Come join the Wake Forest Garden Club as it celebrates its 100th anniversary with garden art tours Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27, 1 to 5 p.m. both days.
Tour the beautiful gardens and enjoy Wake Forest’s talented artists showcasing his/her talent in each garden. Their beautiful art work will be for sale.
As a special Centennial treat, many gardens will feature dazzling floral designs by local florists.
Garden tour tickets are $30 per person which includes admission to the gardens on both Friday and Saturday. Tickets will go on sale on March 15th at Page l58 Book Store, Wake Forest, 415-B Brooks St. Wake Forest, Southern Suds, 213 S. White Street, Wake Forest, and online at www.wfgardenclub.org.
Tickets will also be available both days of the Garden Tour at the Wake Forest Historical Museum, 414 N. Main Street, Wake Forest.
The Wake Forest Garden Club uses the proceeds from the Art and Garden Tour to carry out its mission of preserving and enhancing the appearance of the greater Wake Forest Community.
In 2018 the club purchased and donated to the town the large planters holding flowers in the spring, summer and fall and greenery in the winter that are in the downtown area of South White Street. For several years the garden club members planted, watered and tended to the large planters, but it grew to be a burden, particularly because of the need to water the plants. The women were using five-gallon jugs. Then 2022 the town took over and hired a firm which does all the club members were doing but with a water wagon.
It was also garden club members, led by then President Louise Howard, who planted the daffodils along the North Main Street median. “It proves you do not have to dig up daffodils and separate them to keep them blooming. They just need food,” President Karen Diebolt said.
She also said, “We will be giving out patio container gardens at the Tri-Area Ministry Food Pantry sometime in May. The recipients get a container, the dirt, the fertilizer, a tomato plant, pepper plant, parsley, and marigolds to keep the bugs away. Then a packet of cool weather seeds to plant in late August. It has been a big hit each year and one of my favorite projects.”
Please join us in celebrating 100 years of keeping our mission alive.
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Is there a phone# that I can call to purchase tickets—I live out of town & would like to have them ahead of time?? Please call 919-417-2295 & leave message.