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- Federated in 1959
- 2011 membership is currently at 21
- Meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at 1:30 pm at the La Grange City Hall, Council Chambers room, 118 S. Main Street, La Grange, Mo. 63448 *location may change so call first
- Theme "Go Green-Beautify Missouri"
Linda Hess, 2009 - 2011 President
1100 North 4th
La Grange, MO 63448
573-655-4543
lkhwindyhill@gmail.com
Contact us if you would like to attend a garden club meeting.
2011 NEWS & EVENTS
The January meeting of the La Grange Garden Club was held at the home of Gloria Meyer. The program regarding the Canton Recycle Center was given by new member, Dori Wolter. The new year books were distributed and the programs for the coming year were discussed.
Linda Hess, 2011 President, Nancy Howe and Gloria Meyer attended the yearly meeting of the Douglass Community Services Head Start / Early Head Start in Hannibal. They were nominated by the Lewis County Head Start Director, Diane Lahr as her Partner of the Year. Each year they provide programs to several pre schools regarding either Smokey Bear, Planting flowers, or/and the Monarch butterfly. This year 3 groups were able to watch a monarch emerge and or release one. The club also helped them with the planning of the front landscaping.
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La Grange Garden Club Works with Children at Lutheran Pre-School
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2010 NEWS & EVENTS
La Grange Garden Club Holds Holiday Party Dec. 6, 2010
The La Grange Garden Club held their December meeting at the home of Nancy Howe. Three new members and two guests were in attendance. Following a carry in dinner, a brief meeting was held. Members brought food to be contributed to the Lewis County Food Pantry. They also had a card exchange.
Click here to view the photos in the December 2010 album
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La Grange Garden Club 2010 President’s Report
Fall District Meeting, October 18, 2010
The year 2010 is nearly history and our club has every reason to be proud as we have accomplished many of our goals.
With the help of garden club member, Joe Coelho, Associate Biology Professor at Quincy University, we were able to tag over 100 monarch butterflies. This tagging project is a research project through Kansas University to study the migration of the monarch. We were able to expand our education of the metamorphosis of the monarch by introducing the process to 5 preschool groups. Each group raised a monarch butterfly from a tiny caterpillar to a monarch butterfly. It was a very inspiring experience even to the adult teachers if the preschoolers that had never witnessed the process before this. These preschoolers were also involved with a spring planting project with members of our club helping them plant flowers seeds for Mother’s Day.
Our club members have started a “Welcome to La Grange” project. After gathering materials from various businesses and organizations, we put together welcome baskets with the materials and a plant from the club. We have delivered 9 baskets so far and a plan to make more deliveries to welcome new people to La Grange before the end of the year.
We have created a hosta bed at Drs. Ellery Memorial Park and decorated the Blue Star By-Way Memorial Marker there on patriotic holidays. We continue to weed, mulch, water and maintain that park. At Washington Park in La Grange, one of our members and her boy scout troop prepare the soil, plant flowers, mulch, water and weed.
In addition to these projects, our club enjoyed a beekeeping program, a dragonfly presentation, a trip to the gardens of Nauvoo and a trip to Deer Ridge Conservation Area in Lewis County to observe native plants.
Respectfully, Linda Hess, 2009 - 2011 President
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Members and Guests Attend the 2010 NED Fall Meeting
There were 24 members and guests who attended the NED Fall Meeting to hear Patrick Beckman from Hosta Heaven in Quincy, Ill give a presentation at the Garth Mansion and Woodside Restaurant in Hannibal, Mo.
Click here to view the photos in the Oct. 2010 album
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Tagging Monarch Butterflies October 2010
Gloria Meyer and Linda Hess
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Monarch Butterfly Program at Pre-school
On September 21 and 23, 2010 Linda Hess and Nancy Glisan went to the Happy Time Preschool in Canton, MO to give a program on Monarch butterflies. They left them with a caterpillar for each group to watch hatch.
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Garden Center for La Grange, Mo. Community
The La Grange Garden Club in Northeast District maintains a Garden Center at the Canton City Hall. It features seasonal displays, free magazines, and often seeds or free plants.
Click here to view the photos in the September 2010 album
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2010 La Grange Garden Club Tours Deer Ridge Conservation Area Lake
The August 2nd meeting of the La Grange Garden Club took place at Deer Ridge Conservation Area, in Lewis County, MO. John Pinkowski, Private Land Specialist, MO Dept.of Conservation, helped the club members identify 25-30 different native plants growing in their natural habitat. They also observed an area that had been restored with native plants.
Click here to view the photos in the August 2010 album
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2010 La Grange Visits Pre-School in March
The La Grange Garden Club visited the Lewis County Head Start in March to demonstrate seed planting to the preschoolers. Each student planted their own seed and watched it grow. The next day they did the same thing with the Lutheran Church pre-schoolers. In the fall they will go back to take developing Monarch butterflies so that the children can watch them hatch.
La Grange Garden Club Dedicates Blue Star Memorial March 30, 2009
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