The National Capital Dahlia Society this weekend hosted their 2017 Annual Dahlia Show at Brookside Gardens inWheaton, MD. Check out these whimsical floral designs that were part of their Wizard of Oz themed flower show – using gorgeous dahlias!

Save the date!

Here’s the September 2017 edition of Rock Spring Garden Club’s newsletter :

click here: —->  Gardenzette Sep 2017 web pdf

Please click our “Events’ button above for navigable links for our event and more information about Susie Poneman and Heavenly Hydrangeas Design Studio.

Rock Spring Garden Club kicks off another club year full of activities!  Our first meeting is on Thursday, September 21, 2017, beginning at 10:00 a.m.,  at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, 6025 Little Falls Rd., Arlington VA 22207.  After our business meeting, our program will be a floral design lesson by Sheila Moore  and workshop where our members will use what’s in their gardens, bringing enough to share.  Do you have a strong interest in gardening and floral design? Interested in joining our garden club? This is a perfect meeting for you to attend.  Please contact us at [email protected] to RSVP that you will be joining us. Or just click ‘contact’ above. And please plan to stay for lunch! We look forward to meeting you.

Rock Spring received several awards this Spring from NCAGC District III and National Capital Area Garden Club (State level).  We also received three blue ribbon awards from VFGC’s Piedmont District.  Awards are given for successful projects, flower shows, community service and outreach. Congratulations to all our members for a job well done. (A list of all awards received will be posted soon)

District III Director and club presidents receiving awards at NCAGC’s state awards meeting March 20, 2017

RSGC President, Connie RIchards, accepts RSGC’s state awards

Outgoing District III Director, Jane Smith, accepts awards for District III accomplishments

In addition, District III received two awards, one for the District III Digest (our quarterly newsletter) and one for our District III’s Country Fair and Small Standard Flower Show we held last August that Rock Spring Garden Club proudly participated in.   Great job, all!

Enjoy our garden club’s award winning newsletter, The Gardenzette, for the month of March, 2017.  Just click here ——>2017_03 March Gardenzette web

Rock Spring Garden Club was glad to welcome guest speaker, Babs McClendon to our Thursday, March 16 general membership meeting.

Babs McClendon demonstrated the Basics of a Creative Dining Room Arrangement.  Her presentation included: container choice, selection of plant material, and introduced us to many available creative materials to add ‘pizazz’ to your designs.

Babs is both an Accredited Flower Show Judge, and an Accredited Landscape Design Council Judge. She was raised by lifelong gardeners.  She caught the gardening bug early in life.  She has had careers in teaching, selling computers, and running her own Interior Design firm.  In 1992 she moved to Mount Vernon where she had her first opportunity to join a garden club.  Since she “jumped into the World of garden clubbing” she has met and befriended people all over the USA.  She claims to have grown in her knowledge of gardening, and through ‘trial-by-error’ learned the Art of Flower Arranging.  She loves sharing the knowledge she has gained with others. Her love for floral arranging has left her with less time to garden.  Her garden has become her palette for her floral arrangements. She is involved with the floral art of Ikebana, and is currently taking lessons in the Sogetsu School.

Babs has served on many garden related boards and held many positions. Some of these include: Riverwood Garden Club, Yacht Haven Garden Club, District II Board, National Capital Area Garden Club Board, Central Atlantic Region Board, and National Garden Club Board of Directors.

Here’s the latest issue of Rock Spring Garden Club’s newsletter, THE GARDENZETTE.

Just click here ——–>>2017_02 Gardenzette web