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Please join us on the Second Wednesday
of the month, September - May
All garden friends are welcome from wherever you live!
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
No regular meetings during June, July and
August. Next meeting, September 2006
For a good laugh: Read a conversation between God And St. Francis called God and Lawns
Awards!
The Dunwoody Garden Club took the Certificate of Achievement Award - Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. Website Award and the National Garden Clubs, Inc. Certificate of Appreciation for "furthering the goals and objectives of the National Garden Clubs through participation in the national awards program"
and
We won the National Blue Ribbon for the "Best Website for a Small Club" in the whole country at the NGC convention in Orlando.
"A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure."
William Lawson
"A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes."
Melissa Fay Greene, American author
Back Issues of the Newsletter
Aug/Sept 2005
October 2005
November 2005
December 2005
January 2006
February 2006
March 2006
April 2006
May 2006
For more information, contact:
DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs.
At Callanwolde on Briarcliff Road, Atlanta
will have its next meeting in September 2006.
"The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it."
Beatrix Farrand, American landscaper - born 1892
PATRIOTIC TREES
National Garden Club Project “Patriotic Trees” honors those patriotic persons who haveserved our country through civilian or military life, including firefighters, law enforcement, and emergency medical and dedicated individuals in our community would also qualify.
Each club is encouraged to plant at least one Patriotic Tree during 2005-2007. A Patriotic Tree can be any tree that is planted at any appropriate site, such as Arbor Day, Earth Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Veteran’s Day and 9-11. Any date that is special to our local community could be considered.
For any assistance or information, contact:
Lou Ann Bleakley, State Chairman, Patriotic Trees
P.O. Box 965, Blairsville, GA 30514 (706) 745-70
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet