Punta Gorda Garden Club
Punta Gorda FL 33951-1167
Welcome to the Punta Gorda Garden Club’s website. The club was founded in 1949 and federated in 1950. We are members of Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. District IX; Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc; Deep South Region National Garden Clubs, Inc. and National Garden Clubs, Inc.
Our meetings are held at the First United Methodist Church, Lenox Hall, 507 W. Marion Ave., Punta Gorda, FL, on the third Wednesday of each month with refreshments starting at 1 p.m. followed by a short business meeting and program starting at 1:30 p.m.
The purpose of the club is to promote the beautification and improvement of Punta Gorda and the surrounding areas; to encourage the growing of flowers, plants and shrubbery in public and private places; to cooperate in the conservation of natural resources and to promote education in these areas. We have three gardens in the community that we designed and maintain.
History Park Garden ~ Artist Jill Kennedy
We support Habitat for Humanity, Educational Concerns Hunger Organization and Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center. Our members are active in a club sponsored program in the elementary schools. We provide scholarships for higher education to graduating seniors at our high schools and provide camperships to elementary youth at FFGC’s Camp Wekiva, a nature camp in Apopka, FL.
The Holly Days Home Tour held the first weekend in December is our only fund raiser. This year's Home Tour will celebrate the establishment of our club sixty years ago in 1949. Using the theme "Christmas...Reflections of 60 Years," club members will decorate homes in the Punta Gorda Historic District. All members participate in this event.
Please enjoy the designs on the left by our Master Judges Gloria Freitas-Steindinger, Glady Hemphill and Virginia Mraz. In August please check back and visit our Program Page for upcoming programs beginning September 2009. We hope you will join us at a meeting.
Carole Biggs - Anne Simpson
Co-Presidents
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