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Executive Board
President Linda Richcreek [email protected]
First Vice President/Programs Margaret Kirkpatrick [email protected] 2nd Vice President/Membership Cheryl Richards [email protected] Pam Frisbey [email protected] 3rd Vice President/Hospitality Joan Lasek [email protected] Karen Forrest [email protected] Recording Secretary Laurie Kennedy [email protected] Val Swadling [email protected] Corresponding Secretary Marge Lynch
[email protected] Treasurer Cyndi Nelson [email protected] Farrell Culberson [email protected]
Sweetwater Oaks Garden Club, Inc.
Inside this issue:
Calendar 2
Programs 6-7
President’s Message 4
Committee Reports 4-5
Photo Gallery 5,6, 9
Nov 2016 Editor
Gay Momberger
M e m b e r o f T h e N a t i o n a l G a r d e n C l u b s , I n c , D e e p S o u t h R e g i o n ,
F l o r i d a F e d e r a t i o n o f G a r d e n C l u b s , I n c . — D i s t r i c t V I I
COME FOR THE FUN
SWOGC HOLIDAY TOUR & LUNCH
BOK TOWER BOTANICAL GARDENS & PINEWOOD ESTATES
8:30am-3:30pm
$50.00
All inclusive bus, entrance fee & luncheon. Meet bus at Sweetwater Baptist Church back parking lot.
Reservations deadline—December 1
Checks made out to SOGC
mail to Margaret
Kirkpatrick
431 Newton Pl, Longwood, FL
32779
Questions:
407 399 8230
DECEMBER 12 MEETING
Holiday Floral Designs, presented by our talented floral designers.
Learn and be inspired to create floral designs for
your home for the holidays. An auction will
be held after the program so you may take
home your favorite
holiday design.
Monday, November 14
First Baptist Sweetwater Church
9:30 AM Social 10:00 am Meeting
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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3
Hospice
4 5
Lake & Hills
Garden Tour
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BD Carole Montgomery
Daylight Savings Time Ends
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BOARD MEETING
8 9 10
hospice
11 12
Orlando Garden Club
Holiday Market
13
BD Ann Chisholm
14
GENERAL MEETING
15 Junior Gardeners 16
BD Sandy Hampton
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Floral Design
Workshop
18 19
20 21 22 23
BD Kathleen Heuring
24 25 26
BD Mary Clay
27
BD Gail Arena
28 29
BD Irene Horner
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2016—2017 PROGRAMS
December 12, 2016 “Christmas at Historic Bok Towers Gardens”, field trip to Lakeland, FL
January 9, 2 017 “Permaculture Gardening” presented by Bob Hotaling, Master Gardener.
February 13, 2017 “Florida Friendly Landscape” presented by Kelley Greer, Orange County
Horticulture Florida-Friendly Landscaping agent
March 13, 2017 “Invasive Plants”, presented by Sherry Williams, a biologist Park Ranger for
Seminole County Greenways and Natural Land Division. .
April 10, 2017 TBA
May 8, 2017 Annual Spring Luncheon and Installation 2017 -2018 0fficers
HOSPITALITY FOR GENERAL MEETING
Bernie Delafield Linda Richcreek
Claire Griffis
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Nov 2016 Sweetwater Oaks Garden Club, Inc.
We invite all Sweetwater Oaks Garden Club members, their families and friends to attend a great weekend of
Festivals at Cranes Roost on November 19th and 20th presented by the Rotary Club of Seminole County
South. Included in the event are Arts and Crafts, Chil-dren's Activities, Entertainment, Chili Cook-off, Wine
Tasting etc.
Our garden Club will be participating with side-by-side booths where we will be selling Poinsettia Plants, Hanging Baskets, Holiday Ornaments and Cornucopias in order to
benefit our scholarships. I am currently working on a pre-order form and hope to email it to each member in the upcoming days.
Thank you to all the volunteers who have signed up to help with our fundraiser for the
two days. I still need people to help pick up the plants at Lowe's the morning of our event. If you can help in any way, please contact Sharon @ 407-884-8767 or Gwen @
407- 353-5565.
Please do not miss out on this fun event where you can enjoy a good time and the op-portunity to help our fundraiser for scholarship programs!!
We appreciate all that you do!
Many thanks, Sharon Lane Crouch and Gwen Allen
CRANES ROOST EVENT
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Dear Members:
It’s cooling off, humidity is dropping, pumpkin spice and salted caramel are taking over the shelves at grocery stores and of course, Star-
bucks.
We had a great meeting in October. Keri Byrum, Assistant Director from Leu Gardens was our speaker; we learned what to plant for Fall
and Winter.
Several of our members attended the Fall District Meeting of FFGC held on October 18 at Wekiva Youth Camp. Our club hosted this event and I would like to thank Joan
Lasek for her organizing efforts. Also need to thank all our club members who donated baked goods, attended and who worked tirelessly in the kitchen. The meeting, as well
as, the facilities and beautiful weather turned out wonderful.
Couple of events from neighboring garden clubs:
Lakes & Hills Garden Club of Mt. Dora have invited us to their 13th Annual Garden Tour
on Saturday, November 5 from 9:30 am – 4:30 pm. Tickets are Gardens & Home Tour $15; Tour & Lunch $30. More info @www.lakesandhillsgardenclub.com,
The Orlando Garden Club has invited us to their Holiday Market Plant & Gift Sale on
Saturday, Nov. 12 from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm at 710 & Rollins Street (behind the Or-lando Science Center in Loch Haven Park. More info @www.OrlandoGardenClub.org.
I am really excited about our Holiday Plant Sale on Saturday and Sunday, November
19 & 20 at Crane’s Roost at Uptown Altamonte Springs at their Great Weekend of Festivals.
Plants have been ordered, volunteers have signed up so all we need is beautiful weather. Please
come out and show your support.
We have a great program this month. “Holiday Floral Designs” presented by our talented floral de-
signers. Don’t forget an auction will be held after the program so bring your checkbook so you can
take home a floral design arrangement.
Please make your reservations for our Holiday Tour & Luncheon at Historic Bok Tower Botanical Gar-
dens and Pinewood Estates on Monday, December 12, from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm. See Margaret
Kirkpatrick to reserve your spot on the bus.
My wish to all of you is to have a Blessed Thanks-giving with your family and friends.
Let’s dig in and have a blessed November.
Thanksgiving Delights
Joanna Fuchs
On Thanksgiving Day we’re thankful for
Our blessings all year through.
For family we dearly love,
For good friends, old and new.
For sun to light and warm our days,
For stars that glow at night.
For trees of green and skies of blue
and puffy clouds of white.
We’re grateful for our eyes that see
The beauty all around.
For arms to hug, and legs to walk.
And ears to hear each sound.
The list of all we’re grateful for
Would fill a great big book;
Our thankful hearts find new delights
Everywhere we look!
A Word from our President
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The Sweetwater Oaks Garden Club hosted the District VII Fall Meeting at Camp Wekiva in October. There were approximately seventy attendees
from the clubs of District VII. The Florida Federation of Garden Clubs Offi-cers were in attendance.
Stephanie Allen from the Central Florida Zoo
and Botanical Gardens spoke on “Living with Black Bears in Central Florida”. Ann Todd and her kitchen crew did a great
job feeding our members and guests. Margaret Kirkpatrick and Louise Gould made the floral arrange-
ments for the tables; everyone commented on the beauti-ful designs. The arrangements were given as door prizes.
We should profit approximately $1000.00 from the District VII Fall Meeting
Our members can be proud of the great job they did hosting the meeting.
Nov 2016 Sweetwater Oaks Garden Club, Inc.
DISTRICT VII MEETING
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BUTTERFLY PEA PLANT (Clitoria ternatea)
Thank you Min Schwenderman for hosting our 1st horticulture meeting and garden tour
of the year.
Our next meeting will be January. Date and
place to be announced
later.
HORTICULTURE
JANUARY 16, 2017
Sanlando United Methodist Church, Longwood
9:30 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
$25.00
Please donate items for Silent Auction table.
Set up is Sunday evening
January 15, 2017 - 7:00 p.m.
We ask everyone to help set up, members, hus-
bands, friends Anyone that would like to volun-
teer at the "Raffle Table" or "Silent Auction" or
"Milly's Table", you are more than welcome to
help.
Ann Todd is in charge of the kitchen.
