Students in the Wareham High School Garden Club recently received The Regional Garden Project Award from the National Garden Clubs, Inc. for the Handicapped Accessible Garden they designed and installed at Wareham High School. The award check was presented by Kathleen Coyle, President of the Wareham Garden Club.

The winning garden features raised planters that allow mobility-impaired gardeners to plant and care for plantings more easily. Students will use their award money to install fencing around the garden and make additional upgrades.

"The students in the club maintain most of the gardens on the high school campus," said faculty advisor Judy Whiteside.

She and faculty co-advisor Mike Collins oversee the care students give to the courtyard garden and several perennial gardens that students have created.