Shown is one of the projects conducted by the Syracuse-Wawasee Garden Club. This one is at Lakeside Park in Syracuse. Photo provided by the garden club.

News Release

SYRACUSE — The Syracuse-Wawasee Garden Club held its first meeting of the year Tuesday, March 4, at the Syracuse Community Center.

New program books for 2025 were distributed to 20 members noting special programs and field trips on the horizon.

The budget for the year was discussed, including the anticipated costs for town flowers (parks, town hall and hanging baskets) and the eventual remodel of the Ward Park flower bed.

An Arbor Day donation of a tree will be planted at the Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation, which accepted the Garden Club’s donation last year as well.

The upcoming state convention in Indianapolis was discussed and there will be two members attending. They will both be accepting new roles at the state level during the convention.

The Garden Club voted to participate in WACF Earth Day Festival Saturday, May 3. The activity will be to plant seeds in peat pots for the children to take home and grow.

After the business meeting concluded, each member joined their “flower bed committee” and planned the flower type to be planted in each bed.

The next meeting will be Tuesday, April 1, at the Syracuse Community Center’s Kiwanis Room and begins at 6:30 p.m. The program is “Pocket Pollinator Plantings,” given by Judy Clayton of Clayton Garden Center. She will be demonstrating how to plant a pot to attract pollinators. This is a great way to give pollinators some food and shelter without having to plant a large garden. Just think: if one thousand people planted one pollinator plant, that would be 1,000 more pollinator plants for the bees, butterflies and moths.

The Garden Club welcomes new members; contact [email protected] if you would like to attend one of the meetings.