AVALON – The Avalon Garden Club kept with tradition and held its annual Arbor Day ceremony on Friday, April 29th at the Grace O’Brien Park in the community. Avalon Mayor Martin Pagliughi was on hand to help plant a new Crape Myrtle tree at the park, located at 8th Street and Ocean Drive in Avalon. Members of Avalon Borough Council, the Avalon Environmental Commission and the public attended the event.
Lagerstroemi, commonly known as the Crape Myrtle, is a genus of around 50 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs native to the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Northern Australia, and Oceania, cultivated in warmer climates around the world. The genus is named after the Swedish merchant Magnus von Lagerstrom, who supplied Carolus Linnaeus with plants he collected. The leaves are opposite, simple, with entire margins and vary from two to eight inches. The leaves of temperate species provide autumn color.
Arbor Day was first proposed in Nebraska in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton who presented the idea of planting trees in the state to the Nebraska Department of Agriculture. Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world.
The Avalon Garden Club will be involved in many events during the months of May and June in the Borough. On May 7th, the club will host the 17th Annual Yard Sale in Avalon, starting at 9:00am. The club will also host its very popular plant sale on Friday and Saturday, May 13th and 14th inside Avalon Community Hall, at 30th Street and the beach.
For more information on the Avalon Garden Club, visit their website www.avalongardenclub.org.
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