Creativity sprouts at Belize Garden Club’s display
If you would like to feast your eyes, head out to St Mary’s School where members of the Belize Garden Club are displaying their own hand made creations. Aside from their creativity, the members used ingenuous ways to do the floral arrangements without spending a dime on materials. The training was courtesy of Janet Baughman, who is in the country as part of a cultural exchange program through the Partners of America organization. News Five visited Saint Mary’s Primary School today and found out that while the arrangements are not on sale, Baughman thinks the members of the Garden Club can use what they have learnt this week as an income earner to finance their operations.
Janet Baughman, Partners of the Americas
“I have been here since Monday teaching flowers design and we have been using everything from their own yards; nothing bought. Even the containers and the things that are anchoring the arrangements are from the gardens.
Janet Baughman
No oasis, no anything from the flower shops or a store. And if you wanna look at what they’ve done, that’s the most important thing; to show what you can do with what you have only.”
Delahnie Bain
“So how did this whole initiative come about?”
Janet Baughman
“The Garden Club of Belize wanted someone to come and reach and train for the exposition I believe but it didn’t coordinate to do that way so I’m just here to teach and train. Besides the flowers I’ve been teaching conservation through making paper with the women and the children of the school and I’m doing some other things with them; teaching them to make—we made bookmarks from the paper and I’m teaching the women to press their flowers from the garden and how to do calligraphy, which is a fancy way of writing and they would be able to combine the paper that they make with the pressed flowers and the calligraphy to create note cards and bookmarks that they can sell to support their garden club.”
On display are floral arrangements by twenty women from both the Garden Club and the community. It is open to the public for viewing until Thursday evening.
