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Thank You Note from the Flagler County Education Foundation

Posted on June 8, 2019 by FLGardener

Recently the Garden Club at Palm Coast awarded two scholarships to Flagler Highschool students.

The Flagler County Education Foundation sent us this Thank You Note:

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National Garden Week, June 2-8, 2019

Posted on June 5, 2019 by FLGardener

The Garden Club at Palm Coast is joining garden clubs across the country in celebrating National Garden Week, June 2-8. National Garden Week is sponsored by National Garden Clubs Inc. to promote beautification, education of environmental efforts, and gardening in local communities.

This year The Garden Club at Palm Coast installed a display at the Palm Coast Public Library with posters of local gardeners who were selected this Spring as Selection of the Month for their beautiful curb appeal gardens and outstanding landscapes. Examples of gardening books are also on display which can be signed out.

The address of the Palm Coast Public Library is:
2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW
Palm Coast, FL 32137

Article by Nancy Iandoli

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June 2019 Yard Selection of the Month

Posted on May 31, 2019 by FLGardener

Ruth Van De Weert of Point Pleasant Drive has been recognized as June 2019 Selection of the Month by The Garden Club at Palm Coast. She and her late husband, Cornelius, bought the three Lots in 1982, built the house in 1986, rented it out until they moved from New York to Palm Coast in 2014. They had lived on a dairy farm and planted many of the plants and trees prior to moving in while visiting family in Florida. The have a plaque on the stone windmills with their farm name of Laroedale Farm.

Mr. Van De Weert made all the beautiful windmills and two have working water wheels. He made smaller ones throughout the property from bicycle wheels and they all work as well. He also made black and white cow props out of cement and several barn style bird houses and a barn mailbox. He was always making something wonderful for the yard.

Mrs. Van De Weert takes care of this big property along with a neighbor that gives her a hand whenever needed. Everywhere you look you see beautiful flowers such as Mandevilla, yellow and purple roses, blue Salvias, pink and white Vincas, red and yellow Canna Lilies, red and white pink- striped Amaryllis, Petunias, Sunflowers, white Easter Lilies, mixed Zinnias, various bushes and several fruit trees.

The tranquil back yard setting with only sounds of birds and soothing water sounds from the water wheel windmill in an island with several flowering plants, holly bush, Bush Daisy, yellow, orange and purple Mums and purple white-striped Petunias. There is a large area approx. 12 x 12 entirely full of many flowers that come back year after year. Mrs. Van De Weert has so many beautiful flowers throughout that she once promised her church for one year she would make them an arrangement weekly and she kept her promise!

There is also a walkover bridge with a covered arch of sweet smelling Jasmine which leads you into their next lot with a nice windmill in the distance and shaded trees. These gardens have many colors to offer and enjoy year round and definitely has charm and curb appeal.

Submitted by Nancy Iandoli
Selection of the Month Committee

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Bulletin “Clippings” May 2019

Posted on May 31, 2019 by FLGardener

The May 2019 Bulletin is Available for Download:

CLIPPINGS MAY2019

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Trans-Atlantic Garden Tour

Posted on May 25, 2019 by FLGardener

April 28 – May 3, 2019

On April 21 Margaret and I embarked on a 14-day Transatlantic cruise from Ft Lauderdale to Amsterdam. Along the way we visited a number of gardens. Here are some impressions.

First stop: Praia da Vitoria, Ilha Terceira, Azores, Portugal, April 28th

The Azores are in the middle of the North Atlantic and have a very mild climate. It never gets warmer than 75F or colder than 55F. The vegetation is very green and contains many sub-tropical plants including palm trees.

The color of the Delasperma cooperi, in the family of Ice plants, jumps right at you.

This remarkable plant I could not identify. Anyone? Looks like a Salvia to me.

Second stop: Ponta Delgada, Ilha de Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal, April 29th

On the island of Sao Miguel we had a choice of three botanical gardens. We chose
Jardim António Borges.

The first large group of pink flowers was stunning. They look like gladiolus, but they are different from the familiar kind.

Then there were at least a hundred Natal lilies (Clivia Miniata)

In the center of the park is a very old Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus Macrophylla). The dimensions of the roots really show next to the little girl.

Then there was this pristine member of the Amaryllis family: Crinum Lily.

The foilage is different from the familiar Amaryllis. The leaves grow on a stem, not from the bulb.

Here is a different kind of plant: Pride of Madeira, Echium Candicans.

I have seen them before in Mendocino, CA.

Third stop: Cherbourg, Normandy, France, May 3rd

Stepping off the ship one cannot miss this memorial.

The Titanic on her first and last voyage made the first foreign call in the port of Cherbourg.

Translation of the plaque:
R.M.S. Titanic (R.M.S. = Royal Mail Steamer)
In the course of her inaugural ocean crossing the passenger ship Titanic made her only stop at Cherbourg on April 10, 1912.
It would sink in the night of April 14 to 15 off the coast of Nova Scotia.

In Cherbourg we visited Parc Emmanuel Liais. Mr Liais (1826-1900) was an astronomer, botanist, explorer and also Mayor of Cherbourg. He made many overseas trips, especially to Brazil and brought many plants to build his extraordinary collection in a park including green houses. Also his museum is located at the park.

Look at this beautiful Iris: Libertia ixioides, Mikoikoi, New Zealand Iris