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The GCA is inspired by and grateful to the individuals and organizations who are helping communities devastated by Hurricane Helene. How to help? FEMA says financial contributions to trusted organizations help the most. Here's a list from Charity Navigator charitynavigator.org/discover-chari…

Create your own Botanical Photo Quilt! Last Fall, Photography Committee members of GCA member club Philipstown Garden Club (PGC) of Garrison, NY, gathered botanic materials from their yards or local woods and created a patchwork quilt of 12” by 12” images. #gardencreateadvocate

The September 18 debut of GCA in San Francisco drew a full house of sixty young professionals for Dr. Brent Hughes' presentation, "Unlikely Heroes: Sea Otters in Monterey Bay". gcamerica.org/news/get?id=47… #GardenCreateAdvocate

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose ― Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire A Plant's-Eye View of the World Photo by member of the Rye Garden Club, Zone III

Ever been mushrooming in NYC’s Central Park? Join GCA in the City and Aubrey Carter on October 20 as we explore the fabulous fungi that make the park's forest healthy and diverse. GCA in the City events are open to young, non-members. $45 registration required.

Kate Loughran, recipient of The Catherine H. Beattie Fellowship in Conservation Horticulture, has analyzed the genetic diversity of all North Carolina populations of swamp pink (Helonias bullata), a threatened wetland species in the Southern Appalachians gcamerica.org/news/get?id=47…

[...] I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. [...] - from The Brook by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Photo by a member of the Fort Orange Garden Club, Zone III. #babblingbrook #upstatenewyork #mountains #autumn

Temple of Flora by Robert John Thornton (1768-1837) is considered one of the greatest flower books ever. It is part of the GCA’s Rare Book Collection, housed at the New York Botanical Garden’s Mertz Library and can be viewed online thanks to the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The Garden Club of Denver launched a partnership with the Civic Center Conservancy in February, 2024, supporting use of public gardens to educate, inspire, and improve the lives of the people of Denver reflects their shared commitment to the community gcamerica.org/news/get?id=47…

Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations, The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together. - from Kosmos by Walt Whitman Photo by member of the GC Orange and Dutchess Counties

Native Plants are for the Birds! At Birdcraft Museum and Sanctuary, Sasqua Garden Club of Fairfield CT used a GCA Founders Fund grant to transform a woodland monoculture overrun with invasive plants into five habitat gardens which now support over 120 bird species. #nativeplants

Paul Sprowl, 2024 Zeller Summer Scholar in Medicinal Botany, says that GCA-funded studies provided “valuable hands-on experience in botanical research,” allowing for a deeper understanding of the processes involved in drug discovery and development gcamerica.org/news/get?id=47…

Before you became a cloud, you were an ocean, roiled and murmuring like a mouth. You were the shadows of a cloud cross- ing over a field of tulips. You were the tears of a man who cried into a plaid handkerchief. You were the sky without a hat. - from Cloud by Sandra Cisneros

GCA members in the Guildford Garden Club have compiled a beautifully illustrated native plant guide, “Native Plant Garden Workbook: Selecting Plants for Mid-Atlantic Gardens” which provides an extensive list of trees, shrubs, vines, ferns, and perennials native to the region.

- Learn how botanicals and sugar cane create this iconic spirit - Craft a fresh flower garnish - Create easy floral gifts This GCA in the City event is open to young, DC-based non-members. Tickets are $45. Send name and email to [email protected] for an invitation.

Brooke Prater, GCA 2024 Frances M. Peacock Scholar for Native Bird Habitat, uses radio telemetry and behavioral observations to evaluate wintering home ranges of American Kestrels in Denton County, Texas. gcamerica.org/news/get?id=47… #GCAScholarships #GardenCreateAdvocate

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - from The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Photo by a member of the Seattle Garden Club, Zone XII.

“Patriotism, Gallantry, Devotion” is engraved on the medallion in Princeton’s All Wars Memorial. The Garden Club of Princeton has tended the surrounding garden since its installation in 1925 and their dedication was recognized by the GCA with a Zone Historic Preservation Award.

Sometimes one excellent project will inspire and lead to another. This is the case of Little Rock Garden Club’s project, known as The Covey, which starting in 2018, was funded over three years with a $6,000 GCA Partners4Plants grant gcamerica.org/news/get?id=48… #Partners4Plants

Ventura Highway, in the sunshine Where the days are longer The nights are stronger than moonshine You're gonna go, I know - from Ventura Highway, from the album Homecoming, by America Photo by a member of the Carmel-by-the-Sea Garden Club, Zone XII #pacificocean #californiacoast