Village Green Garden Club dedicates 50th anniversary tree
Village Green Garden Club members recently met on the grounds of Farragut Town Hall to dedicate a Fringe tree (Chionanthus virginicus) planted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their club.
A description of the tree, which is native to the eastern U.S., was read, poems were shared and a member, Marilyn Ramsay, composed a poem, “Our Tree,” just for the occasion.
Village Green Garden Club meets the second Monday each month from September through May at Village Green Club House. New members are welcome.
For more information, contact Kathy Tidwell at 865-966-9995 or tidwellk@tds.net.
OUR TREE
We’ve come here on this wint’ry day
Together — our respects to pay.
To our tree — it’s rather small.
It isn’t very big at all.
Springtime will bring leaves of green,
And soon lovely blossoms will be seen.
Later on it will provide
A place for birds; their nests to hide.
One day its branches will stretch wide
Shading those who walk or ride
Along the path that is below.
They’ll read the plaque, and they will know.
Someday we will walk this way,
And to another we will say;
“There’s our tree! It is our own,
With sun and rain, how tall it’s grown!”
Our Tree
Marilyn Ramsay
