Just as some gardeners are hanging up their shovels for the season, members of the Sweet Scents Garden Club of Northfield are donning their gloves for new fall projects. After taking a break in the summer, the club will reconvene in October. In anticipation of upcoming fall activities at Birch Grove Park, the garden club will meet for a work day at the park’s Children’s Memorial Garden on Monday, Oct. 6, with plans to beautify the park. Club members are encouraged to bring their “gloves, garden tools, shovels, and a friend or two” to help plant mums for the new season.
The garden club was founded in April 2012 by the Bayview Garden Nursery of Northfield. In the past, the club has hosted guest speakers for the garden club meetings and held seasonal workshops at the garden nursery. The group’s workshops have included a spring container gardening workshop, a summer hanging basket workshop, a hammered flowers craft, a fall container workshop, a fall wreath-making workshop, and a festive winter container workshop. Some of the work projects of the volunteer members of the club include making Thanksgiving centerpieces for Meadowview Nursing Home, making wreaths and swag for the historical society and City Hall, as well as planting and maintaining gardens at the Northfield Veterans Park, the Children’s Memorial Garden, and the Northfield Museum and Casto House located at Birch Grove Park. The group was also involved in a restoration project of the museum and its gardens, offering a welcome to visitors of the museum who can learn about the long history of Northfield, which was once known as Bakersfield.
This month, members of the group will plant mums, donated by Bayview Garden Nursery, just in time for the “not-so-spooky” hayride being held at Birch Grove Park. This event, which will be held Oct. 10, 11, and 12, from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. each evening, will be put on by the Northfield Volunteer Fire Department.
Sweet Scents Garden Club would love to add to its membership, offering an opportunity for fellow residents to help beautify their community. In the past, membership dues and services have allowed the group to provide flowers and plants to local nursing homes, libraries, and parks. Volunteers are welcome to attend the mum-planting workday to be held Oct. 6, at 5:15 p.m. (rain date Oct. 7). For more information about this garden club, you can contact Joni Cummings, Bayview’s garden center manager, at (609) 641-0648, ext. 10, or email her at: joni@bayviewnurseries.com.
Tammy Thornton lives with her husband, children, and crazy pets while enjoying a life of gardening, cooking, and going to the beach.
