After a long hiatus due to COVID, the Brighton Michigan Garden Club is meeting again in person.

Join us on September 9, 2021 when our featured speaker will be Kimberly Holback, presenting “Visual Garden Journals and Botanical Sketchbooks.” Kimberly will describe how she uses sketchbooks and “visual journals” to plan a garden, document flowers or fully experience beautiful moments outdoors.

This workshop will introduce basic techniques for creating a personalized and visual garden journal (no artistic experience required) and lots of inspirational ideas and resources to start your own journey.

An interactive portion of the presentation will include a guided art project. There is a $1.50 fee per person to purchase a journal.

Meeting Schedule
10 a.m. – Doors open
10:30-11 a.m. – Business Meeting
11 a.m.-12 p.m. – Luncheon
12-1 p.m. – Guest speaker

The Brighton Michigan Garden Club meets at the Brighton Community Center, located at 555 Brighton Street in Brighton, Michigan.

Hope to see you there!

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We hope to start meeting again in September. Check back for our schedule.

Attend the November meeting of Brighton Garden Club to learn about land conservancy and why it matters.

Sara Thomas, a founding member of Livingston Land Conservancy and the current Land Acquisition Chair of the group, will speak about the history of the Conservancy, how land protection works and why it is so vital for the future of human health, diversity of species and fighting climate change. She will also share ways that we can help the organization with its work.

Brighton Garden Club meets the second Thursday of every month September through June at the Brighton Community Center, located at 555 Brighton Street in Brighton. Our business meeting begins at 10:30 a.m., followed by lunch and socializing at 11 a.m. and our featured speaker at noon.

Join us!

If you love a good yarn, this month’s featured presentation is for you.

“A Garden to Die For: Poison Plants and Evil Herbs” is full of fascinating stories combining botany, history and the pharmacological effects of many well-known plants. Advanced Master Gardener Arla McPeek is the presenter.

Brighton Garden Club meets the second Thursday of every month September through June at the Brighton Community Center, located at 555 Brighton Street in Brighton. Our business meeting is at 10:30 a.m., followed by lunch and socializing at 11 a.m. and our featured speaker at noon.

Join us!

No garden is too big or too small to benefit from a water feature, says Brian Kerschbaum from Waterscape, Inc. He is the featured speaker for our September meeting.

The meeting will be held on Thursday, September 12 at 10:30 a.m. at the Brighton Community Center, located at 555 Brighton Street in Brighton.

Meetings begin with a discussion of club business at 10:30 a.m., followed by lunch and socializing at 11 a.m. and our featured speaker at noon.

Join us!

The Brighton Garden Club and the Brighton Veterans Memorial Committee will be honoring the women of the Greatest Generation at 10 a.m. on August 14, 2019 as two special Rosie the Riveter rosebushes are added to the garden at the Veteran’s Memorial at Mill Pond Park.

“Rosie the Riveter” is the nickname for the millions of female workers who stepped in to fill critical jobs left behind when men were called to fight in World War II. These hard-working women built the tanks, ships and planes that the Allies needed for victory. In an era when women were not expected to work outside of the home and female factory workers were rare, the “Rosies” also proved that “We Can Do It!”

The rosebushes are provided by the Willow Run Chapter of the American Rosie the Riveter Association (ARRA) as part of an initiative to plant over 80 Rosie the Riveter rosebushes in Michigan this season. ARRA was founded in 1998 by the WWII “Rosies” themselves for the purpose of providing fellowship and preserving their stories and legacy. The ARRA has over 6,000 members nationwide, with over 500 members in Michigan.

The roses are of a new variety called the “Rosie the Riveter Floribunda Rose” developed by Weeks Roses to honor the female home front workers of WWII. This hardy variety of rose has a beautiful orange-red bloom and will bloom continually throughout the season.

“We are delighted that the Brighton Veterans Memorial is providing a permanent home for some of our Rosie the Riveter rosebushes,” says Nancy J. Zajac, president of the Willow Run Chapter of ARRA, “And we hope that they will add beauty to the Memorial while representing the important wartime contributions of the ‘Rosies’.”

“The Rosie the Riveter rosebushes will be a wonderful addition to the garden at our Veterans Memorial, and will allow the ‘Rosies’ of WWII to symbolically take their place in support of our servicemen and women, just as they did in WWII,” says Brighton Garden Club member Jane Wilson.

The next regularly scheduled meeting of Brighton Garden Club is Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. We meet at the Brighton Community Center, located at 555 Brighton Street. We’d love to see you there.

In the meantime, visit one of the eight community gardens Brighton Garden Club maintains:

Brighton Children’s Garden (Millie’s Garden) in back of the Brighton District Library, located at 100 Library Drive 
Memorial Garden in front of the Brighton Post Office, located at 100 Orndorf 
Sculpture Garden, located on Main Street just east of Grand River 
Veterans Memorial Garden, located on Main Street at the millpond 
Main Street planter boxes, located on Main Street at the millpond 
Victory Garden, located on the grounds of Brighton NC Machine Corporation, at 7300 Whitmore Lake Road 
Livingston County Humane Society, located at 2464 Dorr Road 
Brighton Community Center, located at 555 Brighton Street

See you in September!

Visit Brighton Garden Club’s display at the Community Garage Sale on Saturday, July 20 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Brighton High School, located at 7878 Brighton Road in Brighton.

Shop seasonal décor, tools, toys, home décor, books, small appliances, dishes, glassware and more.

Proceeds from the sale will help fund Brighton Garden Club’s community gardens and other philanthropic activities.

Brighton Garden Club is thrilled that Millie’s Garden, the children’s garden at Brighton District Library that our club maintains, was selected to be on LACASA’s garden tour this year. The library is located at 100 Library Drive in Brighton, and Millie’s Garden is in the back.

The tour is Saturday and Sunday, July 13 and 14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Attendees will have the opportunity to visit Millie’s Garden plus eleven other remarkable gardens throughout Livingston County. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at garden entrances. Proceeds benefit abused children and victims of interpersonal violence. For more information visit https://lacasacenter.org/garden-tour-2019.