The Arbor Day Festival will once again be presented by the Wareham Garden Club April 18 from 10 am to 2 pm at A.D. Makepeace Company, 158 Tihonet Road, Wareham. The Festival this year will celebrate the pivotal role that trees play in our environment and in our conservation efforts. It will include free tree saplings and instructions for planting successfully.
There will be an abundance of educational events: interactive butterfly lecture with Blake Dinius, the Plymouth County entomologist; a flower arranging demonstration with flower show judge, Christine Decas; seed planting table for kids with veteran gardeners sharing their gardening knowledge; recycling education and ideas to make recycling fun for the family; Master Gardener Joyce Holster will be answering your questions on trees and your gardening questions in general.
With a renewed effort to make this an event fun for the whole family, the club has expanded their events for kids. These will include the Plant Mobile from the Mass Horticultural Society with Children’s Programs on Pollinators; story time by Wareham Free Library’s children’s librarian Marcia Hickey; a Craft Table with face painting and an interactive information table by the Wareham Land Trust. The garden club is grateful for the funding support of the Wareham Community Events Committee which helped make this event possible. This is a rain or shine event, and the club is excited to have the community’s involvement.