Garden Club Information
Gardening for Tomorrow!
Organized in 1925 - Federated 1927
Club Flower - Daylily
(386) 624-6960 - The Garden Club
(386) 279-1241 Rental Information
rentalsgardenclubofdeland@gmail.com
865 South Alabama Avenue, DeLand, FL 32724
The Garden Club of DeLand Officers 2025 - 2027
Casey King – President
Diane Schmidt – 1st Vice President
Cindy Davenport – 2nd Vice President
Deborah Dubois – Recording Secretary
Lupita Wiggans – Corresponding Secretary
Violet Akopyan – Treasurer
2025 - 2027 Garden Club Circle Presidents
Firecracker - Erin Miceli
Magnolia - Lisa Schnetzer
Marigold - Sara Zollinger
Milkweed - Gail LaFayette
Rose - Casey King
*See Membership Page to learn more about each Circle or email us at gcdmembership@gmail.com
GCD Book Club Meeting
Hello Garden Book Readers,
GCD Book Club meeting, Thursday, June 19th at 1:00 in the Club House.
This month the GCD Book Club is reading “The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt” by Chelsea Iversen. Goodreads describes the book as: At once enchantingly mesmerizing and fiercely feminist, the vibrant world-building and sinister undertones of “The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt” make for the perfect modern fairytale about women taking control of their lives—with a little help from the magic within them.
Please Join us to discuss this adventurous book!
Any questions contact: Chris Nott chrisinthegarden@cfl.rr.com
Sara Zollinger sarazollinger@att.net
Fall Activities @ GCD
Garden Faire and Garden Club Open House: Sunday, October 19th
Garden Faire and Garden Club Open House: Sunday, October 19th
(exact afternoon hours to be decided). This will replace our Plant Sale that was scheduled for September 27th as that weekend there is a very large craft show in downtown DeLand. We are hoping to offer some plants for sale (so we are still wanting growers), some vendors with garden themed materials for sale, baked goods, and other things. At this event, we are going to celebrate with the public our 100-year anniversary and try to increase our membership.
Each circle and special interest group will have a small table at the event to highlight their circle to the public.
Angie Senft, Lupita Wiggans, and Lisa Schnetzer have agreed to spearhead this project, but we all need to help them. We need more members to help on this committee to make it a success. Please let them know if you are currently growing plants for the sale. If not, please consider growing some things as we want to have some plants at the event.
100 th Anniversary Celebration, Saturday, November 15th at the Clubhouse 5pm- 8pm.
100 th Anniversary Celebration, Saturday, November 15th at the Clubhouse 5pm-
8pm.We are planning a wild time in the Roaring 20’s it will be Bee’s Knees, and I hope everyone can attend! Wear your fanciest flapper dress. Lisa Schnetzer and NuSu Bauerle have kindly agreed to head up the planning for this event – but we need more people to join this committee please step up to help.
Festival of Trees, Saturday, December 6th
Festival of Trees, Saturday, December 6th
Festival of Trees, Saturday, December 6th we are going to bring this fundraiser back!
I do not have a full committee for this event, so I need several people willing to work on this. This will be so much fun and hopefully bring in some extra money since our plant sale will not be as robust this year as in the past.
Please volunteer to help.
GCD Opportunities
Sensory Butterfly Garden Workday
Downtown DeLand Beautification Planting and Monthly Maintenance
Downtown DeLand Beautification Planting and Monthly Maintenance
Throughout the year the Sensory Garden is maintained by Garden Club Circles to attract pollinators and wildlife. This has been an ongoing project of the Garden Club for over 20 years. Rededicated May 5, 2018 Located at: Bill Dreggors Park, 230 N. Stone Street, DeLand Florida. Go to Calendar of Events page to see the next work date. Work days are the 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month, starting time 7:30 or 8am to beat the heat. Stay as long or short as you want, meet new and continuing members.
These workdays will continue through out the year. This is a GCD event, all circles are needed to participate. Go to Calendar of Events page to see the next work date.
* Certified as a National Garden Clubs Pollinator Garden
Downtown DeLand Beautification Planting and Monthly Maintenance
Downtown DeLand Beautification Planting and Monthly Maintenance
Downtown DeLand Beautification Planting and Monthly Maintenance
"Beautifying DeLand One Seed at a Time.
The Garden Club of DeLand gathers two times a year to plant 68 container gardens, 16 of these are pedestals. The second Saturday of each month, a group of volunteers from the Garden Club meet to weed, tweak, and evaluate the condition of each container garden. All month long, as time allows, each Garden Club Circle checks on their assigned containers and reports issues to the chair. Go to Calendar of Events page to see the next work date.
Clubhouse Rentals
Downtown DeLand Beautification Planting and Monthly Maintenance
Clubhouse Rentals
You can rent the Garden Club Clubhouse for your Party or Meeting.
