{"id":7188,"date":"2020-04-29T14:01:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T18:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/?p=7188"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:01:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T18:01:36","slug":"mandarin-garden-club-celebrates-national-gardening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/mandarin\/mandarin-garden-club-celebrates-national-gardening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin Garden Club celebrates National Gardening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Diana Openbrier<br>mail@floridanewsline.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mandarin Garden Club celebrated National Gardening Day on April 14.&nbsp; This holiday is meant to encourage gardeners of all kinds to kick off spring with a day of gardening.&nbsp;While many activities have been curtailed in a major way with the COVID-19 pandemic and residents are required to stay home, we can still garden in our own yard. It is fun, energizing, connects us with nature, connects us to friends, and provides a bounty of beauty for our mind and attitude as well as food for our body.&nbsp;Everyone can participate. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since club members cannot get together to share gardening information at this time, the group decided to share their gardens on line.&nbsp;To add to the fun, plants started for the plant sale (cancelled) are prizes for the best yard presentation.&nbsp;Many pictures of gardens were emailed in and a winner and three runners up were chosen for recognition.&nbsp;Winners and runners up will get plants to add to their home, which they will choose from online pictures and then take home with no face-to-face contact. Club members can then drive by the winners\u2019 homes to enjoy the beauty of the yards.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner of the 2020 Mandarin Garden Club\u2019s National Gardening Award is Betsy Hogan, who has created a lovely and colorful respite area that would be calming and pleasant for anyone. The curved path invites visitors to a restful, peaceful seating area surrounded by colorful flowers and lush greenery.&nbsp;This calming, cool, vision of relaxation draws one up the path to a lovely bench \u2014 where one can watch the birds, dream problems away, and focus on the beauty of nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other submissions were lovely as well and four will receive honorable mention.&nbsp;Linda Carvalho has many colorful flowers throughout her yard.&nbsp; The colors are so bright they draw your attention and lift your spirits. Peggy Martineau has nicely trimmed her yard and flowers are blooming.&nbsp;She has also created a \u201cMother Mary Garden\u201d that warms the spirit and brightens the day. Karen Stanley has created an amazing and inviting entrance to her home.&nbsp;The greenery is bright and nicely trimmed. Her flowers are showing bright this spring.&nbsp;And for special mention for what is old is now new, Laurie McDonagh started a victory garden in a sunny part of her yard with a promise of fresh veggies soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This contest was just a fun way to show off work in the garden to friends. This spring it is time for us all to get out and start gardening.&nbsp;Till, plant, mulch, trim, clip, put dirt in a pot and plant a seed and spend time in nature. It brings beauty to your home, calm to the mind, and a feeling of accomplishment with every spout.&nbsp;It\u2019s time to garden! It\u2019s spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photos courtesy Diana Openbrier<br>The winner of the National Gardening Day: Betsey Hogan, Live Oak Circle.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diana Openbriermail@floridanewsline.com Mandarin Garden Club celebrated National Gardening Day on April 14.&nbsp; This holiday is meant to encourage gardeners of all kinds to kick off spring with a day of gardening.&nbsp;While many activities have been curtailed in a major way with the COVID-19 pandemic and residents are required to stay home, we can still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mandarin"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mandarin Garden Club celebrates National Gardening Day - Florida NewsLine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mandarin NewsLineBy Diana Openbriermail@floridanewsline.com Mandarin Garden Club celebrated National Gardening Day on April 14.&nbsp; 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