A Look at Ongoing Projects, Upcoming Events, and Previous Events
Celebrating World Migratory Bird Day 2021
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The Club will partner with the Village of Whitefish Bay, the Civic Foundation, and the Whitefish Bay Business Improvement District to present a week of Bay Day: April 25- May 1. Learn about World Migratory Bird Day, and protecting and supporting birds. Help protect birds by cleaning up our parks and by planting native pollinator plants in your own yard. CHECK BACK FOR DETAILS. To learn more about World Migratory Bird Day go to Migratory Bird Day 2021 and Environment for the Americas.
HOW TO PLANT a Common Milkweed seedling or to sow from seeds:
Help us weed our butterfly gardens and rain gardens!Join us this summer to weed our public pollinator spaces. Check back to sign up for a week to water and weed.
OPEN MEETINGS: Please join us by requesting an invitation to these Public Virtual Meetings. Include your name, street address, telephone number and email address and the date of the meeting you wish to attend.
ONGOING ACTIVITIES:
Forget-Me-Not Arrangements
The WFB Garden Club sends out lovely flower arrangements to residents who are experiencing difficult times such as illness or grief. It's important our community not feel forgotten when facing life's challenging moments.
Bay Day
The Whitefish Bay Garden Club prepares educational materials and activities for the annual Bay Day, previously known as, Green Day in the Bay. The annual event is hosted by the Whitefish Bay Civic Foundation to promote green activities and to bring awareness to the three Rs of environmental awareness: reducing, reusing, and recycling. Garden Club members host a table where children and adults learn about our Bird City designation and about the World Migratory Bird Day.
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THE WHITEFISH BAY GARDEN WALK
QUILTS IN THE GARDEN SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2017
The Whitefish Bay Quilts in the Garden Walk showcased a diverse array of Whitefish Bay gardens that are environmentally and pollinator friendly. The beauty and bounty of the gardens were enhanced by the artistry of area quilt makers whose designs and color palettes reflected the nature and whimsy in each garden. Thank you for making this event a success by walking with us through these beautiful gardens in Whitefish Bay!
The Garden Club thanks the public for attending our garden walk and making it so successful. Because of you we were able to use the proceeds from our garden walk to make the following donations to organizations in our community
- Isabel Lillie Scholarship Fund
- Teens Grow Greens
- Urban Ecology Center
- Riveredge Nature Center
- Victory Garden Initiative
We could not have been successful without the homeowners who opened their gardens to the public, the quilters who loaned us their works of art, and you who came out to celebrate gardens in the Bay with us.
Thanks to our sponsors for supporting our 2017 Garden Walk: Quilts in the Garden: Thanks to all our sponsors:
The Bay Restaurant, The Green Team, Fringe Home Furnishings, Gerhard's Kitchen and Bath Store, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Yellow Wood, Stone Creek Coffee, City Market, Winkies, Sendik's, Three Wishes, Navy Knot, Oro di Oliva, and Moxie.
The Milwaukee Art Museum: Art In Bloom
The WFB Garden Club has created beautiful entries since 2009, some of which have been featured in event brochures and have been awarded the People's Choice award. The Milwaukee Art Museum's Art-In-Bloom Exhibition invites clubs or florists to interpret a piece of artwork from the museum through a flower arrangement.
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Our 2019 entry was inspired by the piece The Cock of the Liberation by Pablo Picasso. Thank you to those that voted in People's Choice and gave us the Honorable Mention Award.
In 2018, The Whitefish Bay Garden Club's design team created an arrangement inspired by the painting The People's Bank Prior o the Crash.
In 2018, The Whitefish Bay Garden Club's design team created an arrangement inspired by the painting The People's Bank Prior o the Crash.
Butterfly Garden at Cahill Park
The Whitefish Bay Garden Club rescued a butterfly garden in Cahill Square. This garden, which was created many years ago, had been neglected and was threatened with being plowed under by the Village. The club redeveloped this garden to create an educational space for children and adults to appreciate and learn about butterfly gardens. We hope to inspire residents to create their own butterfly habitat at home. To learn more about plantings for a Butterfly Garden, click on our Resources tab.
Garden Club members work hard each fall, preparing the Butterfly Garden for another Whitefish Bay winter. Here, you can learn about the life cycle of monarch butterflies on the beautiful diorama installed by the club; informational pamphlets are included for garden visitors to take home with them. We have also installed many Celebration Stones around the perimeter of the garden, paying tribute to current and past members and friends of the Garden Club. Please visit our Celebration Stones tab if you are interesting in your own Celebration Stone!
Organic Gardening Ad Hoc Committee
The WFB Garden Club is part of a committee to study the use of herbicides/pesticides on the Village green spaces. This is an ongoing project.
Bird City Wisconsin
On March 22, 2012, the Village of Whitefish Bay was given the distinction of becoming a Bird City of Wisconsin member. This is a testament to the care of our green spaces and natural conservation efforts that are part of the Village's smart growth plan. The Whitefish Bay Garden Club led the effort to earn this distinction in conjunction with support from the Civic Foundation and Village Board. During the annual Green Day in the Bay event sponsored by the Civic Foundation, there was an official presentation of the signs and flags to be accepted on behalf of the Village.
Fundraising Activities
The WFB Garden Club raises money to support its community activities
and donate to environmental groups, such as Riveredge (which the club
helped found), the Audubon Society, and other conservation groups. Here is a list of fundraising projects our club has undertaken: The Garden Walk, garden dog decorations, garden leaf vessels, origami flower making, bird feeders, and rain barrel.
Klode Park Weed Out
Do you notice how nice the Klode Park garden beds look at the 4th of July celebration? For many years, the WFB Garden Club has helped maintain the native plant beds and the path down to the beach at Klode Park. Annually since 2012, the club sponsors a weed-out to help maintain the planting beds and keep them herbicide/ pesticide free. Schools, sport clubs, church groups and individuals support our efforts to weed the planting beds and keep our park chemical free. In the future, plans include removing invasive species on the hill and replacing them with native plants.
Do you notice how nice the Klode Park garden beds look at the 4th of July celebration? For many years, the WFB Garden Club has helped maintain the native plant beds and the path down to the beach at Klode Park. Annually since 2012, the club sponsors a weed-out to help maintain the planting beds and keep them herbicide/ pesticide free. Schools, sport clubs, church groups and individuals support our efforts to weed the planting beds and keep our park chemical free. In the future, plans include removing invasive species on the hill and replacing them with native plants.
