MAKE A DIFFERENCE: ANNOUNCEMENTS! What you need to know NOW, Who, What, Where and When! CALENDAR OF GARDEN EVENTS

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1 Redbud Reporter Newsletter of Redbud District VII of The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc.& National Garden Clubs, Inc. Published for the 66 clubs, 3 councils & 1691 members in the 18 counties of Redbud District Established January 10, 1961 Redbud District Website: Joy Zaidan, Director (jzaidan@bellsouth.net) Tracy Trentadue, Co-Director and Editor (tracyj32@bellsouth.net) Volume: Issue: Spring 2006 Circulation: 350 Challenges...An Opportunity to Make a Difference (A message from Joy Zaidan, your Redbud District Director) Redbuds certainly are REMARKABLE!! This Director is proud that all of you accepted the challenge and made a difference with outstanding projects in Redbud clubs, councils and youth won a total of 51 blue ribbons: THE MOST BLUE RIBBONS OF ALL 7 DISTRICTS, winning 44 GCG and 7 Deep South awards!! Late breaking news: REDBUD WINS TOP NATIONAL AWARDS TOO! After winning all those awards, I ve nicknamed you the RAZZLE DAZZLE REDBUDS because you dazzled everyone at convention with your projects and your winnings. I am very pleased to announce that our District Flower Show, Daisy Salutes America, under the leadership of Alice Boyd and Janet McGinnis, received 1 st Place awards for Schedule, Staging and Patriotic Flower Show at GCG and NGC s blue ribbon for a Patriotic Flower Show. Congratulations to Smoke Rise Morning Glories for winning the Redbud Award of the Year and to Janet McGinnis honored as the first recipient of the Redbud District Member of the Year Award. Congratulations to all District, State, DSR and NGC award winners, and thanks to all of you who make Redbud the BEST! If you didn t submit an award this year, please plan to enter next year and join the winner s circle. For those of you who want to learn how to prepare an Awards Book of Evidence, Redbud will be sponsoring a free hands on Awards Workshop on Wednesday, August 30th. Look for details in this newsletter. All club presidents and club awards chairmen are strongly encouraged to attend. Another exciting opportunity awaits Redbuds this fall--redbud District s Yellow Daisy Flower Show at Stone Mountain Park September 8th-10th. In order for Redbud to apply for the National District Flower Show Achievement Award, NGC requires that 75% of the District clubs participate in the show, so we need your help. Show Chairman Rita Compher and Co-Chairman Margaret Lloyd are asking all REMARKABLE Redbuds to participate in some way do a design, enter horticulture, serve as a hostess or clerk, provide food, help set up or tear down. Make this a fieldtrip for your club & join us as Daisy Dances Round the World. After you ve seen the show, take the ferry to the Yellow Daisy Arts and Crafts Festival and shop to your heart s content. End your day by dining in the quaint village of Stone Mountain. Have a wonderfully relaxing summer and enjoy your garden. Pamper your plants so you can win a blue ribbon in September at the Yellow Daisy Flower Show.

