Cullman Bicentennial Committee Chairman Drew Green presents a check to Teresa Goodwin of Cullman Master Gardeners. / W.C. Mann
CULLMAN – On Wednesday morning, Cullman Bicentennial Committee Chairman Drew Green presented the Cullman Master Gardeners (CMG) a $700 grant to build a Bicentennial garden for the city. The check was presented at the Cullman County Museum.
Project coordinator Teresa Goodwin explained, “The grant is going to help offset our Bicentennial garden that we’re going to do as an organization, and it’s going to help offset stonework, possibly soil and plants, things of that nature.
“It being Bicentennial, we’re going to try to do some native plants and, of course, a camelia, which is the state flower, and possibly hydrangeas and some more plants like that.”
Once built, the CMG will maintain the garden for the remainder of the Alabama 200 celebration.
CMG is involved in a number of gardening projects in Cullman and around the county, including the rain garden at the North Alabama Agriplex, a demonstration garden on First Avenue Northeast near the Busy Bee Cafe, and a community garden at the intersection of Logan Street Southwest and Cleveland Avenue Southwest. The group is also active at several area schools that have outdoor classroom gardens, and it supports a Junior Master Gardener program. Its plants are popular sale items at the annual Bloomin’ Festival.
CMG President Carole Motter added, “Teresa took this on, and she’s done a fantastic job, and she researched it, and she’s done a lot of hard work, and she applied for this grant in the name of the CMG. We now have it, thanks to her; we couldn’t have done it without her.”
The Master Gardeners will meet with city officials to determine the best location for the Bicentennial garden.
Find out more about Alabama’s Bicentennial celebration at www.alabama200.org.
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