Getting Their Hands Dirty: (Top Left) Jan Rise, Don Grandmaision, Judy Delestowicz, projeft chair, Doreen Gajewski and Kathy Kipfmueller.

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Bay County MSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers Plant Flowers

Bay County Building on Center Avenue Gets Facelift With Annual Planting

June 27, 2004
By: O. J. Cunningham

Can You Dig It?

Each Spring, you will find a group of volunteer gardeners re-planting the flower beds behind the Bay County Building on Center Avenue.

It's an "annual" labor of love for this group of Bay CountyMaster Gardeners.

According to spokes-person Jan Rise, the group has planted this bed for the last three years. "They (County) snow plow this area during the winter," Rise said. "So we plant it every spring with annuals."

Rise went on to say that this flower bed area and the adjacent parking lot are heavily salted in winter- so nothing permanent would ever survive. That is why the group re-plants each spring/summer.

The purpose of the MSU Extension Volunteer Program ispersonal education of Bay County Green Thumb wannabes, sharing gardening tips and educating county residents. Rise said that the group can also help with garden and pest questions.

Other MSU Extension gardening projects include the Riverwalk(Saginaw River) across from the Community Center on John F. Kennedy Drive in Bay City, Linwood I-75 Northbound rest stop, Alger I-75 Southbound rest stop, Heritage House in Essexville and the Women's Center.


More gardeners . . . Pretty flowers all in a row. Lending a hand (above) are Leslie Nichols and Doreen Gajewski