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Fall in Love with Flower Shows Schedule

Posted on July 22, 2023 by Marianne Wilkins

Show Notes from Linda White

Hello East Lake Washington District of Garden Clubs!!

It is finally finished, the Schedule for our upcoming District Flower Show in

September. Now we can all plan the Horticulture we can enter (and keep it

watered), choose a Design to enter and get creative, enter a fun Artistic Craft or

enter a beautiful Photograph and maybe even get your kids or grandkids to

enter the Youth section with a decorated pumpkin. It will be a fun show with

many visitors at the beautiful Bellevue Botanical Garden.

We really need people from every club to participate to make it a “GREAT!”

show. The show committee is working very hard to make this a success. We are

so fortunate to have this show in such a beautiful public space. Let’s show off

ELWD and all of our clubs! Enter the show and you too will “FALL in Love with

Flower Shows”. If I sound excited it is because I am.

Let’s Keep Blooming,

Linda White, ELWD Director

Show Time Line: (Included in the schedule)

August 21 – Horticulture Entry Tags Available online and at ELWD Board Meeting

By September 5 – Register for Designs, Education, Youth & Botanical Arts

Please do this ASAP with Chairman listed in Schedule.

September 22, 12:30 – 2:30 pm – Show Set Up

2:30 – 3:45 pm – Bring Entries

September 23, 8:00 – 9:30 am – Bring Entries

10:00 am – Judging

12:30 pm – 3:30 pm Show Open to the Public

September 24, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Show Open to the Public

3:00 pm – Remove all Entries and take down tables & staging.By 4:00 we must be out & have all rooms cleaned.

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ELWD Craft Day Feb 2023

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Marianne Wilkins

Our district meeting for East Lake WA District of Garden Clubs was held February 27 2023 at Saint Andrews Church in Bellevue WA. Members were encouraged to dsplay any crafts that they enjoyed.

Thanks to Charlene Trent-Lewis for taking photos of the event. Double Click on a photo to see a larger image.

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2023 PLANT SALES AND TOUR

Posted on May 13, 2023 by Marianne Wilkins

Saturday June 17^th – Issaquah & Sammamish Garden Clubs – Combined Plant Sale 9 AM until sold out

Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front ST S Issaquah, WA 98027

Besides plants, there will be a bake sale and garage sale tables.

Saturday June 24^th – Woodinville Garden Club – 22^nd Tour of Gardens 10 AM – 4 PM

This self-drive tour will give you private access to five amazing gardens.

Tickets are $25 and available mid-May at Molbak’s, Woodinville; Wells Medina Nurser, Bellevue; and Gray Barn Nursery, Redmond

Buy online at https://woodinvillegardenclub.org for an additional $2 handling fee.

Tickets are limited in quantity, so buy yours early. Children except babes-in-arms will need tickets.

See website for further information.

WEBSITES

East Lake Washington District website: https://elwd.org

National Garden Club: https://gardenclub.org

Pacific Region: pacificregiongardenclubs.org

Other Items of Interest to Gardeners

Check out the Elisabeth Miller Library’s website: https://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/events/garden-tours-plantsales/

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2023 May ECHO

Posted on May 13, 2023 by Marianne Wilkins

Hi Garden Club Members,

Here’s information about upcoming events. May 22 is our General Membership Meeting

and if your garden needs some additions, the club plants sales listed below are a good place to shop.

Happy Gardening,

Joyce Voldal, ELWD Mailout

ELWD GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING:

WHO: Garden Club Members and guests (bring a friend, perhaps one interested in joining a garden club)

WHAT: East Lake Washington District of Garden Clubs, General Membership Meeting

WHERE: St. Andrews Lutheran Church, 2650 148^th Ave S.E. Bellevue 98007

WHEN: Monday, May 22, 2023

WHY: To meet together in person with other clubs, have lunch, hear great speakers,

be inspired and have FUN with garden club friend

COST: $10.00 per person for lunch and two programs

RSVP: Reservations required so we have accurate count for food and seating

RSVP DEADLINE: Thursday p.m. May 18^th to Joyce Voldal, javoldal@hotmail.com or 425-712-7638 or text 425-445-6831

SCHEDULE:

9:30-10:00 Registration and Coffee

10:00 Program: Recycling information, provided by speaker from Ridwell

11:00 ELWD Meeting

11:30-12:30 Lunch provided by Terra Tillers Garden Club

12:30 – 1:30 Design Program: Jeannie Lindquist, a member of the International Guild of Miniature Artisans,

will present a program “Designs Large & Small”

We will have a fundraising raffle of items provided by Elawags (designer’s guild), Pine Lake & West Sammamish Garden Clubs

Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5

DISTRICT PROJECT – Friday May 19^th BBG Work Day 9:45 – 11:30.

Contact June Ann Hassebroek: juneannhas@aol. or 425-922-8143 if you can participate.

CLUB EVENTS : Open to the public

Saturday May 13^th – Pine Lake Garden Club Plant Sale, 9:30 AM – Noon

Sammamish Presbyterian Church, 22522 NE Inglewood Hill Rd Sammamish WA 98074

From our gardens to yours – sharing locally grown plants, green success stories, and a few cautionary tales.

