Greetings from the gardens at the North Conway Community Center. It is the first week of summer and our gardens are lush, blooming and as beautiful as ever.
We are fortunate to be a garden site of the Mountain Garden Club. The Mountain Garden Club is a group of hundreds of talented volunteers who support beautification efforts in the Mount Washington Valley. A smaller team of gardeners maintain the incredible gardens around our facility. We frequently notice onlookers who stop by to admire their work and are impressed by the beauty and scale of the flowers.
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