On Saturday, May 22 the Rotary Club of Tyrone and Women’s Club of Tyrone along with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy will host a garden planting extravaganza in Tyrone.
More than 30 volunteers are scheduled to meet at the Burger King parking lot and also at the Tyrone American Legion parking lot starting at 8 a.m. to complete landscaping work.
According to Tyrone Rotary Club and Women’s Club member, Rose Black, volunteers are always needed, and if anyone is interested, they are more than welcome to help on Saturday morning at either location.
Bobbi and Jim Ramsay have already completed the preparation work for both projects, including installing the soaker hoses, prepping the ground and other needed tasks.
As with all Conservancy gardens, these are community inspired and are planted and maintained by volunteers.
It is a magical transformation when seemingly overnight blooming flowers appear at key highly visible locations throughout areas such as Tyrone, including at intersections and highway medians.
According to a Western Pennsylvania Conservancy press release, the organization has helped develop hundreds of greening projects in over 170 communities in 20 counties of Western Pennsylvania since 1972.
In each location, a dedicated group of community volunteers such as members of the Tyrone Rotary Club and Tyrone Women’s Club make the planting possible. The springtime change over towns and regions across Western Pennsylvania could not take place without the thousands of volunteers who help make the gardens a reality each year.
The purpose of the gardens is to add visible and vibrant assets to communities, making them more attractive places to live, work and raise families.
“We’ll be planting over 350,000 annual flowers in the next few weeks, and we are always delighted to have new volunteers join with us to work in their communities,” said Western Pennsylvania Conservancy vice president for community conservation Jean Grogan.
“We need people to come out for a day to plant gardens, as well as people willing to serve as garden stewards, to watch over the gardens throughout the season.”
For more information, contact 412-586-2324
