Lower Macungie Garden Club was a Hit on TV!

When joining a garden club, you think about learning about plants and participating in garden type things, right?  Yes, and that's what happens at the Lower Macungie Garden Club meetings. 

What also happens is that we take what we know from experience and, for some of us, what we have learned formally in a school setting and bring it to the community at large via the air waves. 

The Lower Macungie Garden Club was invited back to WFMZ's Early Morning Show with reporter Melanie Falcon at the helm. Karen Guido, "horticulturist extrordinare" began the segments at 6:25am discussing the importance of hardening off seedlings grown indoors. This was followed at 7:25am by me, talking about what to consider when beginning to container garden. And last, but by no means least, at 8:25am Art and Janet Persing discussed the differences in mulch and the importance of mulching. 

Keeping in mind that these segments are only two and a half minutes long, it's sometimes difficult to say everything needed in that amount of time.  Somehow it all manages to come out all right and even though it is very early in the morning, we shine through. 

We can't discuss this event without thanking Vice President Debby Koepcke for opening her home at 5:30am to all of us trooping in with our props and excitement. She had the coffee on and there were goodies to keep us going throughout the morning. Member Helen Kessler came out for moral support and to lend a hand and advice where needed, not to mention all of our members watching at home cheering us on, cups of coffee in hand. Karen's segment on the WFMZ was terrific. 

You just never know where life will take you once you get involved.  All I'll say is that once you are involved you find yourself learning and growing not just with others, but personally because you do things and go places you never thought possible. 

It leaves me with a thought about a quote I once read that said, "What would you do if you knew you would not fail?"  If you said nothing, then think about mustering up your courage and charging forth to bring some good into your space in the world by getting involved whether it is in a garden club or something else that interests you.  In my experience, becoming involved has been one of the best things that has ever happened to me.