The Garden Club at Palm Coast

Did you know that June is National Garden Month?

In addition the City of Palm Coast made a Proclamation that June is Garden Club Month.  This is done by the Mayor and City Council “to acknowledge the extraordinary efforts of the Garden Club at Palm Coast for fostering an appreciation of the enormous pleasure gardening brings to our community”.

Below you see the Proclamation made by the City.

We also have a display in front of the Main Library (2500 Palm Coast Parkway NW) dedicated to our club. It is already up and will be there until mid June.

The Garden Club Tree Dedication on May 12 was recorded on video.

To view the video, please click on the link to the City of Palm Coast Facebook page:

Video on the Palm Coast Facebook page

Pardon the wind blowing into the microphone.

On May 8th the Garden Club at Palm Coast held its annual picnic which serves as the conclusion of the 2016-2017 club season.

Peg Senecal and Bob Tabit with the 2017 Scholarship recipients.

First there was attention for the business portion of the picnic meeting.

The new board members for the 2017-2018 club year were installed at the picnic.

And then the real purpose of the meeting: FOOD.

….and socializing, of course.

At the annual picnic of the Garden Club at Palm Coast on May 8th, 2017, three Flagler Palm Coast High School students each received a scholarship in the amount of $1000.

The recipients are:

• Christopher Caschera, who plans to attend the University of South Florida with a focus on Geology
• Cassandra Gubala who will attend Nova Southern University with a focus on Biology
• Danial Thomas who will attend Davison College, N.C. with a focus on Biology and Global Health.

The photo shows the three high school students when Peg Senecal handed them the invitation for the GCPC picnic. At the picnic the Scholarships were going to be issued.

Also Josh Ore, an earlier scholarship recipient, who will graduate from University of Florida with  a degree in Urban Entomology; is now receiving the “Hilda & Joe Gotwald  & Garden Club at Palm Coast scholarship”. His check is also in the amount of $1000.

Congratulations to all scholarship recipients!!

On Friday, May 12th, 2017, a tree was dedicated by the Garden Club at Palm Coast. The tree was planted in Central Park at Town Center, in honor of two deceased club members: Joyce Birrell and Dorothy Leary.

The planted tree is a Muskogee Crepe Myrtle. This crape myrtle is a fast-growing tree that will have an abundance of lavender purple flowers blooming during the summer. This hybrid was developed in the early 1960s by the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C., and given the name of the native American Indian tribe “Muskogee.” This variety has become one of the most widely planted crape myrtles in the United States.

The ceremony was led by our president Cindy Balazik, starting with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Reverend Don Scott, Trinity Presbyterian Church, did the Invocation.

Several club members shared their memories of Joyce and Dorothy.

The tree was then officially dedicated by the Mayor of Palm Coast, the Honorable Milissa Holland. You can read the Mayor’s remarks here:

Mayor Holland remarks Garden Club Arbor Day MAY 2017

The family of Dorothy Leary was represented by one of her daughters Ms Eileen Roggemann, who flew in from New York. She was deeply touched by the ceremony and expressed her gratitude for the club memorializing her mother.

The club members who attended the event were very impressed with the Arbor Day Tree dedication.