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1 Oleander visit Leaflets Fall Sown by the Seeds of Oglethorpe November 2014 Director Marilyn Cheney Reidsville Garden Club Co-Director Deborah Hardage Pine Forest Garden Club Recording Secretary Geri Shaw St Marys Garden Club Corresponding Secretary Lisa Hall Landings Garden Club Treasurer Beverly Thigpen Mt. Vernon Garden Club Parliamentarian Kay Peacock Seedling Garden Club Newsletter Editor June Thomas Odum Garden Club Greetings Outstanding Oleanders! We have just held our 56 th Annual District Meeting which was a huge success. Many thanks and appreciation to the following clubs Glennville Garden Club, Morning Glory Garden Club, Pembroke Garden Club, Richmond Hill Garden Club, Spartina Garden Club, Trustees Garden Club, and Wymberly Garden Club. It was beautiful day at the Richmond Hill City Center complete with a Model T Ford to greet everyone! I attended all of the district meetings and I do think without a doubt that ours was the best!!! The feed back I have received from others was so positive and a good time was had by all. Please read our newsletter carefully so that you may plan to attend the many upcoming holiday events. June Thomas has done a terrific job for us again, and we all appreciate her hard work. Plans are well underway for the Convention on Jekyll Director Marilyn Cheney extends a hearty Oleander welcome to GCG President Suzanne Wheeler. Island April 15-17, it is at that time that our new slate of Oleander District officers will be installed. District Director will be Hilda Rushing from Statesboro; Co-Director, Kim Anderson, from Metter Garden Club; Recording Secretary, Lisa Hall, from Landings Garden Club; and Treasurer, Geri Shaw, from St. Marys Garden Club. They are a dynamic group and we all look forward to their term knowing that Oleander will be in good hands. If you have a particular interest and would like to serve on the board give Hilda a call; she will welcome your input. It has been a pleasure to serve you for the past 18 months; I appreciate all of the support and suggestions that I have been given. Thank you all! May each of you have a Happy Thanksgiving, a Merry Christmas and only the best in the New Year. Marilyn Cheney Oleander District Director

2 Oleander Fall 2014 Meeting in Richmond Hill Oleander District Meeting was held in the beautiful Richmond Hill City Center. Dr. Norman Winters of the Historic Bamboo Farm delivered an exciting, informative and humorous presentation on plant and critter life at the farm. Odum Garden Club was named the Oleander Outstanding Club of the Year. They also received the Shirley Lewis Environmental Awareness Award. L-R: June Thomas, Harriett Cooper, Larry Cooper, Mary Ogden, Lonnie Ogden, Pat Giles, Nancy Mylar, Delinda Pattie, Sharon Herrin and Onzell Bowen. Mary Ogden of the Odum Garden Club was named the 2014 Oleander Outstanding Member of the Year. Mary is the Odum, Wayne County, Oleander and GCG Smokey Bear/Woodsy Owl Poster Contest Chairperson. Under her leadership Smokey Bear/Woodsy Owl poster contest participation has increased tremendously. Joining Mary for this honor are her husband, Lonnie (left)) and Oleander Awards Co-Chairperson, Anita Adair (right).

3 Oleander District Meeting Richmond Hill, GA Henrietta Barber, Soperton Garden Club, assisted Ways & Means Chairperson, Kathryn Fowler with the sale of insulated bags, Atlas garden gloves and Oleander pins at the District meeting in Richmond Hill on October 21, Betty Waller, Springfield Garden Club, dressed in traditional Salzburg attire, to welcome the Oleander District Meeting attendees in Richmond Hill to the 2015 District Meeting to be held at Old Ebenezer in Rincon, Georgia.

4 District Meeting Candid Shots The St. Marys Garden Club crew enjoying and celebrating the day and their victory of the Membership Award!! President, Barb Abnee, has the GCG logo. Sandy Morgan, 1st vice president, is holding the Louise Steward Membership Award. Table laden with fabulous items available at the Silent Auction. The Ways & Means Committee had tons of merchandise for members to enjoy shopping. Glad Garden Club enjoying the delicious buffet served at the Oleander District Meeting in Richmond Hill.

