The Franklin County Garden Club is growing by leaps and bounds as new members join in to beautify and educate the county on the many benefits of gardening.

The Franklin County Garden Club’s mission is to promote a love of gardening, floral design and civic and environmental responsibility and to share resources within the community.

Club members have been working with students at area schools to teach about conservation and environmental topics.

Last month, Garden Club members visited Broadview Elementary students to share information about succulents and help them create a terrarium to take home. They also worked with Broadview fifth-graders to prepare their school garden beds for planting.

Members are also reading to students and helping with other hands-on gardening projects.

Garden Club members are also encouraging youths to spend time outside in nature. The National Garden Club provided journals for North Lake Elementary student to chart their adventures and time spent in nature.

Once the journal is completed, it will be submitted, and a certificate will be awarded to students from the National Garden Club.

Other club projects included the members’ continuing work on 32 flower beds located around the Winchester Square as well as the flower bed at Winchester Fire Hall No. 2.

In addition, members recently planted two black pearl redbud trees near the bell at the historic Mary Sharp College location in Winchester. The trees were donated by Jackson Nursery.

The Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs District II spring membership meeting and luncheon was held on March 7 in Joelton with several local garden club members in attendance.

 GG Preble accepted awards for the Franklin County Garden Club’s accomplishments.  

National Garden Clubs, Inc. has proclaimed April to be Plant America Month with garden clubs all across the nation planning to celebrate the 53^rd anniversary of Earth Day on April 22.

Earth Day recognizes and celebrates the birth of the global environmental education and stewardship movement grown out of an awareness of our impacts on the local and worldwide communities.

Clubs will also celebrate National Arbor Day on April 28 in recognition and celebration of the critical role of trees in the Earth’s environment and in creating healthier, safer and more-connected communities.

The Franklin County Garden Club in Tennessee is a local chapter of the National Garden Clubs, Inc. 

New members are always welcome. To learn more, visit the organization’s Facebook page at facebook.com/nationalgardenclubs, email FranklinCountyTNGardenClub@gmail.com or call 931-967-5311.