Year in review: Point Roberts Garden Club

For more than a decade now the Point Roberts Garden Club has been responsible for the landscaping on each side of Tyee Drive, from Benson Road to Gulf Road consisting of feature berms with perennials, grasses and wildflowers connected by more than 40 liquid ambar trees and flower beds full of thousands of daffodils and wildflowers in the spring.

It’s worth mentioning this project has not been maintained and developed by a government municipality (like the lovely roses and palm trees we see coming through Tsawwassen), but rather by our Point Roberts community through its support of the Garden Club’s biennial garden tour and volunteers who have put in many hours, whether with the Tour or actual hands-on work on Tyee Drive.

The Garden Club has immense gratitude for both.

Funds from our Garden Tour and plant sale go to this beautification project through the purchase of soil, mulch, plants, equipment and occasional professional help.

This year we planted hundreds of new plants to start the creation of a “Pollinator Corridor” along Tyee Drive.

Most significantly this year also saw the approval by county council for the use of some transportation benefit district funds (aka TBD or the gas tax) to help with maintenance of the Tyee beautification project.

This is a fantastic help, since our members’ knees and backs have all been going out the last few years.

The year has not just been spent working on Tyee. At our monthly meetings at the Point Roberts Community Center, we had presentations on diverse subjects ranging from preparations for the spring garden, to the initiatives of the Earthwise Society, to garden insects of North America. For one of our meetings, West Coast Seeds gave us a tour of their ½-acre garden, where they are experimenting with seed trials of new varieties of vegetables, herbs, flowers and other things.

We like to have some of our meetings at members’ gardens when the weather is nice, so many of our meetings were also spent sharing gardening tips and socializing while browsing through lovely gardens around the Point.

The Point Roberts Garden Club meets at 7 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month February through October at the community center on Gulf Road. All are welcome.

You can contact us at pointrobertsgardenclub.org.