LIGC SCHEDULE OF PROPOSED ROAD TRIPS/TOURS
2009-2010 

OCTOBER – Charleston Garden Expo
Tues 10/27 Hypertufa Workshop
@ Rob & Betsi Hilton’s Home

NOVEMBER – Pearl Fryar Topiaries in Bishopsville

FEBRUARY – Middleton Place – Camellia Tour

MARCH – Cypress Gardens Tour

APRIL – Savannah Garden Expo &/or
Savannah NOGS Hidden Gardens or Charleston Tours available in April

Early MAY – Macon GA Home & Garden Show May 2-4   Secret Gardens, Historic Homes Tours and Garden Market
– Over night trip

End of MAY – Pinckney Island Tour  and Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn on Hilton Head with picnic lunch
and/or Swan Lake Iris Gardens – Sumter

 
Dates for the above tours will be discussed with the membership at the September Meeting.

“I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.”    ~ Julie Moir Messervy, The Inward Garden 1995

NOVEMBER
 
Date: November 5th at 9:30 AM
Location: Tansi Village Club House, St. Helena Island
Hostesses: Nancy Maurer & Donna Berger & Marilou Rood
 
"Crafty Ladies at Play" AKA “Women Using Glue Guns”
This is the Club’s 36th annual Thanksgiving workshop. Genevieve Silvear, Chairperson for this event, will lead our crafty ladies
in designing unique tray favors for area hospitals and residential care facilities.
 
November Calendar of Events

1	Kathy Hyatt's Birthday
3	Donna Berger's Birthday
TBA	Landscape Design School in Charleston
19	BCSC Meeting - 1st Presbyterian Church
22	Pam Floyd's Birthday

 
 
 

 
 
 

“The The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance,
The wise one grows it under his feet.”
~ James Oppenheim

DECEMBER
 
Date: December 3rd at 9:30 AM
Location: The home of Donna Rhoten
Co-hostesses: Anne Peters & Chris glaister
 
Holiday Silent Auction Fund Raiser
This popular annual celebration will have each member bringing a craft or other items worth about $20 for the silent auction.  If
you are unable to attend this meeting you will be requested to donate a check to LIGC for $20 to help defray costs of club projects.  Members are also requested to bring a selection of  new sleep apparel for a boy or girl for the CAPA Christmas Event.  And/or a donation of a children’s book for the ‘Books for Babies’ project which is new for our club this year.  Your caller will have further details on this prior to the meeting.
 
December Calendar of Events

4	SC Arbor Day
TBA	Friends of Caroline Hospice “Festival of Trees”
15	State Awards Appl. Due to GCSC Awards Chairman
25	Donna Rhoten's Birthday
28	Martha Dooley's Birthday

 
 
 
 

 
 
A Garden is a thing of beauty
And a job forever!

JANUARY
 
Date: January 7th at 9:30 AM
Location: The Dataw Community Club, Dataw Island
Hostess: To be announced
 
Floral Arranging for the Best Effect
Claire Spengler, Accredited SC State Flower Show Judge, will lead a hands on floral arranging class with special hints for long lasting arrangements that compliment the surroundings and reinforce the themes when designing a floral piece.  Further information about
this class will be provided prior to the meeting.
 
January Calendar of Events

1	SC Gardner deadline/ Spring Issue
22	GCSC Board of Directors Mtg. – Headquarters
22	Marie Spencer's Birthday
30	Genevieve Silvear's Birthday

MUD is the most poetical thing in the world!
   ~ R.H. Blyth

…If I want to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil;
study, and help it to the utmost, untiringly. Always, the soil must come first.
   ~ Marion Cran, If I Were Beginning Again

FEBRUARY
 
Date: February 4th at 9:30 AM
Location: The home of Edie Rodgers
Hostess: Lee Stockell  

"Snakes of the Low Country"
Debby Way of the Beaufort Soil & Water Conservation District will give an informative talk on the snakes that inhabit our low
country environment.   She will have a ‘friend‘ with her, plus pictures of those that are not.  This meeting is well worth attending,
especially as we may have these creatures in our gardens from time to time.

