Watkinsville Garden Club
Welcome to the Watkinsville Garden Club
The Watkinsville Garden Club was formed in 1940 and has over 80 members, both women and men. If you are interested in joining, please come to our next meeting.​
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The garden club meets on the first Thursday of each month at 10 AM, September through June. The usual meeting place is the Union Christian Church, Watkinsville, unless announced otherwise.
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The Watkinsville Garden Club will not meet through the summer. The next meeting of the garden club will be September 4, 2025.
At the June meeting, garden club members celebrated the coming of summer with the annual garden party. Members participated in the contest for the best hat, and the winners are...
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From the left: Joyce Hardigree (1st Prize), Ellen Whitaker (2nd prize), and Lois Kraeling (3rd prize)
The 2025 winner of the Jane Bath Scholarship was announced at the June meeting. Addison Butler, a graduate of North Oconee High School, will attend Berry College in the fall to study Environmental Science.
From the left: Gina Reed, chair of the Scholarship Committee; Jane Bath; Addison Butler, recipient of the Jane Bath Scholarship; and Heidi Butler, Addison's mother
WGC presented a gift to the outgoing President of the club at the June meeting. Blake Giles was the president for the preceding four years, guiding the club through its rebuilding after the pandemic, which interrupted many of the activities of the club for several years.
Lois Kraeling presents an engraved clock to Blake Giles, recognizing his four years as President of the Watkinsville Garden Club.
