April 14 at Wolf’s Blooms and Berries on Ohio
105. In the absence of the president, Guthrie presided at the meeting with five other members and one
guest present.
Celebrating April birthdays were Alice Loomis and Laura Nelson.
On May 5, members attended the Regional I meeting at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Bowling Green. A short
trip to Bostdorff”s Green House was made.
Five members of the club were guests at the Fostoria Garden Club’s annual dinner meeting on May 11 at
Wesley United Methodist Church in Fostoria. Those attending were Cromley, Karen Dauer, Guthrie, Rives
and Vogelsong. After what attendees called "a wonderful array of delicious home-made foods"
those in attendance were treated to a demonstration on container gardening by a master gardener from
Findlay.