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Navarre Garden Club 2005-2006 Calendar

Click on the month of your choice from the list below or scroll down to view the entire calendar listing. At most of the listings for events past, you can link to additional information about that event.

Also remember that the Yearbook calendar pages are periodically updated and you can printout new calendar pages for your Yearbook from our Yearbook Page

If you're interested in what we've done in previous years checkout our "old" Calendars.

2005

June July August September October November December

2006

January February March April May

June 5-11 • FFGC National Garden Week

Members Garden Tour and A Small Standard Flower Show at the Navarre Library

June 9-11 • Navarre Garden Club Flower Show - Open to the Public

Thursday - June 9, 2005 -- Noon - 8 PM
Friday - June 10, 2005 -- 9AM - 5PM
Saturday - June 11, 2005 -- 9AM - 3PM

Dr. Seuss 101 - A Small Standard Flower Show
at the Navarre Library, 8484 James M. Harvell Road, Navarre, FL 32566

June 24 & 25 • Navarre Fun Fest ... Come and visit our "booth" and get your wonderful hand made garden crafts items!! Navarre Park on US 98, Navarre, FL

June 28 • Executive Board Meeting

July • It's SUMMER TIME FOLKS!! Relax!!

August 16 • Horticulture Workshop - Members only - Propagation, at Lynn Wilson's

September 6 • Regular Meeting

Speaker: Chris Verlinde, Santa Rosa County Marine Science Agent

September 17 • International Coastal Cleanup - Public Event

September 20 • Horticulture Workshop - Members only - Terrariums at Linda Marshall's

September 27 • Executive Board Meeting - 9:00 a.m.

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October 4 • Regular Meeting -- Articles of Incorporation

Program: Recycling, Tim Shelton, Santa Rosa County Landfill Recycling Manager

October 5 • FFGC District I Fall Meeting

October 15 • Home and Garden, Flowers to Fleas, Navarre Garden Club Flea Market Fund Raiser at Navarre Park. In conjunction with Santa Rosa County's Beaches to Woodlands Tour

October 18 • Horticulture Workshop - Members only -- Fall Color Planters at Dixie Pardue's, 9AM-11AM

October 25 • Executive Board Meeting - 9:00 a.m.

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November 1 • Regular Meeting, Presented Bylaws - These Bylaws were approved in the December meeting.

Program: Wildflowers, Dara Dobson

November 15 • Horticulture Workshop - Members only -- Bulb Forcing at Joanne Connor's, 9AM-11AM

November 21 • DEADLINE to sign-up for the Floral Design Studies

November 21 • 4th Annual Thanksgiving Centerpiece Workshop. Meet at the Navarre Community Center (near the Post Office) on Nov 21st (Monday before Thanksgiving) and make floral arrangements for our own use and also make small bouquets for the food trays at Gulf Breeze Hospital and cafeteria tables at the Bay Breeze Nursing and Retirement Center. The cost of attending this workshop is $15.00. You bring your own centerpiece container and some foliage from your yard (if you have it). You will leave having made the centerpieces we will be donating as well as a centerpiece for your own dinner table! Last year's event.

November 28 • Club Members Only - Last date to signup for our Club Christmas Party .. Gonna be G R E A T, don't miss it!!

November 28 • Club Members Only -- 1 to 4PM (if it lasts this long) at the Navarre Community Center. Garden Center Investigating/Planning Committee. Any Club Member who is interested in serving on this committee is invited to be there. This invitation is also extended to the individuals who were on this committee when it first met in March 2005. Bring an open mind and fresh ideas.

November 29 • Executive Board Meeting - 9:00 a.m.

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December 6 • Regular Meeting, Vote on Club Bylaws (please read, contact Bylaws Chair if any questions)

Program: Pinecone Decoration, Cathi Herd

December 9 • Christmas Party, at Sandee's, 5:30 adult beverages, 6PM dinner

December 12 • “Light Up Your Life”

A caravan tour to see the Christmas lights of the Navarre and Gulf Breeze areas for our members who no longer drive at night. A Christmas Celebration Get-Together will follow.

December 22 • Civic Development Committee Meeting, Linda Marshall's home, 9 AM

December 27 • Executive Board Meeting, 9 AM

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January 3 • Regular Meeting, Vote on Club Standing Rules (please read, and please contact Bylaws/Standing Rules Chair if any questions)

Program: Trees, Jim Carson

January 17 • Horticulture Workshop - Member's Only - at Lynn Wilson's, Wreaths and seeds

January 20 • Celebrating Arbor Day with a Community Tree Planting Ceremony. Navarre Garden Club will celebrate Florida Arbor Day by planting a tree in our community. Shirley will provide more information in our January meeting.

