Events

Apr 12-13, 2024 Oklahoma Garden Clubs Convention will be held in Guymon, Oklahoma. host-hotel is Holiday Inn Express

2024 OGC Convention Registration Form

April 22 & 23, 2024 is the Arkansas Garden Clubs convention in Little Rock, AR followed by the South Central Region of Garden Clubs convention on April 24 & 25, both at the Four Points by Sheraton in Little Rock. See the registration attached to the email.

AFGC & scr Convention Registration forms 2024

Jul 26-27, 2024 Oklahoma Council of Accredited Flower Show Judges Symposium in Stroud, Oklahoma. Instructors are David Robson teaching begonias and tomatoes, and Lynn Fronk teaching low-profile and cascade designs. See the registration brochure. You can attend even if you aren’t a Flower Show judge or don’t want to be a Flower Show judge, yet just want to learn. Save the date!

OK Gardener Winter 2024

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National Garden Clubs, Inc & Oklahoma Garden Clubs, Inc
Cushing Gladiolus Garden Club with Tulsa Garden Club present
Gardening School
Series – Z-001 Course – 003
Course – 003 Classes
New Plant Growth, Plant Development, Container Gardening, Houseplant Basics, Native Trees,
March 16 and 23, 2024 VIA: ZOOM 10 a.m. to 5 pm CST.

Gardening School Brochure Z001 -003

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SCR COMMUNICATOR PUBLICATION FEB24

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The 2024 National Gardener winter Addition

https://gardenclub.org/sites/default/files/2024-01/tng-winter-2024.pdf

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Great good morning, Gardener!

SAVE THE DATE! Dogwood, Lakeside and Tulsa Garden Club Members. As members of the former Tulsa Council of Garden Clubs you and your members are eligible to attend the rescheduled Tulsa Council trip to visit the NGC Headquarters in St. Louis. The new dates are May 22-24, 2024. If you and any of your members want to be included please email roses@jswtech.com by March 1, 2024 so Rose can reserve hotel accommodations for the group.

NEXT WEEK:

Mar 6, 2024 Judy Grotts will present the essentials/pitfalls for petite designs, those 6″, 9″ and 12″ designs in Sections A, B and C (classes 1-9). Linda Smith will demonstrate Class 8 “Art at the Philbrook”, interpreting a photo in a floral design.

Can’t be with us in person? Join Hump Days Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83880312932…

Meeting ID: 838 8031 2932

Passcode: QefLx6

Mar 7 All-Member Zoom to catch up, learn, report, plan, network and more! Judy Grotts created a monthly Zoom schedule to help us stay in touch. Download, import/add the following to your calendaring tool: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/tZcvcuitpz0jEtQ0HlCvFBnhykeIjhsr5DYC/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGrrD4rH92TuRGHRpwqAI_4d-_xmCFEj7dszDfpIDZ1QA3-L-lHG7h3A8qF

Join OGC NED Zoom meetings with same Zoom login:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83251596980?pwd=fxharuNwo7JtmydsS72exd7V2sovyV.1

Meeting ID: 832 5159 6980

Passcode: 613031

Mar 1 and May 31 DEADLINES Grants Apply for an AMES Tool Grant, even if you apply for Espoma or the NGC Plant America grants. Please note that AMES Tool Grant deadline is end of day, March 1, 2024; and Espoma ends on May 31, 2024. Best wishes to you and your club on its projects! Debi L. Harrington, NGC Sponsor’s Grants Chair, 505-206-0930 MDT

Mar 16 & 23, 2024 NGC Gardening School Courses 3 & 4 remain. You can still dig into these and pick up Course 3 on March 16 & 23, 2024 Questions? Email Judy Grotts or register via Eventbrite.

Apr 6, 2024 Tulsa Garden Club Flower Show The Showing for Tulsa! Design Specialty Flower Show is 1-4pm, Saturday, April 6. The Show Schedule is available at tulsagardenclub.org, as are links to enter your exhibits. We hope you will participate!

