Each Monday for the entire growing season we have people who volunteer to make flower arrangements from flowers grown at the Cancer Victory Garden. These arrangements are then transported to patients via: Hearst Cancer resource Center, Dignity Infusion Center, UCLA Oncology, and Grace Bible Church Arroyo Grande. Here are a few fotos taken in the garden this week! This first beauty was planted by our very own Dr. Deborah VIlla during our Planting Day Event! She was a real trooper and planted in the pouring rain that day! The really FUN part is first cutting the dahlias! This past year due to your generous donations we were able to purchase Dahlia tubers from several growers. I especially like Swan Island Farms in Washington state and Triple Wren Farms. Their selection is fantastic and their blooms are guaranteed! Check out these beauties!! We have a lot of FUN cutting and posing for fotos too! It's hard to spot the real beauties in this fotos right! After we cut enough flowers to make 25 arrangements per week we prepare the vases with cards of encouragement and bows along with floral preserver in the water. The floral designer here, Judith Gier, has all the bows tied and we are off and running! After cutting the team gets to work designing and arranging! Each week we talk about which flowers are blooming and how they might work in arrangements. After we have all our weekly arrangements complete we load them into crates for delivery. Gotta run and make our deliveries now! Have a great week!
Linda Ward, Judith Gier, Judy Sheets, Ken Ward, Dana Wright, & Heather Howell. You TOO are welcome to join us any Monday 9:00am-11:00am in the CVG! Just text me 805.440.3064
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