Zilker Garden Festival Will Soon Be Here

The Austin Area Garden Council’s annual fund raising event, Zilker Garden Festival, will be held at Zilker Botanical Garden on Saturday and Sunday, March 26 and 27. This is an important event in the life of the Austin Area Garden Council and its affiliated clubs and plant societies as this is the main fund raising event that supports the Garden Center.

There is much work that goes into the Zilker Garden Festival, and you are invited (and urged) to participate and donate your time and/or talents to this worthy cause. Many of our members are already actively involved, but more are needed. Our Club has historically been responsible for controlling admission at the main gate. Contact Barry Lovelace or Dick Peterson if you want to volunteer for gate duty. There are a wide variety of other volunteer jobs that need doing such as the information booth, bottled water sales, golf cart driving, tending the plant holding area, kid’s corner, gift shop and others. If you have a preference, get your name in early. Contact our club president, Wilburn Hackebeil, and he will tell you whom to contact.

Zilker Garden Festival tickets will be available at the February 24th meeting. Our Club has about 100 members so we are expected to sell at least 200 tickets. If each member buys just two tickets, that would do it. Tickets are $3 if purchased before March 26 and $7 if purchased at the gate. Where else can you get a full day of entertainment for $3 and know your money is going to a worthy cause? Please buy several tickets, and give some to your friends and neighbors.

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