Virginia TACF staffed a combined exhibit with Mill Mountain Garden Club at the Garden Club of America meeting in Roanoke on October 9-11. The Mill Mountain Garden Club has 100 members in the Roanoke Valley. The meeting was attended by nearly 100 members from all over the United States, but primarily from Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and West Virginia. Their exhibit, entitled “American Chestnut: Tree Of Hope,” focused on the partnership among the Mill Mountain club, The American Chestnut Foundation, and the City of Roanoke. The club was awarded a first place ribbon as well as the Marion Thompson Fuller Brown Conservation Award for an outstanding conservation exhibit at a Garden Club of America Flower Show. The Garden Club has been maintaining a 2010 demonstration planting of 5 B3F3 chestnut trees, and they are all doing well.
Janet Frantz, Forrest Moore, Carl Absher and Cindy Simonds
