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The RCF Beautification Committee is busy preparing gardens & planters on the Racine County Fair Grounds. The group received a garden grant from the Burlington Area Garden Club to help with this project.
Enjoy the blooms at the 2024 Racine County Fair!
Julia Runte is the recipient of our 2024 Burlington Area Garden Club Scholarship.
Julia is a graduate of Waterford High School, and she plans to attend the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. Julia’s planned program of study is Landscape Architecture/Design, which meets the Garden Club’s scholarship criteria.
Congratulations Julia! We wish you much success in your studies.
Barb Lehn, one of the founders of the BAGC, has been elected as the 2024-2025 Garden Club president. In a letter to the club members, she has this to say:
Dear Friends, Thank you for your kind words of encouragement and offers to help.
It’s been 24 years since I held this office and led this club. I will do my best and I ask you to be open with me with suggestions. Let’s think Spring and a great year ahead, learning about gardening together and having fun.
Barb Lehn
Since our gardens are “sleeping” our club will take a winter break. There will be no formal monthly meetings in January and February 2024. We are looking forward to meetings in 2024 on wildflowers, roses and bees just to name a few. Our first meeting will be March 12, 2024 at the Senior Center. Please join us! Everyone is welcome!
2023 was an active year for us. We had a very successful plant sale, participated in the Waterford July 4 parade and had a beautiful garden tour. We continue to create fairy gardens at the library. The fairies had a camping area this year. I wonder what the fairies will have next year???? Look further on this website to learn more about our gardens we maintain!
We collaborated with Mangold Insurance in the Adopt a Park program at Riverside park providing plants, planting and edging. The outcome was a great improvement . The Garden Club had adopted Wehmhoff Park. Watch for something special and beautiful being added to the park in 2024.
We look forward to the coming year as we plant, we weed, and grow to beautify our community. We will have new officers for 2024 that will bring new ideas and leadership for the Garden Club.
Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. Every winter has its spring. And always remember, one kind word can warm 3 months of winter.
Wishing you all the joy of the season
Colleen Hueber,
Outgoing president
The 2023 summer for the Burlington Area Garden Club has had busy days. In May we held our annual plant sale! We receive great community support with the many shoppers who attend. Thank you to all of those who support this sale! May 18th 2024 will be the next plant sale. Save this date!
In June time was spent watering our gardens with the heat and lack of rain.
For the first time we had an entry in the Waterford July 4th parade.
We were pleased to hold our Garden Tour in July featuring 5 unique gardens. Thanks to our hosting families that shared their stunning gardens for the tour. The 15 raffle baskets brought in additional monies for our scholarship and local grants. Many local businesses were very generous with their donations. Thank you all. Our next Garden Tour will be held in July, 2025.
This is all made possible because of our dedicated active members who make this all happen. A hearty thank you to all of our members doesn’t seem adequate but is heartfelt.
We welcome new members at any level of garden experience! Come join us at our interesting monthly meetings!
Enjoy the remaining of your summer!
Sincerely,
Colleen Hueber
President
We celebrate the beginning of Spring, March 20th, 2023. It is a season of hope and new beginnings. In the next few months, flowers will be sprouting up, and we’ll hear countless birds chirping. We will watch the rainfall renew the earth surrounding us as it refreshes the earth.
The Burlington Garden club anticipates a new spring season with excitement. We have already noticed that the tulips are coming up in the library garden. The Fairy Gardens will be created when it gets warmer. Be sure to visit the library to see what the fairies are doing this year!
