Silver Creek Hanover Garden Club announces Front Yard Garden Recognition Program results
SILVER CREEK — The Silver Creek Hanover Garden Club (SCHGC) is pleased to announce the results of their new front yard garden recognition program – Spruce Up Silver Creek!
The program is a part of Silver Creek Hanover Garden Club’s ongoing effort to beautify the village and to promote an interest in gardening. This new program is made possible in part by a generous grant from the Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation.
The intent of the program is to recognize outstanding front yard gardens that add to the curb appeal of Silver Creek neighborhoods and encourage all residents to take part in making our community a more beautiful place by planting gardens. The Village of Silver Creek has approximately 1,100 housing units and the club originally planned to recognize 25 gardens. However, due to the outstanding response from village gardeners, the club decided to recognize an additional 14 gardens for a total of 39 gardens recognized throughout the village.
Each garden that was recognized received a yard sign recognizing their outstanding garden, a year’s membership in the SCHGC, and a chance to be entered in a drawing for either a $100 or $50 gift certificate from Yerico’s Nursery. The gift certificate drawing will take place, and winners will be announced at noon during the 50th annual Festival of Grapes — stop by the SCHG tent to see a picture display of most of the gardens and the results of the drawing.
The club was pleasantly surprised at the number of gardens in the village and realized that it could easily increase the number of gardens recognized beyond 39, if it had the additional materials. Members offer heartfelt thanks to all gardeners in Silver Creek for helping to beautify the village. Look for expanded recognition next year, and keep up the good work. A special thanks to the North Chautauqua Community Foundation for its generous grant that helped to make this program possible and to the volunteers that took time to evaluate gardens and present awards.