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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Our Program Season Gets Under Way!


We're officially in gear for our 2016-2017 program season!  Our first meeting is Thursday 9/8 at the Bartram Trail Library, 10-noon.  We can't wait to see what programs our officers have lined up for us!  Look for them to be posted on our calendar shortly!

Last month a few of us were able to have lunch and meet one of our newest members, Jeanne Powell-Hendricks.  Although she's a relative newcomer to Florida, she's been a busy gardener with an avid interest in butterflies, especially monarchs!   Welcome, Jeanne and Fran Ziolkowski.

After our last club event in May we found out that our club had won a National Garden Club award for our environmental video in support of the NGC President's Projects.   This award was in addition to the FFGC awards our club won for its website and Dianne Battle's photography.  Click the links in this paragraph to see the photos and videos.  Remember you are currently viewing the award-winning website!

The District IV meetings have been announced.  See the District IV site. www.district4ffgc.org, for these and other updates as they occur:

District IV Fall Meeting October 7th at The Garden Club of Jacksonville

Gardenfest:  November 5 at the Duval County Extension Center

Environmental Studies ESS Course IV:  January 18-19, 2017 Garden Club of Palatka

District IV Spring Meeting: Garden Club of St. Augustine  May 5, 2017

For those of you who are interested in monarchs, we've posted an article on the monarch's summer activities in our Resources page with information from the Monarch Butterfly Migration Log in the educational website, the Journey North.  For most monarchs in North America, breeding season is over and southward migration season has begun.  Learn about the physiological changes this generation is undergoing in order to complete its  journey to the wintering grounds in Mexico and to return to the US to breed the generation of butterflies that will undertake the journey north.

In contrast to the majority of monarchs, our local butterflies will stay here longer and travel less far.  Our Monarch Committee hopes to visit a monarch breeding house built by local Master Gardener Woody Wilson and his wife Dian, this month, and to stop by Mike Adam's Monarch Waystation to see how the milkweed we donated to Saturiwa are doing!  Stay tuned for our October blog posting!


It's peak breeding season.
It's peak breeding season.


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