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THROUGH THE

GRAPEVINE

It’s Picnic Time!

In this issue — Page

May Program 1

President’s Message 2

Membership Update 2

Calendar of Events 3

May Birthdays 3

Save the Dates 4

Dues are Due! 4

Flowercade 2018 Results 5

Wall-Farrar Trail Tidy-Up 6

Spring Picnic 6

Member in the News! 6

Gardeners on the Go 7

Calling All Volunteers 7

The Envelope, Please! 7

Texas Garden Clubs, Inc. State Awards 8

Flowercade 2018 Photos 9

Map to Trawick Pavilion at Lake Grapevine 10

Member of National Garden Clubs, Inc., South Central Region,

Texas Garden Clubs, Inc., District II,

and Garden Club Council of Ft. Worth

Meeting site: Trawick Pavilion at Lake Grapevine, Grapevine, Texas

Social 10:30 A.M. Picnic and Program 11:00 A.M.

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President’s Message

“April showers bring May flowers.” That old saying is so true this year. Our gardens

have never looked better! So let’s celebrate spring with a PICNIC!

Our annual year-end celebration will be held on Tuesday,

May 22nd at the Trawick Pavilion at Lake Grapevine. You can

count on an overwhelming variety of food, so bring your appe-

tite along with your best salad or dessert to share. We will award

scholarships, install officers, and enjoy visiting with friends,

some of whom we may not see again until fall.

If you have not yet renewed your membership for 2018-2019, the Membership team

will be on hand to assist you. Remember, you must renew by June 1st to be included in the

yearbook which is compiled and printed during the summer months.

For additional information regarding the Picnic, please see page 6 of this newsletter. A

map to Trawick Pavilion can be found on page 10.

It’s also the time of year for awards, so please join me in congratulating our winners

from Flowercade (pages 5 and 9) and Texas Garden Clubs, Inc. (page 8).

Thank you for your support during my first year as President. I look forward to seeing

you at the Picnic and, of course, in September when we begin another year of program-

ming, community service, and FUN! Candace Kyler

Membership Update

Please join me in extending a warm welcome to our newest members:

Peter Lin Armando and Maria Cajide Sharon Hidden Veronica Iturrate

Our membership now totals 293. Candy Cawley

Membership


Note as to Location Changes, Time Changes, or TBD Locations

Please note that some event locations and times may have changed from what was

previously published, and others may be shown as TBD. We will make every effort to

promptly notify you of any changes to locations and times. Thank you for your patience

and understanding.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Date Event Location

May 8th West Texas Street Workday West Texas Street, Grapevine

9:00 A.M.

May 21st Wall-Farrar Trail Tidy-Up Wall-Farrar Trail

9:00 A.M.

May 22nd Spring Picnic Trawick Pavilion, Lake Grapevine

10:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.

June 4th - 10th National Garden Week CELEBRATE!

BUY A NEW PLANT OR TWO!

June 5th Rose Trial Data Collection Dove Loop Road W. of Cross

Timbers Winery, 9:00 A.M.

June 7th Gardeners on the Go:

Lavender Ridge Farms Gainesville, Texas

May Birthdays

Pam Braak

Gail Cowan

Susan Cullen

Sarah Erickson

Annemarie Garlin

Ninfa Gonzales

Sally Gray

Marci Junge

Carol Milner

Cecilia Mitchell

Debbie Monahan

Kathy Nelson

Sylvan Sigler

James Smith

Doug Veazey

Miriam Ward

Charles Weems

Jacqueline Weilmuenster


Date Event Location

July 3rd Rose Trial Data Collection Dove Loop Road W. of Cross


July 23rd Wall –Farrar Trail Tidy-Up Wall-Farrar Trail

8:30 A.M.

August 7th Rose Trial Data Collection Dove Loop Road W. of Cross


September 4th Rose Trial Data Collection Dove Loop Road W. of Cross


September 25th First General Meeting

of the 2018-2019 GGC Year

Grapevine Convention Center

October 20th Butterfly Flutterby Grapevine Botanical Gardens

December 11th Holiday Luncheon Lancaster Theater, Grapevine

Dues are Due!!

Calling all members! You don’t want to miss the last big event of the year — the Spring

Picnic! The Membership Committee will be on hand to help you renew your membership

for the 2018-2019 year. So far 138 members have renewed! The deadline is June 1st to be

included in the yearbook.

So write yourself a note, tie a string around your finger, or send your-

self an e-mail so you remember to bring your checkbook or credit card to

pay your dues at the Picnic if you have not already done so. It’s still a

deal at $30.00 for an individual and $35.00 for a family.

