Make plans to attend our annual Spring Festival & Plant Sale at The Flagler palm Coast High School. Enjoy plants, crafts, music, kid’s activities, food trucks, and more!
Please click here if you’d like to become a vendor at this popular community event, or click here for sponsorship opportunities.
Michael Murphy of Evans Drive has been recognized as December 2023 Selection of the Month by The Garden Club at Palm Coast.
Originally from New Jersey, he retired and moved to Palm Coast 3 years ago. When he bought his house, there was no landscaping. He initially had help from a local nursery on what to plant, and today he has a very stunning curb appeal landscape.
The front door area has beautiful potted pink and red crown of thorns, a red mandevilla vine in a decorative blue pot, a Crossandra called orange marmalade, ruby red Alternanthera brasiliana, tri-color ginger (Stromanthe triostar), foxtail fern, several varieties of crotons, sago palm, ginger, rosemary, ferns, kalanchoe, Texas sage, and several bird statues throughout the flower beds.
The front island has two red crape myrtles that are underplanted with yellow allamanda, pink and yellow lantana, liriope, pentas, bird of paradise, purple irises, a border of blue daze
and two whimsical pink and blue grazing birds.
On the right side of the driveway, there is oleander, viburnum, blue daze, orange marmalade, Schefflera, and Hawaiian Ti.
The backyard around the pool area is surrounded by several plants that provide color, such as yellow lantana, blue daze, purple lilies, crotons, bromeliads, Schefflera, podocarpus, and Hawaiian Ti, and a sago palm.
Submitted by Nancy Iandoli
Selection of the Month Committee
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“Celebrating 100 Years” will be held at the SouthBank Marriott hotel in Jacksonville. A state flower show will be held in conjunction with this convention. The state flower show will be held remotely at the Garden Club of Jacksonville club house on River Street. We will have tours of the Cummer Museum next door to the garden club on River Street. We will have the first Member’s Art Show. We will celebrate the 4 original garden clubs that started FFGC (Garden Club of Jacksonville, Garden Club of Halifax Country, Winter Park Garden Club and Miami Garden Club) and we will celebrate any 100-year-old member born in 1924!
For those wishing to attend on Thursday (04/11), we are planning a day bus trip to the FFGC convention in Jacksonville on Thursday, April 11 only. There are 55 seats available on the bus. Forty-five people need to sign up to move forward with the planning. The cost of the bus is $30 per person. The trip is open to non-members. The state flower show is free. If you are interested in the bus trip, you must pay $30 by cash or check at the February meeting so the bus can be reserved. If anyone has questions or concerns, please contact Kenetha Kilmurray at kenetha@hotmail.com or call 201-916-4492.
State Flower Show 2024 will be held at the Garden Club of Jacksonville during the convention. This is a major flower show.
For more details visit: https://ffgc.org/Convention
The Garden Club at Palm Coast was invited by the Historical Society at Holland Park to participate in Founder’s Day on October 28, 2023.
The Garden Club is one of the first organizations established in 1975. In 2020, our club sponsored a Boy Scott to create and plant the landscape design to beautify the area in front of the Museum, home of the “Garfield” turtle, as part of his Eagle Project. In 2021, the Museum featured the club, and we provided exhibits depicting our history with many photographs and a timeline documenting the club’s growth and participation in the community.
The club had three booths on Founder’s Day: The Arrangers’ Guild, who made fresh floral arrangements for sale and sold them all. The Propagation Guild displayed several varieties of plants for sale and did very well. They also had some items for sale made by “The Creative Team.” There was also a Membership booth for anyone wanting to join the club or just to get information.
The Arrangers’ Guild donated an arrangement, and the D.J. Vern of Surf 97.3 announced the winner to be whoever had the closest birthday and gave it to a very nice young lady as her “25th” birthday was the day before.
There were also food trucks, community organizations, and vendors. All in all, it was a wonderful sunny day outside at Holland Park Historical Society.
