Biography
Donna graduated with the WCMGA Class of 2022. As a child, Donna saw both grandmothers with lovely gardens including lots of fruits, daffodils, peonies, irises all around. Her mother, in her city home, also planted what she loved from both of her grandmothers. Plants were always talked about as “that came from so-and-so.”
When Donna finally had a little place of earth to tend to, she too, was a recipient of “this plant from so-and-so” and “that plant from them too.” Her little earth through the seasons reminded her of the flower-loving people that she loved.
She can hardly walk through her garden without having sweet memories and moments of the wonderful women that raised her. And now she has plants from her neighbor, Francie Owens (MG Class of 2024) and Linda Horton (dearly missed MG) and daylilies from Wally Hoffman (MG also) and Lenten roses from DeeAnna Carney (MG Class of 2022). So many more people are represented in her garden!
She is multiplying her peonies and irises and other plants, propagating hydrangeas, and sharing tomato harvests with her adult children and with her grandchildren on their little pieces of earth in hopes that someday they will see the love in their garden also.
She has worked at the Junior Gardener Camp the past couple of years and in the Giving Garden Hoop House when she was an intern.