Dear Garden Club Members: As we look forward into the new year, let us be thankful for the goals that have been reached and strive toward the future with exciting club and personal projects for this coming year. In my travels to all the district annual meetings, I was thrilled to be so warmly received and I am amazed by the difference in the districts and clubs throughout the state. It is such a wonderful thing, that although we are different in our approach, our goals as a whole continue to be the same, making our world better, conserving what we have and planting our way into the future. Landscape Design School Course I was held in Muncie on November 15-17. Eighteen garden club members took the course for credit, and several more were there to audit and refresh. Chairman Ruth Moorhead’s hard work paid off with a great roster of Ball State Professors sharing their knowledge with all in attendance. The second course will be held in May 2008; watch for dates and times on the website. Make sure you check your calendar and allow time to come to the 77th T.G.C.I. Annual Convention, “Gardens and All That Jazz,” to be held April 14-15, 2008 at the French Lick Hotel & Casino in French Lick. Wonderful things are being planned by the South West District and we look forward to you being in attendance. National Garden Club President Barbara May will be our honored guest. Make sure to check out the convention call letter for further information. Have you ever been to Memphis in April? National Garden Club Convention is to be held at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee April 25-28, 2008. All garden club members are asked to “Make Music in Memphis.” More information will be in the Spring issue of The National Gardener, or try the NGC website for details. The club members in Indiana are fortunate to be within a day’s drive of the National Convention. That does not happen often, please consider spending a few days in Memphis. As gardening chores were put away for the winter season, our mailboxes fill with spring catalogs and our minds are filled with all the dreams of a new gardening year, remember, think “green”…..recycle, reuse and use our world’s resources wisely. If we all continue to make our world a better place, just think of the possibilities. Ellen ….
February 2008
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