2 MAKE A DIFFERENCE: ANNOUNCEMENTS! What you need to know NOW, Who, What, Where and When! 36 th YELLOW DAISY FLOWER SHOW DAISY DANCES ROUND THE WORLD Friday, September 8, 2006 through Sunday, September 10, the public may enjoy a free standard flower show at The Marina at Stone Mountain Park, sponsored for the 36 th year by Redbud District garden clubs. PLEASE HELP US REACH 75% DISTRICT CLUB PARTICIPATION, the minimum needed in order to apply for Award #30 District Flower Show. PARTICIPATION INCLUDES: A CLUB/MEMBER WHO ENTERS A DESIGN, ENTERS HORTICULTURE, ATTENDS THE SHOW, PROVIDES REFRESHMENTS, SENDS A DONATION (anything from $1 on will do!), JUDGES, CLERKS, SERVES AS HOSTESS OR HELPS PLAN THE SHOW OR PARTICIPATES ON ANY COMMITTEE. Flower show schedules have begun to be distributed to every club in Redbud. Contact your club president for horticulture entry information, design categories and descriptions, and committee chair contact numbers. If in doubt about anything, please call Show Chair Rita Compher or Co-Chair Margaret Lloyd Show Chair Rita Compher shares Daisy Dances Round the World Schedule with District Director Joy Zaidan CALENDAR OF GARDEN EVENTS JUNE GPPA Garden Tour 4 Avondale Estates GC 75 th Anniversary Tea, Avondale Estates Community Club 4-10 National Garden Week 5 At Home With Flowers Class Judges Symposium, Athens JULY At Home with Flowers Class AUGUST At Home With Flowers Class 14 District Board Meeting, Concord 28 At Home With Flowers Class 29 Ivy Symposium, Duluth 30 Awards Workshop, Callanwolde SEPTEMBER Yellow Daisy Flower Show, Marina St Mt Park TBA Methodist Children s Home Celebration, Avondale Estates Landscaping Just for Fun Tuesday, June 6, AM to 2 PM DeKalb Federation Garden Center, 980 Briarcliff Road Learn how to draw a landscape plan for your yard or subdivision entrance in this series of courses. Send Registration of $10 to: Kim Storbeck, Market Line Asso., 1605 Chantilly Dr. Ste 100, Atlanta with name, address, phone and ASAP. Check in at 9:30 AM at the Garden Center in the rear of Callanwolde Fine Arts Center to pick up your printed materials. Attire is casual/comfy; bring a notebook, pen, pencil, ruler and sack lunch. Drinks and dessert are provided. 2

3 GEORGIA PERENNIAL PLANT ASSOC GARDEN TOUR Gardening with a Southern Accent! Saturday and Sunday, June 3 and 4 th, will give you another opportunity for fun with friends on a garden tour: The GPPA 2006 Garden Tour including one public and nine private gardens in the Atlanta area. This year s theme Gardening with a Southern Accent is interpreted in gardens that range from a tiny courtyard gem in Buckhead to acres of horse farm in Douglasville. Tour Chairman Robert Meaders found In Atlanta, many gardens reference the South s traditional agrarian roots a tongue-incheek chicken coop out back or simply the tradition of a formal garden in front with a utilitarian one in back. What ties these gardens together is the skill shown dealing with our Southern climate through choice of plant material flourishing in heat and humidity, hardscape elements to create public and private spaces, including shade or water features and references to family or geographic roots. Each offers what works in Southern gardens today! Tickets: $30 per household for two adults and children, includes membership in the Georgia Perennial Plant Association through December 31, Tickets available at: Oakland Cemetery Ashe-Simpson Garden Center Habersham Gardens Urban Gardener Wilkerson Mill Gardens Chattahoochee Home & Gdn Hastings At Home with Flowers Classes Marietta Educational Garden Center May 15, June 5, July 10, August 7 and 28 th Five classes will focus on more advanced designs, taught by the talented Margaret Ballard and Jeannine Row, Mondays, 9 AM to 3 PM. Students will receive