This is a drought-tolerant vine with bright blue flowers. It
likes full sun to light shade and does not like to be over-
watered. It attracts bees and butterflies with no pest or disease
problems. The best thing about this plant is a healthy drink made
from the blue flowers. After you steep the flowers in hot water, it
will turn a beautiful blue
color. Add honey to taste and a little lemon or lime juice and
it will turn purple. This drink is popular in Thailand
and is full of antioxidants. It has many health benefits, including
healthy skin and hair, improved eyesight, and anti-inflammatory
and pain relieving properties.
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Sweetwater Oaks Garden Club, Inc. Nov 2016
The October Junior Gardener’s program was presented by Lynn Griffis,
Louise Gould and Min Schwenderman on the Florida state bird and birds found in their backyard. Min helped the students make a hanger for
bird seeds. She used a pipe cleaner and Cheerios. The students strung the Cheerios on the first pipe cleaner, tied the four pipe cleaners in a
row and used a ribbon to make the hanger.
Louise used a bulletin board to display different birds found in the back-yards. She also brought her bird sound book. The students recognized the Mocking-
bird sound and really liked to hear other bird sounds. Lynn helped the students cut out pictures of birds found in their backyards from magazines and newspapers. They
glued them onto 8x11 paper. They did a good job, and these will be submitted to FFGC for an award. The Junior Gardeners are going to take part in our April Arbor
Day celebration. Min’s idea on the bird seed hanger will be a great way for the stu-dents to participate.
We meet the second Tuesday each month from 9:30 – 10:30 AM at Starchild Acad-
emy.
Volunteers for October: Lynn Griffis, Louise Gould and Min Schwenderman.
Chairman, Ann Todd
JUNIOR GARDENERS
November 17, 2016 9:30 am - 11:00 am approximately
Sweetwater Oaks Community Center
870 Fox Valley Drive, Longwood, Florida
Join us for our annual fall holiday floral design workshop and learn how to create a cen-terpiece for your Thanksgiving celebrations. We will be making a cornucopia design us-
ing fresh flowers and fall materials to sell at our booth (in conjunction with the Rotary
Club) at Cranes Roost on November 19-20th. All supplies will be at no cost to you.
Please let this chairman know if you would like to attend. If you would like to make an-
other design for your home while your are there, please let this chair-man know and she will get you the additional flowers and supplies for a
cost of $10.00.
Please sign up by emailing or calling
Margaret Kirkpatrick
FLORAL DESIGN WORKSHOP
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Sweetwater Oaks Garden Club, Inc. Nov 2016
Florida's Famous Plants - You Can
Grow Them Too:
Tom MacCubbin—urban horticulturist,
noted garden writer, and University of Florida Extension Agent Emeritus—will
describe some of Florida’s many fa-mous plants and how to grow and
care for them in our gardens. 10 a.m., November 9; Winter Park Garden
Club, 1300 S. Denning Drive, Winter Park.
407-644-5770.
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Sweetwater Oaks Garden Club, Inc. Nov 2016
October Meeting
Photos
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Nov 2016
BOARD MEETINGS
First Monday of the Month September-May at 10:00 AM
810 Fox Valley Drive, Longwood, Florida
GENERAL MEETINGS
Second Monday of the Month, September-May at 9:30 AM
First Baptist Sweetwater Church
3800 Wekiva Springs Road. Longwood. Florida
HORTICULTURE GROUP MEETINGS
Fourth Monday of October, February and April at 9:30 AM
See the Calendar of Events for Location
JUNIOR GARDENERS
Second Tuesday of the Month at 9:00 AM
FLORAL DESIGN
Every Thursday at Hospice of the Comforter 12:30-3:00 PM
Sweetwater Oaks Garden Club, Inc. Meeting Schedule
Club Flower—Rose
Club Bird—Cardinal
We’re on the web!
www.swogc.org
Member of National Garden Clubs, Inc.
Deep South Region
Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc.
District VII
Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole & Sumter Counties
Organized—January 9, 1974
Federated—January 27, 1975
Incorporated—September 14, 1992
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 915233
Longwood, Florida 32791
Sweetwater Oaks Garden Club, Inc.
The purpose of Sweetwater Oaks Garden Club is the education of its mem-
bers and the community in their relationship to horticulture, conservation
and environmental needs, as well as the art of floral design.
If you know of a member who could use an extra kind thought,
please contact me. I prefer receiving the information by
email, but please call if you don't have email access.
Marge Lynch
[email protected] 407-884-0583
