Second-District-FGCNYS

ELIZABETH WALSH

District Director

2025 - 2027

Native Trees of Long Island

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SOCIAL MEDIA

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GARDENS TO VISIT

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VIRTUAL TOURS OF

NEW YORK

BOTANICAL GARDENS

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SAMPLE FLOWER SHOW INFORMATION

SCHEDULE AWARDS

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CALENDAR OF SUBMISSIONS

guidelines for the submission of awards and forms

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DESIGN WORKSHOP

CASCADE DESIGN

Presented by NGC judge

Sue Boudreau

on September 23, 2021

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Are you or your club establishing or tending pollinator/native gardens?

Let us know through this survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/76SCW5H

Photos from the May 5, 2022

Design Workshop

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Gardening Articles of Interest

'Plant This, Not That: Native alternatives to invasive plants' by Jessica Damiano

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GARDEN CLUB EVENTS

Save the Date

May 9th - 10th

Bay Shore Garden Club

Flower Show

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May 21, 2025

The Glen Garden Club's Spring

Luncheon

Manhasset Bay Yacht Club

10 am shopping 11 am program

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June 4, 2025

The Douglaston Garden Club's

Annual Luncheon

Strathmore Vanderbilt Country Club

Manhasset

11 am Ways and Means table

12 pm Meeting & Lunch

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September 10, 2025

The Asharoken Garden Club Annual Luncheon

Huntington Crescent Club

12 noon to 3 pm details to follow

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Save the Date

September 17 - 18th

Centerport Garden Club

Flower Show

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September 19, 2025

The Dix Hills Garden Club will hold a NGC Standard Flower Show

'The Language of Flowers'

at the Half Hollow Hills Community Library on Vanderbilt Parkway

1 pm - 7 pm.

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Photos from the April 18th

'Creating a Flower Show'

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Photos from the

Annual Meeting & Spring

Luncheon

The Magic of March

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The Joy of Spring!

Second District Annual Meeting &

Spring Luncheon

MONDAY MARCH 25, 2024

The Hamlet Golf and Country Club, Commack

Spring Floral Designs by Elisabeth Walker

SOME PHOTOS FROM THE LUNCHEON

More to come soon

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TENTATIVE

2025

DISTRICT CALENDAR

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Annual Scholarship fund raising campaign has started .

Contributions due March 15, 2025

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PLEASE NOTE FOR WORLD GARDENING

all checks should be addressed to

FGCNYS, Inc.

In the memo the donating club should indicate if the donation is for Dig Deep or Water for South Sudan.

SECOND DISTRICT

Federated Garden Clubs of New York State, Inc.

ANNUAL MEETING & LUNCHEON

Thursday, July 24, 2025

'Ocean Breezes'

The Hamlet Golf & Country Club

1 Clubhouse Drive, Commack, NY 11725

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SECOND DISTRICT FGCNYS

SPRING DESIGN WORKSHOPS

Thursday April 10, 2025

West Islip Library

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Gardening Events of Interest

Cornell Cooperative Extension

Suffolk County

Annual Plant Sale

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Rain or Shine

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click here for plant sale pre order info and for additional events

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Now is a good time to start planning a pollinator garden and native plants are most valuable for our native pollinators. Here are some dates of native plant sales in the coming months:

ReWild Long Island – March 29th – April 3rd for online ordering, April 21 – May 3rd for sales and pick up at various locations on Long Island. For more details go to: https://www.rewildlongisland.org/plantsale

Theodore Roosevelt Audubon Sanctuary, Oyster Bay – May 2nd. For more details go to:

https://roosevelt.audubon.org/events?location=theodore-roosevelt-audubon-center

Long Island Native Plant Initiative – May 17 – 18th at Sisters of Saint Joseph in Brentwood.

For more details go to: https://www.linpi.org/plant-sales