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Ideas To Revitalize a Garden Club

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The enthusiasm among members of a gardening club can wax and wane over time. This page may help you in coming up with new activities and programs to rejuvenate the group and attract new members. This page contains ideas to revitalize a garden club.
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January 26, 2011

Our garden club needs a boost. Can anyone suggest a few interesting programs?

Hardiness Zone: 10b

By dorothy

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January 27, 20110 found this helpful
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In my community, the local garden clubs take care of the flower beds at our library, as well as inside planters at our public schools. Perhaps your group could do something like that in your community.

 
January 28, 20111 found this helpful
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I started a garden club in my little town. Here are something we do:

  • We exchange plants and seeds.
  • I have many types of bubble machines. We bring potluck foods and blow bubbles, exchange seedlings, plants and unusual pots. We hold them at a different person's yard each month. We check out their gardens.
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  • We also make plantings for hospitals.
  • One year we revamped the Senior center yard, planting veggies with flowers and angel statues in between.
  • We have had botanists from state parks and kids studying horticulture give talks.
  • I also think showing little kids how to plant might be a good thing, starting a garden at the school, for kids who have to go to summer school.

 

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January 29, 20110 found this helpful
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I work in a nursing home and I would strongly suggest you contact some in your area. Nursing homes desperately need the services your club can provide. Your club could be in charge of planters that you change each season. You could do small plants for patients rooms and be in charge of re-potting them as needed.

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You could do an herb garden, a vegetable garden, a succulent garden, bird houses and bird feeders. All these things would bring joy to a nursing home and require time and attention that your garden club could provide.

 
January 31, 20112 found this helpful
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I do not belong to a garden club but something I have always looked for and is difficult to find summarized is a fruit, vegetable, herb "calendar class" that would give me specific (within a week or so) planting and harvesting dates for a wide variety of foods that could grow in our hardiness zone. Yes, I've been able to piece together these bits of information to become successful in home growing foods, but nothing was ever easy to figure out and as far as I know, no local garden club offers such help.

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As well, I've searched high and low for flower bed garden plants and mapped garden plots in my hardiness zone that will bloom from early spring to late fall successively. Again, I can piece together this information from various research, but can't find a single source for an ever blooming patch that works specifically for my hardiness zone.

Just a thought, but maybe simplifying this often baffling dilemma with a printed calendar, planting guide and monthly meetings for consultation for new members in a local garden club might help grow the club membership. Honestly, the few landscapes I do see grow so successfully (in my area) are either horticulture professionals or individuals and businesses able to pay for horticultural services. Can't speak for everyone, of course, but never found a local garden club to offer such practical advice to the do it yourself home owner.

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I think it's great to plant a community square according to the direction of a local garden club, but I'd be more apt to participate if the garden club would give me the specific information to do the same in my own back yard. Just sayin' 'cuz you asked!

 
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January 26, 2011

I have belonged to a garden club for 2 years now. It's kinda a dying group and I have been elected to become president in September. I would love any and all ideas on things to do to make this club more fun, like crafts, trips, speakers, anything! Please help.


Tracy from MI

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Contests and More Ideas

A contest, like grow the biggest pumpkin, squash, etc. The winner can be timed to enter the local county fair's produce section. Your county probably has a Dept. of Agriculture, they can make presentations.

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Have meetings in the library and invite newcomers. Sometimes a club fades because the founder was the life line and once the founder leaves, it falls apart. If so, it's not your fault.

By Holly

Ideas for Your Club

By mary

Plant Exchange

My first thought was to have a plant and bulb exchange. Since you are starting your reign in September, it's an ideal time to trade perennials, perennial seeds, and spring bulbs for fall planting. If your funds permit or you have a free newspaper, you could invite the public to come and bring some of their favorites to trade. This way you may be able to increase your membership, as well.

By jean hugus

Engage Your Community

The thing that revitalized ours was a project that involved the young horticulture students at the high school, so that a sense of purpose and trans-generation developed among us oldies.

Also, that momentum was rolled along further when we linked up for charity with other clubs. It was very fun when we got on a chartered bus (not that expensive after all!) and went to a tour of winning gardens in a nearby city. All the way home, one by one, we each shared one idea gained that we found useful for our own homes.

If there is a feud among your members, be sure to deal with it swiftly and publicly so that both members know that you are prepared to swat them both quickly. All I had to do was to loudly say "If you two don't take your personal stuff outside this meeting, I will knock your heads together right now." Seemed like a great sigh of relief went up and smiles returned! God bless your good-hearted efforts!

By Kim Churchman

 
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