Club finishes landscaping Habitat home
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Monday, September 29, 2008 9:16 AM CDT
For the Herald
The Lake Wissota Garden Club recently completed its latest club project by planting spring-blooming bulbs on Sept. 17 at the home of Melissa Wasieleski, 1209 Water St., Chippewa Falls. The planting completed phase II of the club’s landscape design at Wasieleski’s home.
The club designed and planted eight Habitat for Humanity-like projects in the Chippewa Falls area over the past several years. The Lake Wissota Garden Club uses revenue from their annual “First Saturday in June” plant sale for their projects.
Other local garden club projects include the funding, planting, and maintaining the Victorian Flower Garden at the Cook Rutledge Mansion, 505 W. Grand Ave. Last year the club installed a sprinkling system for the mansion’s garden. The club has decorated the mansion for Christmas for the past 25 years.
The club also plants and maintains gardens at the Three Flags Corner on Bridge Street and the Welcome Sign on West River Street; provides a scholarship for a CVTC student taking garden related studies; participates in the Native Tree Project in Irvine Park and provides leadership for “Young Sprouts,” a junior garden club at Christ Lutheran School in Chippewa Falls.
Lake Wissota also supports the Wisconsin Garden Club Federation Scholarship Program. In 2007-2008 five $1,000 scholarships were awarded to university students in Wisconsin studying garden related topics. A student from Wisconsin was awarded a $3,500 scholarship from the national Garden Club.
LWGC donates funds to the current WGCF four-year project at the Wildflower Woods at the Monk Gardens under development in Wausau; a total of $6,100 has been donated by WGCF in the past two years. When completed, this will be an outstanding botanical garden in Central Wisconsin, a great opportunity easily accessible for local people.
Lake Wissota Garden Club, established in 1976, is a service and educational organization. The club is open to anyone in the area wishing to learn about gardening, landscaping, environmental issues, and floral design.
Meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month (next meeting is on Thursday, Oct. 9) in member’s homes or at the Lafayette Town Hall. For more information, call club president Ginger Wierman at 720-9092.
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