Do Your Part to Support Sustainablily
Garden Club Information
Fall Poinsettia Sale Pickup and Delivery
On December 4th we all had the opportunity to receive the beautiful Poinsettias that we ordered during the Fund Raising sale. Proceeds will go towards several community projects, including our 2026 High School Scholarship Awards.
Veteran’s Day Celebration 2025
The Garden Club was once again part of the Celebration Commiunity salute to our veterans. During the ceremony, our Flower Flag was on display, and at the close of the preceedings, all veterans were invited to take a red or white plant home. Club spokesperson, Meryl Rachlin, addressed the audience with a moving and eloquent speech.
A special thanks to club president, Cindy Smith and her team of volunteers who potted that plants and set up the flag display. Jill Kirkpatrick, Sharon Mantia, along with Jeff and Jaime Erik’s helped to put the plants in pots and then into the flag. Brad Wagoner and Dorothy Bracy setup the flag at Founders Park on Friday night.
Southeast Pollinator Census Results
In spite of the inclement weather on Saturday, August 23, ten hardy souls counted pollinators at Deerwoods Poillinator Garden before the storm moved in. 838 pollinators were counted, on three varieties of plants: porter weed, lantana and pentas. Celebration’s Deerwoods Pollinator Gardens is a successful!
Garden Club Board Elections 2025
The Celebration Garden Club held elections at the March 19, 2025 general club meeting at Heritage Hall. Nominations for all positions were made at the February meeting, and the nomination period for all positions was open until the election was held.
The election winners and the new board members will take office in May 1, 2025.
President- Cindy Smith
Co-Vice Presidents- Dorothy Bracey, Kathy Gordy
Treasurer-Bob Boyer
Secretary- Jaime Eriks
Community Liason-Brad Wagoner
Membership-TBD
Thank you to the new board members for making themselves available to the Club for the next two years. The membership looks forward to your leadership.
Field Trip – Festival of Trees Orlando
November 16, 2024
Fill in the Registration Form and you will be automatically registered for the Field Trip. You will receive an email confirmation. To make sure the confirmation does not land in your spam folder, please add the Garden Club email address –[email protected] – to your contacts. Please be sure to purchase you tickets for the event in advance from EventBrite – Link to purchase tickets.
No Fields Found.Add a Pollinator Garden to Your Yard
The Celebration Garden Club supports the planting of pollinator plants in Celebration gardens. These gardens attract pollinator insects and help increase their numbersby giving them food sources that are being wiped out through urban expansion and herbicide/pesticide use.
The Club has an anonymous donor who will reimburse half the cost of planting pollinator gardens! Just get your plants from Green Isle Gardens, near Clermont, and send the receipt and your contact information to [email protected]. You will be reimbursed as soon as your receipt is received.
Green Isle Gardens is a wonderful nursery with helpful staff who can help you with your plant list, even if you know very little about good pollinator plants for this area. You can also find a list of good pollinator plants online. So please help out the pollinators (butterflies, moths, and bees) while helping out your pocketbook. The Garden Club thanks you!
Before you start planting your own pollinator garden, it’s important to review theDesign Guidelines/Plant Guides and receive ARC approval. This step ensures that your garden not only supports our local ecosystem but also enhances the beauty of our community.
Be a part of taking the Great Southeast Pollinator Census
Donate 15 minutes of your time between 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday, August 24
Deer Woods Park in Celebration
Garden Club member Cindy Smith is calling on club members & Celebration residents to be a part of the Great Southeast Pollinator Census.
Garden enthusiasts in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida will counting pollinators on Saturday and Sunday this weekend. Cindy, who is working on her Master Gardener certification, will supervise counting at the new, pollinator garden in Deer Woods Park, and she is inviting you to help with the census.
Your job, should you choose to accept? Pick a plant in the park and watch it for 15 minutes, counting how many pollinators visit the plant during that time. Report your count to Cindy, who will be uploading the information to a website that will be recording counts from all four states.
As an added bonus, free LEMONAIDE (while supply lasts).
Earth Day 2024
Monday, April 22 is Earth Day and the Garden Club
is looking for volunteers for two events.
We are having a Memorial Garden Clean Up starting at 8 a.m. (before the heat of the day). Anyone interested in helping please come with a trowel to dig out some overgrown ground covers, clippers to trim dead flower stalks and your weed pulling hands to spruce up the area. This will take an hour or two, so be sure to bring water! Meryl Rachin is heading up this Spring Cleanup.
The second event is a program at Town Hall in conjunction with Grand Manors. They are sponsoring an Earth Day event from 5:00-6:00 p.m. and we need 3-4 volunteers to help at a potting table. The town is supplying pots for the kids to decorate. We will fill those pots with potting soil and have seeds that they can plant and take home. We will supply them with a care sheet so that they can keep the plants alive after they sprout. Jaime Eriks will be leading this program.
If you can attend either event, please email us at [email protected]
Supporting Audubon Center for Birds of Prey
At our club meeting on March 13 we had an excellent presentation by representative of the Audubon Center for Bird of Prey in Maitland. Club members were so impressed by the presentation that it was decided to support them with donations at our Club Luncheon on April 10. Posted below is their Wish List and everyone attending the luncheon is invited to bring a donation. Click on the image to enlarge.