guidelines on the two designs taught in each class, and must bring their own materials and lunch. Fee:$100 for all five 5 hour classes (25hrs!) Send check payable to Marietta Council of Garden Clubs, to: Karin Guzy, 4531 Paper Mill Road, Marietta, GA Questions: guzy@mindspring.com An Ivy Symposium Creative Designs & Ivy in the Landscape Presented by the Atlanta Chapter of the American Ivy Society Tuesday, August 29, :30 AM 2 PM Bellmere Garden House Bell Road, Duluth $25 includes Luncheon Topiaries- Rosa Capps Adult Ivies- Charles Stancil Container Gardens- Wilma Coney, Johnnie Berry, and Sandra Jones Ivy Designs- Barbara Crank, Emily Fawcett, Jeannine Row & Dot Rouse Send check by August 1 to: American Ivy Society, Atlanta Chapter Carol Ellis, Registrar P. O. Box 248 Douglasville,

4 FLOWER SHOW SYMPOSIUM June 25, 26, & 27 The 2006 Symposium will be held in Athens at the Continuing Education Center. You do not have to be a Flower Show Judge to attend. Two national instructors present pertinent and unique information about Horticulture and Design further enhanced by demonstration and discussion. Jo Krallman teaches Design and Flower Show Procedure, and Jim Schmdt teaches Horticulture. Registration details will be in the summer issue of Garden Gateways. Flower Show School, Course III will be held at Bellmere Garden House, Bell Road, Duluth, GA from August 22 to 24, Sponsored by the Designer s Club. For information and brochure, contact Chairman Bettye Trankina, , bhtran140@yahoo.com. Course IV, April 24-26, REDBUD DISTRICT BOARD MEETING Concord - August 14, AM-2 PM Step back in time to enjoy our district board meeting in Concord, with lunch at the home of Bettye Rumble; her turn of the century home has been restored to comfortably elegant Southern living with a charming garden of boxwoods, heritage plants and roses. District Committee Chair reports are due, all club presidents are invited to attend. Directions and details will follow in July. GARDEN STUDY SCHOOLS Gardening study schools teach students the correct way to plant and prune while giving knowledge of basics in botany, soils, plant propagation, container gardens, lawn care, plant identification and many other topics. Up-coming class is Course 2 Sept 5-6 Tifton; contact Barbara Jones ( ) for information. COME CRUISE THROUGH HISTORY ON THE GOOD SHIP REDBUD OCTOBER 24, 2006 STONE MOUNTAIN PARK The 2006 District Meeting promises more fun and facts than ever as we set sail on the Stone Mountain Paddleboat around the picturesque forested lake amidst glowing fall foliage! Mark your calendars now; start collecting goodies for those shoeboxes (see article below) and collecting the names of members who have passed away and will be recognized at the district memorial service IS THE YEAR OF THE SHOE! INTRODUCING: SHOE BOX GARDENING Redbud District is asking all clubs and members to begin collecting child sized gardening tools, gloves, seeds, soap, t- shirts, garden themed notepads, sunglasses, personal care items or toys for promoting gardening to youth in our communities and around the world. Shoeboxes filled with appropriate items will be collected at the District meeting October 24, 2006 at Stone Mountain, or can be dropped off at the Garden Center at Callanwolde through October 20. Clubs may also take their shoeboxes to pediatric floors of their community hospitals. Shoeboxes will be distributed to countries around the world through Samaritan s Purse, and to local children s hospitals or Ronald McDonald houses. Redbud Chair is Jean Smith, , jeansmith@bellsouth.net. 4

