{"id":543,"date":"2021-12-22T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/?p=543"},"modified":"2022-09-12T16:53:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:53:36","slug":"calusa-garden-club-and-friends-of-the-library-host-christmas-flower-arranging-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Calusa Garden Club and Friends of the Library Host Christmas Flower Arranging Workshop &#8211; &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Submitted By:  Sara Wolf &#8211; Publicity Director<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">December 22, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, December 15, Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island members hosted a Christmas flower arranging workshop at Marco Island Library.&nbsp; The workshop is underwritten by Friends of the Library and is free to the participants who register through the Library. This year, the Library requested a Christmas-themed flower arranging workshop, while in prior years the workshop was held in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Co-Chairs of the event were Connie Lowery, designer, and Sara Wolf, logistics. The workshop began with a welcome by Brenda Rasch, librarian, and Susan Neustadt, Calusa Garden Club president.&nbsp; The participants were seated at tables where their containers, flowers, greens and decorative accents including pine cones and red berries were waiting for them.&nbsp; After instruction by Lowery, the participants began making their flower arrangements in red, white and green Christmas-themed bowls.&nbsp; The photos show the introductions by Brenda Rasch, Lowery and Wolf instructing participants, and the participants working,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island is a Section 501(c)3 organization and is a member of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs.\u00a0 Membership is open to persons interested in horticulture, floral design and environmental matters residing 5 months or more in Collier County.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"930\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/LF-930x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island\" class=\"wp-image-547\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island meets the second Monday of each month, October through April at Wesley United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.&nbsp; If you are interested in membership, please contact the Garden Club at calusagardenclub@yahoo.com.&nbsp; For updates and information, please visit the Garden Club\u2019s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/calusa.org\">calusa.org<\/a>, or visit the Club\u2019s Facebook page Calusa Garden Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"># &nbsp; # &nbsp; #<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sara Wolf and Laura Furlong took photos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island members hosted a Christmas flower arranging workshop at Marco Island Library.\u00a0 The workshop is underwritten by Friends of the Library and is free to the participants who register through the Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":544,"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-543","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\/543","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}