Garden Club of Lebanon Illinois

Garden Club members have started preparing for the 2024 May Market. This includes potting over 2,700 plants.

In case you didn’t know, previously we shared from our own gardens by dividing plants and preparing them for a new home. Unfortunately, thanks to an overly rambunctious worm (jumping worm), this is no longer possible.

For the past several years, all plants that we present at the May Market are grown from seed in fresh, clean and healthy soil. As the plants get larger, we transfer them to individual clean pots.

Please join us at this year’s May Market and see the wonderful selection that we have waiting for your garden.

If you take a walk around town, you will find signs of spring everywhere! Daffodils, hyacinths, Lenten Roses, flowering trees, and others are abundant in yards. This means that members of the garden club will soon be busy in their and the community gardens.

We have restarted our monthly meetings and have had some very interesting programs already with more programs and activities planned for the coming months. In about a month, we will start the potting of our plants for the May Market held on the first Saturday in May. We are planning to have a wide variety again of tomatoes, peppers, annual flowers, and houseplants. We always look forward to having these “adopted” through donation to persons to plant and make their homes and community beautiful. Be sure to stop by and see what we have or just talk with one of the members.

We always welcome visitors or people who would like to become members. You don’t need to have large gardens or be a “master” gardener. Most members just enjoy doing some planting and finding ways to be out in nature. We know that there are healthy benefits from being out in nature.

So, enjoy the beginning of Spring and hope to see you soon!

This year’s education schedule is coming together.

Already in February we heard about “Succulents” (of which I had no idea) and in March the topic was “Bee Keeping”. Here again, great information was presented.

A week later than usual, our April meeting will be on the 15th with our own Sandy Perkins bringing us up to date on Cicadas. It appears that there will be more than enough this year as both the 13-year and 17-year brood emerg in the same year. Come and find out more.

In May, we will be attending to business at the yearly “May Market”, so there will NOT be a meeting. Instead, we will be working several days in preparing for, attending, and then putting away all that is necessary for this fun event.

More is being planned all throughout the summer and fall, so stay tuned.

If you are looking for when to plant what, The Illinois Extension offers information as to when to do just that. Good information, and we have duplicated it on our Facebook page (see link above).

Our next gathering will be in Horner Park Hall, April 15, 2024. 6:30 gathering with meeting at 7:00.

All are always welcome.

From “Non-Gardener” and “Rank Amateur” to “Master Gardener” or “Master Naturalist”, the amount of knowledge within the members of the Garden Club of Lebanon is amazing. We learn from each other, help each other, and in the process help the community around us!

“Membership” is another word for “Friendship”. You will love how we all become friends! Working together on our projects we become a team. Membership dues help with the costs behind the scenes. Your membership card provides for discounts at local garden supply vendors. See the membership page for further details.