April 20, 2026 Meeting

Meeting opened with prayer.

Guests from The Country Gardeners’ Club in Mio were introduced. The Country

Gardeners has approached us about doing some events/trips together.

Lenore gave the Treasurer’s report; We started the month with $5637, spent $1006.12,

and ended the month with $4631.02. Treasurer’s report was accepted unanimously.

Committee Reports;

Program: The schedule is now on the website. On May 18, we will take a trip to Rose

City Greenhouse for a tour and shopping. Lunch and business meeting will be

afterwards, at the Rose City Café. Meet at 9am at Kronner’s Pharmacy, corner of M18

and M55, to carpool. Call Nancy at 989-422-6017 to sign up.

On June 16, we will be going to the Japanese Tea Garden in Saginaw. Note that

this is a Tuesday.

Catalogs for the drip systems discussed at the February meeting were

distributed.

Donations: Lenore donated to Gahagan Nature Preserve and Grayling Garden Club.

Beautification: CRAF Center Garden cleanup will be May 11 at 9:30am, rain or shine.

Houghton Library Garden cleanup will me May 4, 10am; May 5 if it rains. A

committee is needed to maintain this garden, as it is young and needs TLC. Please

think about helping with this.

PR; names of new members were collected for nametags.

Webmaster: Website has been updated, and is current through Community Gardens.

Crafting: Crafting was asked to organize a craft/takeaway for the Kirtland Warbler

Festival on June 6. Crafts were also requested for the Roscommon Art Festival sale.

Quarter cuts advertising the Garden Tour were distributed. Members are asked to

distribute them at local businesses.

Garden Treasures: Kathy Ware emphasized that she is able to store donations, but

absolutely needs help with collecting, carrying, and pricing these things. These items

should be actual garden tools/décor/etc, not just garden themed.

Garden Tour: Patti Gruber again requested someone to step up and take this

committee, as she is stepping down after this Tour. This is the time to volunteer, as

gathering gardens for this year’s tour is an ideal time to gather names of interestedpeople for NEXT year’s Tour. Karen emphasized that, if no one steps u, there will be no

Tour next year or later. If that is something the Club is not interested in supporting, that

is OK, but we need to realize that.

We have 3 gardens committed for this year’s Tour; 5 is ideal.

Karen will arrange a system for Will Call tickets. Bulk tickets, which receive a discount,

will be available online ONLY.

Members; buy your tickets! For each ticket a member purchases, they will receive

another ticket to give away to a friend, neighbor, etc.

No reports from Nature Walk, Overnight Trip, See My Garden, Scholarship, or Art

Festival Committees.

Gardening Questions; None, however, it was announced that the Houghton Lake Public

Library will have a Pressed Flower Bookmark make and take on May 11 at 4pm. Please

pre-register with the library for this.

Also, the Oscoda Public Library in Mio will have a speaker on April 24 at 6pm. He is a

mushroom hunter, and no pre-registration is required.

Meeting adjourned; the vote was unanimous.