Since 2005, our club has earmarked our annual donation to Hudson Parks for the purchase of trees at Barlow Farm Park. This active-use park was once a cultivated farm field and badly needed trees. Every year, 20-25 young trees were planted by the Hudson Parks crew. As of the fall of 2011, our club has funded the planting of 136 lindens, maples and oaks at this park! Monies raised through our annual Hudson Home and Garden Tour make the donations possible.
A warm welcome begins at the front door and one beautifully decorated also conveys the spirit of the season. Hudson Garden Club invites Hudson residents to participate in a new holiday event--Holiday Doors of Hudson. Send us a photo of your decorated door and we will post it on our website. The door that best reflects the city of Hudson and the holiday season will win two tickets to the 2012 Hudson Home and Garden Tour. Visit the Holiday Doors of Hudson webpage on our site for all the details and to see the entries.
Cleveland Botanical Garden (CBG) is decorated for the holiday season each year by their staff with the help of CBG's affiliated Garden Clubs. Hudson Garden Club is an Affiliate of the Cleveland Botanical Garden and this year particpated by decorating a Children's Storybook Tree. Over 30 clubs each selected a book to donate to the CBG library and used it as the theme for their tree. Our club used Winter Moon by Jean Craighead George. Our tree featured the main characters from the story including the moon, a bear, an owl and a mole!
Enjoy Wintershow November 25- December 31. For hours and admission visit cbgarden.org.
Six club members met on a rainy May morning to create faux stone planters. Styrofoam shipping containers were cut to size, the sides were roughed up and drainage holes were made in the bottom. Spray paint in several stone-like colors was used to spray the outside, top and the top inner edge of the containers. Finally, the planters were planted with an assortment of annuals and perennials. The faux stone planters will be available for purchase at the Tour Garden Shop in the Hudson Middle School on June 17 and 18, 2011.
Our club was featured in Hudson Monthly magazine! Youth Chair Bronwyn Pierson was interviewed by Stephanie Fellenstein, editor of the magazine. The result was a wonderful article about HGC's involvement with the youth of our community. You can read the entire article below, or view it online at the Record Publishing website.
A blooming good time by Stephanie Fellenstein, Hudson Monthly magazine, April 2011
Start with the extremely active Hudson Garden Club. Sprinkle in some flower seeds, an herb here and there and a vegetable garden. Finally, add the piece de resistance — some Hudson students — and the result is an explosion of color in the spring, a bountiful harvest in the Fall and a solid foundation /groundwork that promises Hudson’s gardens and trees will be taken care of well into the future.
“Our goal is to help beautify the place where we live and get the students interested in gardening,” says Bronwyn Pierson, the garden club member in charge of youth programming.
We have a brand new website. You are reading and viewing it now. We hope you will agree that it is easy to read and navigate. Best of all, it can easily be maintained and updated by the members of the board. We say THANK YOU to HGC member John Schop who donated his time to design the new site. John’s business, Windmill Web Work, specializes in this type of custom website design.