Garden Club

The Bella Vista Garden Club recently received an award from National Garden Clubs Inc. for Overall Winner for Radio and/or TV Programs. The NGC is an organization comprised of 50 state garden clubs with over 165,000 members in 5,000 member garden clubs nationwide.

Bella Vista Gardening is a monthly television program produced by Geri Hoerner, past president of the BVGC and a Benton County Master Gardener. Guests appear each month to talk about different gardening subjects. They also discuss a “things to do in your garden” each month.

The program can be seen on Cox Cable Channel 222 at 8 p.m. Wednesday and 8:05 a.m. Saturday. The program is also shown on AT&T U-Verse by selecting BVTV Channel 99. All programs can be viewed on YouTube.

The BVGC is a member of the South Central Region of Garden Clubs Inc. as well as the Arkansas Federation of Garden Clubs. In addition to the national award, the club also received three awards from the South Central Region during the recent 2018 convention in Texas and 13 awards from the Arkansas Federation of Garden Clubs. A listing of all awards can be found on the home page of the garden club’s website

The Bella Vista Garden Club meets at 11 a.m. on the fourth Wednesday of the month at the Bella Vista Community Church, 75 E. Lancashire Blvd. The next meeting will be Sept. 26. Guests and new members are always welcome.

Information: bellavista

gardenclub.com.

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