Supporting Our Local Garden Clubs
The 96th Annual Meeting of The Garden Club of New Jersey will be held on June 9, 2022 at the Bridgewater Marriott Hotel. At this time, we will welcome former CAR Assistant Director, Angela Raitano, who will install the new officers for the 2022-2023 term.
Registration is $55 per person, non-refundable after May 31, 2022. The registration deadline is May 30, 2022.
The registration form, with mailing instructions, is available by CLICKING HERE.
Registration at the event begins at 8:00AM; the morning session at 9:15AM and luncheon at 12:30PM. The afternoon session begins at 1:15PM. It will be open seating in the morning and afternoon with the exception of Life Members, Honor Tables, Scholarship and Awards recipients in the AM and Life Members and Honor Tables in the PM.
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the hotel for Wednesday, June 8, 2022, at the rate of $208 plus tax for a single/double room. The reservation deadline date is May 18, 2022. You may reserve a room by calling the hotel directly at 908-927-9300 or 1-888-236-2427. Remember to mention The Garden Club of New Jersey event when reserving your room.
The morning session will feature the GCNJ Book of Memory Ceremony, the Scholarship and the Awards Presentations, and the New Officers Installation. During the mid-day break, everyone will have a chance to shop the boutiques, purchase raffle tickets and enjoy the creative designs by our own GCNJ floral designers.
The program will be presented, in the afternoon, by Valerie McLaughlin. Valerie is an Accredited Member of the American Institute of Floral Designers and currently serves as a design instructor at Longwood Gardens. She has won numerous awards for her floral designs, including blue ribbons and the “Best of the Week” award at the Philadelphia Flower Show.
We are fortunate to welcome Valerie! You won’t want to miss this special presentation.
Mark your calendar for June 9th and join us for this special day.
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.
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
The Garden Club of New Jersey is pleased and proud to announce that the following NJ garden clubs received a National Garden Clubs Plant America Community Grant of up to $1000 each for 2022-2023:
All Seasons Garden Club, Floraphile Garden Club, Garden Club of Fair Haven, Garden Club of Toms River, Garden Club of Westfield and the Holly Club of Sea Girt.
Congratulations!
These additions to forms were approved at the GCNJ November 2021 Board Meeting. The release should be added, in small print to the form, registration or application for GCNJ sponsored events and scholarships. Please look under FORMS for more information.
April 23, 2022 Flower Show School, Course III Procedure via Zoom (Exam following instruction)
May 4-5, 2022 Flower Show School, Course III Horticulture & Design at Holly House (Exam on May 6, 2022)
Darlene Newell, Flower Show Procedure & Horticulture Instructor. Studying Narcissus and Combination Plantings.
Lynn Fronk, Design Instructor. Studying Creative Design.
For more information and to view the Brochure/Registration Form – CLICK HERE
To be registered with the GCNJ and eligible for any youth awards, this form must be completed and sent to the Youth Chair at the address on the form. Enclose a check payable to GCNJ in the amount of $20 to cover your club's annual Youth Club registration fee. Contact a local GCNJ Garden Club chapter to sponsor your Youth Garden Club. For more information, contact 2021–2023 Youth Co-chairs are Diana Dove and Bob Markey.
Registration is open for the 46th annual Rutgers Home Gardeners School @Home, which will be held as a virtual conference over Zoom on Sat., Feb. 26, 2022, from 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. For more information or to register, visit www.cpe.rutgers.edu/hgs or call the Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education at 848-932-9271. CLICK HERE for more information.
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
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