We are pleased being part of the Adopt a Park Program organized by the Burlington Park District. The park that we adopted is Wehmhhoff Park which is in the center of our downtown area. It is a lovely gathering area for our community. Our annual plant sale is an event that you won’t want to miss. Save May 20th, Saturday from 8:30-11:30 a.m. at Riverside Park as we sell local perennial plants and garden treasures. This fundraiser supports our grants and scholarship programs. We are pleased to announce that our Garden Tour of outstanding local gardens is returning this year. Sunday, July 16th will be the special event where you can view the gardens and have a chance to win a lovely raffle gift. More details will be coming! But save this day to participate in a lovely event enjoying garden beauty. Our monthly meetings have begun. Don’t miss out on our interesting speakers and field trips. April 16th will be “Anything Orchids” by Don White. Everyone is welcome to attend. Our meetings are at the Senior Activity Center located at 587 E. State Street, Burlington. Meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. with the speaker followed by our business meeting. Join us in the gathering of those who love to garden and beautify our community areas.
Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.
Colleen Hueber
President
“The Promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter.”
We welcome 2023 as a year full of new opportunities to learn and beautify our community.
Meet the 2023 flower of the year – the orchid. The orchid is a timeless flower with its richly hued blooms, long wiry stems and unusual shapes. It is distinctive, alluring and special.
They are the oldest families of flowering plants on earth and also the largest, with over 26,000 species.
Our monthly meetings will resume March 14th at 6:30 p.m. We meet at the Burlington Senior Center located at 587 E State Street, Burlington. Parking is in the back and enter through the doors in the back. Everyone is welcome.
Come join us April 11, Tuesday 6:30 p.m. when we will have Don White speak from “Anything Orchids”.
We hope to see new faces join us in 2023! If you were once part of Garden Club we invite you to return! Come join the festivities with flowers!
Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s Party!”
Colleen Hueber
President
Looking back at our 2022 year, it was full of gardening activity, a trip to Boerner Botanical Gardens and a very successful plant sale. Our meetings were varied and interesting having a talk about whooping cranes and having a Christmas in July celebration including Santa and Mrs. Claus.
With a wintery rest we have no meetings in January or February 2023. We know that no winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
2023 promises to be a special year as we return having our Garden Tour. Save the date: Sunday, July 16, 2023 where we have very unique gardens to share. Our annual plant sale will be Saturday, May 20th where numerous plants are sold. Come early for the best selection!
Bring on the snowy days of play and cozy nights by the fire, mugs of hot chocolate and fuzzy warm pajamas. Hot chocolate is like a hug from the inside and one of my favorite winter treats. Enjoy the warm wintery soups until we resume our meetings on Tuesday, March 14 at 6:30 p.m.
Sharing your love of gardening,
Colleen Hueber
President
The Burlington Area Garden Club has awarded a Donna Kuzniar Memorial Scholarship to Cassie Loeffler. Cassie is a previous BACG scholarship recipient, and she attends the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point.
The Garden Club has also awarded a 2022 Garden Grant to the Burlington Senior Center in support of their efforts to build an ADA compliant vegetable and flower garden. The purpose of the project is to provide activities that promote socialization, exercise, and healthy food choices to persons 50 years of age and older.
The Burlington Area Garden Club raises scholarship and grant money through their annual plant sale. The Garden Grants program helps to fund local gardening projects.
Gardening makes you patient and humble. It insists that you observe seasons and weather, putting you in sync with the natural world. It permits you to get unapologetically dirty. It’s most satisfying to grow from seed-you create and sustain life.
Gardening gives you a sense of wonder. To grow plants is to give life. It keeps you busy with a purpose, shows you how to care, be gentle, and wait. It is an amazing feeling.
Gardening is very creative. Picking the right plant for the right spot, mixing colors, and making sure there is interest for every season really is a skill and challenge.
Join us for our 2022 year with the Burlington Area Garden Club as we nurture our minds with informative speakers and nurture our gardens with planting and growing beautiful areas in Burlington. We meet the second Tuesday of each month at the Senior Activity Center located at 587 E. State Street, Burlington. We gather at 6:30 p.m. to greet and meet one another with the speaker starting at 7:00 p.m. This is followed by a business meeting to review and make plans for our gardens.
Come check us out! There is no obligation to join the club but you will probably want to after you see the joy we share in gardening and with one another.
Colleen Hueber
President
Burlington Area Garden Club