June was making Kokedama Japanese plant balls. July was making decoupaged flowerpots. August was making framed art using pressed and dried flowers. Thank you, Barbara Kline, for your wonderful project ideas and the time and energy to put these events together!

LONG CREEK ASSISTED LIVING AND MEMORY CARE – June 6, 2022

Nine Sunnyvale Garden Club members, one guest, three Long Creek residents and the Activity Director at Long Creek participated in a beautification project at Long Creek Assisted Living and Memory Care.  Our club was awarded a $250 “Plant America” grant to plant an herb garden in the Memory Care courtyard to be used as Aromatherapy. We also beautified the main courtyard raised beds with Lantana and flowers grown from seed by the residents. The work was completed in June.

THE DORIS PADGETT LIBRARY AND FIRE STATION – JUNE 6, 2022

SGC members Mary Coon, Jonie Johnson, Donna Moore, Laurie Sparhawk, Cristie Carter-Stewart, and Nancy Keim planted, fertilized and mulched annual flowers in the main Town East Blvd. landscape bed, under the Sunnyvale monument sign. Also, trimmed and mulched other two beds in the median on Town East. They cleaned up, fertilized and mulched the landscape the landscape bed at the library and planted annual flowers in raised planters and urns at the library and fire station.

SUNNYVALE ISD ADMIN BLDG CLEANUP AND MULCH – June 14, 2022

SGC members Mary Coon and Debbie Wood picked weeds, fertilized perennials, and heavily mulched the landscape beds at the entry of the SISD Administration Building.

The current Beautification Committee members are Mary Coon-Chair, Donna Moore,Jonie Johnson and Debbie Wood. They hand water planters and urns daily during the hot season, maintain and hand water the Library and Administration Bldg. beds as needed, maintain the Town East beds, and ensure that the town sprinklers are watering the flowers on Town East sufficiently.