You can also mail a check to GGC, P.O. Box 811, Grapevine, TX 76051. Hope to see

you at the Picnic!

Candy Cawley

Membership Chair


Flowercade 2018 Results

Despite the blustery weather outside, 32 GGC members

were “smokin’ hot” as they won big at Flowercade 2018!

Karen Rice won the Botanical Arts Award, the highest

award in competition, for her miniature succulent garden. And

the Award of Merit, the second highest award in competition,

was presented to three of our members — Barbara Atkins,

Peggy Harris, and Karen Rice.

In Division I, Horticulture, of 75 specimen entries, GGC

members won 42 blue ribbons, 19 red ribbons, six yellow rib-

bons, and eight white ribbons.

In Division II, Design, two blue ribbons and two honorable

mentions were awarded to GGC members.

With twenty photography entries, GGC members took home twelve blue ribbons and

eight red ribbons.

And Peggy Harris was awarded a ribbon from the American Iris Society in the category

of “Best of Yellow Iris.”

Congratulations to all members who participated in Flowercade 2018: Barbara Atkins,

Ella Barber, Pam Braak, Greg Braak, Mary Lou Brieger, Marge Carpenter, Dinah Chancel-

lor, Rachel Clark, Terry Curcio, Donna Detzel, Ninfa Gonzales, Suzi Guckel, Peggy Har-

ris, Cindy James, Elizabeth Jewett, Camille Kissell, Candace Kyler, Mary Ledeboer, Betsy

Marsh, Margaret Meharg, Barb Munn, Barbara Nunn, Sharon Pignolet, Karen Rice, Sylvan

Sigler, Debbie Smith, Joan Stewart, Sharon Swagerty, Marty Swindell, Martha Turner,

Chuck Voelker, and Laurie Williams.

Please see page 9 for additional pictures from this event.

Thank you to all participants for making this a great FLOWERCADE 2018!

Debbie Smith

Flowercade Chair

Karen Rice


Wall-Farrar Trail Tidy-Up

Please plan to join us for the bi-monthly Wall-Farrar Trail Tidy-Up on

Monday, May 21st. Come walk with us and help canvass the trail for trash.

We will meet in the Church at the Cross parking lot at 9:00 A.M. The sum-

mer Tidy-Up date will be July 23rd so mark your calendar and plan to join

us then as well! Contact Karen Rice for details.

submitted by Karen Rice

Spring Picnic

It’s almost here — the GGC Spring Picnic is Tuesday, May 22nd! Our theme this year is

“Land that I Love” and to tie in with our theme, please try to wear an article of clothing

that represents your hometown, state, or country. (Of course, red, white, and blue is AL-

WAYS appropriate!)

We will gather at Lake Grapevine’s Trawick Pavilion at

10:30 A.M. and the picnic lunch will begin at 11:00 A.M.

Bring your salad or dessert (you remember what you signed

up to bring, right?) and serving utensil(s) as needed. Please

label your dish or bowl and your utensil(s). Bring a copy of

your recipe, too, so Barb Atkins can include it in our cook-

book. After we eat our fill, we will install our new officers and

award scholarships.

Guests are welcome, however if you are bringing a guest, please let Lyn Argenbright

know. And if you haven’t signed up yet, it’s not too late! You can sign up on the website

until May 18th. A map to Trawick Pavilion can be found on page 10 (sometimes GPS gets

confused around the lake). Cross your fingers for great weather!

Lyn Argenbright

and the Picnic Committee

Member in the News!

The Spring 2018 issue of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension newsletter includes an

article about the Rose Rosette project in Grapevine and mentions GGC member Pam

Braak. Check out the article on our website!

submitted by Joetta King


Gardeners on the Go

Lavender Ridge Farms, Gainesville

Celebrate National Garden Week with a trip to Lavender Ridge Farms on

Thursday, June 7th. We will carpool to Gainesville for a 10:00 A.M. tour of

the farm which will include a bouquet of lavender and a glass of lavender

lemonade. Following the one-hour tour, we will have lunch on the screened

porch of the farmhouse or on the lawn under the shade trees. Lunch will

consist of a salad trio of honey lavender chicken salad, garden salad, and

dilled potato salad, a beverage, and lavender cheesecake for dessert.

The cost of this trip is $26.00, which includes the tour and lunch. And as always, we

ask that you pay your driver for gas. Please contact Annemarie or Ginger for additional

information or to sign up.

