Flower Power. It’s bursting out all over. If you’d like to get in touch with your flowery side, Windsor Garden Club has two new Garden Get-together groups you can join, and one fun event coming up in June.
Windsor Garden Club started a Slow Flower Group last fall, and it’s really started blossoming this spring. (Pun intended. Sorry.) The Slow Flower Group is for people who want to learn more or enjoy growing flowers and arranging flowers. Activities and workshops center on both. The group meets the first Sunday of the month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., usually at the Town Green Community Garden – or at a member’s home when the weather is cold and rainy.
The group’s most recent activity – open to the public – was a Wearable Art workshop. Professional designers and enthusiastic home crafters taught participants how to make floral wreaths, corsages, and other traditional wearable floral arrangements. If you missed it but would like to attend future Wearable Art Workshops, get on the Windsor Garden Club emailing list by sending your contact info to of******@wi***************.org“>of******@wi***************.org.
Succulents aren’t exactly flowers, but some of them do flower, and they’re holding on to their title as the “it” plant right now. Succulent sympathizers have banded together to create the WGC Succulent Group. The group meets the second Sunday of the month, usually at the Town Green Community Garden, or in members’ homes during inclement weather.
Group members get together to swap succulent cuttings, learn how to propagate the little critters, and craft. In July, they’ll be making hypertufas – hand-made artsy concrete containers to fill with succulents. If you’d like to hang out with the succulent group or get on the list for their workshops, email the WGC officers.
The workshops are free — as are all Windsor Garden Club workshops and meetings. (The club asks for RSVPs ahead of time so it can buy sufficient materials for workshop project participants.) The club is a nonprofit organization that’s all about getting people in Windsor to love gardening, along with community beautification, garden and environmental education, and SRJC and SSU scholarships for local horticulture, bio and ag oriented students.
About that flower power event: it’s the annual “Art in Bloom” Windsor Community Art & Garden show. WGC manages the flower show at the annual event, and is looking for entrants. Entering is free, and “Best of Show” and “First Place” winners in the show’s two categories win a $50 gift certificate to Sequoia Floral International, the big floral design supply warehouse in Santa Rosa. (Sequoia Floral has nicely sponsored prizes for the Windsor Flower Show and offered 15 percent discounts on design supplies for entrants for the past three years.)
The categories are floral arranging and succulent arranging. Entry forms must be mailed in to the Windsor Garden Club no later than May 26. (Details and mailing instructions are on the form. Go to www.windsorgardenclub.org/news to find the form, print it, and mail it.) Floral entries are due by noon at the Huerta Gymnasium at the Town Hall complex on June 1. Judging takes place that afternoon, and there’s a “gala reception,” Windsor style, at the art and flower show that evening. The show runs June 2-4 at the gym, and is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Slow Flower and Succulent groups and the flower show are nice, low-key hometown groups and easy places to learn more about gardening and flowers. We’d love to see you at any of them. To learn more, visit the Windsor Garden Club website at www.windsorgardenclub.org.
