Over 50 grandparents and their grandchildren ate ice cream, made sandcastles and interacted with a newly reimagined sensory garden at the Pleasanton Senior Center during the second annual Party on the Patio.
With a $1,000 grant from the National Garden Club Plant America program, the Livermore-Amador Valley Garden Club recently replanted roses in Hansen Park.
The club came together Saturday, March 20, to replace 38 rose bushes. A group of 24 Garden Club members worked alongside three Livermore Landscape Maintenance employees to get the roses planted.
Wearing masks, the members worked in groups of two or three members from the same âsocial bubble.â Many of the members had received COVID-19 vaccines prior to the event.
âIt went extremely well,â said Dana Boyd, Club co-chair. âWe got all 38 rose bushes planted.â
The group was excited to have a little bit of socializing and see each other again even behind the masks, according to Boyd.
The next meeting of the Livermore Amador Valley Garden Club will host Lorene Edwards Forkner, gardener, artist, designer, writer, editor and educator, speaking on the topic, "Seeing Color in Your Garden -- Nature's Tool for Attention."