Saturday May 13^th – Woodinville Garden Club Plant Sale , 9AM until sold out

Woodinville Alliance Church, 13940 NE 166^th St Woodinville, WA 98072

We hold our plant sale every year the Saturday before Mothers Day. Shop our proven tomato varieties,

sun and shade hanging baskets, perennials from our own gardens, color spots, table baskets and kokodema f

ern and moss balls. Please check our website for more information. https://woodinvillegardenclub.org

Saturday June 17^th – Issaquah & Sammamish Garden Clubs – Combined Plant Sale 9 AM until sold out

Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front ST S Issaquah, WA 98027

Besides plants, there will be a bake sale and garage sale tables.

Saturday June 24^th – Woodinville Garden Club – 22^nd Tour of Gardens 10 AM – 4 PM

This self-drive tour will give you private access to five amazing gardens.

Tickets are $25 and available mid-May at Molbak’s, Woodinville; Wells Medina Nurser, Bellevue; and Gray Barn Nursery, Redmond

Buy online at https://woodinvillegardenclub.org for an additional $2 handling fee.

Tickets are limited in quantity, so buy yours early. Children except babes-in-arms will need tickets.

See website for further information.

WEBSITES

East Lake Washington District website: https://elwd.org

National Garden Club: https://gardenclub.org

Pacific Region: pacificregiongardenclubs.org

Other Items of Interest to Gardeners

Saturday, May 13^th 10 am to 3 pm Pollinator Fest

21 Acres, 13701 NE 171^st St. Woodinville WA 98072

A celebration of pollinators and springtime. Informative lectures

pollinator-themed presentations, a children’s farm tour and

tours of the pollinator gardens on the 21 Acres Farm.

Check out the Elisabeth Miller Library’s website: https://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/events/garden-tours-plantsales/

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2023 January ECHO

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Marianne Wilkins

In this ECHO EXTRA you’ll find information and 7 attachments for the upcoming events listed below. I know there’s a lot of attachments and I did get a message from hotmail that it was big and sharing on One Drive might be better; I haven’t done that before but if you’d prefer things that way I think my daughter would be able to help me. Let me know if that’s the way you’d like it. They also should be up on our elwd.org website soon. I tested sending this with a friend and she mentioned it looked different when she looked at it on her phone and like I’m seeing my copy when she saw it on her computer. So hope you’re able to see everything – let me know if you have issues with it. Also, If you have any questions about things, let me know – if I can’t answer, I’ll find someone that can.

Your not so techie Mailout Chairman,

Joyce Voldal

ECHO EXTRA – EVENTS January 21, 2023

January 30 – ELWD Board Meeting at the BBG, Aaron Education Center, open to us at 9:30, meeting starts at 10, any club member is welcome to attend ELWD Board Meetings. Attachment ELWinvite

February 27 ELWD General Membership Meeting St Andrew’s Lutheran in Bellevue. Also Attachment ELWinvite. All club members encouraged to attend – WSFGC President, Anne Sullivan will join us and we will have artist, Aranca Ehrenwald , showing some of her beautiful work using things from nature (note from Joyce: she’s a friend and her work is amazing). Also we’re wanting some members with hobbies or crafts to display – show off your talents – contact Gale Baullinger, gale5904@aol.com or 425-643-2722 if you’d like to participate. More GMM details later.

March 6-8 National Garden Club’s Flower Show School 2 in Tacoma. Attachment FSSII registration form. The schools do not need to be taken in order so you can start now. The deadline to register is February 20; late registration is possible but there’s an extra fee. More information about all NGC schools can be found on their website: http://www.gardenclub.org and our state web site http://www.wagardenclubs.com .

April 17-20 Pacific Region Convention in Lynnwood. Attachments :

WG&D2WACONIAHPR Convention Speaker Information

Tour info with pics Tullip fields tour Information

PRCon2023TentativeSchedule Conference Schedule

Registration Form. Complete this form to attend the conference.

Lana Finegold, former ELWD District Director, WSFGC State President and now Pacific Region Director encourages our members to attend any or all of this convention. Since it’s near our district, commuting would be possible or staying at the hotel can be fun – you’ll be meeting members from other states in the Pacific Region (WACONIAH – can you name these states?). Business meeting parts of the convention are mainly for state officers and chairmen but you can register part time and chose the meal(s) with speakers you’d like to hear. As a member of WSGFC we get a little break on the registration fee because we are the host state this year. If you have any questions about things, let me know – if I can’t answer, I’ll find someone that can.

June 5-8 Washington State Federation of Garden Clubs Convention in Olympia. Attachment 2023 Convention Flyer – Save the date message – more info wil come out later.

Joyce Voldal, Mailout Chairman

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NGC Flower Show Schools

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Marianne Wilkins

The opportunity to attend Flower Show School 1 is coming up this October 4th-6th 2022 in Wilsonville, Oregon. The deadline to register is September 24th which is quickly approaching.

Click WA State Web Site to get the current registration form.

Horticulture Topics ~ Hostas , cut specimens & Evergreen branches
Flower Show Procedure Design Topic ~ Traditional Designs

FS School 2 will be
March 7-9, 2023
in Puyallup, WA