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The Edmonds Floretum Garden Club is celebrating its 100th anniversary in August. Over the century, the Floretum Club has helped beautify Edmonds by planting corner gardens and hanging baskets, providing labor in the parks, selling locally grown plants, and offering vibrant programs to members and the community at large.

Past projects and activities by the club have shaped Edmonds into the iconic garden city it is now. Frankly, in 1922 Edmonds needed beautifying.

Fourteen ratty, polluting sawmills sat cheek-by-jowl on the Edmonds beach, making shingles. Now, partly because of Floretum's ad...