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By HELEN HOLSCHUH
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
On Dec. 6 at 5 p.m., the Rappahannock County Garden Club finished up the last wreath, tied the last bow and delivered the last garland for 1990.
The ladies of the Garden Club have been doing this for 20 years to supply scholarships for Rappahannock students to attend Nature Camp, and every year the club has a hard time supplying all the wreaths and garlands asked for and they have to turn down many orders because of the logistics involved.
Preparation begins in late summer,- when an inventory of supplies, wreath frames, florists pins, wire, ribbon and binder twine is taken and needed supplies are ordered. Then in late October, early November, begins the hunt for willing land owners who will allow their white pines to be trimmed, their boxwood snipped, and their cones picked up.
This year in order to make 108 wreaths, 20 door swags, and 228 feet of garland, it took five pickup truck loads of white pine, 28 large plastic bags of boxwood, five truck loads of mixed greens, including juniper, cedar, spruce, Virginia pine, yew, and others; five grocery bags of magnolia leaves, five grocery bags of spruce and white pine cones and four commercial spools of four-inch red ribbon.
The Garden Club members each pledge to give at least two full days during the week, but in the week before, a regular army of “cutters” isout in the county cutting the greens needed and hauling them to the Washington Fire Hall. The Garden Club prides itself that all greens are less than a week, and most only a day or^two old, when the wreaths are made.
The gathered greens are kept watered down to assure freshness. The boxwood is actually “washed” to
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