The Plant City Garden Club and the kids from Everyday Blessings celebrated Florida’s Arbor Day on Jan. 15 by planting a magnolia tree together.
The tree was donated to the groups by Eddy Evans of Complete Landcare. Garden Club members brought the shovels, George Domedion helped with the heavy lifting and the kids got to digging.
Arbor Day, a national holiday, originated in Nebraska in April 1872 and eventually spread to all 50 states, though they do not all celebrate the holiday at the same time. Florida’s Arbor Day, Garden Club member Jan Griffin said, is held on the third Friday of January because trees are currently dormant and planting new trees now gives them “a good start before our weather gets too hot.”