Plant it Pink theme celebrates Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Beaufort Garden Club
The Beaufort Garden Club will celebrate its 90th anniversary on October 23 at the Witness Tree Park, located on the corner of Bladen and King/North streets, at 10:00 AM. The public is invited to attend the event, free of charge.
Plant it Pink, The Garden Club of South Carolina’s October theme, raises awareness of breast cancer by encouraging its 173 Clubs to promote pink blooming plants in home and community gardens around the State.
The October 23 Plant It Pink ceremony will feature comments by local dignitaries, a gift for the first 90 attendees, and refreshments.
“Today’s Beaufort Garden Club members celebrate the 29 incredible women who exchanged society gloves for sturdy work gloves and planted azaleas in residential neighborhoods and parks and lined the Highway 21 entrance to Beaufort with majestic Sabal palmetto trees,” said Sheila Drouin, president of The Beaufort Garden Club. “We have large gardening clogs to fill … of those intrepid women who carved the path before us.”
The Beaufort Garden Club is the second oldest garden club in South Carolina and has established numerous traditions, such as its Garden-A-Day tour week in June. It has garnered many national, state and district awards, as well as numerous city proclamations, and a permanent archive of its history in the Beaufort Scott Street Library.
