HARBOR ISLAND GARDEN CLUB
  • HOME
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH
    • WOMAN OF THE YEAR
    • FRIENDS OF HARBOR ISLAND GARDEN CLUB
    • THE GAILLARDIA: OUR CLUB FLOWER
    • ABOUT NATIONAL GARDEN CLUBS INC
    • ABOUT SOUTH ATLANTIC REGION GARDEN CLUBS
    • ABOUT THE GARDEN CLUB OF NORTH CAROLINA
    • CONTACT
  • HARBOR WAY GARDENS
  • ENVIRONMENT
    • BEACH PLANTS
    • COASTAL BIRDS
  • FUNDRAISING
    • DONATE
    • BUY A GARDEN BRICK
    • COOKBOOK
  • ACTIVITIES
    • EVENTS
    • PLANT & PLEIN AIR SALE
    • AZALEA GARDEN TOUR
    • ROOTY RASCALS
    • ARBOR DAY
    • GARDENS AROUND TOWN
    • HOLIDAY DECORATING CONTEST
    • HOLIDAY DECORATIONS
    • GARDEN THERAPY
    • TOWN EMPLOYEE APPRECIATION LUNCHEON
  • YARD OF THE MONTH
    • YARD 2023
    • YARD 2022
    • YARD 2021
  • PRESS
    • AWARDS
    • PRESS 2023
    • PRESS 2022
    • PRESS 2021

ROOTY RASCALS


Since 1984, the Harbor Island Garden Club has sponsored Rooty Rascals, a junior gardening club at Wrightsville Beach Elementary, a K-5 school located on the island of Wrightsville Beach. We work with fifth graders during a year-long, award-winning program to teach them about native plants, gardening, birding, butterflies, and environmental consciousness.  We also make boutonnieres and corsages for each student to wear at their 5th grade graduation. 

​Here's what we're up to now:
Picture

Audubon: Bird Signs 

Rooty Rascals partners with the NC Audubon Society's Bird Steward Program to help educate visitors about protecting the nesting shore birds on the southend of Wrightsville Beach as well as on Masonboro and Lea Islands. The fifth graders create new signs each Spring that are transferred to metal signs and posted around the nesting area. During nesting season, Audubon volunteers are happy to give tours! Thank you Rooty Rascals, Audubon , and the Wrightsville Beach School marine science coordinator for helping to protect our nesting shore birds! 

Christmas Tree Decorating Contest Winners

The Rooty Rascals fifth graders WON the 2022 Wrightsville Beach tree decorating contest using decorations they made themselves from litter they also picked up themselves during a beach cleanup. Congratulations Rooty Rascals!
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

Planting the Garden

Harbor Island Garden Club built raised beds at Wrightsville Beach Elementary to teach all the kids at the school about planting vegetables and eating healthy. The kids plant and tend the garden and, of course, enjoy what they grew.
Picture
Picture

Wrightsville Beach Elementary: Plant, Animal, Bird and Habitat ID Boards

Check this out! We are thrilled to unveil our 2020-21project with Rooty Rascals: Identification Boards. Printed on weather and hurricane resistant aluminum, the new boards were installed by the marine science teaching pier to help students identify the plants, animals, birds, and tidal zone habitats in the marsh next to Wrightsville Beach Elementary School. A big shout out to Wrightsville Beach resident and marine science teacher Cissie Brooks who compiled the information. Hopefully, these boards are just the first of many environmental education projects to help residents and visitors learn about the wildlife around them. 
Picture
Identifying Salt Marsh Plants
Picture
Identifying Salt Marsh Animals
Picture
Wrightsville Beach resident and marine science teacher Cissie Brooks.
Picture
Exploring the Salt Marsh Habitat
Picture
Identifying Salt Marsh Birds

Fifth Grade Graduation Corsages

Harbor Island Garden Club makes corsages and boutonnieres for the fifth grade students graduation from Wrightsville Beach Elementary. This caps off our Rooty Rascals seasons. Best of luck to all in middle school.
Picture
Picture
Picture
Corsage for Fifth Grade Graduation at Wrightsville Beach Elementary.

Copyright 2023. All rights reserved. | Harbor Island Garden Club | PO Box 402 | Wrightsville Beach, NC  28480
​Terms of Use. Privacy Policy. Contact Us.
​
​Member Login
Picture
Picture