The SLGC Board is please to announce that the following women have accepted the Club's invitation to become new provisional members beginning in the 2018-2019 season. Full resumes can be read on the Provisional page of our website. An impressive group of women!
San Francisco Zone XII and “How the West is One.” The Garden Club of America Annual meeting was challenging, inspiring, entertaining and absolutely educating. Across the country came 600 delegates from the 200 GCA clubs to learn more about the Garden Club of America and 400 members who volunteered to help with this meeting.
What's the news? What did you hear over the garden gate? Notice any errors in the new Directory? Who heard what? Who has learned something to share with us? Who has a great new idea? Who loves to share the miracles of nature? It's all here!
THIS IS THE LAST POST OF THE JUNE 2018 NEWSLETTER.
We arrived in San Francisco on a beautiful, sunny day. Buckets of gorgeous flowers stood on street corners, musicians played their instruments, and the warmth of the sun felt divine. After a very chilly April in NE Ohio, we had arrived in paradise for the GCA Annual Meeting.
The GCA Katharine M. Grosscup Scholarships in Horticulture were awarded to 8 students for the 2018-19 school year, for a total of $21,500. The Scholarships, named in memory of a Shaker Lakes Garden Club member, are managed locally by 3 members of the Shaker Lakes Garden Club, and 3 members of the Garden Club of Cleveland.
At our May 29 Membership meeting Cathi Lehn, from the Mayor’s Office of Sustainable and Sandra Albro, from Holden Forests and Gardens talked about the Sustainable initiatives in the Cleveland area. Below are links to Sustainable Cleveland, The Cleveland Tree Coalition, The Gardenwalk Cleveland pus dates for Sustainable Cleveland events this summer.
It’s hard to believe this is my last President’s Letter. I vividly remember writing my first letter nearly two years ago while on vacation at my family’s summer home in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
The Shaker Lakes Garden Club is holding a reciprocal Visiting Gardens Tour for the Allegheny Garden Club on Wednesday, June 6, 2018. We are opening the tour to our SLGC members on a first come, first served basis. If you have not seen these magnificent gardens, you are in for a treat!