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  • FALL CLEAN-UP OR NOT
  • SEED STARTER MILK JUGS
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Our Meetings are held the Second Thursday of the month

Our meetings will held at the Frisbie Center the second Thursday of the month, at 11AM.

Des Plaines Garden Club's May 2025 Meeting

   During our May 8th 2025 Des Plaines Garden Club meeting, we honored those 

reaching their membership anniversaries with a rose….

· Annette Roeder reached her 30th year of being a member.

· 15 years was reached by Alice Grygiel and Therese Zamites.

· Those reaching 10 years: were Rose Pinnock, Harold Effinger, Mary Pat Lamberty, Karen Holich, Mary Magine and Ray Holich.

Congratulations!

We also Celebrated our Des Plaines Committee Chairpersons Thanks all for your service!

· Awards & Grants ~~~~~~~ Anita Bierbaum

· Civic & Conservation~~~~~~~ Angela Miraglio

· Environmental Issues ~~~~~~ Vicki Williams

· Garden Therapy ~~~~~~~~~~~ Pam Mazzini &Kathy Ryan

· Garden Walk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Donna Mulderink

· Community Gardens ~~~~~~~ Marylyn Wouda

· Historian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Marjorie Wayne

· Horticulture~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Angela Miraglio

· Hospitality ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karen Richter

· Membership ~~~~~~~~~~~ Louise Martorano & Barb Maier

· Photographer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Diana Nolan

· Programs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Susan Boyajian

· Publicity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Madeleine McDonald

· Social Media Website/Facebook Harold Effinger

· Telephone Tree ~~~~~~~~~~ Annette Roeder & Sal Willer

· Ways and Means ~~~~~~~~~~~ Jan Goczkowski

· Yearbook ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mary Peglow

Des Plaines Garden Club's May 2025 Meeting

    Our Des Plaines Garden Clubs May meeting was held on May 8th, 2025, at the Des Plaines, IL Frisbie Center.  Before the meeting started, we were serenaded by lovely violin music by our club member, Marcia Alban. (Thanks, Marcia) 

We had our installation of new officers as well as our Club members’ Anniversary Celebrations. 

In addition to our business meeting, our club member, Angela Miraglio presented her horticulture talk on Composting 

Des Plaines Garden Club's April 2025 Meeting

   Our Des Plaines Garden Clubs April meeting was held on April 10, 2025, at the Des Plains, IL Frisbie Center (52 E Northwest Hwy). Our main lecture by Sue Linton & Anita Bierbaum on “ Getting Ready for a Flower Show. “ 

In addition to our business meeting our club member, Rose Pinnock presented a horticulture talk on Unwanted Garden Pests, 

Des Plaines Garden Club's March 2025 Meeting

  Our Des Plaines Garden Clubs March meeting was held on March 13th, 2025 at the Des Plaines, IL Frisbie Center 

(52 E Northwest Hwy). Our main lecture by Harold Effinger presented how to maneuver our club’s website and Facebook pages.

GCI Garden Clubs of Illinois District IX presented our club with first place for our Civic project / Garden Therapy 

In addition to our business meeting ~our club member Ray Holich presented a horticulture talk on Dahlias.

Des Plaines Garden Club's January 2025 Meeting

Our Des Plaines Garden Clubs January meeting was held on January 9th, 2025 at the Des Plains, IL Frisbie Center (52 E Northwest Hwy). 

Our main lecture by Brock and Ruth Seney took our club members on a slide tour of the gardens of England.   In addition to our business meeting our club member Harold Effinger presented a horticulture talk on how to Create  Water Gardens

Des Plaines Garden Club's December 2024 Meeting

Our Garden Club gathered on Dec. 12th, 2024, to celebrate the season.    We had a great buffet Lunch and games, and our raffle table was overflowing. Everyone smiled. Thanks, team, for all your hard work.

October 10th, 2024 Des Plaines Garden Club Meeting

BOTTLE CAP BOUQUETTE = A Tiny Garden full of Joy

Our members made small bottle cap bouquets with silk flowers in bottle caps.   

Our Des Plaines Garden Club provided the flowers and floral foam to use. Each member made several arrangements, some for themselves and others for our Garden Therapy team to distribute to our community senior facilities, where they will use them as table decorations. Our membership's creativity was in full display, providing quite a variety of designs, colors and shapes.  

Thanks to Denise Adams our club chariman for "Fun With Flowers" for putting together this project

Des Plaines IL Garden Club's DECEMBER 2023 MEETING

  At our December 8th Club meeting our Holiday festive craft was presented by 

Peggy Garvin from Garvin Gardens, directed our club members to make beautiful swags out of fresh Christmas Greens. 

They turned out so great and brought smiles to all who participated. 

Our October Garden Club meeting was held Thursday, October 12th  
We had a presentation by Ken Benso
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