Although our Garden Club was founded in January 2015 with eleven members, you would think we’ve been around a lot longer with all the projects we’ve accomplished in a mere year and a half.
The Cooper Young Garden Club was founded January 2015 as a way to bring fellow plant lovers together. The first year was all about developing friendships, sharing gardening tips, swapping plants, and hosting a members’ progressive garden tour. Later we got more ambitious!
Check out our impressive list of accomplishments:
- started the garden club Jan. 2015
- removed the tree grates from all Ginkgoes lining Cooper + mulched with bark
- looked into creating a neighborhood arboretum
- 4 members of our club took the Urban Forestry Tree ID class
- elected officers
- joined the Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs
- received an ioby grant to “Green Up Memphis”
- held a members only garden walk to enjoy each other’s gardens
- decided our gardens were pretty darn impressive–began planning our 1st official garden walk 2106
- celebrated our 1st Annual Garden Walk with 500 visitors and 29 gardens/green spaces on tour.
- put in 5 huge planters at key corners into the neighborhood
- decorated the Gazebo for the holidays
- mulched the Ginkgo trees with river rock
- participated in many “Yard-A-Month” clean up mornings
- presented, “Defensive Plants for Security”-Judi Shellabarger at CYCA meeting
- had informative garden speakers at monthly meetings:
- “Hydrangeas”=Linda Lanier
- “Gardening with Native Plants”=Deb Foehring
- “Gardening for Monarchs”=Susan Wallace
- “Container Gardening”=Katie McHaney
- “What We Can Learn from the Buffalo Garden Walk”=Kim Halyak
- “Getting Ready for Our Garden Walk”
- sold “Come Fall in Love with Cooper Young” t-shirts
- had a Garden Club garage sale
- some members joined the Horticultural Society
- nominated gardens for “Yard of the Month” + wrote articles for Lamplighter=Sharron Johnson
- Interviewed local Landscapers for inclusion in Lamplighter-Kim Halyak