Galveston Garden Club

Don't miss our Pansy Sale. Order online now and pick up on November 11, 2023. Eleven cultivars available, perfect for fall and winter. https://www.galvestongardenclub.org/plant-sales/pansy-sale

The Pansies are in the yard and ready to purchase. Come see us Saturday November 12, 10am-3pm. $26 for a flat of 18 plants.

Don't miss our Pansy Sale. Order online, pick up November 12, or have them delivered. Twelve cultivars available, perfect for fall and winter. https://www.galvestongardenclub.org/plant-sales/pansy-sale

Galveston Garden Club - Pansy Sale The Galveston Garden Club's Fall Pansy Sale has begun. Place your order below, for the best quality pansies around. A flat of 18 plants in four inch pots is $26.00. We strongly encourage using our slow release fertilizer, as pansies are heavy feeders. A $3.00 bag is enough to fertilize one

Enjoying the morning at the Oleander Festival. Come see our caladiums for sale, or become a member

This Saturday, we'll have a vendor booth at the Oleander Garden Festival, with Mammoth Caladium Bulbs for sale. Also, Texas Oxblood Lilies and Elephant Ears. Hope to see you there

Our spring Caladium Fundraising Sale has begun. Mammoth size bulbs ready on March 19. New this year are Oxblood Lilies, being dug for us in Caldwell County. Order online to ensure availability. https://www.galvestongardenclub.org/plant-sales/spring-caladium-sale_1

Powhatan House is ready for the Garden Club’s holiday party. These handmade wreath ornaments were likely made when the house was open as a house museum interpreting early Galveston life. Perhaps you helped make these years ago? Or maybe helped a mother or grandmother make them? Let us know about it—you all made an enormous quantity of them.

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Galveston Garden Club Meeting
Thursday March 12, 2020
3427 Ave O
1847 Powhatan House

Social 5:00 - 5:45 PM
Business Meeting 5:45 PM
Program 6:00 PM

Guest Speaker: Donita Brannon of Moody Gardens

Mark your calendar

Last Call: GGC Caladium Sale extended to March 1

Latest message from the Garden Club: caladium orders and March meeting information.

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GGC-Caladium Sale

ORDER DEADLINE EXTENDED to MARCH 1! But don't wait any longer to order so you can get the varieties you want. Read the excellent article in today's (Feb 26) Galveston County Daily News about caladiums . Dr. William Johnson describes these beautiful and carefree plants and their culture perfectly. He recommends purchasing mammoth bulbs like the ones we have in our sale. These highest-quality bulbs will give you the most beautiful plants but can be difficult to find. You can have as many as you wish by placing your online order. Go to the sale page below. I've ordered mine, have you?

sites.google.com Caladiums have been a part of Galveston landscapes since the 1800’s and are still valued today for their colorful spring/summer display. Preserving our gardening heritage is an important role of the Galveston Garden Club and we are pleased to offer some of the most highly adapted cultivars at this...

Final Week to Order Caladiums!

Garden Club online caladium sale is ongoing through February 28. Here's the link: https://www.galvestongardenclub.org/?fbclid=IwAR2E9ebsSIFfiVm26MVGkbgtSzJ5IkK7ljRhuUcQrKf4l8_Y5NJNzj-5wzI

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Garden Club online caladium sale is ongoing through February 28. Here's the link: https://www.galvestongardenclub.org/?fbclid=IwAR2E9ebsSIFfiVm26MVGkbgtSzJ5IkK7ljRhuUcQrKf4l8_Y5NJNzj-5wzI

Garden Club online caladium sale is ongoing through February 28. Here's the link: https://www.galvestongardenclub.org/?fbclid=IwAR2E9ebsSIFfiVm26MVGkbgtSzJ5IkK7ljRhuUcQrKf4l8_Y5NJNzj-5wzI

Meeting Thursday February 13: Please mark your calendars for the next Galveston Garden Club monthly meeting on Thursday, February 13th.

Take a virtual tour of the Oleander City of Galveston including exceptional gardens, flowers, plants, and trees of our neighborhoods with co-presenters Lydia Miller of the International Oleander Society and landscape architect Barry Landry. Learn about history and lore of the oleander and its symbolic relationship to our city as partners in survival and hope. Find out the location of some very rare Oleander cultivars that can still be found around the island. Expect lots of colorful eye-candy if you like the pretty flowers, plants, and trees of our unique Island yards and gardens.

The Galveston Garden Club meets at the historic 1847 Powhatan House at 35th and Avenue O. Join us at 5:00 to meet gardeners and become a member as well. Business meeting at 5:45 and program at 6:00.

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Best Caladium Bulbs Ever.

Order Now - Don't Miss Out!

The Galveston Garden Club invites you to its spring Caladium Sale--our longest-standing fundraising activity. Visit our website, http://www.galvestongardenclub.org/ for full details and to order online.