5 Oleander District Meeting Awards Winners, Top Tab Collectors & Exhibits 2014 Oleander Pull-A-Tab & Save Winners 1 st Sea Oats Garden Club lbs. 2 nd Odum Garden Club lbs. 3 rd Cassina Garden Club lbs. $ Total Oleander pounds collected Cassina Garden Club-Nellie Pope Award for Achievement in the field of Horticulture Outstanding Oleanders, Many thanks for your support of the Ronald McDonald Pull-A-Tab project. I have enjoyed being the chairperson for the last 4 years and I hope you will continue to support this special project. Keep saving those tabs! Joni C. Thompson Odum Garden Club-Shirley M. Lewis Environmental Awareness Award Brooklet Garden Club-Mary Helen Ray Beautification & Historic Preservation Award St. Marys Garden Club-Louise Steward Membership Award Sprig & Dig Garden Club-Club Selling the Most State Calendars Cassina Garden Club-Applied for and/or won greatest number of GCG, DSR and NCG awards. Mary Ogden/Odum Garden Club-Outstanding Garden Club Member for demonstrating outstanding service to garden related activities Odum Garden Club-Outstanding Club of the Year to the club with the highest score on the Annual President s Report. St. Marys Garden Club Earth Angels exhibit.

6 The Springfield Garden Club placed Second with their fair booth creation, at the 74 th Effingham County Fair in October. The theme for the Fair was The Best is Home Grown. The members brought their home made pickles, jams, and jellies. The fair judges comments included Appealing, Educational and Promotes action. Soperton Garden Club Soperton, GA Springfield Garden Club Springfield, GA Kathryn Fowler will present a slide presentation on the First Year of her Homemade Bog at the Soperton Garden Club on November 4, 2014 at the Treutlen County Library at 3 PM. You re invited to go learn how to begin your own bog!!

7 Pine Forest Garden Club Baxley, GA The club's beautification projects include updating the landscape in front of the Appling County Library, landscaping the old middle school gymnasium which has been renovated by the county, and helping to implement a community garden opening spring Community projects in action!! Pine Forest Garden club continues their community beautification projects. Garden Club members worked at the Appling County Library, the Heritage Center, and the nursing home pavilion.

8 Officer Spotlight Paula Karrh $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Lisa Hall, Chairperson Through our mission of education, scholarships are GCG s commitment to the future. Last year $52,000 were distributed in scholarships to qualified college students in Georgia majoring in horticulture related areas! We need to continue to work hard to raise money for this worthwhile endeavor. Scholarships make a difference by touching young lives and leaving legacies. Scholarships are funded in several ways. Every individual, club and council can contribute. Scholarships are funded through the sales of the Expressions engagement calendars, interest from the Brown Thrasher and Cherokee Rose Scholarships, Named Scholarships with gifts of $1000 or more, the Patron of Scholarships with gifts beginning at $200, State Life Membership monies and other donations to the general scholarship fund. All donations are welcomed any time of the year! New this year the scholarship team will be introducing Bagging for Scholarships. Small cloth tote bags, printed with the Garden Club of Georgia logo, will be on sale through the district scholarship chairman and at district meetings. The bags sell for $7.50 and come in 4 colors (black, navy, royal blue and red). Please let me know if you would like a bag! For more information please contact Lisa Hall at or hall7796@bellsouth.net, or visit the Garden Club of Georgia website: Paula promotes Award # 6-Tree Award and Award # 61-Arbor Day Award. The deadline for these awards is Dec. 1 st. She serves on the Oleander Advisory committee because she is a former district director She chairs the Vegetable and Herbs for the district along with Trees and Shrubs for the State. A resident of Swainsboro she has loved garden clubbing for over fifty years especially the members of the Oleander district. She is a Master Gardener, Flower Show Judge, Daffodil Judge and a Novice Camellia. Contact by phone or if your club plans to apply and desires help. pfkarrh@bellsouth.net or

9 Magnolia Garden Club Brunswick, GA This Garden Club has been working to beautify the city for over 56 years. Here another one of their many projects has come to completion. President Beth Dupuy and the garden club members are pleased to present seventy street signs for the Historic District in Old Town. The funds for the project were part of those raised from the Historic Brunswick Christmas Tour of Homes. Front Row: Sandy Dean, Nora Sue Spencer Ann Haddaway: Back Row: Lynn Krauss, Beth Dupuy (Pres), GuyNel Johnson. The club members met to make terrariums for the Senior Care Center near the hospital. Plants used to create the beautiful project came from the personal gardens of the members. Terrariums will also be delivered to several other area nursing homes. As stakeholders in the Oak Grove Cemetery Society, Magnolia Garden Club is dedicated to preserving the 1839 Victorian City Cemetery. New chapel windows, landscaping projects, and clean-up days are few of the projects the club supports. Members sprucing up at Oak Grove Cemetery are Marijane Lawson, GuyNel Johnson, LouAnn Whalen, Marilyn Hauser.