From Co-President Rose:

Apr 12-13, 2024 Oklahoma Garden Clubs Convention will be held in Guymon, Oklahoma. I have mailed my registration along with reservation at host-hotel Holiday Inn Express for Friday and Saturday nights. (I was told I could cancel the Saturday night reservation that day before 6pm if I want to leave.) I reserved a room with two beds and would like to share with someone. Let me know, roses@jswtech.com, if you are interested. Registration is at the bottom of this email.

I would also like to share a ride if you plan to attend. It is approximately a 5-hour drive from Tulsa.

April 22 & 23, 2024 is the Arkansas Garden Clubs convention in Little Rock, AR followed by the South Central Region of Garden Clubs convention on April 24 & 25, both at the Four Points by Sheraton in Little Rock. See the registration attached to the email.

April 25 & 26, 2024 SCR Convention in Little Rock, Arkansas

Jul 26-27, 2024 Oklahoma Council of Accredited Flower Show Judges Symposium in Stroud, Oklahoma. Instructors are David Robson teaching begonias and tomatoes, and Lynn Fronk teaching low-profile and cascade designs. See the registration brochure. You can attend even if you aren’t a Flower Show judge or don’t want to be a Flower Show judge, yet just want to learn. Save the date!

Deceased Members Please let MaryAnn Holman (mholmangardenclubs@aol.com) know of any of your members who have passed on since the April 2023 OGC Convention.

Youth Awards For all contests that are progressive, the winners move on to NGC:

Youth contests; Butterfly, Conservation poster, litter & pollution poster, spunky squirrel and wildflower are due March 1 to the State Contest chair. Awards are given at the convention and having a later due date gives time after the SCR and NGC contests are due for students to work on these OGC-only contests.

Tulsa Garden Club Rose Fund is a timeless way to remember loved ones and to celebrate special occasions. Tribute gifts are received year-round to help restore our region’s historic Tulsa Rose Garden following devastating rose rosette disease. Learn more and join this blooming tradition!

NGC Plant America Certified Wildlife Habitat Register yours!

You are receiving this email as a member of Oklahoma Garden Clubs (OGC) Northeast District (NED)—a benefit of your hometown garden club membership.

Chouteau Garden Club, Chouteau
Dogwood Garden Club of Red Fork, Tulsa
Green Thumb Garden Club, Bartlesville
Jenks Garden Club, Jenks
Lakeside Garden Club, Ketchum/Grand Lake
Tulsa Garden Club, Tulsa

You set these OGC NE District Goals

Support Educational Programs—upcoming NGC Schools attached. Learn more about NGC Schools. See attached for upcoming courses.
Encourage Cross-Club Interactions
Cultivate Non-Federated Clubs/Members

Join these teams as leader or member:

Auditor/Financial Review- could be you!
Awards/Contests – Rose Schultz ** Club Presidents: watch for emails with more details
Membership/Clubs/Life – Sue Lovelace overseeing identification for Outreach
NGC and Local Education/Programs/Projects/Schools – Judy Grotts, Rose Schultz, Lynn Michael
Nominating – Kathi Blazer and…
Communications/Publicity – could be you!

REPLY with your upcoming club meetings, programs, activities.

Mar 4 Start Them Young! Growing Oklahoma Gardeners from the Ground Up, Tulsa Garden Club

Mar 14 Cherokee Nation Anna Mitchell Cultural & Welcome Center Tour, Lakeside Garden Club

Mar 21 There’s Something Seedy Going On South Central District Convention, Marlow OK

Apr 6 Showing for Tulsa Flower Show, Tulsa Garden Club

Apr 11 Glammed Up Flower Pot, Lakeside Garden Club

Apr 12 & 13 OGC Convention, Holiday Inn Express, Guymon OK

Apr 24-25 SCR Convention, Four Points by Sheraton, Little Rock AR

Apr 27 Jenks Herb ‘n Plant Festival, Jenks Garden Club, Jenks Main Street

May 9 All About Mushrooms, Lakeside Garden Club

May 11 Tulsa Heart & Soil 73rd Annual Garden Tour, four midtown Tulsa gardens

Jun 2-8 National Garden Week

Jun 2-5 NGC Convention, The Westin Westminster, Westminster, CO

Jun 12 EXTRAVAGANZA, Lakeside Garden Club

Thank you for being a part of your active hometown club helping grow (sow!) individual gardeners’ knowledge at the same time as we grow (and harvest for) all our clubs, our District, state, etc. ADD OGCNEDist@gmail.com to your Contacts.

