The St. Anthony Park Garden Club actively gardens in other ways. |
Incredible Edible
This program is inspired by the Incredible Edible Movement UK to plant food (herbs, vegetables, fruit trees) in public spaces around St. Anthony Park for everyone to share, including Langford Park, College Park, Hendon Triangle, and St. Anthony Park Library. Find out more about Incredible Edible. St. Anthony Park Library gardens The club has planned, planted, and maintained the window boxes and the front lawn beds at our neighborhood library for decades. Beginning in spring 2015, we also began the process of renovating the hill behind the library into a perennial garden. The northeast side of the library's yard (along the side alley) is now home to a pollinator garden, while the hillside behind and to the south (near Como Avenue) presents flowering and foliage plants for all-season interest. Here's a full description of the library gardens as of 2023. Scholarship The Garden Club funds an annual scholarship for one undergraduate student in the University of Minnesota horticulture program. Independence Day Parade In some years, Garden Club members appear in the neighborhood's Fourth of July parade. In 2024, we carried paper flowers created by one of our members. In 2016, we joined with Transition Town – All St. Anthony Park to highlight the role of pollinators. In 2015, members donned flowered hats to let everyone know about the upcoming Garden Tour. State Fair garden The Minnesota State Horticultural Society's garden, just outside the Horticulture building, was maintained and improved by gardeners from our club from 2004 to 2015. |