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Cecelia Millea

Welcome from 2021-2023 President Cecelia Millea

My President’s Theme “Plant Trees: Nature’s Unsung Heroes”

I am honored to have been elected the 50th President of the Garden Club of New Jersey at our first virtual Annual Meeting on June 10th. I look forward to working with all affiliated garden clubs as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic and return to in-person meetings and events. The theme of my presidency is “Plant Trees: Nature’s Unsung Heroes”. Trees are one of earth’s most valuable resources and they are being destroyed, worldwide, at an alarming rate to commercial agriculture, wildfires, logging and urbanization. I ask you to join me and the Garden Club of New Jersey in conserving, protecting and planting trees for future generations. Over the course of my two-year term, the Garden Club of New Jersey will award six $1000 grants to affiliated garden clubs that sponsor a project that focuses on the planting of trees. An application for these grants will soon be available on our website. As we move forward, it is my hope that we will, not only, plant together but also learn together, protect our environment together and, once again, meet together to share our common interests and achieve our common goals.

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Mission Statement

The Garden Club of New Jersey, Inc. provides education, resources and opportunities for adults and youth members to expand the love of gardening and floral design and encourages active participation in civic, environmental and historic preservation projects to protect the past for the future.

Adopted
March 31, 2003
Board of Directors
New Brunswick, New Jersey

New Jersey – The Garden State – has over 100 garden clubs

The Garden Club of New Jersey, Inc. (GCNJ), founded in 1925, is a federation of individual local garden clubs throughout the state. GCNJ has over 4,000 members, age 6-adult. The Garden Club of New Jersey is the state affiliate and a charter member of the National Garden Clubs, Inc., (NGC), a non-profit educational organization. The membership of NGC is composed of nearly 200,000 members, 6,000 member garden clubs, 70 national affiliates and 300 international affiliates around the globe. NGC is the largest volunteer organization of its type in the world.

GCNJ Announcements

Virtual Leadership Conference for Club Presidents

President Cecelia Millea will be hosting a Zoom Leadership Conference to present information about the current GCNJ President’s Project, Awards, Schools, Membership and more. Please plan to join us for this event to be held in October 2021. Once the date has been determined, all club presidents will be notified.

GCNJ Held its first ZOOM Class – Landscape Design School

GCNJ held its first ZOOM class – Landscape Design School on June 15-16, 2021. A successful and well-received LDS Course 3 began with an introduction by our President – Cecelia Millea. We were fortunate to have the following instructors: Bruce Crawford, Dr. Randi Eckel, Steve Kristoph, Denise Mattes and Tom Breiten.

The 19 students came from various states including: Florida, Maryland, New York, Virginia, California, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Massachusetts. The benefits of holding a Zoom program! Several of the students were achieving the high accreditation for Master Consultants in Landscape Design and a few finishing up their requirements for becoming a Consultant. Please visit the National Website for all the updates for further courses and information for all the schools. It is a great program that the Garden Clubs offer to all of us.

Thank you to Sue Berdahl as Register and Ellen Preissler as Technical Administrator. Please visit our website for the dates “to be determined” for Course 4.

Terese Blake
LDS Chair, Garden Club of New Jersey
“Bountiful, serene, landscape architecture and gardening are as one.” Louis Barragan 1902-1988

2021-2023 Yearbook Information – New Officers

2021-2023 NGC President
Mary Warshauer
Theme: Plant America – Play Outdoors

2021-2023 Car-SGC Director
Betty Cookendorfer
Theme: Plant America: Let’s Get Growing!

2021-2023 GCNJ President
Cecelia Millea
Theme: Plant Trees: Nature’s Unsung Heroes

see Section VI for additional information.

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Upcoming Events

  • 21SepNGC Fall Board MeetingSt. Louis, Missouri Sep 21 - Sep 24
  • 27SepGCNJ Board MeetingHolly House 10:00 am
  • 9OctBlue Star Memorial re-dedicationCommunity Garden Club of Hunterdon
  • 15OctPlant America Community Project GrantsApplications must be submitted by 10/15/2021
  • 15NovSubmissions for NCG Award are due
  • 15FebSubmissions for GCNJ Awards are due
  • 15MayAnnual Club Registration Due 2022
  • 15MayNGC Annual Convention 2022Orlando, Florida May 15 - May 21
  • 9JunGCNJ Annual Meeting for 2022Time TBA

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