Annemarie Garlin and Ginger Jones

Gardeners on the Go Co-Chairs

Calling All Volunteers!

As soon as we return from the summer break, we will begin gearing up

for Grapevine’s 21st Annual Butterfly Flutterby. This award-winning event

celebrating the migrating monarch will be held on Saturday, October 20th.

More and more visitors attend this event every year and many volun-

teers are needed to make it a success. You can sign up to participate on

the GGC website or contact Cindy Miller or Harriet Perrello directly (our

contact information is in the yearbook). Just let us know where your in-

terests lie and we’ll see where you can fit in. New members, this event is

a great way to meet people. Join us for the fun!

Harriet Perrello and Cindy Miller

BFFB Co-Chairs

The Envelope, Please!

Have you ever wondered how a company gets onto Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to

Work For” list? Or how the City of Grapevine won the 2018 Voluntary Service Award, Or-

ganization at the Texas Recreation & Park Society recently? Someone followed all the

rules and wrote an award application, including a lengthy essay and documentation of all

sorts. The same process applies to the awards that GGC wins each year. We write an essay

and include as many colorful, fun photos as possible to help wow the judges. In essence,

we brag. The applications are first judged at the district level, then go on to the state level,


Texas Garden Clubs, Inc. State Awards

GGC was awarded FIRST PLACE in the following categories. Categories with ***

will go on to be judged at the National level.

Cookbook, Barb Atkins ***

Newsletter, Julie Garza ***

Website, Karen Rice and Kate Dohrer ***

Yearbook, Sheri Jones ***

Scholarship Brochure, Pam Braak ***

Wall-Farrar Litter Project, Karen Rice ***

Seed Money Project, Ginger Jones

Rose Trials, Pam Braak (+ $50.00)

GGC also received a Citation for Club Service (Scholarship, etc. / Pat Mingus and Joan

Kowalski) and an Award of Appreciation for donations.

Congratulations!

Pam Braak & Sharon Swagerty

Awards Co-Chairs

and some go on to the national level. The district consists of 23 counties and 47 clubs, and

there are ten districts in the state.

At the Texas Garden Clubs’ state convention in April, GGC won eight STATE FIRST

PLACE awards, one citation which is the equivalent of first place, and an award of appre-

ciation for donations.

In the last three years, GGC has won an impressive number of national

awards: three in 2016, five in 2015, and five in 2014. Considering that there

are over 5,000 garden clubs nationwide, that’s quite impressive! This year we

won’t hear how we did on the national level until early June.

So bragging helps, but winning awards wouldn’t be possible without an active club

whose members work harmoniously together. Now THAT’S something to brag about!

Pam Braak & Sharon Swagerty

Awards Co-Chairs


Peggy Harris with her award ribbon

from the American Iris Society

Rachel Clark was awarded a blue

ribbon in Division II, Clown Car

Marty Swindell, blue ribbon in

Division II, Dog and Pony Show

FLOWERCADE 2018

Marge Carpenter, Ninfa Gonzales, Martha Turner, and Laurie Williams, Honorable Mention


DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO TRAWICK PAVILION 2700 Darren G. Medlin Trail

(Located in the Oak Grove Park complex on the shore of Lake Grapevine)

From the intersection of W. Northwest Hwy and N. Park Blvd Turn NORTH onto PARK BLVD [0.9 mi] RIGHT onto DOVE ROAD [0.4 mi] LEFT onto DOVE LOOP ROAD [0.6] - (Traffic light) RIGHT onto OAK GROVE LOOP N. [0.5 mi] LEFT onto DARREN G. MEDLIN TRAIL TRAWICK PAVILION will be on your right on Darren G. Medlin Trail

Another option: From the intersection of W. Northwest Highway and N. Dove Rd.

Visuals at this intersection would be PDQ Shamrock and Fox Rental (Traffic light) Traveling NORTH on N. DOVE RD, you will come to a traffic light when the road changes names

& becomes DOVE LOOP RD. Just keep traveling north (straight – do not turn) until you reach OAK GROVE LOOP. [You will have driven 1.6 mi]

RIGHT onto OAK GROVE LOOP N. [0.5 mi] LEFT onto DARREN G. MEDLIN TRAIL TRAWICK PAVILION will be on your right on Darren G. Medlin Trail

Street signs will reflect the street names as listed above. If you are looking at old maps, Darren G. Medlin could be printed as Murrell Rd or Trawick Trail. So, you may not want to rely on older maps or GPS for directions to the pavilion as they may not reflect recent changes in the street names.

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