Above: The West End Garden Club celebrated “Fanciful Flights” at its annual show at the Schroeder Town Hall on July 20. This display was about the heart soaring with music.
Above: “Rock ‘n’ Flowers” was the name of the Grand Marais Garden Club’s July 19, 2013 show at the Cook County Community Center. Themes from the ’50s emerged as well as arrangements incorporating rocks. These soda jerks were actually garden club volunteers who helped out at the event. (L-R) Jan Healy, Evelyn McDonald, Emma Bradley, Kathy Siesennop, Skip Joynes, and Donna Clothier.
Skip Joynes’ arrangement featuring Howdy Doody (left) definitely fit into the ’50s theme at the Grand Marais Garden Club show, as did this vintage truckload of blooms (above) arranged by Skip’s grandson Aaron Carlson.
This arrangement of peonies at the West End Garden Club show, called “Rhapsody in Blue,” (left) was made by Mary Lou Huron. These thistles (right) are beautiful albeit prickly. According to Carol Spencer, who arranged them, they are the official flower of Scotland and helped the Scots defeat the Brits on the battlefield.
“Take My Hand – I’m a Stranger in Paradise” was the name of this arrangement by Colleen Brennan at the West End Garden Club show. This was definitely a flight of fancy.
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