DISTRICT INFORMATION:

For Club Meetings, click on District Clubs, at the right.

Chuckanut District Officers 

District Director: Daphne Ruxton

1st Assistant Director: Joyce Hollywood

Treasurer: Gerry Douglas

Secretary: Marisa Earnst

Current Club Presidents:

   Chuckanut Judges Council - Sally Karg

  Designing Women Floral Club

- Joyce Hollywood

  LaConner Civic GC - Susan Deyo

  Oak Harbor GC - Anne Sullivan

  Tulip Valley Gardeners - Gerry Douglas

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Oak Harbor Garden Club

Garden Tour

Saturday, June 30th

10 am - 4 pm

Tour of 6 beautiful, local gardens with refreshments and entertainment at one of the garden sites. $18 donation.

Tickets for the OHGC Tour are now available at the following locations:

Wind & Tide Bookshop

The Greenhouse Florist & Nursery

Mailliard's Landing Nursery

Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce

3 Sisters Market

Rain Shadow Nursery

See our FaceBook page and OHGC website more information.

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Chuckanut District Garden Clubs Annual Report for WSFGC Convention, 2018.

Designing Women has struggled this last year with the changes in the new NGC Flower Show handbook.  A couple members actually quit.  With so much to learn and put to use it is overwhelming for this “older” club.

La Conner Civic Garden Club for many years has volunteered to purchase, prepare and cook all of the food, as well as serve it at the annual Pioneer Picnic held in La Conner every August.  This event recognizes a Skagit County Family of the year and Individual of the year.  Their big fundraiser is their wreath sales.  Every year they also donate presents to every resident of the La Conner Retirement Center.  The club gets a list of what they could use, members purchase and wrap the items, and the gifts are placed at their door on Christmas morning.  Last month the club made floral Mother’s Day Centerpieces for the dining room tables at a retirement center in La Conner.  This was the first time they had done this and I thanked them for it..

Oak Harbor Garden Club held NGC Landscape Design School, Course 1, last fall.  Unfortunately, Course 2 had to be postponed until this fall.

Their December Wreath Sales are a huge fundraiser for the club.  I commend them for making them the old-fashioned way!  This means picking up pinecones, going out and getting orders, gathering the many greens, cutting them, and actually making the wreath with a foot-press machine (that secures the greens to the metal form), and then tying on pinecones and the bows, that they make ahead of time.  This is a big deal for them and they made $6,500 last year on this project!  Any unsold wreaths were placed on veteran’s gravesites around Oak Harbor.  I love how busy and full the OHGC meetings are.  Not only does it include a guest speaker, they also incorporate a flower design and horticulture program, as well as lots of food and beverages provided by that month’s hostesses.  It is a large club and because of that, they’re able to do this.  Many community civic projects are contributed to by many members.  Their Tea and Gardens Tour takes place on June 30^th.

Tulip Valley Gardeners

Plant Sale last month at Farmers Market. More people attended.  They plan to open an Endowment Fund with Skagit County Foundation for maintenance of the Emma Jarvis Memorial Garden by the city of Mount Vernon.  Due to the plant sale, they had eleven people put their name and email address on a list for additional club information.  The club has also made a tri-fold brochure telling the recipient that we feel their yard or garden is beautiful!  As we drive around and see this, we stop and put the brochure on their front door knob.  The rest of the brochure has information in hopes they will be interested in joining our club.

Submitted by Daphne Ruxton, Director for Chuckanut District.  June 5, 2018.