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Club Contests
National Garden Clubs Membership Contest
June 1, 2009 to May 31, 2010
National Garden Clubs, Inc. is sponsoring a Membership Contest beginning June 1, 2009. Inspired by the tradition of having a new cultivar named for a NGC President, the STATE with the greatest percentage increase in members will win the honor of having a new daylily cultivar named for their state. This new daylily hybrid is being grown by Dr. Jack Roberson of American Daylily & Perennial Co. Inc.
The contest runs from June 1, 2009 to May 31, 2010.
The winner will be announced at the 2010 NGC Fall Board Meeting.
This contest will have many beneficial results:
- Increase in members
- Increase in revenue for Clubs, States and NGC
- Increase in pride of membership in garden clubs
- Create positive publicity for garden clubs in their communities
Grow your membership so that your state will be the first to win this prestigious honor!
Let's make sure it's named "Pennsylvania!"
Kay Leto GCFP Membership Chairman
EXCEPTIONAL HORTICULTURAL AWARD
Most of the requests for the Exceptional Horticultural Award come from clubs to which you belong. For those of you who are not familiar with this award, as Horticulture Coordinator I am responsible for the selection of candidates. The candidate MUST be a Garden Club member of one of the federated clubs in the GCFP. The criteria for this award are as follows:
EXPERIENCE – Growing numerous plant materials – trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, biennials, house plants and being able to converse with others intelligently about “how to grow”. Hopefully the candidate has attended one or more of the schools provided by the National Garden Clubs, Inc. but this is not a requirement.
EDUCATION – the candidate should be well read: books magazines, flower and garden catalogs, the Internet, National Garden Club programs and schools.
SHARING – Knowledge, experience and plant materials with friends and garden club members as well as civic organizations. The candidate should have served their club, community and country when called upon to do so. They should be able to represent the GCFP as an intelligent, dignified and knowledgeable source.
Remember, for the most part we are amateurs. However, an exceptional horticulturist must be almost a professional in the above three areas.
Applications for the award must be written up and sent to me by August 1st of each year. This is a necessary request as the certificates must be prepared and then sent to the District Directors and Awards Chairman for signing and presentation at the District annual meeting.
Please send these to:
- Mrs. Frank C. Dickson, II
- 160 Winters Road
- Butler, PA 16002-0658
- Phone 724-287-2053