Club Updates
Home and Garden Tour
We will not be hosting a Home and Garden Tour this year
- The local American Camellia Society sent us information on membership forms, if any of the HIGC members are interested. Membership fee is $25 single; $27 joint. The form will designate other options for membership.
- Alice Baker and Estelle Baker represented Harbor Island Garden Club by placing an floral arrangement in one of the Historic Homes on Third Street for the annual Cape Fear Garden Club's Christmas Historic Home Tour. Alice did a fantastic job with the floral design.
- Any one interested in placing a brick engraved with a special message in Habor Way Gardens, (as a memorial or to honor someone) may contact Peggy Gentry at 256-8845. The cost of the brick and engraving is $100.
- When weather permits, Harbor Way Garden will be undergoing some changes in landscaping design. Dot Balkcum, Rene Wheat, Becky Barbee Perniciaro met with Durwood Sykes for suggestions. Club members will be contacted to work with your group when the changes take place.
The Tour of Homes
The Fourth Annual Tour of Homes will be held on Friday, May 15, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 5 pm. We are featuring 6 Wrightsville Beach homes. All of the houses are waterfront (sound and ocean) and are a mixture of new and old structures.
The Wrightsville Beach Beautification Program
In 2008 along with the Wrightsville Beach Merchants Association and the Town of Wrightsville Beach, we began the Wrightsville Beach Beautification Project. This is a long range master plan to update and revitalize the downtown business area of our beach including the reworking of our sidewalks, new flower beds, trees, plants, benches, outdoor seating areas, moving of existing power and phone lines, lamp post lighting and signage.
The Brick Program
Harbor Way Garden, a 36,400 square foot public garden at the gateway of Wrightsville Beach, continues to be one of our main projects. A stroll in the garden offers butterfly benches, a children’s playhouse with miniature seating, hopscotch and a swing, memorial benches and trees, a variety of coastal plantings and our brick pathway.
Club History
The Harbor Island Garden Club was organized in 1952 for women who lived on Harbor Island, which was not a part of Wrightsville Beach at the time. Later, in the sixties, when Wrightsville Beach annexed Harbor Island, the club opened up its membership to include women living on the beach.
