A Note from the President
A Garden Club of Senoia membership is an exciting new beginning for all of us. This is an opportunity to meet other women socially with common interests, to learn from each other as we volunteer time to beautify the historic downtown, and gardens in the City of Senoia.
Our participation will make the difference between a good community, and a great community, one gardening project at a time.
Meet the Executive Board
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Kimberly Peacock, President
Kim joined the Garden Club in 2021, with an idea to connect socially with women that share diverse talents, and like interests. A life long Georgian, she recently moved into her charming, newly constructed, home in beautiful Senoia. Her professional experience taught her the value of the home landscape, how it enriches your life, and looks forward to enhancing her gardens with the guidance from many Garden Club colleagues.
Growing up in Georgia, Kim enjoyed exploring nature, and outdoor sports as a child. She now enjoys golfing, pickle ball, playing in the soil as she gardens, and traveling.
An Associate Broker and Realtor, Kim spent 25 years in the global logistics business and is a licensed Customs Broker. She has been a Real Estate agent for 11 years and thoroughly enjoys it. She has a full family life with one son, three grandchildren, and a great grandchild that keeps her plenty busy.
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Julie Schafer, Co-Vice President
Learning by doing has developed Julie’s love for gardening. Julie has been in the garden since she was old enough to pick,string and snap the green beans from her grandmother’s garden as well as cut flowers in her mother’s flowerbed. From those times in the gardens she remembers learning the value of woman gathering and lifting each other up through a common bond of gardens.
Julie has continued to expand her gardening skills in several parts of the country; the Midwest, Coastal Carolina, South Texas and Georgia. It is always fun to learn how to garden in new areas and environments.
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Roxann Ward, Co-Vice President
After working for many years in the Atlanta landscaping industry, Roxann is thankful to have found a group of like-minded people in the Garden Club of Senoia who share her interest in growing plants. She inherited her love for gardening from her maternal grandparents, who owned a chrysanthemum nursery in Salem, Oregon in the 1940’s. She enjoys experimenting with new plants, especially flowering shrubs, and helping people learn about gardening in the South. She is an author of Color-Rich Gardening for the South.
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Jessica Kreigbaum, Secretary
Jessica as born in South Carolina but has lived all over the United States and a few years in the United Kingdom. She moved to Senoia in May 2023 and joined the Garden Club of Senoia as a way to meet people in the community and to learn how to have a greener thumb that she desperately looks to achieve. Since 2019 she has managed to keep quite a few house plants alive and finds that success a source of encouragement to further her knowledge about gardening techniques. She loves to travel, the challenges of puzzle making, and socializing over coffee with friends. Her creative side leans toward designing home projects for her husband to build or renovate, browsing antique shops, and hunting down unusual Christmas decorations to add to her growing collection.
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Lori Nelson, Correspondence Secretary
Lori moved to Senoia in 2020 and immediately joined The Garden Club of Senoia excited to forge new friendships and actively contribute to her community. She enjoys the fellowship of working alongside other Senoia residents who aspire to create a beautiful place to call home.
A native Southerner, Lori’s interest in gardening is rooted in her childhood expriences picking peas and strawberries with her Nana. She has had the opportunity to nurture an urban established city garden and maintain a 30-acre horse farm where she bred and competed on Arabian horses.
Educated as a biologist, Lori has been a lifelong lover of the outdoors and spends her spare time exploring the fungi, flora, and fauna of our Southern forests. Aside from gardening her hobbies include painting and writing. She can be found walking her two Border collies around Senoia.
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Teresa McCarthy, Treasurer
Teresa was born and raised here in Georgia, a resident all her life. She inherited her love for gardening from her mother and grandmother, who were both passionate gardeners. She grew up surrounded by beautiful blooms, abundant fruits, and vegetables. Strolling through a beautiful garden or creating a beautiful floral arrangement brings joy and peace to her life.
Serving fifteen years in the banking industry before retiring to dedicate more time enjoying her family, grandchildren, playing tennis, cycling, long walks, and happy hours spent gardening. She looks forward to serving alongside the women in The Garden Club to help make Senoia a beautiful place to live.
~It All Begins With An Idea~
In September 2019 our founder, Carol McMackin, had an idea. The result: In January 2020 the gathering of the founding members of the first garden club in Senoia’s history. Twenty-four women were brought together with the goal of developing friendships while benefiting the community. And so began the story of The Garden Club of Senoia, a story that is filled with Southern charm, the abundance of afternoon discussions on a wide porch, spring luncheons, and impromtu sidewalk conversations to plan garden projects that will beautify Senoia.
Monthly, we meet at the Stone Lodge for educational presentations, committee consultations, and social exchanges, nourished with homemade sweet and savory bites prepared by our members. Each month we anticipate welcoming new members who share our love of beauty and community, who want to join this lovely group of ladies who volunteer to imbue this town full of nature’s wonder.
We are always ready to greet the crowd as they arrive early, in hopes to be the first through the garden gates to our Spring Garden Tour or An April Affair luncheon in the garden. The start of Senoia’s spring social season is a day our guests anticipate each year with excitement, when our Garden Club members put on their favorite garden party hats and work together in perfect harmony.
In the simplest of terms, we are passionate about the beautification of Senoia. While we engage the community with elegant afternoon fundraising events that help us achieve our goals, we create a women’s social experience, work toward the preservation of our historic gardens, and create new natural garden spaces within the city. We are also committed to encouraging community awareness and knowledge through education, conservation of our natural resources, appreciation of historic garden preservation , and protection of an environment that will encourage wildlife.