Tag: Boca Grande Garden Club

The beginning of spring is heralded with a great ‘Art in Bloom’ show

To the Editor: In Boca Grande, where seasons blur and winter is not cold, spring did nonetheless decidedly begin on March 21, with a beautiful, colorful and exciting floral display. At the sixth...

It’s Flower Week for the Garden Club: J Schwanke to speak

February 1, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ SUBMITTED BY THE GARDEN CLUB The irrepressible J Schwanke lands in Boca Grande February 6 for two days of flower festivities. Mr. Schwanke, who may be the hardest-working designer in the floral...

Garden Club announced season calendar, new tax status

January 11, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB The Boca Grande Garden Club has plotted a jam-packed season of presentations, workshops and field trips for 2019. The calendar looks like this: January 11...

Profile Peggy Seawert

June 15, 2018
Marcy Shortuse
News, Profiles

■ BY SUE ERWIN Peggy Seawert knows a lot about how to make things grow. As president of the Boca Grande Garden Club, she has invited some very experienced speakers to come and give lectures about...

Profile Lynda Grant

■ BY SUE ERWIN You may have recently seen her on stage playing a lead part in the Royal Palm Players production of “Don’t Drink the Water,” but if you didn’t catch it, you’re sure to see...

Boca Grande Garden Club celebrates 20 years of growth

■ BY CATHERINE SHANNON BALLMAN Everything is coming up asters for the Boca Grande Garden Club this season. The star-shaped aster is the flower for 20th anniversaries, the very event Boca Grande...

Thanks from the Art Center to Nat and crew

To the Editor: The Boca Grande Art Center and the Boca Grande Garden Club have joined for the past few years to present to the community our annual Art in Bloom exhibit. This year was stupendous....

Del-Bourree Bach to speak to BG Camera Club

January 26, 2018
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB Del-Bourree Bach, a world-renowned master painter and a contemporary realist from Mystic, Conn., will give a lecture to the Boca Grande Camera Club on “An...

Dennis Whigham to address Garden Club regarding orchids

October 27, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB On Wednesday, Nov. 1 at the season-opening meeting of the Boca Grande Garden Club’s 20th year, Dennis Whigham, an extraordinary orchid ecologist with the...

Renny Reynolds to discuss English gardens on March 1

February 24, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB On Wednesday, March 1 the Boca Grande Garden Club will welcome Renny Reynolds to its monthly meeting at the Boca Grande Community Center Auditorium at 2...