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Celebrate Garden
Week with FLGC
Members
only Day
and
Please
take note The South Florida Today Show will now be on at 11 AM
The NBC
6 'Florida Today' Show
is broadcasting 5 minute "Gardening Tips" segments presented by
our very own Garden Club members! Tune in and enjoy.
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| May
15 |
Rose
Bechard Buttman - Butterfly Gardens
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| May
29 |
Kids Day
Donna Parker and Ann Schandelmayer
will present "Fun with Flowrs"
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Flower
Show Schedule - newest version
02/29/08
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NBC 6 Video Links
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See them again, click here
NBC
6 Video and
click the SEARCH tab then in the box enter 'garden tips.
Wait a minute and take your pick!
With water restrictions and
little rain causing problems for many South Florida gardens,
you may be interested in plants that don't need a lot
of water. Peg
McPherson with the Everglades
Foundation shared some tips. For more information visit
www.evergladesfoundation.org
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Make a Difference
in the Environment: Click
Here
12 things you can do in your yard that will reduce your footprint
on the planet.
PHotos from a Fabulous Flower Show! Congratulations
Jane!
photos
"Gardening
Is For The Birds"!" By M.E. DePalma -Click to see the
Video
Useful links: Landscaping to
Attract Birds in South Florida from University of Florida Cooperative
Extension Service. http://edis.ilfas.ufl.edu/EP021The
National Wildlife Federation Articles on attracting particular
birds to your yard, bird flyway maps and driving tours for families
to take to see birds http://www.nwf.org
David McLeans/Living Systems - 954-768-0423 For information
on wildflowers visit: FloridaWildflowerCouncil.
The University of Florida's web site -
Where you can download their latest colored brochure Native Wildflowers
on Roadsides in Central and South Florida in printable pdf format.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/EP/EP13800.pdf
(allow time to download)
'Playtime'
on the kids page! Jackie's NBC6 Video with the kids.
Rose's Horticulture lesson
Herb
Vinegar.
The goals of our organization
are:
- Education,
Charity, and Public Welfare.
- To
encourage the cultivation, growth and development of flowers, plants,
shrubs, trees, and the study of plant life.
- To
stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening,
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To assist in preserving our environment and
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The beautification and safety of Florida Highways.
Our ongoing projects include:
Youth Gardening,
Wekiva Youth Camp,
An Adult and a Youth Flower Show,
Horticulture Education and Floral
Design,
A
Sensory Training Garden for the Visually Impaired at the Lighthouse
for the Blind of Broward County,
The
Fort Lauderdale Garden Club has maintained the Sensory Garden at
the Lighouse
for the Blind since the garden was first created. Most
months of the year one of the club's Circles or MAL groups, visit
the garden and provide services such as weeding, fertilization,
re-planting etc. This year 2006, the Club is being recognized for
their ongoing work and has been awarded the Emerald
Award, Broward County's highest environmental award.
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.
We were instrumental in the placing of the Blue Star Memorial on our
Highway.
We maintain a Speakers Bureau and encourage Bird Habitats.
A
lovely Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden surrounds 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 and The Nature Conservancy
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