10 Odum Garden Club hosted refreshments and presented awards to Odum Elementary School Students. Twenty students ranging from first through fifth grade were presented certificates for first, second, third places and honorable mention for their participation in the Youth Poetry Contest and the Smokey Bear/Woodsy Owl Poster contests. The Odum Garden Club appreciates its partnership with Odum Elementary School and the loyalty and dedication its faculty and staff exhibits by giving their students the opportunity to display their individuality and talents. While the students enjoyed their refreshments, Kyle Herrin and Smokey Bear (Jimmy Anderson), rangers with the Wayne County Forestry Commission, talked to them about forestry preservation and conservation. Garden Club Youth Contest Committee assisting with refreshments and presentation of awards were Pat Giles, Sharon Herrin, Nancy Mylar & Mary Ogden. Gelsey Cosco won 1 Deep South Region. Youth Poetry Contest winners. Smokey Bear/Woodsy Owl Contest winners

11 Metter Garden Club Metter, GA A Salute to Candler County in Flowers Metter Flower Show By Christy McNeill In the shimmering afternoon heat of Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17, if you squinted your eyes a certain way or found yourself in a quiet corner, just for a split second you could almost believe the calendar had turned back to the early 1960s at the Candler County Historical Society. Given the decades of memories that seem to emanate from the well-worn floorboards, refurbished plaster walls and cavernous ceilings, plus the quaint gentility of the occasion itself: the re-creation of the 1962 flower show A Salute to Candler County In Flowers sponsored by Metter Garden Club and Cherokee Rose Garden Club, everything seemed to lend itself to conjuring up a snapshot of another time. Hats, gloves and summer dresses were de rigueur for the hostesses on Saturday who greeted guests with offers of iced tea and homemade cookies. After signing the guest book, visitors were treated to a colorful array of creative and soulful floral arrangements, incorporating unique objects and whatnots of each designer's personal history, as well as, pieces of Candler County's past. Upon close inspection, old photographs, an old license plate, delicately painted plowshares, a piece of an iron wagon wheel, a handmade sun bonnet, a piglet feeder, wooden crates, a kerosene lantern, a section of weathered fencepost, cypress 'knees,' a milk-can lid, glass electrical transformers, toy farm tractors and wagons and a rustic Chinese ceramic vessel, some primitive children's artwork, colored pencils, Metter High school memorabilia and even native pecans and ripe, red apples were pressed into service. A proliferation of late summer wildflowers interspersed with more elegant designs of graceful gladiolas, succulent roses, chrysanthemums, peridot green hydrangeas along with bright yellow & orange, snowy white & variegated alstroemeria created the perfect lazy Sunday afternoon atmosphere for meeting new friends, reminiscing with old ones and finding lots to laugh about or 2014, there are some things that remain unchanged by time.

12 Samples of shell pots that will sell at the Christmas Market. Cassina Christmas Tour Committee displaying some of the wreaths and decorations they have made for the Christmas Market. Left to right:bottom to top: Leslie Carlton, Janis Rodriguez, Becky Stephenson, Dale Anderson, June Brown, Libby Hogan, Joanne Scott, Nancy Krabill, Nan Weiss, Jane Bangert, Liz DeMato, Lee Dillard, Phillis Harrell, Joan Neely, Anne Aspinwall, Gee Gee Adams Cassina Garden Club St. Simons Island, GA

13 Wilmington Island Garden Club Savannah, GA The Wilmington Island Garden Club members are working very diligently on arrangements to sell at the Island Farmer's Market on November 15 th. Please visit them on Famer's Market Day. Contact Genie for more genieogden@bellsouth.net WIGC members are taking orders for live wreaths which will be delivered the week of December 8 from Wilmington Island merchants. Proceeds will fund the landscaping of our new Wilmington Island sign shown below. The winners of the Business Beautification sponsored by WIGC are Molly McGuires: Best Landscape; Solomon Realty: Best Container Garden and Savannah Oyster House: Most Improved. We appreciate the efforts in making our Island more picturesque. December 1 Most GCG, DSR, NCG Awards applications are due on December 1. Check The Garden Club of Georgia Guide. Let s make Oleander #1 in award applications in 2014!!

