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Greetings!
Let's celebrate Springtime in Virginia. We can begin in Tidewater Virginia at the GCV Daffodil Show where hundreds of magnificent yellow blooms will fill the Hampton Roads Convention Center. The Huntington Garden Club will host the show April 5-6.
Following the show we can watch and wait patiently as spring blooms continue to show up for Historic Garden Week in Virginia. Our members have planned thirty tours April 22-29 to showcase some of the most beautiful
properties in the nation, including our beloved historic restoration sites that continue to benefit from the tours.
We have all worked tirelessly throughout the year to create these welcoming events that contribute to our vision for a better Virginia in so many ways.
Let's celebrate Springtime in Virginia together.
My best,
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My apologies to Ann Chenoweth of the Garden Club of the Middle Peninsula for misnaming her artwork in our March newsletter. The oil on panel paintings shown above with proper titles are from her series called "Empty Nest."
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Monday, April 3
Conservation Awards Committee, KVH 11:00 am
Tuesday, April 4
ADS Judging School, Hampton 8:15 am
Wednesday-Thursday, April 5-6
GCV Daffodil Show, Hampton
Wednesday, April 12
Common Wealth Award Committee, KVH 1:00 pm
Thursday, April 13
GCV Executive Committee, KVH 10:30 am
Monday, April 17
Finance Committee, KVH 10:30 am; Conservation and Environmental Studies Fellowship deadline.
Wednesday, April 19
Journal Editorial Board, KVH 10:30 am
Saturday - Saturday, April 22 - 29
Historic Garden Week in Virginia
The GCV Conservation and Environmental Studies Fellowship deadline for applications is Monday, April 17. All associated paperwork must be received by that time.
Click here for details.
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April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. ~William Shakespeare
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Please join me in welcoming the following new members to the Garden Club of Virginia.
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Blue Ridge
Whitney
Huffman
Boxwood
Anna Aquino
Mackay Boyer
Cammy Carleton
Kim Condoyles
Susie McCauley
Chatham
Mary Alice Gentry
Charlotte Paris
Linda Williams
Dolley Madison
Gina Sedwick
Bonnie Walsh
Fauquier and Loudoun
Linda Taylor
Hampton Roads
Ann Moir
Lori Shuford
Hunting Creek
Joyce Stevens
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Leesburg
Lyndsay Chamblin
Julie Chapin
Lynchburg
Marcia Milam
Martinsville
Dillard Carter
Nansemond River
Susan Lawrence
Princess Anne
Mary Bernsen
Barbie Sherrill
Rappahannock Valley
Chrissy McDermott
Mary Jane O'Neill
Roanoke Valley
Heather Greer
Mary Page Gwaltney
Tuckahoe
Ellen Buoyer
Charlotte Clarkson
Bonnie Cricchi
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Garden Club of Virginia in the News!
Southern Living will be on site at the GCV Daffodil Show in Hampton. Louisa Roberts Harris Tucker was a member of the Gabriella Garden Club and grew test roses and daffodils for the Garden Club of Virginia. In addition to winning blue ribbons for horticulture and flower arranging, she was a certified ADS daffodil judge. Her granddaughter, Jane Borden, writes for Southern Living and is preparing a feature article for the magazine about our ADS Judging School and Daffodil Show.
Garden & Gun writes about Historic Garden Week in its April/May 2017 issue feature article titled Celebrate the South. "For almost a century, horticultural enthusiasts have poured into the public and private homes that open their gates across the commonwealth, from Richmond to Roanoke, for the Garden Club of Virginia's annual Historic Garden Week in April." The piece goes on to mention the Lynchburg tour and points out the ongoing work at Poplar Forest.
Victoria features the Homes and Gardens of Charlottesville in its March/April 2017 issue. Click Here to read the article, which includes stunning photographs.
Virginia Living includes a full color, oversized map of our entire 2017 Historic Garden Week tour in its April 2017 issue. Subscribers find the map inserted as a folded centerpiece. The map was created by HGW Staff and the Virginia Department of Transportation, thanks to sponsor Bartlett Tree Experts.
Click Here to view the map which measures 18" x 24".
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