Garden Club Information

Organized in 1925 - Federated 1927

Club Flower - Daylily

(386) 624-6960

gcdeland@gmail.com

865 South Alabama Avenue, DeLand, FL 32724  

President - Marshall Rawson
1st Vice President - Lisa Schnetzer
2nd Vice President -  Barbara Merriam
Recording Secretary - Suellen Biferie
Corresponding Secretary - Sara Zollinger
Treasurer - Christina Dudley

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 

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

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

 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.

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.”

Save the Date! October 8, 2022.  Come join us at GCD clubhouse for the BIG annual plant sale.  The members are busy propagating or potting  plants dug up from their gardens.    There will be a wide selection of plants.  More information to come.

Organized by the Milkweed Circle with members of other circles participating. This event is planned with families in mind. There will be nectar and native plants available for sale. Crafts for the children, baked goods, picture taking with Monica the Monarch and naming of the monarch caterpillar. A new addition this year is the Pollinator Parade where those in costume can stroll through the nectar walk to the monarch migration. Come and join in the fun and learn more about the Garden Club of DeLand, gardening to attract butterflies and how to have your garden certified as a Butterfly Sanctuary Garden.   Saturday, October 15th,  9-12.    Pollinator Parade to start at 10:30.

Google Map - Sensory Butterfly Garden - for directions
 Bill Dreggors Park (corner of Stone St. & Wisconsin Ave.) 

"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.

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.

You can rent the Garden Club Clubhouse for your Party or Meeting. 

For more information call  (386) 624-6960 visit the Rental page .

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 certifying Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Gardens, for details on how you can have your garden certified, download the form below.

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. 

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

We are certifying Gardens in DeLand. Members that do not live in DeLand may have their Gardens Certified.

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.

How long before the Butterfly Squad Contacts us?

It doesn't take long unless there are a great many applications.