Grosse Ile Garden Club

The GIGC invites you to our monthly meeting an program held at The Colony Clubhouse, 8225 Macomb Street. Coffee at 9:30 followed by meeting at 10a.m. on the 1^st Monday of the month October – May. Call Vice President Patty Smart 676-9074 to verify meeting date and location.

The GIGC is one of the oldest volunteer community groups and is open to all residents. The GIGC was organized in 1927 and is a member of the National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc., the Central Region of National Council, Federated Garden Clubs of Michigan, Inc. and belongs to District 1.

Our membership consists of approximately 80. We have a wide variety of activities, continuing projects, and programs that await your interest. Several items on the yearly calendar include:

• Plantings at the Free Bridge, 4 Corners, the Customs House, & Wildlife Sanctuary Garden Tours within the Community as well as Field Trips.
• The Biannual Flower Shows which include many categories for judging arrangements.
• The Christmas lively Auction for community donation fund raising Azalea Festival activities including a Perennial Exchange, Parade, Raffle, & childrens’ Workshop.
• Speakers and Programs to enhance your gardening knowledge and pleasure.
• Every 3^rd year the Grosse Ile Garden Club sponsors a Home Tour in September.

Be as active as your time and interest permits, but come out and meet your neighborhood garden club members. Join in a trip to the Festival of Trees or volunteer to be the Garden Club Photographer or Librarian (yes, we have resources). There are numerous committees always willing to have a new worker bee or chairman. Come see and receive a Monthly Newsletter "Clipping" to inform you of our activities. Dues are $20 July 1^st through June 30^th. With dues comes a Yearbook of monthly dates, times, and locations of events and a roster of members’ addresses and telephone numbers.

Do call or you will not know tidbits like:

• Bordine’s gives away tulip bulbs.
• Peony leaves don’t compost.
• Pine needles feed all beds.
• Newspapers make decomposable seed pots.

Our Objective:

"The Grosse Ile Garden Club was organized in 1927 for the purpose of fostering individual and community interest in gardening and to protect, conserve and beautify Grosse Ile. Later, through broadening interest, we affiliated with The Federated Garden Clubs of Michigan in 1935, and through this organization became members of the National Council of State Garden Clubs, thus widening the scope of the Grosse Ile Garden Club to the State and Nation."

Guests are Always Welcome.

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