Johnny Appleseed Garden Club at a Kingwood Christmas

This was Year One for me with the Johnny Appleseed Garden Club to participate in the Kingwood Christmas Decorating.  Not to be overwhelmed, we decided to only commit to a tree and not dive head first into a room.  Much discussion starting in October and the core committee of Carol O, Mardy B, Darleen M. and myself decided we would go outside the box with a flocked tree.  Trees used for a Kingwood Christmas are fresh cut. We couldn't find anyone in town to flock the tree, so Darleen went to work and located a flocking machine.  She and I were going to take the tree from Kingwood and bring it back flocked in all its fake snow covered glory.  However, the situation occurred that the tree needed to be decorate sooner than anticipated.  Since I was out of town, Darleen manged get the flocking done by herself. What a wonderful job she did.  The air compressor decided not to participate, so she did the entire tree by hand with a sieve.  Delivered by Mardy and her hubby to Kingwood Hall on Friday. A little help from Bill Collins with the stand and every thing's set for decorating the next morning.

These cute polar bears were made by the garden club at the last meeting with stiff glittery felt. We selected some icicle garland and sparkly snowflakes from the Kingwood collection to accent his cuteness. Red pipe cleaner was used in the tree bears and also on the stuffed polar bears at the base of the tree. A fun time decorating and we were all pleased with our finished Artic Tree.

Lett-us Plant Pansies

My partner in all good Kathy M and I volunteered ourselves to help out the Kingwood Staff planting seasonal pansies and lettuces.  Shawn McClain made sure the beds were prepared and the soil was fluffy soft.

 




 
 
 

 Next Bill Collins, Glenna Schaeffer, Charles Applegate and Don Miller laid out the designs.

and now we plant....
Do you want to live here Mr. Pansy?      Grow and thrive!
  

..with a chill in the air and an excitement to be outside ... we planted the Gazebo area....

We didn't worry about watering.  As Charles Applegate puts it, we would let God water the next day.

What's that Charles? ..a little thing called photosynthesis, means that you cannot bury the plant, the leaves need to be uncovered?  Got it.  Oh the things we learn! 

We moved on to the Old Herb Garden, or Bay Tree Garden or whatever the name of the day is for it.

After a break for lunch, in which Kathy ate fried clams with rice pudding and I had too many hash browns, we continued onto circled fountain area.  We weren't hungry any longer, but with full bellies, we weren't bending over as easy after lunch either.

The day moved on.. so did we, (though we were moving a little slower) up to the formal garden to finish up the beds for a job we considered well done!