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Park Partners Ever Green Garden Club [FGC]

Ever Green Garden Club of Springfield, Missouri

Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri LogoContact:
Ruth McMillion, President
417-891-9799

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http://www.gardenclubsofmissouri.org/

Club Facts

Federated in April of 2007, began in January of 2007
Meetings: 1 PM the fourth Wednesday, January through November
Club Motto: "Ever Green, Ever Beautiful"
Club shrub and flower: Itea verginica
2011 Theme: "Help Save the Bloomin' Environment"

Community Projects

  1. Harmony House garden maintenance
  2. Springfield Art Museum garden maintenance
  3. Nathanael Greene Park garden maintenance
  4. Conservation Project: Living Green
  5. Environmental Project: Litter Control
  6. Arbor Day Tree Planting
  7. Boys and Girls Youth Gardening Program
  8. Golden Days Project
  9. Plant It Pink Project
  10. Co-host with 3 other clubs the May Patriotic Standad Flower Show
  11. Co-host with one other garden club the September Small Standard Flower Show

Fund Raisers

  1. Tour of Tables Tea with thematic tables done by garden clubs and plant societies
  2. Garage and Plant Sale

Field Trips/Educational Garden Tours

  1. March - Orchid Greenhouse at College of the Ozarks, Hollister, MO
  2. April - Teeter-Creek Herbs in Ava, MO
  3. June - Hamilton Native Outpost in Elk Creek, MO

2011 Club Meetings

Club Meetings Locations Speakers
January The Library Center Noel Boyer, Certified Master Arborist
"All About Trees"
February Botanical Center Katie Steinhoff, Ornamental Landscape Designer and Horticulturist
"Good Bugs vs. Bad Bugs"
March Botanical Center Shirah Aumun, Fiber Artist
"Paper Making, Seasonal Flowers"
April Botanical Center Lucille Hoover, Classification member and Ruth McMillion, Flower Show Chair and Master Judge
"Preparing Horticulture for the Flower Show"
May Nature Center Kim Banner, Naturalist
"Backyard Birds and Butterfly Gardens"
June 2235 S. Florence Becky Nichols, Horticulturist
"Dahlias"
July Botanical Center Ruth McMillion, Master Judge and Design Instructor
"Making a Petite Design"
August Botanical Center Tom LaKowske, Garden Designer and Hosta Expert
"Growing Hostas"
September 3466 Horseshoe Ron and Jean Shelley, Greenhouse Builders
"Greenhouse Construction"
October Botanical Center Janine Fox, Youth Project Instructor
"Terrariums"
November Botanical Center Carol Owen, Noted Artist of Natural Materials
"The Artisic Use of Gourds"

2011 Officers

President: Ruth McMillion
Vice President: Carol Warner
Secretary: Beverly Burchett
Treasurer: Janine Cox

Tour of Tables Tea Announced

Friday, 15 July 2011 07:40 Written by Administrator

Ever Green Garden Club’s community-wide 2011 Tour of Tables Tea will be held Saturday, August 13, 1-4 p.m. at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 2434 E Battlefield Rd., Springfield. Tickets are $5 in advance or $6 at the door. Contact Bev Burchett, (417) 619-7333 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , to arrange to purchase tickets.

The event features uniquely designed tables for entertaining reflecting an individual theme and floral design from each of 15 Springfield botanical and community groups. Guest designers are from the Friends of the Garden, Orchid Society, Iris Society, Springfield Symphony, Springfield Regional Opera, the Springfield-Greene County Library, Hillbilly Garden Club, Brentwood Garden Club and more. Both savory and sweet treats will be offered that afternoon as well.

Photos from the 2010 Tour of Tables Tea

The event helps to fund local projects sponsored by Ever Green Garden Club (EGGC). The garden club created and maintains the following gardens: the berm and flagpole circle in front of the Springfield Art Museum, the club’s quadrant at the perennial’s garden at Nathanael Greene Park just off the parking lot of the Botanical Center and Gardens and a retreat garden at the Harmony House, a shelter for families and women who are working to overcome domestic violence.