January 20 • Package baby trees at IP .. packing from 9AM to around noon in the "greenhouse" .. packers may have their choices of trees

January 21 • Arbor Day Celebration .. Free Tree Giveaway for the Community at Navarre High School ... We need lots of help with this valuable Community Service event for our Club. -- Click here for Information on growing your free trees!!

January 23 • Mid-year Budget review, Financial Committee, Please let Lynn know 2 weeks in advance if you will be attending so she can get you a copy of the Financial Policies to review in advance of the meeting. This meeting will be held at the Navarre Library front meeting room from 9 AM to Noon.

January 31 • Executive Board Meeting - 9:00 a.m.

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February 3 • Mardi Gras Parade planning meeting at Lynn's

February 7 • Open House -- bring a friend to our Club Meeting, Program: Floral Design, Wilma Stortz and Cathi Herd - Pick Nominating committee

February 9 • Work day at "Alice's"

February 9 • 2 PM, make bows at Ginger's

February 13 • Sweetheart’s Luncheon

Navarre Community Center, 11:30 a.m. for all members, potluck luncheon. We honor our members who do not have a “sweetheart” in their lives either through death or divorce. (And the rest of us too!!)

February 13 • 2 PM, make corsages at Ginger's

February 21 • Horticulture Workshop - Members only - Airplants/Driftwood at Sandee Ward's

February 22, 23, 24 • Mardi Gras Float work days at Kathleen's .. 22 and 23 will be construction, 24 decorate

February 23 • Work day at "Alice's"

February 25 • Navarre Mardi Gras Parade

February 26• Back at Kathleen's to take the Mardi Gras float apart

February 28 • Executive Board Meeting - 9:00 a.m.

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March 1 • Crafts Work Day at Lynn's

March 7 • Regular Meeting, - Ballot for next year's officers presented

March 9 • Work day at "Alice's"

March 21 • Horticulture Workshop - Members only - Unusual Containers at Linda Henderson's

March 23 • Work day at "Alice's"

March 28 • Executive Board Meeting - 9:00 a.m.

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April 4 • Regular Meeting, Program: Daylilies, Lewis Matters - Voting on Next Year's Officers

April 7 • 4th Annual Spring Fling Salad Tasting Luncheon with Plant and Bake Sale .. We will also have a great little Recipe/Gardening book.

April 18 • Horticulture Workshop - Members only - Herb Planters at Joyce Horgan's

April 19 • Finance Committee, Please if you will be attending get your copy of the Financial Control Policies to review in advance of the meeting. This meeting will be held at the Navarre Library, front meeting room from 9 AM to Noon. The April Meeting is when the budget for next year is drafted, new Committee Chairs are identified, and at this meeting the Financial Controls document needs to be finalized.

April 21 • Cracked Pot in Brewton, AL - field trip

What: Field Trip to NDI (Natural Decorations, Inc.), The Cracked Pot.
When: Friday, April 21, 2006.
Where: Located on the Courtyard in Historic Downtown Brewton, Alabama
Departing From: School near Community Center at 9:00 a.m. We will shop in the morning, and eat lunch across the street. Husbands/significant others are welcome. Go to their web site: www.ndi.com. ... The items they sell are decorative and not "natural" but natural looking. In their words "floral and botanical reproductions" ... do checkout their website.

Taken from their brochure: "...NDI, The Cracked Pot, a true manufacturer's outlet we operate ourselves."

April 22 • The Great American Cleanup -- This is a NationWide community event.

Meet at 8:00 a.m. Wear sunscreen, comfortable shoes, and bring gloves and water. The Great American Clean Up is mainland. We meet, register, pick up supplies, pick up debris, and return bags to dumpster. If you have an area that you would like to pick up, you can do that. Otherwise, we will pick up bad areas on Hwy 98, Hwy 87, and any other streets that are really bad.

April 25 • Executive Board Meeting - 9:00 a.m.

April 27, 28, & 29 • Club Flower Show at Navarre Library - "Celebrate Spring", A Small Standard Flower Show. Open to the Public. Please see brochure for all information. Come, exhibit and/or view beautiful plants and arrangements!!

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May 2 • Installation Luncheon - Members only

May 3 • Spring District I Meeting, Milton Garden Club Center, Milton

May 15 • Horticulture Workshop - Members only - subject TBD

May 16 • Field trip to Tallahassee Nursery

May 23 • 2006-2007 Planning Meeting. Members Only

Get involved in YOUR club. Come join us as we review and finalize our budget for next year and plan our activities. Your chance to make next year's club meetings, programs, fund raisers and workshops what YOU want!! Join a committee, become chairman of a committee. Now is the time to sign up and sign on! If you can't make the meeting send your suggestions/input to our webmaster or President. Thanks!! (click to email). We'll be eating lunch at the meeting.

May 29 • Executive Board Meeting - 9 AM

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