Communications Director: Suzanne
Mahoney Volume 41 Number 3
NEXT MEETING November 4, 2008.
Festive Floral Arrangements With Shirley Minott @ 7:30 PM at Phoenix Lodge
Award winning member, Shirley Minott will share her knowledge while designing several holiday themed arrangements to be raffled off at the end of the evening.
NEXT BOARD MEETING November 18, 2008 @ 7:30 PM, Phoenix Lodge
DECEMBER REGULAR MEETING December 2, 2008. Holiday Decorations Workshop At Cedar School, Special time: 7:00PM
BREAST CARE CENTER For those of you who are unaware, the center has a new location: 797 Main Street (Rte 18), South
Weymouth, MA. The building is next door to MacDonald’s Funeral Home. November 3 Marie Sisk, 10 Tiziana Polizio
The sign up sheet will be circulated at next Tuesday’s meeting. Let’s try to fill in the dates through Christmas and into the New Year.
Note: This season is the easiest time to create lush bouquets with all the seasonal greens available! If you are in need, inquire about location for spruce, fir, Chamaecyparis, juniper, cuttings and cones etc.
HANOVER HOLIDAYS HOUSE TOUR Congratulations to one and all for a terrific event! The houses (and Barn) all looked great thanks to the
considerable energy and creativity of all involved. The designers and their teams collaborated and pooled all their treasures to make each venue shine for their particular ‘Holiday’. We had guests from the Easton, Hingham, Norwell, Hanover and Plymouth garden clubs. Many ticket holders were taking notes and asking design questions as they viewed flower arrangements, plants and interior house features. Compliments and kudos flowed from all ticket holders. We hope everyone had an
opportunity to learn a few design tricks and that veteran and new members had a chance to become acquainted while working alongside each other.
COMMUNITY GARDENS Linda Kalkulski is spearheading a committee to work on developing a community garden in Hanover. She envisions a designated garden area where different age groups will work together learning about
gardening methods, flower growing and food cultivation. The participants would decide the specific plants to be grown. Speakers are available to give talks on the subject. Below is a web site for more information: American Community Gardening Association. http://www.communitygarden.org/learn/starting-a-community-garden.php
HOLIDAY WORKSHOP December 2, 2008. The holiday workshop is chaired by Marie Sisk and Terri Mallory. They have proposed the following list of projects available for all who sign up at this meeting. Bring your check-book as all payments are due at this meeting. We recommend that you wear gloves and bring your own scissors, garden clippers, ribbon, small ornaments etc. Members and attending guests should bring cones, pods, berries, evergreen cuttings such as spruce, fir, chamaecyparis, yew, holly, leucothoe,
rhododendrons etc. for the community pile. Please, no hemlock as it dries & sheds in-side.
There will be demonstration and explanation of all the workshop items at the Nov 4 meeting.
Project List: Boxwood Trees, Topiaries, Living Wreaths, Odapter Rings, Swags, Pocket Wreaths
Cut our either form that you received via USPS or email. Choose the form that applies to your status and submit it with your check made out to WHGC and submit both to: Marie Sisk or Teri Mallory.
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The
Garden Club Federation
of
Massachusetts,
Inc.
To
all Garden Club Presidents,
Federation
Executive Board Members, Garden Club Members and
Guests
Please
Join President Celeste Wilson for the
FALL
CONFERENCE
A Garden Club
Wednesday,
November 5, 2008
7:45 A.M.
- 2:30 P.M.
Holiday
Inn Mansfield
31
Hampshire Street, Mansfield, MA 02048
FALL
CONFERENCE
Program
- Wednesday, November 5, 2008
7:45
AM Registration, Coffee and Boutique
Shopping
9:00
AM Call to Order
Presidents
Welcome, Announcements and Business Meeting
David
Epstein – “Growing Wisdom”
Awards
– Kaye Vosburgh
10:45
AM Social Hour and
Boutique Shopping
11:45
Parade of Presidents
12:00
Noon Lunch
Design
Program
Susan
Kaplan – “A Year in the Life of a Flower Arranger”
2:25
PM Registration Report
2:30
PM Adjournment
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Overnight
Accommodations - Please call:
Holiday
Inn Mansfield prior to October 4, 2008
GCFM
rate is $99.00 plus tax, Single/double occupancy
31
Hampshire Street
Mansfield
MA 02048
508-339-2200
BOUTIQUE
/ EXHIBIT SPACE
Space
at the Fall Conference in available to any garden club or
vendor
at the following rates:
Garden
Clubs $25.00 per 6 ft. covered table
Vendors
$50.00 per 6 ft. covered table
To
arrange for space please contact Booje Calfee
prior
to October 20, 2008
at
37 Two Ponds Rd., Falmouth, MA 02540
Telephone
508-540-1221
About
our Speaker:
Susan
Kaplan is a National Garden Clubs Master Flower Show Judge. She has received
many flower show top awards including two-time winner of the Maynard Winston
Award at the New England Spring Flower Show as well as the first recipient of
the Cindora Goldberg Design Award. She served as chairman of the 1994-1995 New
England Spring Flower Show, she is the past president of the Beth Shalom Garden
Club, she has exhibited at the following; Museum of Natural History, Tower Hill,
Museum of Fine Arts, Worcester Art Museum and the JFK Museum. She designed and
organized all centerpieces for the National Convention held in Boston in 2007.
Susan’s passion is for flowers; she owns her own business, a floral studio for
18 years doing weddings and functions, from Boston to California and Maine to
Florida. A graduate from Connecticut College for Women where she majored in art,
art history and early childhood.
Directions
to the Holiday Inn
From
Route 95 North or South: Take Exit 7a (Mansfield Route 140).
At the second set of lights, take a right onto Forbes Blvd. Continue
straight on this road, he road will change to Cabot Boulevard.
The hotel is at the end of Cabot Boulevard.
From
Route 495 North or South: Take Exit 12 (Mansfield Route 140).
At the fifth set of lights, take a left onto Forbes Blvd. Continue
straight on this road, he road will change to Cabot Boulevard.
The hotel is at the end of Cabot Boulevard.
