The October Meeting of the Gulf Hills Garden Club and a Special Birthday!

The October Gulf Hills Garden Club meeting at the home of club member, Beth M.  She and her hosts provided a delicious brunch buffet with Mimosas.  A heartfelt thank you to her and her hosts Mollie, Jeanette and Danny.  And thank you Mary Ann for a very meaningful devotion.

The home was beautifully decorated with fresh flowers on each of the many tables.  Danny furnished a dozen multi-hued gourmet eggs from his chickens as a door prize.

We had four guests:  Former members, Carol G. and Marge D., so very nice to see these ladies again; and Martha C. and Pat DeHaan. 

The program for the meeting was a presentation of the goals from the Garden Clubs of Mississippi and the National Garden Club organization.   

Pleasures and Challenges from our Garden this month was a discussion of “What does a garden mean to you?”  Members paired to reflect and share gardening experiences.  Michael brought a leaf from a plant he could not identify and none of us could either

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The members of the Gulf Hills Garden Club surprised our president with a Birthday Cake.  

Next meeting is November 19.

Gulf Hills Garden Club's November 20 Barbecue Meeting and a Happy Thanksgiving.

Our meeting Nov. 20 was a glowing success.  Marge and John Albrycht joined us and it was nice to see them.  We honored John as  a Senior Man of the Garden.  I think the guys really enjoyed themselves.  A big thank you to Brenda and Lee Vance and their outstanding committee!  The food was delicious, of course, but Lee and Bob out did themselves with their bar bq and fried fish...  And a very special thank you to Doris for the use of the Harper Manor.

 

We discussed the Tree Lighting that will take place Dec. 13 at the Memorial Garden at 4:00 pm.  MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!!

 

The December 18 Club meeting will be at 1:00 pm.  Please remember to RSVP with the name of your guest that you are bringing.  Remember this is our silent auction and it would be nice to have others attend this meeting.

 

At the meeting we decided to partner with the home owners association to judge the Christmas decorations.  The judging will be for 5 categories.  We will have to judge Dec. 18 - 21.  We will be giving a plant for the winner of each category paid for by the Home Owners Association.  Listed below are the categories.  We will do the judging in groups of 3 per group.  Feel free to sign up for more than one category.  I need to hear from you ASAP. 

Categories:  Traditional, Religious, Out door Lighting, Mail Box and Front Door.

 

Thanks,  

Dickie.

President of the Gulf Hills, Garden Club

 

Gulf Hills Garden Club October Meeting and an Heirloom Canna Lily Florence Vaughan

Above we have an Heirloom Canna Lily Known as Florence Vaughan, it was introduced in 1893. This particular plant is in the garden of this months member host for our club meeting.
Kudos to our hostesses for a wonderful brunch.  Our picture is a reflection of the garden of our hostess.
  
The Gulf Hills Garden Club of Mississippi, met on Thursday, October 16, 2014.  Our guest speaker delivered a wonderful program about birds and their importance, as well as, their beauty in your gardens.

The final report of our annual “Mum’s the Word” plant sale was presented and we are proud to announce that we made our goal.  A big thank you to all that purchased mums and helped to make this annual event another success.  Our chairman did a fabulous job.  The funds raised will once again be used to beautify our neighborhood Memorial Garden on Shore Drive.

The Club will resume the yard of the month award again in November.  The award honors a long time member of the Gulf Hills Garden Club and the Home Owners Association.  Watch for the sign in the yards here in Gulf Hills.

Next meeting is an evening meeting, November 20, honoring the men of the garden.  Time and place to be announced.

Our Next Meeting and a Look at Our Stats Chart!

Just to let everyone know...
Our next meeting of the Gulf Hills Garden Club is on Thursday the 16th at 9:30 am. Hope to see you there.

Also just as a bit of informational trivia I was looking at this blogs stats and found this to be of a bit of interest and wanted to share it.  Even though this is a fairly new blog we are starting to have people see us and take a look at our postings.

How nice it is to see that other people in many diverse places are visiting our website here on Blogger!