The 23rd Annual Spring Garden Symposium helps gardeners prepare for spring

ZANESVILLE, Ohio – The first day of spring is March 20th and the Red, White and Bloom event helped gardeners prepare for the season.

The Muskingum Valley Garden Society held their 23rd Annual Spring Garden Symposium at the Ohio University Zanesville & Zane State Campus Center on Saturday. The garden society supports local gardeners while bringing them together through community gardening efforts which you may have seen in downtown Zanesville.

“We beautify all of Muskingum County, Zanesville. The big thing that people notice are our planters downtown,” said Vicki Burke, president of the Muskingum Valley Garden Society. “In the spring/summer we have beautiful flowers and plants and then in the winter season we do holiday decorations. So they’re the large planters on, all throughout downtown, 180 of them.”

In honor of the United States 250th birthday this year, the them was a patriotic Red, White and Bloom. Saturdays event that featured six guest speakers, local vendors and gardeners, and a silent auction to benefit the Muskingum Valley Gardening Society.

“We have it every year and people love it because it gets them ready for spring. We have items such as a tool shed that one of our members built,” Burke said. “We have some gardening tools and things, a lot of hand made items that, you know, help you to thing spring, bird baths. So everything that a person would be interested in when they’re getting ready for spring. ”

You can learn more about the Muskingum Valley Garden Society by visiting their website at MVGardenSocity.com.