Everyone is getting excited about the coming Flower Show! Lana Arnold is making it fun for everyone. Get your horticulture ready to exhibit or sign up with Marion Dunn to enter a floral design. Eleven Circles have reserved a space for the Garden Bazaar on the front lawn. Other gardening organizations are being invited to [...]
FFGC Wekiva Camp Needs Reusable Totes Wekiva Youth Camp for students would like your help in providing Re-usable Totes (such as grocery store, drug store, etc.) for our campers to take their craft items home in this summer, illustrating to their families the importance of Recycling and Re-using!!! We’re asking everyone to please bring one [...]
The next workday in the gardens at HOPE is on Saturday from 9-12. We’ll be removing grass from the daylily beds, doing some planting and sprucing up the front yard.
Farmer Herman is conducting his workshop on tomatoes at Turkey Hill Farms to teach where to plant, where to get seeds or plants, what varieties do best and how to plant them. He’ll also share what do to about pests and diseases. The workshop charge is $35 per person which includes a workbook, a tomato [...]
President’s Message The December fundraisers were very successful thanks to all those who assisted and participated. The Tea and Silent Auction showed a profit of $2270.83 and the Poinsettia Sale raised $1651.04. We encourage your support of our Caladium Bulb Sale – Final date Feb 9 (Candy Strand, 514-0515) and the upcoming Garage Sale (see [...]
So you want to grow your own food? Learn from the local market gardener how to start a spring vegetable garden. Thursday, February 12th 6:00 – 8:30 pm Leon County Extension Center 615 Paul Russell Road Tallahassee, Florida Cost: $2.00 person, $3.00 couple Cost: $2 00 person $3 00 couple Call Genice Harris at 850‐606‐5202 [...]
Beginning Pine Needle Basketry, February 21 from 10:00 A.M. -1:00 P.M. – Due to overwhelming public demand, Mission San Luis Interpreter Monica Lowell presents a repeat of the Basketry workshop first hosted on November 22, 2008. Learn the basic techniques of making Southeastern Native American Pine Needle Baskets. The cost for this workshop is $15 [...]
This event comes from the North American Butterfly Association: Wakulla Unit, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge Sunday October 12 9:00 a.m. EDT at Park ‘n’ Ride on FL 363 (Woodville Hwy.) if carpooling 10:00 a.m. EDT at Wakulla Beach Rd. We will scout for butterflies at the Wakulla unit of the St. Marks National Wildlife [...]
Flower Show School II will be getting under way next week (August 26, 27, and 28) at the Garden Center in Pensacola. It is not too late for members interested in studying to be a flower show judge to enroll. Students can start in any school, so School II is a good place to start even for [...]
Back-to-school means back to Garden Club! We’ve finally completed the arrangements for our meeting schedule this year. We’ve got parties (can you say Jingle Juice?), worms, orchids, flower arranging, raised beds and much more planned for the year. We will have the full calendar available here very shortly. In the meantime, our first meeting will [...]