Garden Club Information
Gardening for the Future
Organized in 1925 - Federated 1927
Club Flower - Daylily
(386) 624-6960
865 South Alabama Avenue, DeLand, FL 32724
The Garden Club of DeLand Officers 2021 - 2023
President - Marshall Rawson
1st Vice President - Lisa Schnetzer
2nd Vice President - Barbara Merriam
Recording Secretary - Suellen Biferie
Corresponding Secretary - Sara Zollinger
Treasurer - Christina Dudley
2021 - 2023 Garden Club Circle Presidents
Daisy - Retired
Firecracker - Dr. Carol Grigas
Marigold - Marshall Rawson
Magnolia - Marcia Baker
Milkweed - Gail LaFayette
Rose - Norma Thomas
Wild Coffee - Lance Harding
See Membership Page to learn more about each Circle or email us at gcdmembership@gmail.com
Clubhouse Rentals
For more information call (386) 624-6960
Garden Club of DeLand has a beautiful venue for your next meeting or party.
Visit the Rental Page for more information
Garden Club of DeLand's Garden Brick Pathway
Remember your Garden Club members, Veterans, loved ones, special events and years of service with this everlasting tribute. Download form and order today! Link to form
Donations to the The Garden Club of DeLand
We would appreciate your help to keep the Downtown planters and/or the Sensory Garden looking beautiful all year round. All donations, great or small, would be welcome. Link to donation form.
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. “Get Back to Nature, DSGC”
Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. "Worlds of Wonder"
“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.”
Upcoming Events
GCD Book Club
Meeting Date: June 16, 2022
Location: The DeLand Garden Clubhouse
Time: 1 pm
The Forgotten Garden
by Kate Morton
A lost child…
A terrible secret….
A mysterious inheritance…
New York Times Bestseller
Cindy Davenport & Sara Zollinger
Contact info: cindy@davenportmail.com
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.
Work days are the second Saturday of each month.
Sensory Garden
Throughout the Year the Sensory Garden is maintained by Garden Club Circles to attract pollinators and wildlife. All 5 senses are engaged when you walk through our garden. 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. These workdays will continue through out the year.
Rentals of the Garden Club Clubhouse
You can rent the Garden Club Clubhouse for your Party or Meeting.
For more information call (386) 624-6960 visit the Rental page .
About Us
Gardening
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
2021-2023 Learn * Plant *Grow
Gardening Study is our main theme this year.
The Garden Club of DeLand will be offering a different program each month based on different gardening and environmental issues. Our speakers experts in their field!
Our Garden Club year is September through May.
We are Members of a Large Organization
By having a large number of members, we have a stronger voice when contacting our legislators about our Environment. Join us and help to make our voice even stronger.
When you join the Garden Club of DeLand you become a member of the
National Garden Clubs, Inc. www.gardenclub,org
NGC aims to promote the love of gardening, floral design, and civic and environmental responsibility and we help coordinate the interests and activities of state and local garden clubs in the U.S. and abroad.
Florida Federation of Garden Clubs. Inc. www/ffgc.org
“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.”
Deep South Garden Clubs, Inc. www.dsgardenclub.org
FFGC District VI
Garden Club of DeLand, Inc. www.gcdeland@gmail.com
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 8am 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.
Certified Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Gardens
Have your Garden Certified Today
Butterfly Garden Certification
To date, over 130 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 certifying Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Gardens, 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.
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. pdf below
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