2025 Civic Beautification Awards

Each year, members of our club walk through Charlevoix taking a close look at local businesses that have made a special effort to beautify their exteriors and entrances with plants. This can include gardens, window boxes, planters and pots. Some have the opportunity to create large displays, while other businesses may be limited by space to flower pots near their front entrance.

This year we presented Awards of Distinction to the following:

·       Esperance – recognized for floral and herbal plantings, Larry Moralla, gardener.

·       Edgewater Properties – colorful layers of perennials in their planting beds.

·       Bridge Street Tap Room – creative planters surrounding their patio seating.

·       Bloom Floral Design - for stunning planters on VanPelt Alley.

·       Pepper’s Boutique – colorful planters at the entrance to the boutique.

·       GaGa for Kids – for their pretty pastel window boxes and planters.

·       Bingham Insurance Agency – beautiful and lush perennial garden.

·       Margot and the Parson’s Nose – large window box display.

·       Grey Gables Restaurant – for their hidden garden.

Many other Charlevoix businesses and institutions deserve our thanks and praise for their beautification efforts.

The above card of thanks and encouragement was delivered to:

·       Barron and Engstrom (flagpole planting)

·       Pointes North (perennial plantings of roses and lilies)

·       CSS (outstanding hanging petunias)

·       Ahneen (decorative edibles - strawberries)

·       Berkshire Hathaway (patriotic planter)

·       Tasha’s Tees (colorful flower boxes all summer long)

·       Smoke on the Water

·       Elements

·       North Seas Gallery

·       Charlevoix Insurance Agency (Petunia plantings)

·       Hoop Skirt Alley Planters

·       The Clothing Company (for ferns)

·       Café Meria (varied small plantings proportional to space)

·       American Spoon

·       Aardvark Gallery (creatively planted tub)

·       The Lake House

·       Hot Doggers (Cheerful bank of marigolds)

·       Ugly Duckling Designs - Rustic Planters with pink flowers

·       MacDonald’s - Shrubbery and perennials by drive-through