EGGC holds gardening awareness classes for an after-school program at the Stalnaker Unit of the Boys and Girls Club. This year the club participated in a school-wide, cross-curriculum celebration of Missouri Arbor Day with Portland Elementary School, planting a red bud tree. The club participates in living green environmental projects and litter control. EGGC contributes to Horticulture Scholarships, State Blue Star Memorials and World and State Disaster Funds through the Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri.

EEGC is a member of the Springfield Council of Federated Garden Clubs and the National Federation of Garden Clubs. The club meets the fourth Wednesday of the month, January through November.

Perennial Garden Featured in The Forum

Wednesday, 20 April 2011 07:49 Written by Administrator

Information provided by Charlotte West
Federated Garden Clubs Springfield Council

Now for some really great news. The Garden Forum is up on the FGCM website gardenclubsofmissouri.org and our perennial garden is featured in the Forum. The pictures came out beautifully. Take a look and spread the word. I can hardly wait to have the hard copy in hand. The link for The Garden Forum is here with the garden article, The Federated Garden Clubs Garden within the brand new Springfield-Greene County Botanical Center featured on pages 20 - 21: http://gardenclubsofmissouri.org/The%20Garden%20Forum%20Spring%202011.pdf

Ever Green Celebrates Arbor Day

Thursday, 21 April 2011 06:45 Written by Administrator

Ever Green Garden Club Partners with Portland Elementary School to Celebrate Missouri Arbor Day April 1 with Tree Planting.

March 23, 2011

Ever Green Garden Club

Sheila Neff, Public Relations chair

736-9131

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For Immediate Release

Springfield, Mo.....Ever Green Garden Club will celebrate Missouri's Arbor Day with the students of Portland Elementary School, 906 W. Portland, April 1, 2011, 9:00 a.m. Garden club members have elected to donate a red bud tree to the school. Ever Green members, along with Girl Scout Troop # 10291 and Portland Elementary Student Council from grades 3, 4 and 5, will participate in the ceremonial planting of the flowering tree on the east side of the school campus along Missouri Street. The Garden Club offers special appreciation to school principal Dr. Lora Hooper and her staff for the attention to this school-wide event. The event will take place rain or shine.

Ever Green Garden Club is a member of the Springfield Council of Federated Garden Clubs and the National Federation of Garden Clubs. Part of the educational mission of Ever Green Garden Club is to raise awareness of the benefits of gardening to all ages. By celebrating Arbor Day with the community of children in Springfield the club hopes to foster awareness of both the benefit of the beauty of simple landscaping and awareness of a the benefits of leaving a green footprint for the future.

Ever Green Garden Club currently holds gardening awareness classes for an after-school program at the Stalnaker Unit of the Boys and Girls Club. The club also landscaped and maintains a garden at the Harmony House. Ever Green built a berm in front of the Springfield Art Museum and has grown the landscaping to include other areas of that facility. The club maintains the Art Museum garden site as well. This year the club will begin litter control on a Springfield city street. The garden club planted and maintains a quadrant of the Springfield Council of Federated Garden Clubs' circular garden in Nathanael Greene Park, just adjacent to the parking lot of the new Botanical Center.

Ever Green Garden Club meets in the afternoon on the fourth Wednesday of the month, except for December.

Contacts:

For more information regarding this press release only:

Sheila Neff, 736-9131

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For more information regarding the tree planting:

Wanda Simpkins, 887-2036

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57th Annual Standard Flower Show

Sunday, 23 January 2011 19:02 Written by Administrator

The 57th Annual Standard Flower Show was held in September of 2010 at the Library Center in Springfield, MO. This past year's show was brought to you by these four garden clubs, all part of the Springfield Council of Federated Garden Clubs:

View a Video Slide Show of the 2010 Show
Produced by Hiltrud "Sam" Webber

  1. Brentwood Garden Club
  2. Cherry Court Garden Club
  3. Ever Green Garden Club
  4. Hillbilly Gardeners Garden Club

The four individual clubs work together on community projects as the Springfield Council of Federated Garden Clubs and come together annually to put on one large flower show for the entire area to enjoy.

There were educational tables, almost fifty designs and a large number of horticulture specimens. Several of the horticulture specimens you might have recognized as things that your grandmother used to grow. Plus there were several brand new things that have just been introduced to the market in the past year or so.

The show was judged by accredited judges and they evaluated the flower show high enough to give it a rating (higher than 95%) so the group can apply for a top state award.