The Bud ‘n Bloom Garden Club at the Barnes Greenhouse in Sheridan. Pictured from left are Karen Ryder, Nancy Kohler, Lucy Hurley, Angie Leone, Sally Newell, Judy Wilcox, Sharon Przybyciel, Sue Alonge, Cindy Maggio.

The Bud ‘n Bloom Garden Club ladies are busy every month with a variety of gardening activities. New members are welcomed. If interested, please call 716 672-6161. They recently welcomed Sharon Przybyciel and Cindy Maggio as new members.

This past March, the Club members car-pooled and traveled to the Erie County Fair Exhibition Hall to enjoy the “Plantasia” Garden and Landscaping annual show put on by local gardeners and landscaping companies. The displays this year did not disappoint. Creative, beautiful, spring-filled flowers, trees, water features, and backyard ideas filled the buildings. Items were for sale. This year, one of the most unusual (but beautiful) displays consisted of a plane crash in the jungle. Vines, flowers, trees and tiny creatures surrounded the fallen plane. Afterwards the group enjoyed lunch at a local restaurant.

In April, surrounded by a rainbow of hanging floral baskets and flats filled with tiny “plugs” of a wide variety of flowers and greenery, the members of the Bud ‘n Bloom Garden Club planted tiny “plugs” and young plants in their favorite gardening containers, that they brought to the Barnes Greenhouse in Sheridan.

The efficient, knowledgeable and friendly staff quickly filled the containers with perfect potting soil, taped numbers onto their pots and registered the group.

The warm, moist air comforted the group as they went around the greenhouse, collecting the specimens that they knew would perfectly beautify their homes and then they quickly planted them. Surprisingly, some of the group filled as many as 6 to 10 containers.

The staff at Barnes will water and feed all of them until around Memorial Day in May. By that time, each of the creations would be ready for pick-up, overflowing their containers and brimming with color for perfect enjoyment all summer.

In April, Angie Leone shared her Carol Avenue, daffodil-filled gardens with the group informally. Members and their guests are encouraged to pick bouquets for their enjoyment and for others. Bouquets have been delivered to the Barker Library in Fredonia, the Brooks Hospital in Dunkirk and to several guests at the Chautauqua Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, to name a few of the floral recipients.

In May, they plan to continue the tradition of planting flowers at the Dunkirk Lighthouse.

Also in May, the members will attend their annual spring banquet at the White Inn in Fredonia on Wednesday, May 14 at 11:30 a.m. Members will be able to order off the menu. Members are reminded to call Karen Ryder, the chairperson in charge to make reservations.

Members are reminded that there will be a plant exchange in May. It’s time to dig up and divide some of those perennials.