Posts Tagged ‘Janice Williams’

Janice Williams Helps Native Plant Group Ready for Spring Plant Sale

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Janice Williams Helps Native Plant Group Ready for Spring Plant Sale

Janice Williams began volunteering at The Gardens in, approximately, 1986. “I went on strolls through The Gardens with (old friends) Rebecca and LouAnn,” said Williams. “I told them I wanted to work there, too, and they invited me to join them on a Wednesday at the potting shed. I’ve been working there ever since.”

Williams eased her way into The Gardens when Bobbie Kaul invited her and her friend Pat to dig some flowers out of Kaul’s yard and plant them in the wildflower garden. It was during this time she had spent time working in the wildflower garden with Pat, Weesie and Ann.

Since, Williams has missed just one plant sale, one that fell when she was out of the country. She spends her time today with the Native Plant Group, hard at work on April’s Spring Plant Sale.

If you would like to learn more about this year’s Spring Plant Sale, and all of the special events that coincide, we encourage you to visit www.bbgardens.org/springplantsale. To learn more about how you can volunteer at The Gardens, visit www.bbgardens.org/volunteer.

47th Annual Members Celebration at Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Friday, January 20th, 2012

(L to R: Alfreda Kincaid, Bernard Kincaid, Fred Spicer)

The 47th Annual Members Celebration was held at Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Thursday, January 19. Over 200 people attended the sold-out event, formerly known as the Annual Member Dinner. Catering was provided by Kathy G., whose newly renovated The Gardens Cafe is expected to open on February 1. Magic City Harvest Executive Director Paulette Van Matre spoke to the group in the Linn-Henley Lecture Hall about her organization’s long relationship with The Gardens. Each year, The Gardens donates more than 3,000 pounds of food from the Bruno Vegetable Garden to help feed Birmingham’s hungriest. To learn more about how you can become a member at The Gardens and help support its educational goals, visit www.bbgardens.org/membership.

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(Allen Weatherford, Diane Weatherford)

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(Bill Satterfield, Louis Montgomery)

(Bitsy Williams, Babs Simpson)

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(Janice Williams, Mel Cleveland, Mary Carolyn Cleveland, Fred Murray)

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