EVENTS & PROGRAMS

Annual Fall Luncheon and Fundraiser

Our Annual Fall Luncheon and Fundraiser was held Thursday, November 14th 2024

Our Annual Fall Luncheon and Fundraiser was a great success with The Basket Raffles. Big board, a Silent Auction, and Bake Sales. This year we had the addition of a 50/50 raffle with the proceeds going to our scholarship fund! We had a record of 198 in attendance.

Our banquet tables were decorated with a beautiful holiday-themed arrangement by Lana and Rich Gernady 🎄

We were honored to recognize our VIP of the day Irma Lehmann for her 44 years of active membership and all her many , many contributions to our Garden Club.

Lunch was followed by a Floral demonstration program by Peggy Garvin where she created fall and holiday flower arrangements . Five of our guests were the lucky winners of the floral designs.

On behalf of the Des Plaines Garden Club ~ we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all those who attended and all our sponsors for their generous donations and of course, all the work from our members to make this another awesome success. We wish you all a very Happy Holiday Season .

Smiles from all

The Community Backpack Project (CBP) received a generous donation from the Des Plaines Garden Club this week.

Pictured at the club's holiday luncheon are (l to r) club representative Mary Peglow and CBP coordinator Jana Haas. The Garden Club has donated a total of $3,400 to the CBP this year, in support of District 6

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The Community Backpack Project (CBP) is an outreach program of the Self-Help Closet & Pantry of Des Plaines, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Elementary students in Community Consolidated School District 62 who are in need can take home a backpack full of food to last through the weekend. These are students who participate in the free or reduced cost breakfast and lunch program at school during the week.

How CBP Works

School social workers communicate with the CBP on the number of backpacks they need each week. Only the social workers know who the students are. The CBP fills the backpacks with easy-to-prepare meals such as oatmeal, canned soup, instant pasta dishes, canned protein, applesauce, snacks and juice. Volunteers deliver the backpacks to each school and they are given to the students to take home and then to return empty to be filled for the next weekend.

Annual Des Plaines Garden Club’s Birthday trip

Celebrating our 93rd Birthday

Our Annual Des Plaines Garden Club’s Birthday trip was held Thursday June 13th, 2024

The Celebration brought us to the Anderson Japanese Gardens in Rockford, IL (a twelve-acre landscape of streams, waterfalls, winding pathways, and koi-filled ponds has been rated one of North America’s highest quality Japanese gardens) for more than a decade. and lunch at Mary’s Market and bakery. And enjoyed shopping at the Village Green Garden Center.

It was a perfect day.

GCI Districts IX and II Flower Show / August 5 & 6, 2023

Flower Show Recap A NGC Standard Flower Show.

The theme was: “So Many Books … So Little Thyme”. It was presented by GCI Districts IX and II on August 5 and 6, 2023, at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Some of our Club members / Pam Mazzini, and Anita Bierbaum served as hostesses, Clerks, and Show Photography

The show had four Divisions · Horticulture · Design · Educational Exhibits · Botanical Arts,

and the themes were based on books.

The 2023 Golden Clipper Award Winner was Our Des Plaines Garden Club member Lana Gernady who accumulated the most points and was awarded a rosette ribbon and a Fiskars Shears at the 2022 GCI Flower Show

NOTE: the NGC System of Awards and Scale of Points based on perfection (100 points). Only one first place blue ribbon (90+ points), one second place red ribbon (85+ points), one third place yellow ribbon (80+points) is awarded if merited in each Section.”

Club Competition
The Art of the Table: A Complete Guide to Table Setting,

“My First Tea Party” our members / Anita Bierbaum, Nancy Patterson and Denise Adams were the creative team, and our Des Plaines Garden Club received a first place ribbon and won this category.

There were many of our club members participated and entered the Flower Show.

Angela Miraglio, Lana Gernady, Sue Linton, Anita Bierbaum and Pam Mazzini entered the flower show with flower entries and arrangement designs to win ribbons…. Angela’s African Marigold was awarded first place.

Another big winner was Pam Mazzini, who won the Botanical and Artistic Crafts Blue rosette Ribbon for her Book arrangement design based on the title “ Where the Crawdads Sing”

Congratulations to all our Des Plaines Garden Club members who participated.

Our Des Plaines IL Garden Club was honored to participate in the Des Plaines

American Legion / city remembrance service at the Lake Park.

As long as we speak a name their service will never be forgotten .

All our residents who perished in service are listed on the wall. Say their name, least we never forget the price.

Our Des Plaines Garden Club presented a Memorial Day wreathe of fresh flowers during the remembrance services at The Lake Park in Des Plaines, IL

All the Des Plaines residents who perished in service are listed on the memorial walsl.

Des Plaines Park District Family Fun Day

June 4th, 2022

The Des Plaines Garden Club was honored to participle in the Park District Family Fun day!

The Des Plaines Kiwanis Club sponsored a race around the park to start the day. They were divided by school grade! A first grader had the best time of the day. The Park District provided, bounce houses, a safari speaker,

The DP Police and Fire Department were there interacting with the kids, and the Friends of the Park

were there with a putting contest, freebies and raising awareness of their presence .

Our Garden club planted flowers to take home with the kids and passed out milkweed seed.

Kuddo’s to Alice Grygiel , youth committee chair and Susan Linton for a great day! The kids had fun , and so did we 😍

2025 PLANT SALE WILL BE HELD ON MAY 10th

FOR 2025 OUR DES PLAINES GARDEN WALK WILL BE JULY 10th

Thursday, July 10th, 2025 is our Garden Walk.