February Calendar of Events

1	Club/Council President‟s Reports due to WLC Dist. Dir. & GCSC President
4	Edie Rodger's Birthday
11	Jayne Gallagher's Birthday
15	Scholarship Applications Due
TBA	Flower Show School in Charleston, SC

Gardening is ultimately a folly
Whose goal is to provide delight!
   ~ Deborah Needleman

MARCH
 
Date: March 4th at 9:30 AM
Location: The home of Bobbie Cahill
Hostesses: Betsi Hilton & Nancy Steeves
 
Hoping for Hostas
A lovely accent plant in the garden, one which deer admire tremendously, much to the gardener’s chagrin, the hosta comes in an
abundance of sizes and color combinations.  At this meeting “Shady Characters” of Aiken will teach us the intimate secrets of hosta
growing, propagation and pitfalls of this titan in our gardens.  They will bring plants for us to purchase for our Low Country gardens.
 
 
March Calendar of Events

5	SC Judges Club - Columbia
8	Lee Stockell's Birthday
8-10	SAR Convention
10	Jane Hermes' Birthday
18	Dolly Fedorka's Birthday
25	BCSC Meeting - 1st Presbyterian Church
26	WLC District Meeting
27	Bobbie Cahill's Birthday
TBA	St. Helena's Church Spring Home Tour

 

The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, 
part philosopher, part plowman.
He modifies the climate around his home.
   ~ John R. Whiting

APRIL
 
Date: April 1st at 9:30 AM
Location: To be determined
 
 
Annual Business Meeting & Luncheon
Installation of Officers
This is our Club’s Annual Meeting as required by our By-Laws. Officer’s reports will be given and a new slate of officers for the
upcoming year will be presented and voted on. We will need two-thirds majority (quorum) to fulfill By-Law requirements.
Therefore, it is imperative that all members attend this meeting, or be prepared to vote by proxy ahead of time.  Installation
of officers will also take place at this time.
 
 
April Calendar of Events

1	GCSC Dues & Roster to State Treasurer
1	SC Gardener Deadline/Summer Issue
3-4	GCSC Flower Show & Garden Fair
TBA	Savannah Garden & Antiques Expo
TBA	NOGS Tour of Hidden Gardens – Charleston
15	Angie Keyserling's Birthday
18	Barbara Gilbert's Birthday
29	GCSC State Meeting - Columbia

 
 
 
 

"But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else!
 In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people’s concept NOT Nature’s."
   ~ Anon

MAY

Date:  May 6th at 9:30 AM
Location:  The Sands in Port Royal
Hostesses:

Marsh Walking
We will be taking a very informative tour on the Marsh Board Walk of “The Sands” on Port Royal Sound.  Led by our own Pam
Floyd, LIGC President and a Master Naturalist, we will learn about the amazing world of the marsh, so closely linked to our every
day lives here in our little corner of the Low Country.

After the walk we will have a refreshing luncheon at Moondoggies  just up the street off Paris Avenue in Port Royal.

May Calendar of Events

8	Chris Glaister's Birthday
TBA	Mother's Day Corsage Workshop
27	BCSC Meeting - 1st Presbyterian Church
28	GCSC Board of Directors' Meeting

"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint
...and the soil and sky as canvas."
~ Elizabeth Murray 

JUNE

Date:  June 3rd at 9:30 AM
Location:  The home of Bonnie Buchanan
Hostess:  Teege Culp

Birdwatching 101
We see them flitting around the yard, we provide them with water and food and a place to nest perhaps, but do we really know
our feathered friends all that well.  Today we’ll learn from an area Master Naturalist the things they never taught us in school about
these marvelous creatures that  provide us endless hours of enjoyment.  We will focus on marginal marsh birds and their habitats as
these are unique to the Low Country environs.  Migratory and ‘stay at home’ birds will also be discussed.

June Calendar of Events

TBA	Camp Wildwood
TBA	National Garden Week
TBA	Beaufort Garden Club Garden-A-Day Tour
TBA	SC Botanical Garden/Clemson Garden Day
25	Betsi Hilton's Birthday