5 TAKE THE CHALLENGE - NATIONAL GARDEN CLUB NEWS Redbud takes Top Prize for Website! National Garden Club Embraces Habitat for Humanity Landscaping The 2006 NGC Convention Walk-A-Thon May 27 benefited the Habitat for Humanity Landscape Project and the NGC Green the Gulf Project. The GCG Convention featured a National Award Winning Workshop by Spalding Garden Club about effectively working with Habitat for Humanity new homeowners in developing gardening skills and knowledge to maintain their new home landscapes. The Spalding Club actually works with their county Habitat for Humanity group to present garden seminars for groups of interested new homeowners a few times each year. Club members also propagate hardy perennials and shrubs as take home gifts for those attending the seminar. Redbud District offers $250 non-matching grants to clubs participating in a Habitat home landscaping project. Your club can benefit from getting involved in this program too- why not get started this summer and be ready to plant in the fall? Find the grant application form online at and begin today! Redbud District Website, received the overall best website in the nation award from NGC. In addition, Dunwoody GC won first place for small club website. Daisy Salutes America won first place Patriotic Standard Flower Show for districts/councils. Redbud District Board Manual won a blue ribbon. Our National Youth Winners: Poster Contest- 3 rd Grade, David Penland, HM (Concord GC); 4 th Grade, Abby Wheeless, 2 nd Place ( Concord GC); 5 th Grade, Anna Heape, 1 st Place, (Concord GC); Poetry Contest- 2 nd Grade, Gabe Mann, 1 st Place, (Concord GC); 8 th Grade, Billie Brand, 1 st Place, (Concord GC). CONGRATULATIONS ALL! NATIONAL GARDEN WEEK June 4 10, 2006 is National Garden Week. Whatever your club does to commemorate this event, take pictures, write articles for your local paper, and include a reference to Redbud District, GCG and NGC. Display green and white helium balloons again this year. Be sure to send a copy to Anne McCoy, 1511 Northside Drive, Conyers, 30012; annemccoy@bellsouth.net; THANK YOU!!! 5

6 A DILLY OF A DOLLIE - GARDEN CLUB OF GEORGIA NEWS ORDER NEW 2007 CALENDARS NOW Club Presidents: ALL proceeds from calendar sales support GCG s college scholarship program, funding scholarships for deserving Georgia students majoring in a gardening-related field. Encourage your club to have 100% club participation in sales: Ask each club member to purchase at least ONE calendar; since a 7% sales tax must be added to each, the price of each calendar is now $7.49. GCG 2007 CALENDAR ORDER FORM REDBUD DISTRICT CLUB NAME President s Name: Address: Phone: # of $7.00 each= Add 7% Sales Tax: Total Due: Enclose order form and check Payable to: The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. Mail to: Vivian Toney P. O. Box 425 Hartwell, GA CALENDER GIRLS DESIGNING WOMEN! Redbud s STAR designer for 2007: Janet McGinnis of Smoke Rise Morning Glories MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA GCG s special youth project has evolved into a web site, a learning tool for children of all ages. Four campers begin in the mountains and learn about the environment all the way to the sea. Mountains to the Sea will teach youth about Georgia s special types of terrain, plants and animals in a fun and unusual way. Travel with our four cyber campers to experience this spectacular journey: Please visit our web site: 6

7 2006 STATE CONVENTION REDBUD WINS AT STATE! Redbud District took 51 top awards at GCG and DSR (Deep South Region) in 2006, a combined total of 96 awards all together! This made for a lot of Redbud Razzle Dazzle on awards night and a mighty joyful District Director, Joy Zaidan. Radiant Redbuds show off their aqua color at the opening workshop: Joan Thornton, Decatur Woman s Club Garden Division, Frances Bowen, Shenandoah Rose GC, and Berna Spencer, Ladybugs GC. (l to r) ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATES CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE