Garden Club News
Holiday Magic in the Gardens
The Dade City Garden Club invites the community to celebrate an inspired Christmas in Dade City!
The Dade City Garden Club is inviting the community to experience a little holiday magic this Christmas season and has planned a holiday event close to home for families to get in the holiday spirit! Planned as a thank you for the support shown the garden club throughout the years, all are invited to visit on Sunday, December 10, 2023, to stroll through the festively decorated gardens, visit Santa and Mrs. Claus, and take part in the FREE family-oriented activities that have been planned by garden club members.
Holiday themed activity stations will be set up throughout the gardens, each offering the garden club’s guests unique opportunities for holiday fun. Santa’s Workshop helpers will be busy in three locations: Guests can visit the Camellia Circle elves and the Poinsettia Circle elves to create one-of-kind custom crafts or ornaments to take home as mementos of the day’s outing. The Hibiscus Circle Santa’s Workshop elves have been busy planning a kids’ craft activity using recycled materials for all to enjoy. At Reindeer Crossing, located near the Butterfly Garden, families will be educated on how to blend the perfect mix of environmentally friendly Reindeer Dust to take home to feed Rudolf and his gang on Christmas Eve. Santa’s Mailbox will be in the Azalea Circle garden, where children will be able to write and mail a letter to Santa just in time for special delivery before Christmas. The Holiday Farm Petting Zoo will be set up by the Hollyhock Circle, where Scooter (mini bunny), Jeffrey (goat), Callie (foal) and chickens will be looking to meet new friends who come to the event.
Succulent Wreath MAKE & TAKE
Monday, December 4, 2023; 9 am to 10:30 am
Dade City Garden Club
$20 per person for members
$30 per person for non-members & guests
Add life to a holiday tradition by making a succulent wreath!
Join us at the Dade City Garden Club for our latest MAKE & TAKE on Monday, December 4, 2023, at 9 am and learn how to create a true living masterpiece for the holiday season.
You will be provided with all the supplies and plants needed to make and bring home your own customized succulent wreath. And, you will also leave with new techniques and gardening knowledge you will be able to expand upon again and again at home for yourself and for gift giving.
Sustainable Gardening
The Dade City Garden Club will present a program on Sustainable Gardening at its November general membership meeting on Monday, November 20, 2023, at 9:30 am at the garden club. The program comes as the result of a survey taken among members to identify issues that are important to them and will focus on simple ways to be more sustainable in your Florida garden.
The presenter is Amira Mata, Inventory Manager at The Gardens Nursery and Rock Yard in Dade City. She will talk about how we can integrate simple practices in container or small space gardening, and will cover plant selection, watering efficiency, upcycling and supporting our local pollinators! Amira comes filled with a passion and knowledge that attendees should find not only informative but inspiring.
Herbs Make & Take
Monday, October 16, 2023; 9 am to 10:30 am
Dade City Garden Club
$10 per person for members
$15 per person for non-members and guests
Herbs! Grow them--Dry Them--Mix Them
Come on out and learn something new at the Dade City Garden Club's October MAKE & TAKE, scheduled for Monday, October 16, 2023, from 9 am to 10:30 am.
Diane Scott, garden club past president and well-respected local gardener and cook, will be on hand to share her secret recipes for dried herb mixes from the home garden.
Diane will talk about what herbs grow well here in Central Florida, how to pick and dry them right in your own home and mix them for specialty herb mixes to use in your own kitchen or for gifts.
TERRARIUM and Botanical Cocktails Make & Take
EVENT IS SOLD OUT!
Friday, September 29, 2023; 6 pm to 8 pm
Dade City Garden Club
$10 per person for members
$15 per person for non-members and guests
You don’t have to be a “Dig in the Dirt” person to enjoy gardening!
Come out to our MAKE & TAKE program, scheduled for Friday, September 29, 2023, at 6 pm at the Dade City Garden Club. Not only will you learn how to make a beautiful mini garden, you will also savor a delicious botanical cocktail while enjoying the company of friends.
This workshop is the perfect get together for friends or a fun date-night. Space is limited so purchase your ticket(s) today.
Renovation at Touchton Park to begin in Dade City
INFORMATIONAL MEETING
Friday, September 15, 2023
Dade City Garden Club
13630 5th Street
Dade City, FL 33525
1 pm
An Informational Meeting about the Touchton Park Renovation Project will be held at the Dade City Garden Club, 13630 5th Street, Dade City, on Friday, September 15, 2023, at 1 pm. The purpose of the Informational Meeting is to inform as many citizens as possible about this project. Tom Touchton, who is funding the Project and Jason Warrenfeltz, Dade City Public Works Director, will be in attendance. Images of the proposed Park will be available for viewing, and questions will be encouraged.
Dade City residents know the park across 5th Street from the Dade City Garden Club (and bounded by Southview Avenue, 5th Street, Bougainvillea Avenue and 7th Street), as the Ruth Embry “Miss Polly” Touchton Park. “Miss Polly” was a Charter Member of the Garden Club and was active in it until her death in 1986 at the age of 99. She was much-admired in the community because of her many interests and involvements, and Dade City’s Commissioners named the Park in her memory soon after her death. The Park is maintained by the City, and the Garden Club has participated with the City in certain ways over the years—especially with the planting of Memorial Trees from time to time and in hosting the Dade City Monarch Butterfly Festival at the Park.
Welcome Back Teacup Plant Swap
The Dade City Garden Club will kick off its 2023-2024 program year with a Welcome Back Teacup Plant Swap on Monday, September 18, 2023. Members are asked to bring their favorite teacup and a small plant and will be given the opportunity to trade and then plant up the teacup to take home. In addition to the swap, members will review programs for the upcoming year and discuss plans for the newly introduced community event, Holiday Magic in the Gardens, scheduled for December 10th.