Nine members of Great Bend Garden Club met for their March meeting with Jennine Girton acting as hostess. During the business meeting, led by president Nancy Williams, it was decided to again furnish and care for the flower pots located at the Great Bend Senior Center. Work has not yet begun on the Great Bend Cemetery Memorial Garden.

Alice Young presented the morning’s program with a quick history of the origin of greeting cards first in England up to 1907 when they began being made also in America. Early on they were called penny postcards. In 1945 the American Hallmark Card Company was started and their contribution began the proliferation of all types of greeting cards today. Alice also shared samples of a variety of interesting older and antique greeting cards. Then Alice provided all of the Garden Club members attending the meeting with blank greeting cards with envelopes – one completely blank and two with pretty muted frames for new floral designs to be added. So with a large selection and variety of beautiful flowers and bird stickers for the members to use in designing their own greeting cards, Alice gave directions on how to prepare and use the stickers. Everyone then created their own designs with the delicate and pretty flower stems and blossoms and the beautifully colored variety of birds.

The next Garden Club meeting will be at 10 o’clock on April 17 in the Great Bend Senior Center meeting room. Visitors are welcome.