FROGS Talk
by Ivy Sinaiko, FROGS President
Ivy Sinaiko, FROGS President (Photo credit: John Richards)
Well, we never thought life would be like this, did we? The last few months have been a unique experience for everyone, including the staff at Green Spring Gardens and the Friends of Green Spring.
Unfortunately, most of the activities we had planned for 2020 had to be cancelled. However, one bright spot has been the new-found appreciation of Green Spring Gardens by many people tired of looking at their four walls. Many of the visitors have been newcomers to the gardens. We hope they decide to join us as FROGS! Visitors have been generous in their contributions to our donation boxes in the parking lot, for which we are grateful.
I’d like to give a special thanks to our communications team, who have kept us from disappearing from our members. I have thoroughly enjoyed the photos of not only Green Spring but also private gardens that I would not have otherwise seen. I am thankful this pandemic, if it had to come, came in the spring, when gardeners and photographers had an outlet for their energy and creativity.
Several dedicated volunteers have sewn masks for the Green Spring staff and volunteers, and we greatly appreciate their generosity, not to mention their talent.
I’m delighted that the plant shop at Green Spring, for which I had been pining, has opened for phone-in orders. I hope you will join me in supporting this effort. To order, see the plant list/order form on the Garden Gate Plant Shop webpage.
Thanks for not forgetting us—for walking the Green Spring grounds, making donations, sending photos, sewing masks, buying plants. In times like these, we particularly need and appreciate your support. We are all in this together. Please stay healthy and hang in there with us.