Air and Natural Resources Chair Renie Faulkenberry has been educating our District with monthly messages on current issues and terminology; this May she writes: At the Environmental Studies School II in Athens this month I learned many things about the world and its resources. In waste management, the mantra is Reduce, recycle & dispose. Businesses have been motivated economically to adopt this philosophy, for example by making aluminum cans much thinner, so less material and energy is used, recycling the aluminum into new cans & reducing the waste thrown away; now individuals must start to think about our purchases and their disposal as landfills and solid waste facilities must meet stringent guidelines protecting streams and water supplies. So in addition to your Driving Diet, consider Reducing the Refuse! #1 The Garden Club of GA Trophy 2 nd Conyers Garden Club #2 Garden Center Award A.2 The DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. #6 Tree Award A 1st The Covington Garden Club #10 Garden Therapy Award A.2 2 nd The Covington Garden Club #16 Yearbook Awards B1. 1 st Shenandoah Rose Garden Club. 2 nd Lake Ivanhoe Garden Club. B2. HM Smoke Rise Garden Club. B3. HM Pine Needle Garden Club. B4. 1 st Avon Garden Club. B5. 2 nd Winding Woods Garden Club. D3. 1 st The DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. Redbud D. Peach Rosette Winner Div D: The DeKalb Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. #19 Horticulture Program Award 2 nd Hunting Hill Garden Club #20 History Awards A-5. 1 st Tucker Garden Club B-4 1 st The DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. Peach Rosette Winner Div B-4: The DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. 7

8 GCG Awards continued #21 Patriotic Flower Show Award A 1 st Redbud District, Stone Mountain, Daisy Salutes America #23 Flower Show Schedule Award A3. 1 st Redbud District, Yellow Daisy Flower Show Schedule #25 Scrapbook Awards A1. 1 st Ladybugs Garden Club Peach Rosette Winner Div A: Ladybugs Garden Club B3. The DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. Peach Rosette Winner Div B: The DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. #28 Publicity Press Book Award C. 1 st Redbud District, Stone Mountain Trophy Winner #31 Garden Club Council Award A-4 1 st The DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. Peach Rosette Winner Div A: The DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. #36 Education Exhibit Achievement Award B 1 st Smoke Rise Morning Glories Garden Club Peach Rosette Winner: Smoke Rise Morning Glories Garden Club #37 Publications Award C-4 1 st Winding Woods, Neighborhood Directory and Garden Club Board Manual B-2. The Dekalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. Newsletter C-2 2 nd Redbud Reporter C-4 1 st Redbud District President s Manual, Board Manual, Project Blue Skies Brochure #45 Flower Show Staging Award B2 Redbud District, Daisy Salutes America Peach Rosette Winner Division B: Redbud District #46 Public Relations Award Ai 1 st Johnstonville Garden Club #49 Holiday Decorations Award A.i 1 st Conyers Garden Club #53 Website Award A-1 1st Dunwoody Garden Club A-5 1 st Redbud District JUNIOR & INTERMEDIATE AWARDS #J3. CIVIC BEAUTIFICATION 1 st Johnstonville Junior GC #J10 SMOKEY BEAR AWARDS 1 st Grade 1 st Savannah Carruth, Ladybugs GC; 3 rd Morgan Barron, Concord 2 nd Grade 2 nd Carter Henderson, Concord; HM Deanna Atcheson, Ladybugs GC 3 rd Grade HM Abbey Thompson, Concord 4 th Grade 1 st Alex Allgood, Concord GC 5 th Grade 1 st Anna Heape, Concord GC #J10-B WOODSY OWL 1 st Grade 1 st Dalton Williams, Concord 2 nd Hunter Hudson, Concord GC, HM Joseph Demarco, Concord GC 2 nd Grade 1 st Page Carter, Concord GC 2 nd Hannah Goolsby, Concord GC 4 th Grade 1 st Austin Conine, Concord 5 th Grade 2 nd Anna Heape, Concord GC 3 rd Katie Thompson, Concord GC 8

