March 2026
Audubon Garden Volunteers
Thank you, all you Worker Bees and ParTee Girls who have helped bring the garden back to life over the past couple of weeks. Despite full calendars, you all found time to come prune, plant and pull. And what a difference! Though the freeze killed a lot of the tender tropical foliage, many things are coming back; and judicious pruning by the Bees and the Tees allows all that resurgent growth to flourish.
On Worker Bee Monday, Bob Filebark and Ron Virgin muscled their way through dead limbs and stubborn stumps while Jeff Leswing successfully revitalized the Dutchman’s Pipe. Throughout the morning, Kathy Phillips, Alex Diedrick, Annette Jameson, Susan Atkinson, Lyn Groves, Susan Creighton, Deb Fletcher and Betty Ann Catanzaro all clipped and hauled and dug weeds out of pavers and garden beds.
Though several of the ParTee girls had previous commitments, Ani Kruger, Deb Fletcher, Annie Whatley, Caryn Llewellyn, Janet McCabe, Mare Cappuccino and Liz O’Brien descended on the garden on a Thursday afternoon last month and pruned away dead foliage and filled baskets full of weeds and other invasives.
Thank you everyone for all your hard work. You make our Garden shine!
Celia Montgomery
February 9, 2026
Worker Bee Volunteers
Penne Cuttle, Alex Diedrick, Bob Filebark, Lyn Groves, Margie Keane, John Kelly, Celia Montgomery, Mary Alice Pojanowski, and the dynamic duo Ron and Rose Virgin
January 5, 2026
Worker Bee Volunteers
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Laurie Altornare
Penny Cutler
Anne Diedrick
Alex Diedrick
Bob Filebark
Deb Fletcher
Georgene Grennan
Lyn Groves
Sherry Henderson
Annette Jameson
Ani Kruger
Barbara Leggett
Mary Alice Pojanowski
Linda Renna
Stan Rud
Michael Spence
Diane Spence
Janet Thomas
Chris Thurlow
December 8, 2025
Worker Bee Volunteers
The December 8th Worker Bee included Celia Montgomery, Lyn Groves, Chris Thurlow,
Edel Livermore, Bob Filebark and Alex Diedrick.
The volunteers spread bags of mulch which not only helps with weed control but adds to the beauty of the garden. They also helped with general garden maintenance. Please consider joining us at our next worker bee on January 12th from 10-12.
November 20, 2025
ParTee Girls
Audubon Garden Volunteers
Lin Kruger, Mare Cappuccio Ani Kruger, Deb Fletcher and Betsy Warnock worked away in the garden weeding, raking and spreading bag after bag of mulch. They always leave a beautiful footprint!
Celia Montgomery
November 10, 2025
Worker Bee Volunteers
From left: Janet Thomas, Celia Montgomery, Ron Virgin, Chris Thurlow, Kathy Phillips, Barbara Leggett, Lyn Groves
Photographer & worker bee not pictured: Rose Virgin
October 24, 2025
ParTee Girls
Audubon Garden Volunteers
It was another beautiful morning and the Garden was full of blossoms and butterflies. Thank you again everyone!
September & October 2025
Worker Bee Volunteers
The September 11th worker bee was a particularly special morning appropriately commemorated by a stunning double rainbow. As we await the majority of the worker bee volunteers to return to beautiful Grand Harbor we are so lucky to have Celia Montgomery and Deb Fletcher, two die-hard gardeners who were joined by Alex Diedrick. While we didn't get the turnout we hoped for the bees and butterflies all remained busy pollinating. Still, a lot of weeding and trimming was accomplished in just over an hour and a half until the sky opened up and it poured. The October worker bee found Chris Thurlow with her broken leg healed and back in action!
August 21, 2025
ParTee Girls
Audubon Garden Volunteers
It was a beautiful though warm morning and the Garden was full of blossoms and butterflies and they thank this hardy work crew! Much was accomplished!!
Workers today: Jeanine our organizer; Celia our supervisor; Ani, Betsy, Georgene and Marianne, worker bees. Missing from pics is photographer Deb. Thank you again everyone! Deb Fletcher 🦋
July 31, 2025
ParTee Girls
Audubon Garden Volunteers
HOT and sweaty they felt. Celia called the group ‘Diehards! That’s Betsy Warnock weeding deep in the shade… we all tried to work in the shade. The Butterflies thank you all… photographer Deb Fletcher
June 26, 2025
ParTee Girls
Audubon Garden Volunteers
Group photo from left: Deb Fletcher, Celia Montgomery, Betsy Warnock, Jeanine Nestor, Barbara Reis, Ani Kruger. Photo by: Worker bee Chris Thurlow
Special thanks to all who worked in the Garden this morning. It was a beautiful morning and lots of work was accomplished. All of Audubon and the butterflies thank you!
June 2, 2025
Worker Bee
Audubon Garden Volunteers
June's worker bee was run by GHA leader Celia Montgomery and included Deb Fletcher, Chris Thurlow, Kathy Phillips, Alex Diedrick and Jeff Leswing. A lot of weeding and general maintenance of the garden was accomplished. A special thank you to Jeff Leswing for tenaciously sawing off a big Brazilian Peppertree root, removing the very invasive plant.
May 22, 2025
Audubon Garden Volunteers
ParTee Girls
From left: Betsy Warnock, Celia Montgomery, Kate Burns, Mare Cappuccio, Ani Kruger, Liz Germer, and Annie Whatley.
A big thank you to the Par-tee girls for their ongoing work in the garden every month in memory of their friend and golfing teammate Debbie Lindsey.
April 2025
Audubon Garden Volunteers
The last seasonal worker was held on April 7th. Participants included Laura Belluscio, Karen Campanelli, Deb Fletcher, Jeff Leswing, Edel Livermore, Kathy Phillips and Chris Thurlow. The group worked on garden maintenance and added some new planting to the garden.
A couple weeks after the worker bees, under the leadership of members the ParTee Girls golf group volunteered in the garden and continued with maintenance in preparation for the Garden party on April 29th.
Thank you, one and all!