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West Valley Garden Club
... serving central and western San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California
Photo Album: 5th Grade Rose Garden
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The Calvert Street Elementary School Rose Garden Club has been sponsored by West Valley Garden Club since 1995. The club consists of all 5th grade students who each adopt a rose bush to care for during the school year.
Each student is given a "Rose Care Manual" and learn to weed, feed, cultivate, mulch, dead-head and in the winter to prune. They watch a video on rose pruning just prior to the annual rose pruning in January. They survive the bugs and worms and learn the good from the bad. They enjoy their roses by sharing bouquets with the school staff and taking them home, use the petals to make potpourri for gifts and learn to propagate with cuttings at pruning time.
Pat Ferrin is the chairman of the project and she and the club members who who help are called the "Gardening Angels". They meet with students on Wednesday mornings to work in the garden.
Each student is given a "Rose Care Manual" and learn to weed, feed, cultivate, mulch, dead-head and in the winter to prune. They watch a video on rose pruning just prior to the annual rose pruning in January. They survive the bugs and worms and learn the good from the bad. They enjoy their roses by sharing bouquets with the school staff and taking them home, use the petals to make potpourri for gifts and learn to propagate with cuttings at pruning time.
Pat Ferrin is the chairman of the project and she and the club members who who help are called the "Gardening Angels". They meet with students on Wednesday mornings to work in the garden.
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