14 BAN the BAG Part 1: Ask the members of your garden club to support the Banthe-Bag project by signing up to show support for Suzanne Wheeler's special project. You can then me the name of the garden club, the city, the District, and county. Signing up means that you support Suzanne's project for responsible use of plastic bags. Please send your club list and I will add it to our lists. Part 2: We are asking clubs to sponsor a Ban-the-Bag project in November. Here are several project ideas 1. Schedule a clean-up day in a park, campus, highway, trail, any public place that is used or seen by the community. The idea is to clean up the clutter caused by loose plastic bags. 2. Participate in a plastic bag recycling project. 3. Collect plastic bags, take them to the monthly meeting, & deliver them to the community food bank for reuse. 4. Any project that focuses on the re-use of plastic bags. 5. Use plastic bags for craft projects. (Collect plastic bags for a senior group, or school group to reuse in craft project)s. 5. Sponsor a youth poster contest for BANthe-BAG. 6. Present a program on BAN-the-BAG to clean up the community. 7. Your own unique idea. Suzanne focuses on the removal of plastic bags cluttering our land and waters; she stresses the use of alternative bags whenever possible. Projects that focus on cleaning the environmental plastic bag clutter, removal of bags that are harmful to wildlife and aquatic life; or focuses on the creative re-use of the plastic bag. Part 3: :To be able to submit BAN-the-BAG projects to Suzanne, please send newspaper articles/pictures about your project along with aa brief description of your project including the number of participants. Evelyna Keadle Rogers & Barbara Keadle Johnson, Chairmen rogers2767@bellsouth.net

15 Jingle Bells and Seashells Cassina Garden Club Bake Sale & All New Christmas Market December 6, AM-5 PM Don t need tour ticket to shop. Creating designs for the Market TOP LEFT: Ladye Heisel & Joan Neely; MIDDLE LEFT: Phillis Harrell BOTTOM LEFT: Phillis Harrell, Nan Fuller & Nan Weiss BOTTOM CENTER: Becky Stevenson BOTTOM RIGHT: Nancy Krabill & Martha Armstrong MIDDLE LEFT: Dottie Fielder & Gee Gee Adams TOP RIGHT: Betty Young, Sharon Flores, Martha Armstrong & Nancy Krabill. Bring your Christmas list to Cassina s New Christmas Market where you will find something for everyone. From vintage & designer ornaments to individually wrapped hostess gifts and stocking stuffers. There will also be beautiful wreaths suited for all occasions, garlands & swags to dress up your mantels and one of a kind containers.. We look forward to seeing you at our New Christmas Market!

16 Jingle Bells and Seashells Cassina Garden Club s Bake Sale & All New Christmas Market 30 th Annual Christmas Tour of Homes December 6, 2014 Cassina Garden Club s Christmas Tour of Homes features five homes on Sea Island, Georgia. Each will be decorated with Christmas cheer in keeping with this year s theme of Jingle Bells and Seashells. Tour ticketholders may also visit Sea Island s fabled Cloister on the day of the tour to enjoy their beautiful decorations. Tour goers may also have lunch at any of the Sea Island restaurants and make reservations for dinner. Special two-night packages are available for our out-of-town friends. In addition, Cassina opens its historic tabby cabins on St. Simon s Gascoigne Bluff on the day of the tour for two exceptional events. One, the Best Bake Sale in the Southeast features treats to enjoy during the day or take home as gifts. And a new tradition, the Christmas Market, presents wreaths, garlands, pots and ornaments created by club members. Our Santa s elves have been hard at work fashioning these items since this summer and have found the workshops to be a time of fellowship and a good way to get to know each other better. Tickets are $45 in advance or $50 on the day of the tour. They may be purchased online or by calling Leslie Carlton, To book a Cassina two-night package at Sea Island please call All these wreaths & more will be available at the all new Christmas Market.

17 An Appling Country Christmas" Tour of Homes & Country Store Sunday, December 7, 2014 For more Information Details Tickets Please

18 Spartina Garden Club Presents 2014 Holiday House Tour A Coastal Christmas Sunday, December 7, :00 5:00 P.M. Rooms are uniquely decorated by Spartina Garden Club. Tickets -$10 Available from members, at the door or contact Rose Anne Giles, or raggiles@aol.com Brad & Jennifer Collins 2744 Sutherland Bluff Drive NE Shellman Bluff, GA

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20 Georgia s Coastal Magic GCG 87 th Annual Convention April 15-17, 2015 Jekyll Island, GA (Scenes of the planning committee in action!!) If you have not been to Jekyll Island in a while, it is time to come back!! Oleander District will be hosting The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. Annual Convention. The three day convention will feature exciting speakers, informative workshops, interesting tours, and superb vendors for your shopping pleasure along with our own State and Oleander District ways and means. Chairman Geri Shaw and Cochairman Sara Lanier invite you to join us on the magical Georgia coast for a memorable convention. We need members to serve as Hostesses for the meal functions. If you will serve in this capacity, contact Hostesses Chairman, Sherle Beck,, at sherlecbeck@gmail.com. We also need help in the Work room-it will take lots of members to assemble the designs for meal functions. To volunteer for Work Room duty, please contact Kay Peacock, Decorating Chairman, at kaypea@nctv.com. Hotel accommodation will be at the beautiful new Westin Jekyll Island Hotel. Registration form and hotel information will be in the Winter issue of Garden Gateways.