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Club Objective
To stimulate, create interest, and promote education on horticulture, the art of gardening, flower arranging, and environmental conservation; to promote beautification of surrounding areas.
Club Colors: Green & White Club Flower: Painted Trillium Club Bird: Bittern
Meetings: 2nd Monday @ 12:00 noon (no January mtg) Place: St. Matthias Episcopal Church 374 Main Street East Aurora, NY
President: Carol Hasselback: 508-8218
The New Leaf, our club newsletter, is issued to each club member 11 months of the year. ANNUAL/BIENNIAL EVENTS Garden Certificate Sale Perennial Sale Flower Show Garden Tour
CONTINUING PROJECTS Civic: Cultivate gardens at Village Circle & adjacent Pocket Park, Historic Millard Fillmore Home, & plantings at VFW Blue Star Memorial Marker honoring our armed forces.
Conservation: Protect, nurture & beautify environs of Sinking Ponds Wildlife Sanctuary. Arbor Day planting of trees/shrubs. Monthly report on conservation & environmental issues & potential impact of gardening practices & lifestyles.
Garden Therapy: Provide enjoyment to Absolut Care Nursing Home residents by engaging in activities using fresh flowers & live plant materials ten times per year.
Horticulture: Monthly report to enrich members’ knowledge of plant material, garden design & garden maintenance. Club project is to grow a flower (Gazania for 2011) & present at future meeting.
Scholarship: Annual scholarship(s) to qualified graduating senior at East Aurora, Iroquois or Holland High Schools. NEW PROJECTS – 2011
Serviceberry Tree Planting: In honor or Earth Day – April 22, 2011 - 30 Members will receive/plant Serviceberry trees in their own yards.
NGC Convention 2012, Buffalo: Members to join other District VIII clubs to weed the Buffalo Outer Harbor on May 21, 2011, in preparation of 2012 convention.
Hypertufa Planters: Planters to be made & filled with members’ own garden plants to be sold at Perennial Sale on May 28 at the Grey Street Plaza (former Ames store) - don’t miss it!
Massachusetts Avenue Project – Tool Donation: Members donate spare tools, gloves, & other gardening equipment to this urban youth farm which promotes economic opportunity, affordable, nutritious food, & social-change education. Habitat for Humanity Planters: Members to create/donate garden planters.
East Aurora Sidewalk Sale – July 30, 2011: Members create planter arrangements to be sold using flowers grown in members’ own gardens.
UPCOMING MEETINGS/EVENTS FOR 2011
Apr 11: “Window Sill Wonders” Miniature Floral Design Design Workshop led by Judy Tucholski-Zon, National Garden Club Master Judge, Dist.VIII Past Director, Town & Country Garden Club Member.
May 9: “Summer Container Gardening”- Demonstration by Mary Gurtler (Lockwood’s Greenhouses, Hamburg).
May 28: Perennial Sale at Grey Street Plaza (former Ames Store) from 9am-12pm. Free raffle is held for Customers & 2 winners will receive the Perennial Plant of the Year (Amsonia hubrichtii)!
June 13: Field Trip/Program at Hurd Orchards, Holley, NY.
July 11: “The Buzz About Bees” – Lecture & Presentation by Thomas Roach, President, WNY Honey Producers Association.
Aug 8: “An Old-Fashioned Picnic & Auction” & General Meeting at home of Club Member Barbara Kaczmarek.
Sept 12: “Scent-Sational” – Herbal Wreath Workshop presented by Janice Frasier, National Garden Club Master Judge & Member Amana Garden Club.
Oct 10: “Water Conservation in Your Own Backyard” - Presentation by Kerri Li, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeepers.
Nov 14: “Holiday How To” – Decorating Demonstration for the Holidays by Members of East Aurora Garden Club.
Dec 12: Annual Christmas Luncheon & Gift Exchange at the Roycroft Inn – “Celebrating Friendship”.
January: No General Meeting
February 13: “Back to Basics” with African Violets - Lecture & Demonstration by Paul Kroll, African Violet & Gesneriad Society.
March 12: Annual Meeting & Installation of Officers. Cold Potluck Salad Bar Luncheon. Lynn Wilkins, Installing Officer, Past President East Aurora Garden Club.
“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies” Gertrude Jekyll
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