Keep growing on!

OGC NE District

Your Co-Presidents
Rose Schultz 641.777.3336
Brenda Michael-Haggard 918.625.1161
OGCNEDist@gmail.com
FB @OGCNEDistrict
Planting America is Cool and Groovy!

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OKC OF GARDEN COUNCILS NOV 2023 NEWSLETTER

NGC THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE DEC 2023

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One more page for you to print and put in your Green Book notebook.

By now, you should have the 2023-2025 Officers and Chairs list, all the contests, and the Bylaws and Standing Rules in your notebooks.

If you don’t have a Green Book notebook, see me at the October 17 OGC Board Meeting and I will give you one.

Rotation of Conventions (after SE disbanded)

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Attached is the August Through the Garden Gate Newsletter. One article deals with nominating candidates for NGC offices. The deadline for applications is April 20, 2024 which is next year. I wanted to give everyone a heads-up so you can notify members who are qualified and want to apply, fill out applications, and for your state to approve them. More information can be found in the National Garden Clubs Bylaws and Standing Rules.

Donna Rouch
National Garden Clubs, Inc.

First Vice-President

Drouch@gardenclub.org

NGC 2023 Through The Garden Gate ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2023-2025 President’s Project FUNDRAISER

Please forward this message to the club presidents in your district and ask them to forward it to their membership please.

The OGC, Inc. has been given permission from the board to purchase the pictured Oklahoma Tapestry Quilts to sell to raise funds to pay for the 2023-2025 President’s Project.

(copy of the project is attached to this email for your information)

MaryAnn Holman is the Ways & Means chair for OGC and is developing a flyer that will include price and order information. WATCH FOR IT.

OGC Throw Order Form and Picture

2023 Fundraiser flyer (Tapestry Throw)

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SOUTH CENTRAL REGION FEB 2023 COMMUNICATOR

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STATE LIFE MEMBERSHIP

OGC LIFE MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

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WINTER 2023 National Gardener tng-winter-2023

Happy New Year to everyone. I hope you are staying well, but I know many of you are not. I’ve been a bit under-the-weather, also.

This issue includes the information about the upcoming NGC Convention. It also details the updates to NGC’s bylaws. Remember, each state and each club in the state must update their bylaws to align with NGC’s. It’s time for us all to review our bylaws and get those necessary updates in place for the new president’s term.

Be watching your email – your registrations for the April conventions will be coming very soon.

Oklahoma Garden Clubs, Inc. https://oklahomagardenclub.com/ April Pratt, President 03JAN23

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Newscape Fall 2022

Please see attached the recent issue. There are some great articles here – consider using them for you club programs! Please share with your members.

April Pratt, OGC President

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Summer 2022 National Gardener https://gardenclub.org/national-gardener-archives

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The HANDBOOK FOR FLOWER SHOWS, January 2022 revision, is now available FREE online at NGC’s website:

https://gardenclub.org/flower-show-school-resources

April 26, 2022 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, renowned conservationist and landscape architect credited with having created public parks providing city dwellers “a sense of enlarged freedom,” being restorative in nature and connecting communities. I’m delighted to share a video created by historian Kirk Brown to commemorate Olmsted’s birthday. Kirk entertains and educates garden clubs members and history lovers with his energetic and passionate, horticulturally related presentations.

This is the first of a President’s series planned for the next year that will entertain and educate National Garden Club members. This video will be available until May 11. You’re welcome to share the link with your clubs until then. Enjoy!

NGC President Mary Warshauer

PLANT AMERICA MONTH, April 2022

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