Fort Lauderdale Garden Club, Inc.
3109 E Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
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Winners and students off to camp.
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Students from Fort Lauderdale elementary schools head off for a The Fort Lauderdale Garden Club has funded annual environmental camperships since 1940. This year, 169 Fort Lauderdale students submitted 839 entries in spring Flower shows at Fort Lauderdale elementary schools and earned points for camperships. Camperships were awarded to 41 students. The students were taken by tour bus to beautiful Camp Wekiva in Wekiwa Springs State Park for a week of environmental nature camp. |
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Jad Alsaghah, 6th grader from Sunrise Middle School, has won a National Garden Club Award for his sculpture of a “Trigger Fish.” Jad entered the contest this spring through the Fort Lauderdale Garden Club’s youth program. Founded in 1927, the Fort Lauderdale Garden Club has sponsored youth gardening and environmental programs in Fort Lauderdale schools for decades. The club sponsors annual youth flower shows, environmental camperships and sculpture, poetry and essay contests – all focused on the joys of gardening, nature and the importance of protecting our environment. |
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"Celebrating 90 Years" a Standard Flowere Show with Plants and Design Artistry
click below for show photos
HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY
FORT LAUDERDALE GARDEN CLUB
All Garden Club programs are open to the public,
we are a not-for-profit organization.
District XI (Broward County) and District XII (Miami-Dade County)
are co-sponsoring NGC's Flower Show School
Click for the Brochure in PDF
Course 1 start November 12 - 14, 2018 at Fort Lauderdale's Garden Center.
This course is open to everyone, whether you want to
become an NGC Flower Show Judge or not.
There are four courses in the series,
and you must take Course 1 in order to continue on to Course 2, 3, and 4.
Want to Join the Club, click here
Bromeliad Achemea "Sundance"
Fort Lauderdale Garden Club meet at the Glenn F. Bates Garden Center
Glenn F. Bates Garden Center is located inside Hugh Taylor Birch State Park
on Sunrise Boulevard just east of A1A in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Hugh Taylor Birch State Park
3109 East Sunrise Boulevard,
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Click below for
Before and After photos of Hurricane Irma damage to the Garden Center
Click for photos from "Broadway in the Park"
a Standard Flower Show, April 8-9, 2017
The Fort Lauderdale Garden Club, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Two of the blue ribbon winners from the “Little Schoolhouse”, BFF Intermediates & 4H Club
Flower Show click for more photos:
STOP ZIKA MOSQUITOES
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The Fort Lauderdale Garden Club, Inc. is an organization committed to:
Stimulating the love of gardening in our members and in our community:
Encouraging the study of plant life and the cultivation and growing of flowers,
trees and shrubs.
These are just a few of our mission statements, come to a meeting and be a part of a
group that enjoys learning and growing together.
Purple Torenia Flowers
The Fort Lauderdale Garden Club (FLGC) are members of the following organizations:
DSR (Deep South Region)
NGC (National Garden Clubs)
FFGC (Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. District XI
| The Goals of Our Organization Are | Our Ongoing Projects Include |
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Education Charity & Public Welfare To encourage the cultivation, growth and To stimulate the knowledge and To assust in preserving our environment |
The Annie Beck Library see the Annie Beck Story Youth Gardending / Wekiva Youth Camp An Adult and a Youth Flower Show Horticulture Education & Floral Design We are instrumental in the placing of the Blue Star Memorial on our Highways. We maintain a Speaker Bureau & encourage Bird Habitats. A lovely Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden surround our headquarters in Birch State Park. |
The Fort Lauderdale Garden Club, Inc.,
(formerly
Federated Garden Circles of Fort Lauderdale, Inc.) is
a member of:
The
American Horticulture Society
Flamingo Gardens
The Florida
Audubon Society
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Link to District X1 Director Joanne Nelson
We support the partnership between
National Garden Clubs and Habitat for Humanity by donating monetarily and physically
by joining with volunteers from other organizations in landscaping
Habitat homes in Broward County.
In the year 2006, the Club was recognized for
their ongoing work
and was awarded the Emerald
Award Broward County's highest environmental award.
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