Carroll Garden Club met at the Union Bridge Community Center for our October Meeting. There is expectation that the interior will undergo refurbishment and repair later this month, so we will not meet at this–our home base– again until that work is completed. Therefore, we will met next month at the Ag Center in Westminster.
In our club, the head hostess decides the theme and complexity of the month’s luncheon based on the assent of her coworkers. We have simple lunches and those that go all out. We keep in mind that one of the design areas taught in the flower show classes in table settings and arrangements. So, those who are so inclined really have a chance to strut their stuff. Our hostesses this month-Jan, Wilma and Audrey, chose an Octoberfest theme for their repast: beer steins on all the tables, a gorgeous arrangement on a barrel. a table of literature and a standing canvas with a stein to decorate. Two of our hostesses are evidently in the Homemakers Club –and how! Our head hostess had brought in hops-her hubby does some home brewing.
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- Steins
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- About Octoberfest
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- Eye catching with the hydrangea
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- Beautiful arrangement
Tastes like autumn at the dessert table
Our hostesses Wilma and Audrey
Our program was given by a local gal, Jessica Todd, whose family owns Clear Ridge Nursery, a wholesaler specializing in native trees for conservation and reforestation. She discussed how it seemed like work-work-work as she and sibling(s) were part of the labor force to get the company going in the early days. After school and after weekends there was a great deal to do. However, the company prospered and also branched out into cut flowers: dahlias. And Jessica, with her hard won education on the farm and with a business degree is now majority owner of the family company supplying over 350,000 containerized plants that they grow themselves or wholesale from other suppliers.
Landscape photos of October members attending:
Pres. Brenda and Sec. Karen at business meeting
