‘Tis the season! We’ve prepared our gardens for winter rest and now it’s the time of year that we turn our focus to holiday festivities. As horticulturists, flower arrangers and lovers of nature, just imagine the beautiful, magical and unique decorations created by GCV members across Virginia … wreaths of lush evergreens dotted with berries and fruit, mantles graced with magnificent garland, topiaries of pinecones and pods, and blossoming bulbs of amaryllis and narcissus.
The GCV Horticulture and Artistic Design Committees offered to share photos from their members’ own holiday decorations, created in years past and made from bounty found in their private gardens. We’ve featured these photos in this Membership News and hope that you will enjoy and be inspired by the lovely natural creations as you decorate your home for the holidays.
Enjoy the beauty and magic of this special time of year. I send my sincere wishes to all for a wonderful season filled with joy, peace and love.
Warm regards,
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Debbie Lewis
GCV President, 2022-2024
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Home For the Holidays
Some of the most stunning holiday decorations are made from the simplest of nature’s bounty. Greens and berries, dried fruit and pinecones make delightful and elegant arrangements that all can enjoy. Be inspired as you view arrangements made by members of the GCV Horticulture and Artistic Design Committees and consider foraging in your garden to create one of your own. View Now.
Wreath by Karen Cogar, The Hunting Creek Garden Club
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2023 GCV Conservation and Environmental Studies Fellowship Now Open for Applications.
Due Feb. 1, 2023
Established in 2014, the fellowship supports scholars conducting research in areas relating to the conservation of natural resources and/or environmental studies concerning flora, fauna or cultural practices within communities that directly impact the Commonwealth of Virginia. You may have seen presentations from our former fellows who researched pollinators in solar fields, sea grasses that help prevent beach erosion and a bevy of other important topics. The GCV distributed announcements to Virginia colleges and universities in November, but we welcome your efforts to help share the news.
Above is Olivia Smith (William & Mary), Conservation and Environmental Studies Fellow 2022, whose project is "Towards an Understanding of Restoring Eastern Coastal Plain Forests."
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When the Virginia Tourism Corporation launched the now-famous “Virginia is for Lovers” slogan in 1969, Historic Garden Week was already a 40-year tradition. The Garden Club of Virginia has expanded its long-standing partnership with the Virginia Tourism Corporation and now may promote “Virginia is for Historic Garden Week Lovers” and the hashtag #VirginiaIsForGardenWeekLovers.
“Virginia has always been for Historic Garden Week Lovers. We are so pleased that it’s now official, and we’ll be looking for ways to incorporate this new marketing tool into our 90th Historic Garden Week in 2023,” said HGW Committee Chairman Fran Carden.
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Historic Garden Week 2024 Guidebook Cover
Submissions for the 2024 HGW Guidebook cover property are due Jan. 23, 2023. If your club is working with an extraordinary property that you would like the HGW Committee to consider as the cover property for 2024, please send a proposal to HGW Director Karen Ellsworth by Jan. 23, 2023. Learn more about the submission process.
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Looking for a gift for someone who has everything?
Consider giving a Historic Garden Week state pass which will be available online only beginning Dec. 6 – just in time for the holidays.
A state pass allows access to all 29 HGW tours taking place April 15-22, 2023. Due to ticketing restrictions, Morven and Little Oak Spring are not included. Through an exclusive, joint promotion with Flower magazine, passes which normally sell for $300 will be sold for $200. Mark your calendars for Dec. 6 to purchase passes on: VAGardenWeek.org, Facebook: Historic Garden Week in Virginia and Instagram: @historicgardenweek.
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Please join Edie Hessberg in two free photography workshops in January 2023: Basic Composition on Jan. 13, 2023, 1-3 p.m. and Basic Editing on Jan. 23, 2023, 1-3 p.m. Register here for one or both workshops.
If you are interested but cannot participate on the scheduled dates, please submit your contact info here.
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The photo gracing the top of this Membership News was taken by Norman Spain, The Nansemond River Garden Club, for the "Winter Trees" exhibition. View the collection.
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Recent GCV Website Addition |
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The Franklin Garden Club
presents
Christmas in Bloom
Saturday, Dec. 3
The Village at Wood's Edge
1401 N. High St. Franklin, VA
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Our Shop features GCV and Member Club items sure to please this holiday season.
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The Hunting Creek Garden Club
Michaele Quinn
The Princess Anne Garden Club
Margie Johnson
The Spotswood Garden Club
Marianne Saunders
Lynn Oddenino
The Warrenton Garden Club
Wendy Rodgers
The Williamsburg Garden Club
Joyce Feder
Marcy Molinaro
Sarah Wood
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Our Mission:
To conserve the gifts of nature, to restore and preserve historic landscapes of the commonwealth, to cultivate the knowledge and love of gardening, and to lead future generations to build on this heritage.
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