About Us: Membership, Activities, Awards
“LET THE BEAUTY YOU LOVE BE WHAT YOU DO” ~Rumi
Pottawatomie Garden Club of St. Charles is about exploring the wondrous world of gardening, making the community a greener and more beautiful place to live and educating college students to enhance and preserve our cherished landscape. Membership is open to anyone who will support the club’s agenda. Prospective members are very welcome at meetings and after attending two are eligible to join the club. Annual dues are $25.
The club meets February through October. Monthly meetings are held at noon on the fourth Monday either in the PNC Bank at 2600 E. Main Street,St. Charles, or at the location noted on the calendar. Meetings start with light refreshments and time to chat. Committee reports and announcements are followed by the featured program.
Among the perks of membership are a wide variety of enriching programs; a yearbook full of club information; a lively monthly newsletter; reports on the latest conservation issues and garden trends; discounts at local garden centers; camaraderie with fellow gardeners and the satisfaction of volunteering in the community.
Pottawatomie Garden ClubNo matter how much the club does, around 2011 Scholarship Award Winner
St. Charles its members fondly remain Danielle Brown of ST. Charles North
"the ladies who plant the bridges”. For the receiving the Garden Club scholarship
past twenty five years, many hands have made from Co-Chair Ruth at the May Club
a fast morning’s work of transforming the meeting.
city’s downtown with bright blossoms. .
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At the March meeting members
enjoyed a talk and demonstration on
creating and preserving Topiaries by Karen Thomson.
In July, members learned the history of and to make Tussie Mussies from our own members Catherine and Karen .
The August meeting 2011, was on
how to grow, collect and preserve annual and perennial herbs. What wonderful fragrances we had that day .
Patti chairperson of the member flower sale, brought examples to the March meeting .
The sale helps with funding the annual scholarship fund.
