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Green Tree Garden Club

The purpose of Green Tree Garden Club is to promote the knowledge and love of gardening by providing education
and activities in the areas of conservation, horticulture and civic improvement.

Our club work days at Schlitz Audubon and Donges Bay Gorge are beginning soon! Click the sign-up link below to choose your days!

Schlitz Audubon

Donges Bay Gorge

sign-up for 2022 GTGC Work days - coming soon

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
~ Benjamin Franklin

Conferences that could only be offered to a few GCA club members in the past will be available to every club member at no cost. For these conferences, we are assembling a powerhouse of speakers who will share with you their lifelong accumulation of knowledge and wisdom. But, we don’t plan to just tell you or teach you; we plan to involve you in dynamic experiences that will offer you the opportunity to apply what you have heard.

HOSTED BY ZONE IV
APRIL 29-30, 2022

The GCA’s annual meeting is our one hundred nine year old tradition - and for the first time in history, every GCA club member can have a front row seat to the live events!

The eleven clubs of Zone IV are excited to welcome you to experience the GCA’s 2022 Annual Meeting, Pathways from the Palisades to the Pinelands, taking place April 29-30, 2022.

You'll join special events of the meeting live, via Zoom, while the event unfolds in New Jersey!

Please click the following link for additional information and registration:

GCA Annual Meeting 2022

Annual GTGC Holiday Workshop

On December 7, we were treated to a fabulous workshop at Laurentide Farm. We each chose a fresh green or grapevine wreath and adorned them with wild materials from the extensive perennial gardens on the property. All had a wonderful morning creative our unique holiday wreath! Special thanks to our Floral Design Chair, Susan Terris, for organizing a terrific event!

IN-CLUB FLOWER SHOW – At the Movies - November 9, 2021

At our November 9, 2022 membership meeting, we featured an At the Movies themed flower show presented by our Floral Design Chair, Susan Terris and her committee.

Teams of active and active associate members each chose a movie from varied genres and created a tablescape reflecting their team's choice. The results were spectacular!

Titanic

Sound of Music

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Mary Poppins

April 26, 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, social reformer and founder of American landscape architecture. Olmsted championed public parks and open spaces, and understood their link to the physical and mental health of communities. The GCA has embraced his work and encourages member clubs to celebrate it as well. Stay tuned for more information about GCA's initiative to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted. For additional information, click the link below to be directed to our Garden History and Design page.

Garden History & Design

Click the link below to to be directed to the National Association of Olmsted Parks (NAOP) website. It is a beautiful and well constructed website, which contains a considerable amount of very interesting information about Frederick Law Olmsted and his work.

Celebrating Fredrick Law Olmsted

Cheers to Cato Schley!!

On Tuesday, September 28th, GTGC member, Cato Schley was honored with the Zone XI Judging Award for her exceptional guidance and mentorship in the GCA judging program. GCA, Zone XI Flower Show Committee Representative, Chace Wolf, presented Cato with the award and many of our members gathered to celebrate!

Affiliates' Day 2021

On September 21, we celebrated our wonderful affiliate members with a special event in Belgium. Many of our long-time members were treated to a lecture and garden tour by Impatient Gardener, Erin Schanen, (www.impatientgardener.com) followed by a tour of Judy Moon's spectacular lakefront property and a delicious luncheon. Many thanks to our fabulous hostess Judy Moon, organizer extraordinare Cato Schley, and able assistants Sherry Bourgious, Buffy Duback, Sara Murphy, Sarah Starrett, and Mary Sullivan.

All enjoyed a beautiful fall morning at Bourner Botanical Gardens for our September 2021 membership meeting. Special thanks to Cindy Bohlen, Leslie Collings, Sally Kubly, Kathy Palmer, and Monnine Parnitzke for coordinating our scavenger hunt activity - and to Paulie McKown and Sarah Starrett for providing us with a delicious and eco-friendly breakfast during our pre-meeting social time!

Happy winners of the very challenging scavenger hunt: Sherry Bourgious, Barbara Frank, Bonnie Rohmer, and Karen Savage. The floral arrangement "prizes" were courtesy of Flowers of Dreams, the featured speaker for our January 2022 membership meeting.