Milton Garden Club to exhibit at Holly Festival Dec. 13

The Milton Garden Club will exhibit in the annual Holly Festival event Saturday, Dec. 13, at the Milton Fire Hall on Front Street. The featured items will be their signature Williamsburg-style boxwood and magnolia leaf wreaths, one of which is shown. Other wreaths will be available too, including plain boxwood wreaths and mixed-greens wreaths.

Sandy Winterbottom, Milton Garden Club Holly Festival chair, said, “We are taking orders for these wreaths. Last year we were sold out of both the boxwood/magnolia leaf and the plain boxwood wreaths a few minutes past 9 a.m. We are also taking orders for a two-candle centerpiece of mixed greens, cones and pods.”

The garden club will also be selling bunches of greens, swags, small arrangements, table centerpieces, bows, pine cones and pods. Raffle tickets for the Dessert of the Month will also be available. The December dessert is 12 dozen cookies (one dozen each of 12 different kinds of homemade cookies). The other desserts of the month throughout the year include various pies, cakes, and confections. Raffle tickets are $1 each or six for $5. The winner will be drawn at 3 p.m. at the close of the festival. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and admission is free.

The Milton Garden Club is a nonprofit organization whose main goal is to make Milton beautiful with flowers. The members plant and maintain 10 public gardens and over 50 planters, and change the plants seasonally.  The Holly Festival is one of their two major fundraisers along with the annual home and garden tour. The 2015 tour will be the second Saturday in July. For more information about the garden club, Holly Festival or the 2015 tour or to order a wreath or centerpiece, call 302-684-3804 or visit www.themiltongardenclub.org.

For more information, contact Kathryn Greig at 302-684-3804 or go to www.themiltongardenclub.org.