The Millbrook Garden Club’s Event Was All About The Trees
The reception included a photography show and the unveiling of the Millbrook Library’s pollinator garden plans.
Harriet Weiss and Lea Cornell, a former president of the Millbrook Garden Club and its historian
When the Millbrook Public Library began to consider installing a pollinator garden on its grounds, the library director knew who to turn to for guidance: The Millbrook Garden Club. MGC members are committed to educating the community about the important environmental benefits of native trees and plants. They connected the library with Ryan Manning, a landscape architect based in Millbrook. On Saturday, October 14, MGC members and library patrons gathered at the library, where Manning presented the design for the pollinator garden-to-be. In advance of the unveiling, the Garden Club organized a photography competition and show, with members’ tree photography, judged by officials from the Garden Club of America, exhibited on library walls for the past month. At the cocktail reception, MGC photographers (many of whom are amateurs) enthusiastically showed off their beribboned images. Among the silent auction items to raise funds for further civic projects were, fittingly, pollinator trees and three yards of compost.
Ryan Manning of R Design Architects presents the plans for the library's pollionator garden.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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