The 2021-2022 Garden Club at Palm Coast Scholarship Committee awarded four $1,000 scholarships at the Senior Scholarship Night held on May 2nd to the following seniors: Olivia Denino, FPCHS, Gabriella Monroe, FPCHS, Alyssa Sa, Matanzas HS, and Victoria Wilcox, Matanzas HS. Congratulations and best of luck to them. They all have career ambitions to become involved in environmental health sciences.
Each student submitted their application to the Flagler County Education Foundation and was forwarded to the Garden Club’s Scholarship Committee. The committee then votes on which students meet the criteria set by the committee and the Garden Club. They look for students that will pursue careers in environmental studies. Scholarship funds come from the proceeds at club events during the year. The club’s biggest annual fund raiser is the Spring Festival and Plant Sale which is held in April. The Garden Club at Palm Coast held several other fund raisers this year (Treasures in the Attic Sale, Fashion Show hosted by Chez Jacqueline, plant sales by the Propagation Guild) and some of those proceeds were earmarked for community scholarships. The club had great success with all the fund-raising events in the 2021-2022 season. Thank you to all who came out to support our events.
The Garden Club at Palm Coast was established in 1975 and at the close of our 2021-2022 season has 201 members. Meetings are held from September through May at the VFW on Old Kings Road on the second Monday of the month at 1:00PM.
Presented by Elaine Parisi, Taking the Mystery Out of Design Mechanics was an informative workshop held at the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs’ Annual Convention and State Flower Show.
Photos provided by The Garden Club at Palm Coast’s Nancy Iandoli.
Members of The Garden Club at Palm Coast attended the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs’ Annual Convention at the Embassy Suites in Lake Buena Vista, Orlando on April 12-14.
Margaret Chodosh, one of our members, won second place for her creative and beautiful entry.
Below is a selection of some of the beautiful exhibits on display. Photos provided by our very own Nancy Iandoli.
The Garden Club at Palm Coast will hold its Arbor Day Memorial Tree Planting ceremony at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, May 13th at Linear Park, 31 Greenway Ct. in Palm Coast (off Colbert Ln.). The ceremony will remember four members who passed away in 2019 thru 2021. They are Jane Culpepper, Joseph Fontaine, Angela Ricci, and Shirley Studdendick. A bottle brush and Japanese blueberry tree will be planted adjacent to the Butterfly Garden on the St. Joe Walkway. Bronze plaques in their honor and memory will be installed under the trees. All are invited to attend.
Jane Culpepper along with Art Presley assisted with the planting of the butterfly garden in 2012 which was designed and installed by Patricia Reonas’ Class of the Environmental Learn and Serve Center, a satellite campus of Flagler Palm Coast High School. The Garden Club at Palm Coast recently renovated the garden and planted additional butterfly plants.
Speakers will include Denise Garcia (newly installed president 2022-2023) and Palm Coast City Manager Denise Bevan. For information email: info@gardenclubatpalmcoast.org.
