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 148th 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 18th 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 19th 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 13th –  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 13th – Woodinville Garden Club Plant Sale , 9AM until sold out

      Woodinville Alliance Church, 13940 NE 166th 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 17th – 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 24th – Woodinville Garden Club –  22nd 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 13th  10 am to 3 pm  Pollinator Fest

21 Acres, 13701 NE 171st 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

Design and Photo by June Ann Hassebroek
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2022 March 5th ECHO

Posted on March 12, 2022 by Marianne Wilkins

Thanks to Joyce Voldal for alerting us to all the events in East Lake Washington District of Garden Clubs.

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All Shook Up

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Marianne Wilkins
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NWFGS Feb 2022

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Marianne Wilkins

North West Flower and Gardn Show

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Designs by Garden Club Members

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Judges Meeting Jan 2022

Posted on January 3, 2022 by Marianne Wilkins

Winter Interest Horticulture
Collages & Plaques (Pg 93 Handbook).

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The Garden House is Saved

Posted on December 30, 2021 by Marianne Wilkins

The Garden House is Saved

“In the words of our friends at Vanishing Seattle, this is #NOTVANISHING! Beacon Hill’s Garden House will be restored to its longtime community use…because we acquired it on December 23!!!

The Victorian home was constructed in 1886, and its grounds are home to pear trees that date back as far as a century. The Garden House is also known as the Turner-Koepf House, and it served the Jefferson Park Ladies’ Improvement Club and Washington State Federation of Garden Clubs for decades. A longstanding covenant that had guaranteed the property’s use for community purposes was deemed invalid in a 2016 lawsuit, and the property was listed for sale in 2018. Despite making a higher offer to purchase the property in 2018, Historic Seattle was unsuccessful in that bid, and a private party took ownership instead. The property is a landmark, but landmarking does not protect use (and in some cases landmarks can still be torn down).

After 3 years of working towards this deal and a lot of community advocacy work, we will partner with Beacon Arts & community members to return it to public purposes in perpetuity.

The $2M deal, which closed on December 23, was made possible through grants from the King County Conservation Futures program, contributions from more than 100 private donors thus far, and City of Seattle seed funding, which was championed in 2018 by then-president of the City Council Bruce Harrell. Seattle Parks and Recreation will hold an easement, permanently protecting public green space in the neighborhood.

Thank you to all the people who have worked alongside us to make this possible! Our mission is saving meaningful places to foster lively communities, and we can’t think of a better way to end the year than with this perfect example of that work.”

(20+) Historic Seattle | Facebook

Historic Seattle – Home | FacebookHistoric Seattle, Seattle, WA. 4,304 likes · 7 talking about this · 72 were here. Saving meaningful places to foster lively communities since 1974.www.facebook.com
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Membership Monday – NGC

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Marianne Wilkins
 You are invited to join us for a special MEMBERS ONLY Holiday Celebration Visit with clubs around the Americas as they celebrate the holidays GARDEN CLUB STYLE! From winter wonderland to Southwest spice, we will take you on a tour of some of Garden Club’s long-standing traditional projects and nouveau designs.  Brought to you by NGC’s Virtual and Membership Committees Dec 13, 2021 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)  LIMITED SEATING – Please register in advance for this meeting.REGISTER HEREAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

 MEMBERSHIP MONDAYS is a new program launched by NGC to help clubs LEARN, GROW, CONNECT, AND SERVE TOGETHER We do this by bringing members together on the 2nd Monday of each month for a one-hour program. The first 15 minutes is a presentation on a club-related topic like recruitment, member retention, leadership, etc. After each presentation, we open the floor to our members for questions, suggestions and success stories. This is the real gem because clubs get to work out issues with each other by sharing information of what works and what doesn’t. The 3-Rs series started on November 8th and the first video and information can be found on our website at https://www.gardenclub.org/member-resources under the Member Resource Library.  

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS: DECEMBER 13TH – HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, GARDEN CLUB STYLE – a fun holiday celebration featuring clubs across the Americas decorating in local style and flavor. JANUARY 10TH – 3-Rs:RETAIN GREAT MEMBERS – this workshop will focus on mentorship, member orientation, member education and the tried and true methods to keep members happy and engaged. FEBRUARY 14th – 3-Rs:REVITALIZE YOUR CLUB – this workshop will focus on how to restore energy and enthusiasm within your club so that all members feel revitalized and new members are begging to join in the fun. MARCH 14th – LEADERSHIP – this workshop with Robin Pokorski will focus on how to groom great leaders.  Space is limited to 500 but all workshops are recorded and posted on the Member Resource page of the website https://www.gardenclub.org/member-resources 

 Virtual Resources: Workshops and Programs Upcoming: Starting January 2022 Workshop WednesdaysThird Wednesday, every month. 10 and 2 PM EDT30 Minutes, Novice and UP, skills.Learn software skills: ZOOM, PowerPoint, CANVA, PDF’s and more. 2022 PROGRAMS HOSTED BY President Mary Warshauer – SEE Next issue of KIT for dates, time. National Garden Clubs 4401 Magnolia Ave.Saint Louis, MO
GOTO the NGC web site for registration

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Sammamish Heritage Garden

Posted on September 28, 2021 by Marianne Wilkins

Grand Opening June 2nd 2021

“Big Rock Park Central (Parcel B) has opened as of June 2nd, 2021 at 1516 220th Ave. SE. It is the site of the historic Reard House, a special tree house, and the Heritage Garden, which is a project created and maintained by the SBGS. Over three miles of meadow and woodland trails connect Big Rock Park North and Central. Enjoy a walk and the ongoing discoveries in our beautiful Sammamish parks system.” SBGS (sammamishbotanical.org)

Pine Lake Garden Club has partnered with the Sammamish Botanical Gardening Society (SBGS) to support the creation of the new Heritage Garden in Sammamish WA. Come and enjoy this new treasure. Parking is available close to the garden.

” The garden demonstrates heritage plants which might have been found in early gardens in our area. We have a large herb selection, fruiting trees, vegetables and shrubs. Our beds will be harvested at regular intervals during the summer and fall, with donations to the Issaquah Food Bank. As of September, over 200 pounds of garden produce have been delivered to the food bank! ” Sammamish Botanical Gardening Society

Photo by Marianne Wilkins

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