The Arranger’s Guild had a workshop on December 7, 2021, to create their own Christmas Yule Log which arrangers were able to bring home.
The Guild provided the logs, various greens, pine combs, and red birds for a $20 fee. It was a fun morning creating our centerpiece!
For more details about The Arranger’s Guild, please contact:
Linda Hensler, Director
Tel: 386-437-2613
Email: lhensler@bellsouth.net
The Arrangers Guild met on Tues., Nov. 16 to make dried flower arrangements. Fifteen arrangements were made. Arrangements included wreaths and door hangings, traditional arrangements, holiday arrangements and cornucopias. Arrangement vessels varied from natural wood and bark all the way to a large horn! Everyone enjoyed sharing materials and ideas as well as working with a new medium.
December Arranger’s is the Yule Log. Let Linda Hensler or Kathleen Terlizzo know if you plan to go, as it is limited to 20 and is open to the whole garden club.
The Garden Club holiday luncheon is on the 13th for our members.
Submitted by Mary Kay Hirsch
The Garden Club participated in the City of Palm Coast’s Annual Arbor Day Celebration at Central Park on Saturday, Sept. 18th. The turnout was impressive: the free tree giveaway had a waiting line by 9:30am and all 300 trees were given out before 11am. The Club booth was manned by a dozen volunteers who provided interested visitors with information about plants, gardening in zone 9b as well as information about our Club activities.
Visitors enjoying the festivities
As is our custom for Arbor Day, we gave away free plants to anyone who made a Donation to our GC HS Scholarship Fund. This year, our thanks go out to Marinus Grootenboer and Edwina Tabit for supplying all the free plants and Amaryllis bulbs; we had a steady stream of Donors and ended the day with $205 to add to the Scholarship Fund.
Garden Club members who stopped by the Booth were also able to pick up their 2021-22 handbooks.
3 of our Garden Club volunteers pictured in the Palm Coast Observer’s coverage of Palm Coast’s Arbor Day 2021.
Thanks to the following members who helped with set-up, engaged with the public, and at the end of the day— dismantled the booth in the rain!
Geri Calvin
Leah Gibbs
Linda McAuliffe
Debra Isham
Jane Howells
Ellen Werner
Nancy Iandoli
Mazie Barton
Carol Walker
Tony Milidantri
Dee Cocchiola
Norma Rizzo Marie Fabozzi
Arbor Day Memorial Placque which is to be installed at Tree Planting Ceremony in May 2022. Our Ceremonies in 2020 and 2021 were cancelled, due to Covid-19. We plan to hold combined Memorials for 2019-21 next May if conditions allow for public gatherings.
Respectfully submitted,
Kathleen Fuss, Arbor day Chairperson
Bill Brattain and Carol Wamsley-Brattain of Eastwood Drive have been recognized as December 2021 Selection of the Month by The Garden Club at Palm Coast.
Bill and Carol are from North Carolina and moved to Palm Coast in 2008. Carol is a watercolor artist and used to teach art in Tennessee. She has many beautiful art pieces inside their home. Bill is now retired after working in construction for 51 years and enjoys gardening and being outside. He continuously propagates many plants in order to always have color throughout the landscape.
Bill Brattain and Carol Wamsley-Brattain of Eastwood Drive
The front garden contains a large diversity of plants, including bird of paradise, dark pink crape myrtles, agapanthus, oyster plants (Moses in a cradle), split-leaf philodendron, large ferns, Hawaiian Ti, broadleaved palm lily (Cordyline petiolaris), crimson fire loropetalum hedges, a tall variety of red canna lilies, red canna lilies with yellow specks, firecracker bush, European fan and Phoenix roebellini (pygmy date) palms and a native Palatka holly tree.
Bill has propagated several banana trees which are in the backyard. Last year he harvested over 50 pounds of bananas in a single day!! Other fruits include: pink grapefruits, juicy Hamlin and Valencia oranges, Florida’s best juicing orange. He also has a vegetable garden with tomatoes and peppers.
He is experimenting with two hybrid dragon fruit cacti –‘Halley’s Comet’, which is self-pollinating, and produces a fruit which is pink outside with purple flesh inside, and ‘Physical Graffiti’ with dark pink flesh. ‘Physical Graffiti’ needs cross-pollination to set fruit, usually done by hand pollination from another variety. Both hybrids produce gorgeous white flowers which only open at night and are closed by morning. He is waiting patiently for them to produce fruit.
He also grows two other night blooming cacti, both with fragrant white flowers: Hooker’s orchid cactus (Epiphyllum hookeri) and Dutchman’s pipe or Queen of the night (Epiphyllum oxpetalum).
Bill gave us some bananas to try as well as some pups to grow in our yard. Hopefully, we will have our own bananas next season! Thank you, Bill.
Submitted by Nancy Iandoli
Selection of the Month Committee
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