"Mammoth" sized bulbs not commonly available from retailers are priced at $20/bag. Six Fancy Leaf and two sun-tolerant Strap Leafed cultivars are available. Orders are accepted through February 28. Bulbs will be available for pick-up on March 28 at the Powhatan House, 3427 Avenue O.

Galveston Garden Club, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Your support funds our programs and activities and helps us to preserve the 1847 Powhatan House. We hope you'll join us: membership information is available at the bottom of the caladium sale page.

GGC-Caladium Sale

The Galveston Garden Club invites you to its spring Caladium Sale--our longest-standing fundraising activity. Visit our website, http://www.galvestongardenclub.org/ for full details and to order online.

"Mammoth" sized bulbs not commonly available from retailers are priced at $20/bag. Six Fancy Leaf and two sun-tolerant Strap Leafed cultivars are available. Orders are accepted through February 28. Bulbs will be available for pick-up on March 28 at the Powhatan House, 3427 Avenue O.

Galveston Garden Club, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Your support funds our programs and activities and helps us to preserve the 1847 Powhatan House. We hope you'll join us: membership information is available at the bottom of the caladium sale page.

sites.google.com Caladiums have been a part of Galveston landscapes since the 1800’s and are still valued today for their colorful spring/summer display. Preserving our gardening heritage is an important role of the Galveston Garden Club and we are pleased to offer some of the most highly adapted cultivars at this...

Greetings Galveston Gardeners! Please join us on Thursday, January 9 for our monthly Garden Club meeting and presentation by landscape architect/gardener Barry Landry. January's topic is "Winter Bulbs and Companion Plants"... featuring Dutch Amaryllis, paperwhites and hyacinths, a few of the fun and easy gardening projects to do and enjoy on a wintry day and more.

See you at the Powhatan House at 35th and Avenue O at 5:00 pm for our monthly meet-and-greet, a brief business presentation by GGC President Dennis Cameron McNabb at 5:45, with the garden topic discussion beginning at 6:00 pm.
Happy Gardening!

Galveston Garden Club Holiday Party

Powhatan House came alive tonight with guests, food, drink, music, candle light and friendship.

The Revival of the Powhatan | Galveston Monthly Magazine

galvestonmonthly.com The newly reorganized Galveston Garden Club is dedicating efforts toward giving a new life to one of Galveston’s oldest homes.

UPDATE: James Gallagher. A world class violinist will be playing Christmas music on his violin from 5:30 to 7.

Holiday Greetings Galveston Gardeners!

In lieu of a formal presentation to club members, this December 12th for our regular monthly meeting the Galveston Garden Club Board of Directors extends a subtropical and garden-friendly holiday gathering invitation to members and their guests...as well as anyone interested in gardening on our unique Gulf Island. Membership forms will be available and current members will have a chance to meet and chat with new gardeners and make new friends.

The club house will be decorated based on historic use of some native plants and trees at Christmas time and a glimpse of the fantastic interior of the Powhatan House is a treat in itself... Please join us at 5:30 pm at the 1847 Powhatan House located on the corner of Avenue O and 35th Street. Good food and drinks with surprise entertainment by one of Galveston's finest musicians promises a merry time for all.

Come join the Holiday Garden Party with us and Happy Gardening To All!

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Pics from the recent Pansy sale.

Garden Club's kitty mascot, Sydnor. Being well spoiled. Apparently he loves pansies.

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Don't forget to pick up your ordered pansies TODAY (Thursday November 21) between 12:00 and 6:00 at the Powhatan House, 3427 Avenue O.

There will be a small selection of additional pansies for sale to walk-up buyers. First-come-first-served!

Also, stop by between 4:00 and 5:30 on Thursday for an open house. Enjoy refreshments, meet the board and members, see the house, and perhaps join the garden club.

Thank you all for your orders--this fundraising sale brings needed revenue to the activities of the garden club and to our stewardship of the 1847 Powhatan House.

Don't forget to pick up your ordered pansies TODAY (Thursday November 21) between 12:00 and 6:00 at the Powhatan House, 3427 Avenue O.

There will be a small selection of additional pansies for sale to walk-up buyers. First-come-first-served!

Also, stop by between 4:00 and 5:30 on Thursday for an open house. Enjoy refreshments, meet the board and members, see the house, and perhaps join the garden club.

Thank you all for your orders--this fundraising sale brings needed revenue to the activities of the garden club and to our stewardship of the 1847 Powhatan House.

The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature

brainpickings.org “In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and…

GGC Pansy Sale

November 15th is last day to order pansies. Click on site below to order online.

sites.google.com Colossus is a large bloomed pansy that does well in the heat and humidity of early fall in the South. Their upward facing blooms can get to 3-4″ across. Colossus has a tight growth habit that is less prone to stretching in warm weather. The Colossus Pansy series is predominately comprised of “bl...