9 #J11 POETRY AWARD Kindergarten HM Hunter Thompson, Concord 1 st Grade 1 st Leah Tyree, Concord GC 2 nd Parker Thaxton, Concord 3 rd Payton Crawford, Concord HM Lauren Harper, Concord 2 nd Grade 1 st Gabe Mann, Concord 3 rd Grade 2 nd Abbey Thompson, Concord 4 th Grade 2 nd Logan Jones, Concord 3 rd Kaylee Howard, Shenandoah Rose 5 th Grade 1 st Anna Heape, Concord 6 th Grade 1 st Emily Heape, Concord 8 th Grade 1 st Billie Brand, Concord 2 nd Perri Jordan, Concord GC 3 rd Kendra Cason, Concord GC HM Randy Hurley, Concord GC 9 th Grade 2 nd Jennifer Rippin, Concord 3 rd Ashlee Worshum, Concord GC HM Rhianna Bennett, Concord GC #J12 POSTER AWARD Kindergarten 1 st Emily England, Concord 2 nd Megan Baker, Concord GC 1 st Grade 1 st Talisa Watts, Concord GC 2 nd Grade 2 nd Page Carter, Concord GC 3 rd Abby England, Concord 3 rd Grade 1 st David Penland, Concord 2 nd Abbey Thompson, Concord GC 3 rd Cheyenne Thompson, Concord GC 4 th Grade 1 st Abby Wheeless, Concord 2 nd Rachel Lydia Hinkle, Concord GC 5 th Grade 1 st Anna Heape, Concord GC 2 nd Sarena Washington, Concord GC 6 th Grade 2 nd Emily Heape, Concord GC 3 rd Caylie Mahaffey, Concord GC DEEP SOUTH AWARDS Won by Remarkable Redbuds #19 COMMUNITY ACTION 2 nd Johnstonville Garden Club #20 WILDFLOWER AWARD 2 nd Hunting Hill Garden Club National Garden Clubs, Inc. Publicity Press Book Awards Deep South Regional Winners B. Group of Clubs 3 rd Redbud District Deep South Regional Youth Winners Poetry Contest 1 st Grade Leah Tyree, Concord GC 2 nd Grade Gabe Mann, Concord GC 8 th Grade Billie Brand, Concord GC Poster Contest 3 rd Grade David Penland, Concord GC 4 th Grade Abby Wheeless, Concord GC 5 th Grade Anna Heape, Concord GC High School Essay Contest Hugh Parker, Avon Garden Club HIGH SCHOOL GARDENER AWARDS #H ESSAY AWARD EMBRACE THE EARTH OUR GARDEN 1 st Hugh Parker, Avon GC, Redbud D. HM Tandi McKissick, Thomaston HM Emma Spalding, Avon GC First Place Winners in BOLD. Only Redbud winners are listed here. Dorothy Rouse Beams at State and Deep South High School Speech and Essay Winners, Chris O Connell and Hugh Parker (r) at Youth Luncheon! All State awards are explained in the GCG Guide, with necessary application procedures for each. 9

10 Challenges: to Make a Difference REDBUD DISTRICT NEWS 2006 DISTRICT AWARDS! 16 Redbud Awards, recognizing outstanding accomplishments by clubs, are presented at the Annual District Breakfast at Convention or at the Fall District Meeting (#2, #12 & #13). Most are determined by information reported in the GCG President s Report. Congratulations to the 2006 winners: #1 Jerry Tubb Award of the Year club with highest score on the President s Report: SMOKE RISE MORNING GLORIES Janet McGinnis, Glenndolyn Hallman, Joy Zaidan and Ruth Sullivan celebrate their Smoke Rise Morning Glory selection as Club of 2006! #4 Lullwater Gavel Award club applying for the most awards: CONYERS GARDEN CLUB #5 Gladys Manning Garden Therapy Award- club presenting most outstanding garden therapy project: 1 st HUMMINGBIRD GARDEN CLUB 2 nd AVON GARDEN CLUB 3 rd THOMASTON GARDEN CLUB #6 Rita Compher Calendar Award club which sells the most calendars: SOUTHWOOD GARDEN CLUB #7 Dorothy Hightower Community Improvement Award club with the most outstanding project: 1 st COVINGTON GARDEN CLUB 2 nd SMOKE RISE MORNING GLORIES 3 rd OLD TOWN OF SHARPSBURG #8 Mimosa Historic Preservation Award most outstanding project: LULLWATER GARDEN CLUB #9 Cookie Roland History Award 10, 25, 40, 50, or 60 and above year classes: 40 YEAR- SHENANDOAH ROSE GC 50 YEAR- THE DEKALB COUNTY FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS 70 YEAR- TUCKER GARDEN CLUB, ALSO OVERALL SILVER TROPHY WINNER #10 Margaret Strickland Bird and/or Butterfly Gardening Program Award GREEN THUMB GARDEN CLUB #11 Virginia Britton Kelly Garden Fragrance Program Award CONCORD GARDEN CLUB #14 Deanna McFarlan Club Newsletter Award 1 st HUNTING HILL GARDEN CLUB 2 nd LULLWATER GARDEN CLUB 3 rd WINDING WOODS GARDEN CLUB HM CONYERS GARDEN CLUB #15 Mary Helen Lindsey Youth Award 1 st AVON GC AND AVONDALE ESTATES GC, JOINT PROJECT 2 nd ROCKDALE EVERGREEN GC 3 rd LADYBUGS GARDEN CLUB #16 Joy Stuart Redbud District Member of the Year Award JANET MCGINNIS SMOKE RISE MORNING GLORIES 10

