{"id":1076,"date":"2023-01-12T19:36:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2023-01-12T19:36:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:36:16","slug":"calusa-garden-club-january-meeting-features-floral-designs-by-connie-lowery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Calusa Garden Club January Meeting Features Floral Designs by Connie Lowery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island members met on Monday, January 9, 2023 at Rose Hall in the Marco Island library.\u00a0 Guest speaker was Garden Club member Connie Lowery, a National Garden Club certified Flower Show Judge, who spoke on \u201cABC\u2019s of Floral Design, from a Judge\u2019s Perspective.\u201d\u00a0 Lowery\u00a0 explained how NGC, to which Calusa Garden Club belongs, sets standards for floral designs that are entered in an NGC flower show, and how the flower show judges evaluate the floral designs. Lowery was assisted by her sister Meg Auer as she worked on mechanics to keep flowers and leaves in place in her designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pictures show Lowery demonstrating a creative design made with tall curving branches and a seed pod painted with a purple wash, a design that is viewed through a mesh tray made of lady palm leaves centered by beautiful orchids with kangaroo paws.\u00a0 Next Lowery made a design in a white round vase with an asymmetrical hole through the vase that featured manipulated aglaonema leaves and orange protea flowers, a spatial thrust design in a black vase with sansevieria spikes highlighted by pink calla lilies.\u00a0 After the demonstration, the club raffled off two designs Lowery had made prior to the demonstration, including a group of green dianthus carnations \u00a0in a flat oval vase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monique Doyle, Second Vice-President and Membership Chairman of the Club, introduced three new members at the meeting and welcomed them to the club.  The new members are Ellen Norton, Gloria Fabijanic, and Kathy Stark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island is an I.R.C. Section 501(c)3 organization and is a member of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs.  Membership is open to persons interested in horticulture, floral design and environmental matters residing 5 months or more in Collier County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island meets the second Monday of each month, October through April at Rose Hall at Marco Island Branch of Collier County Library.  If you are interested in membership, please contact the Garden Club at calusagardenclub@yahoo.com.  For updates and information, please visit the Garden Club\u2019s website, calusa.org<\/a>, or visit the Club\u2019s Facebook page Calusa Garden Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spatial Thrust Design.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Creative Design featuring monstera leaf, dianthus and manipulated aglaonema leaf.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Connie works with. hot glue .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Creative Design featuring protea flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Creative transparency design with lady palm leaves, orchids and kangaroo paw.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Connie describes spatial thrust design. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Connie Lowery demonstrates techniques, assisted by Meg Auer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Connie Lowery and Meg Auer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Members and guests watch and learn techniques from Connie Lowery at January 9 meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New Members Gloria Fabijanic, Ellen Norton and Kathy Stark are welcomed by 1st Vice President Monique Doyle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island members met on Monday, January 9, 2023 at Rose Hall in the Marco Island library.\u00a0 Guest speaker was Garden Club member Connie Lowery, a National Garden Club certified Flower Show Judge, who spoke on \u201cABC\u2019s of Floral Design, from a Judge\u2019s Perspective.\u201d\u00a0 Lowery\u00a0 explained how NGC, to which Calusa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}