Home and Garden. The Club has also awarded over $40,000
in scholarships to horticulture students in state university and
community colleges.
This great philanthropic society also has provided community
service by assisting with garden therapy for area nursing
homes, they have established a Jr. Garden Club at Windy
Ridge Elementary School, co-hosted a Louis Comfort Tiffany
event in Winter Garden, and has decorated the History
Center, the Winter Garden Heritage Museum and the Central
Florida Railroad Museum for the holidays. The club has
donated environmental books to twelve area elementary
schools and five middle schools, and has participated in
Reading Reindeer. Husbands of Bloom and Grow members
built 30 Wood Duck nesting boxes to be placed around area
lakes, an effort which was co-sponsored by the Oakland
Nature Preserve. The club has also built and planted a Sensory
Garden for the United Cerebral Palsy School in Winter
Garden. The funds raised through the annual ‘Spring Fever
in the Garden’ make it possible for this club to accomplish all
these projects.
Bloom and Grow has received the national Civic
Beautification Award from Habitat for Humanity and the
School Ground Beautification Award for establishing a Junior
Garden Club at Windy Ridge Elementary School.
The Bloom & Grow Garden Society’s Mission Statement is:
“to stimulate a knowledge and love of gardening; To aid in
protection of native plants and birds; To encourage civic
plantings.” Since its inception in 1998, nearly $350,000 in
charitable donations has been made to the West Orange
community.
If you made it to Spring Fever this year, we hope you enjoyed
the festivities. We look forward to a continuing partnership
with Bloom & Grow, and to the exciting things to come in the
future. Thank you to all the ladies at Bloom & Grow for doing
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