11 STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE Clubs scoring more than 200 points on the GCG President s Report: Avon Garden Club, Avondale Estates Avondale Estates GC, Avondale Estates Azalea Garden Club, Jackson Cherokee Garden Club, Jackson Concord Garden Club, Concord Conyers Garden Club, Conyers Covington Garden Club, Covington Decatur Woman s Club Garden Division The Designers Club, Atlanta Driftwood Garden Club, Newnan Dunwoody Garden Club, Dunwoody Evergreen Garden Club of Greater Atlanta Green Thumb Garden Club, Thomaston Hummingbird Garden Club, Atlanta Hunting Hill Garden Club, Decatur Iris Garden Club, LaGrange Ivy Garden Club, LaGrange Johnstonville Garden Club, Barnesville Ladybugs Garden Club, Stone Mountain Lake Ivanhoe Garden Club, Tucker Lullwater Garden Club, Atlanta Merry Weather Garden Club, Greenville Mimosa Garden Club, Jackson Moonflower Garden Club, Barnesville Mountain Mums GC, Stone Mountain Old Town Garden Club of Sharpsburg Perimeter Garden Club, Decatur Pine Needle Garden Club, LaGrange Rockdale Evergreen GC, Conyers Satsuki Garden Club, Covington Shenandoah Rose GC, Atlanta Smoke Rise Garden Club, Stone Mt. Smoke Rise Morning Glories GC, St. Mt. Southwood Garden Club, Jonesboro Spade & Trowel GC, Thomaston Talisman Garden Club, LaGrange Thomaston Garden Club, Thomaston Tucker Garden Club, Tucker Wedgewood Garden Club, West Point Winding Woods Garden Club, Tucker Wisteria Garden Club, LaGrange COUNCILS: The DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc., Atlanta Elms and Roses Garden Council, LaGrange West Central Georgia Garden Council, Thomaston Redbud Awards Workshop 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, August 30 th Garden Center, Callanwolde Challenges. An Opportunity to Make a Difference on Awards Night at The Garden Club of Georgia 2007 Convention All clubs are invited to make plans to attend the Redbud District Awards Workshop at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 30, 2006, at the Callanwolde Conservatory, 980 B Briarcliff Road, NE, Atlanta Bring all of your questions. Led by the Redbud District Awards Chairmen, this will be a hands-on workshop with answers to make your entries shine. Answers to: 1) see where particular projects might fit in the best category 2) how to write a summary 3) how to use your pictures 4) what to stress in your entry 5) how to make an entry even if you feel you only have several small projects 6) what must be included to have a winning entry 7) and anything else you want to know! By 12:30 p.m. we will treat you to an Award Winning Luncheon so you can be on your way to making your District Club a winning club, empowered by a gastronomically satisfied state! Please or call your reservations to dmcfarlan18@earthlink.net or before August 26. This workshop is for Club Awards Chairmen, Club Presidents and anyone else who would like to attend! 11

