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Garden Club Leads Effort to Beautify Hospital Healing Garden
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Old planter boxes were removed and new ones were installed at the Healing Garden. Shrubs will be planted at a future work day. -
La Grange Garden Club member Anthony Haas, top left, and volunteer Leonard Sternadel, top right, dismantle an old planter box as Garden Club members Pat Karisch, left, and Mary Battle, right, get ready to haul the old away. -
La Grange Garden Club members along with several other community volunteers held a workday at the La Grange hospital’s Healing Garden.
In anticipation of the hospital’s opening, members of the La Grange Garden Club, along with several other community volunteers, recently had a workday at the Healing Garden at the Progressive Health of Fayette, formerly St. Mark’s Hospital.
The old, decayed planter boxes were removed, after which new boxes were installed, and then filled with potting soil. Plants, flowers, and shrubs will be planted at a future workday.
The La Grange Garden Club is spearheading the project, and others in the community have gotten involved. The landscape timbers and materials for the planter boxes were donated by McCoy’s Building Supply.
The boxes were designed and built by Freddie Behnke’s Wood Shop students at La Grange High School. The La Grange Walmart store donated potting soil and bottled water.
The La Grange H-E-B donated cookies, chips, meat trays, and fruit trays for the workday lunch. Whataburger donated coupons to give the student volunteers.
The Garden Club would like to thank all these businesses for their generosity, and also all the students and community volunteers who helped make this workday a success.