This is the club selling plants at the May 2022 Fort Scott Farmers Market, annual event for the club. From its Facebook page.

Bourbon County Garden Club: Encouraging Gardens and Providing Community Service

Submitted photo of a pocket garden that club members have planted in Fort Scott.

Bourbon County Garden is a group of local gardeners that gather to learn, grow, and share in their passion of gardening, according to a press release from the club.

They have provided care of many of the downtown area garden spots.

This garden at the north end of downtown Main Street is one of projects of the Bourbon County Garden Club. From the club's Facebook page.
This garden at the north end of downtown Main Street is one of projects of the Bourbon County Garden Club. From the club’s Facebook page.

Club meetings are  the 4th Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. from March to October.

The Bourbon County Garden Club met at the Common Grounds Coffee Shop in this May 2022 photo. Taken from the clubs Facebook page.

“Our members take turns hosting our meetings, so the location changes depending on who is hosting,” President Austin Bolinger said.

Austin Bolinger is the president of the Bourbon County Garden Club. From the club’s Facebook page.

“We have 60 people on our email list, and about 1/2 of those are active in the club,” Bolinger said.

The list of members:

Aaron Houser

Jan Hedges

Janet Irvin

Dora Jasinski

Betty & Dale Johnson

Leah Lewis

Deb McCoy

Diana Morriss

Linda Noll

Clara Schofield

Norma Sellers

Priscilla Sellers

Ashlee Shakir

Kate Sweetser

Judy Wallis

Robin Whitlock

Stana Parsons

Judy Warren

Margaret Kerr

Helen Carson

Bill Hoyt

Darcy Sinn

Krista Harding

Ann Stark

Jenni Wilcoxen

Deborah Hyland

Pam Speer

Heather Wilson

Janette Danley

Martha Kraai

Barbara Woodward

Honey Bidwell

Barbara McCord

Delphine Parks

Austin Bolinger

Estevan DeBoer

Makensie Griffin

Sheryl Bloomfield

Jim Logan

Marcile Logan

Rachel French

Calista Rchards

Brenda Alter

Deb Lust

Doris Ericson

Paula Blincoe

Rondi Anderson

Sandy Areu

Whitney Beth

Karen Billiard

Maggie Brenner

Sharon Campbell

Kelly Collins

Maggie Davenport

Rita Emmerson

Connie Findley

Constance Gates

Martha Jane Gentry

Lindsey Gulager

Teri Hamilton

Rosemary Harris

Rhonda Hassig

 

This is the club selling plants at the May 2022 Fort Scott Farmers Market, annual event for the club. From its Facebook page.
The club sells plants at the first Fort Scott Farmers Market in May each year. Taken from their Facebook page.

Complimentary Pocket Garden Drawing Winners Announced

Recently the club awarded two community residents with consultation and installation of a pocket garden.

“Bourbon County Garden Club recently held a drawing to award a pocket garden to lucky Bourbon County residents,” according to the press release.

A pocket garden is an area on a homeowner’s property that is a gardening challenge.

“This might be a corner where curbs and sidewalks intersect, by a mailbox, or by a driveway and a pocket garden can beautify that area,” according to the press release.

The winners, Marianne Crane and Gabrielle Martin, will get an initial pocket garden consultation, along with the plants and installation of the plants in the garden. The maintenance of the garden is the winners’ responsibility.

 

“The benefits of planting a pocket garden include improving a problem area of your yard, collaboration with neighbors to create multiple attractive garden corners, pollination for bees and butterflies and engagement in a healthy outdoor activity,” according to the press release

About the club

Bourbon County Garden Club encourages growing plants in these areas that provide three seasons of bloom and fourth season of winter interest. Example pocket gardens in Fort Scott are located at Pine and Eddy Streets, 8th and Crawford Streets(all four corners), and 9th and National Avenue(SE corner).

 

For more information on planting a Pocket Garden or joining Garden Club, email Austin Bolinger at [email protected] or visit the Bourbon County Garden Club Facebook page.

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