12 BLUE STAR MEMORIAL MARKER CEREMONY The DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. dedicated a new marker on May 19, 2006 at 2 PM at the Old Courthouse on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Decatur. GCG President Dollie Harper, DeKalb County CEO Vernon Jones, and Decatur Mayor William Floyd participated in the ceremony with keynote speaker, Retired Colonel Nimrod McNair. The Air Force Jr. ROTC Unit of Tucker HS presented the colors, and the Decatur HS Brass Quintet provided patriotic music. The DeKalb Federation was awarded a $500 grant as well as collecting generous donations from members, to pay for the marker to honor all who have served, are serving or will serve in the US Armed Services. The Blue Star Memorial Highway program originated in the 1940 s as a tribute to our country s war veterans. Clubs are encouraged to initiate new memorial markers or enhance existing markers, plant trees in public sites honoring our service men and women, and/or develop a garden at an historic site. Please note that the price of markers will increase as of January 2007 to $1130 or $360 for a By-way Marker. When much is asked of those who serve our country, we must support them. Avon and Avondale Estates GCs share the Youth Project Award: Tracy Trentadue & Annette Myers, of Avon GC, District Director Joy Zaidan, Beth Wielage & Kendall Newman of Avondale Estates GC. CONGRATULATIONS TO A REMARKABLE REDBUD! Congratulations to MARY LOVINGS, Avon and Avondale Estates Garden Clubs, who received a 2006 GCG Presidential Citation for outstanding service to The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. as Chairman of Legislation and Governmental Affairs. Mary s reliable communication of legislative issues as the session progressed kept garden clubbers informed and able to lobby intelligently if they so chose. Mary also accepted an Earth Share of Georgia Earth Day Champion Tribute on April 21 st, presented by Governor Perdue and now on display at GCG HQ in Athens, for the Garden Club of Georgia for encouraging GCG members to volunteer as House Guides at last summer s Southern Living Idea House. CHECK OUT THE AWARD-WINNING REDBUD DISTRICT WEBSITE AT Joanne Bennett & Rigby Duncan accept Hunting Hill GC Newsletter Award from Joy Zaidan (c). 12

13 ED GCG Historic House & Garden Pilgrimage Garden tours can really make your day- what a treat the April 22nd Historic House and Garden Pilgrimage in Dalton proved to be for couples Jim Monacell, Tracy Trentadue, Avon, Avondale Estates and Heaton Park Garden Clubs, and Dan and Edith Morton, Smoke Rise Garden Club, pictured below. Certificates for clubs 2005 contributions of $25 or more to LeConte-Woodmanston historic botanical garden are now available by contacting Sherle Beck, 150 Plum Nellie Lane, Brunswick, GCG extends apologies for the omission of these acknowledgements at 2006 Convention; your donations were and continue to be greatly appreciated. THEN IT BEGINS AGAIN BY JIMMIE MOOMAW AVON GARDEN CLUB I WAKE. IT IS DARK AND GRAY THE SKY IS LOW AND LOOMING. BENEATH THE GRAYNESS, THE EARTH SHUDDERS. BARREN AND FLECKED WITH FROST. WINTER. IN MEMORY ********** Harriette Haller, Redbud District Director from , passed away on May 17, Funeral services were held at holy Trinity Church in Decatur. Condolences may be sent to the family: Mr. & Mrs. Robert Haller, 364 Sheppard Place, Atlanta, ********** Jerry Tubb, Redbud District Director from , passed away after a long illness in May. Please extend your condolences to her son Kenneth Tubb, 1922 Swynford, Collierville, TN ********** I WAKE. THE MORNING GLOWS AND GLEAMS. A ROBIN HOpSCOTCHES ON THE GRASS. WHILE BULBS BURST YELLOW AND WHITE. SIPPING THEIR MORNING CUP OF DEW. SPRING. I WAKE. WISPS OF HAZE HUG THE GROUND MIXED WITH ROSE AND JASMINE PERFUME. NOW IN THEIR PRIME. OUR GARDENS STRUT THEIR STUFF. SUMMER. I WAKE. RAINDROPS KISS GOLD, YELLOW, AND RED LEAVES. TALL TREES START UNDRESSING. AND ALL THE GREEN THINGS BEGIN TO PLAY HIDE AND SEEK. FALL 13

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15 REDBUD REPORTER TRACY J. TRENTADUE, EDITOR 1064 HESS DRIVE AVONDALE ESTATES GA TO: 15