Garden Clubs
Topic 10 · 9 responses · archived october 2000
~wolf
Sun, Apr 9, 2000 (19:03)
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Does your city participate in gardening clubs? Are you a member?
~wolf
Sun, Apr 9, 2000 (19:06)
#1
just returning from a trip to natchez mississippi and visiting some of the ante-bellum homes on the tours. learned that the garden clubs had a lot to do with the preservation of these areas as well as their fabulous grounds. made me wonder if we have one in my area and i'm not finding anything on the net. the garden club also put on a beautiful pageant of different social events during the 1800/early 1900's in south mississippi.
~MarciaH
Sun, Apr 9, 2000 (19:46)
#2
Oh my dear, where I come from, to enable you to join Gahden Clubs, one must have been presented to society and all that formal rubbish. I came to Hawaii to get away from that, and here it is called "The Outdoor Circle" and does it wield a big stick while talking softly.
~wolf
Sun, Apr 9, 2000 (19:48)
#3
i wondered if it was a haughty taughty thing and i'm just the pauper looking in. the deb stuff is mostly for show around here. i emailed the ncsgc (http://www.ncsgc.org) for more info. a friend of mine says regular people can join (they'd probably make me the layer of manure)
~wolf
Sun, Apr 9, 2000 (19:49)
#4
(and the fact that i've been gardening for 20 years wouldn't count, huh?)
~MarciaH
Sun, Apr 9, 2000 (19:53)
#5
They'd better let you join or I will pull rank on them. I can look down my Patrician nose with the best of them, My Dear Wolfie. If they give you grief they are not worth the effort. Go to your local ag extension service and enquire about gardening clubs which are not tea-drinking society matrons who hire gardeners to do the "dirty" work.
~wolf
Sun, Apr 9, 2000 (19:55)
#6
maybe i can start a new one for those of us who enjoy getting a feel for God's earth. i love digging up new plots and getting my hands dirty. there's nothing like the smell of good earth (well, except for roses)....
~MarciaH
Sun, Apr 9, 2000 (19:57)
#7
Yup...there's nothing like freshly turned earth providing my father had not gotten there first with the steer manure...*sigh*
~MarciaH
Sun, Apr 9, 2000 (19:58)
#8
I think you could start any club you wished to start and send meeting notices to the local newspaper (they are always happy to get local news - it used to be my job for the Hilo Sailing Club.)
~wolf
Sun, Apr 9, 2000 (20:00)
#9
yeah, but i have no idea how to run a club like that or where money would come from or if i'd have enough spine to stick it through. would love to give the highbrows a run for their money (literally). am not up to the challenge, i fear. would rather work in the background. but....i have no botanical degree and i suppose that would be a requirement of some sort. then i'd have to find some nursery to sponsor us, etc. don't know how to do any of that.