The Orlando Garden Club Commemorated Arbor Day in many different ways this year. Approximately 150 Florida Garden Clubs held their tree planting event at 11:00 am!!
Kathy Hall, arborist from the City of Orlando spoke on planting new trees. Her team planted a Bluff Oak on club grounds. This tree does not have aggressive roots, its canopy is rounded and upright, and it may get up to 60 feet tall. Ms. Hall shared some of her tree knowledge during a brief presentation to our members after our ceremony.
Hall is an arborist and landscape inspector for the City of Orlando.
During the month of January Bonnie Hansen presented on the Billbergia as our horticulture of the month. She presented two varieties. Queen’s Tears and Theodore Mead.
Billbergia Queen’s Tears was hybridized to have a larger flower by Dr. Theodore Mead of Mead Gardens fame. This plant grows well in a pot and pups readily. It doesn’t need a lot of soil and can grow in a tree as an epiphyte. Bonnie distributed pups for members to grow.
Photo: Billbergia Theodore Mead, photo by Wes Schilling.
The Orlando Garden Club Flower Show this year was an absolute success!! Congratulations to the planning committee headed by Silvia Zuniga who planned and put on a beautiful Flower Show. It was a great achievement, there were 59 horticulture entries, 24 designs and one class of education. Also, the Central Florida Bonsai Club had a bonsai exhibit.
All Horticulture entries were by OGC members, except for one. Of the flower designs 13 were made by OGC members and 11 were submitted by members from other Garden Clubs.
Thank you to all of you that visited and enjoyed the show!!!
Garden clubs across the state will plant more than 400 trees on January 19, 2024, to celebrate Florida Arbor Day and the 100th anniversary of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs (FFGC).
In addition to planting hundreds of trees throughout the state, garden clubs will give away hundreds of tree seedlings.
Our Club will commemorate this day with a ceremony on January 19, which is our General meeting and we are also sponsoring an NGC Standard Flower Show. Don’t miss out on the exciting activity at our Club!! See you there!!