For more information call (386) 279-1241, visit the Rental page, or email the rental team at rentalsgardenclubofdeland@gmail.com
Less-Mow Spring
Pledge to Uphold Concept of Less-Mow Spring
I pledge to be mindful of my lawn’s maintenance needs and to mow it less frequently in spring, committing to mow it no more than twice a month. This will allow the early pollinators using my lawn as a habitat to grow more naturally and contribute positively to the local ecosystem.”
Thank you, Garden Club of DeLand
Garden Club Memberships
Members of:
National Garden Clubs, Inc. "Plant America"
National Garden Clubs, Inc. provides education, resources, and national networking opportunities for its members to promote the love of gardening, floral design, and civic and environmental responsibility.
Deep South Garden Clubs, Inc. The Deep South Region is dedicated to advancing the objectives of the National Garden Club, Inc. and to coordinating the interests and the projects of the six states in the region.
Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. Mission Statement:
“Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. promotes the love of gardening, floral and landscape design, and civic and environmental responsibility by providing education, resources and networking opportunities for our members, youth and the community.”
Downtown DeLand Container Gardens Project
Downtown DeLand Container Gardens Project
The Garden Club of DeLand members maintain the downtown DeLand planters. We appreciate the volunteer help of our members to maintain the planters on a monthly basis. In addition to monthly maintenance, the 68 container gardens are replanted twice a year.
Join in as we gather by 7:30 am and there will be guidance and direction on what is needed to be done.
Work days are the 2nd Saturday of each month. Please bring clippers, small bag , and your name tag.
About Us
Gardening for the Future
Our city of DeLand loves its Downtown Container Gardens and Sensory Garden (Bill Dreggors Park) that we maintain. Our club thrives on making a difference and serving in our Community.
Our Clubhouse is located at:
865 South Alabama Avenue * DeLand, FL 32724
Clubhouse 386-624-6960
For Clubhouse Rentals call : (386) 624-6960
All are Welcome
2023-2025 Learn * Plant *Grow
The Garden Club of DeLand offers programs each month (September – May) on gardening or related topics. We have enjoyed speakers primarily from Stetson University, Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens, Master Gardeners and other topic specific experts. Our six circles also offer monthly programs: for example, Milkweeds focus on butterflies and other pollinators while Wild Coffees focus on native plants and wildlife, especially birds, Roses and their farm to table.
What kind of a gardener do I need to be in order to join the Garden Club? Think you have a brown thumb? Were you a great gardener before you moved to Central Florida, but now seem to know very little? Are you overwhelmed by a blank slate in a new yard? How do you transition your garden to natives? Want to learn how to plant a butterfly or pollinator garden? Which vegetables should be planted and when? After gardening for decades here, how do you make your garden easier to manage? All you need is the interest to learn. We are here to help – join us today!
Certified Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Gardens
Have your Garden Certified Today
Butterfly Garden Certification
To date, over 200 gardens in the city of DeLand have been certified as Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Gardens. Maybe you have seen those signs around town?
We are continuing to certify Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Gardens in the DeLand area, for details on how you can have your garden certified, download the form below.
DeLand Monarch City USA
Nearly 1,000,000,000 monarch butterflies have vanished since 1990 according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. To help combat this problem, DeLand became part of Monarch City USA on February 5, 2018. Our shared purpose is to encourage municipalities to directly help the monarch butterfly population recover.
In conjunction, The Garden Club of DeLand, is encouraging gardens of all sizes to become butterfly garden sanctuaries with an emphasis on our monarch population. Only applicants with a DeLand zip code are eligible.
Become a Certified Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary
Plan your garden or add to your existing garden. To register, you must have a minimum of twenty (20) nectar and host/larval food plants total. Plant a total of three (3) different host/larval food plants which includes a minimum of five (5) milkweed plants as they are the primary host plants for the monarchs, native milkweed is preferred.
Plant a minimum of five (5) different butterfly nectar plants as food sources. The brighter the color, the more butterflies will visit. Submit your application. (Form is at the bottom of this page).
DeLand Gardens
We are certifying Gardens in DeLand. Members that do not live in DeLand may have their Gardens Certified.
Butterfly Squad
The Butterfly Squad calls you once your application has been reviewed. They set up a time to stroll through your garden and certify it. You have the option of buying the yellow sign to proudly display in your garden.
FAQs
How long before the Butterfly Squad Contacts us?
It doesn't take long unless there are a great many applications.
Habitat for Humanity
The Garden Club of DeLand supports basic home building projects of the West Volusia Habitat for Humanity. We provide gardening advice for selection of trees and shrubs, volunteers and donations. Together with the new homeowner plantings are chosen and then donated by the Garden Club. For example, a life-threatening bee sting allergy drove the plant selection for a recent home. Our volunteers also help plant the shrubs and trees. Such joy is seen as the house is turned over to a new homeowner who has purchased the home through Habitat’s zero fee and interest free mortgage terms