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.
The Arrangers’ Guild was instructed by Becky Lindhorst in the construction of tatami mats from wooden skewers and binding wire.
These were used as a mechanic to assist in securing arrangements of flowers in containers. Many variations emerged as individual twists showed the personalities of each arranger. This was a very interactive and tactile project. Most arrangers expressed an interest in becoming more adept at designing these structures. Many varied and exciting designs were created.
Kathi and Jim Bradley of Bridgehaven Drive have been recognized as May 2022 Selection of the Month by The Garden Club at Palm Coast.
The Bradleys’ are from Buffalo, NY area and have lived in Palm Coast for 12 years.
The front yard beds are surrounded with alternating dark pink supertunias and Blue My Mind blue daze.
They always change the flower colors every year.
There are bright pink begonias, sweet alyssum, pink azalea, white scaevola, Hawaiian Ti, philodendron, pygmy date palm, junipers, podocarpus, schilling holly, plumbago and variegated ginger.
The back yard has quite the diversity of plants: fuschia calla lilies, gardenia, Mona lavender, Indian hawthorn, pink camellias, Tibouchina grandflora (Princess flower), hibiscus, bottle brush, bird of paradise,
Southern magnolia, pink azalea, duet rose (white and burgundy), yesterday today and tomorrow, violas of various colors, orange gazania, red amaryllis, dahlia, jatropha, blue agave, hydrangea, Texas spider lily, bush daisy, red pentas, gold cape honeysuckle, and lantanas.
Along the fence are: Confederate jasmine, bougainvillea, and red passion flower vine. There are hanging pots on the fence of mixed petunias, white verbena, red begonia, large ferns, and white bacopa.
For fruit trees they have a lemon and lime.
You can tell they love plants and color by the diversity in their landscape.
