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EVENTS CALENDAR
Click
on the STATE column to connect
to the appropriate state garden club website for additional information
on the events listed.
The South Atlantic Region
Events Calendar is a free service
listing of any public event sponsored in any way by a member club,
district, or State Garden Club of National Garden Clubs, Inc.
If a NGC member club or state garden club is wholly or partially
sponsoring an event open to the public, whether it is a school, plant
sale,
Standard Flower Show, home tour or other public event, please send the
information to us and we will list your event.
The information should include: event name, sponsoring garden club name
(including president's name and address), location, date(s) and
time(s), any special information about the event, admission fee,
contact name and telephone number or e-mail address.
Please remember that the events MUST
be open to the general public and they MUST
be sponsored wholly or in part by a SAR or NGC entity.
Click here to e-mail
Web Manager with your event listing for the South Atlantic Region
Calendar of
Events.
APRIL 2008
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11-13
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55th Annual Azalea Garden
Tour "Gardens from the River to the Sea"
Sponsored by Cape Fear GC in Wilmington, NC
For additional information, visit www.azaleagardentour.org
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NC
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14-17
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Kentucky Convention -
Lexington, KY
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KY
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13-15
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North Carolina Convention
- New Bern, NC
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NC |
23-29
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NGC Convention - Memphis,
TN
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NGC
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30 - May 2
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South Carolina Convention
- Charleston, SC
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SC
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MAY 2008
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7
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Standard Flower Show
and "Designs by Tony Todesco" sponsored by Council of Garden Clubs of
Virginia Beach on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 from 10 am to 6 pm. Tony
Todesco floral demonstration will be held at 10 am in the Virginia
Beach Central Library Auditorium, 4100 Virginia Beach Boulevard,
Virginia Beach, VA with "Lite" lunch at the conclusion of the
program. The standard flower show, "A Step Back in Time" will be
held from noon to 6 pm at 4200 Hermitage Road, Virginia Beach,
VA. Admission $15. Call 757-486-1733 for tickets and more
information.
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21
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The Rappahannock County
Garden Club is sponsoring a Standard Flower Show on May 21 at the
Washington Fire Hall (10 Firehouse Lane, Washington, VA). Anyone can
enter the show, titled "A Garden Party". However, while you may bring a
horticulture specimen to be judged on the day of the show, you must
register by April 16 if you would like to bring a flower arrangement
(aka "design") to compete (there is no fee, but space is limited). On
the day of the show
(May 21) all entries - both design and horticulture - need to be placed
between 9:00 AM and 12:00 PM, must remain in place through the
afternoon and picked up between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm. The
show will be open to the public from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM after the
display have been judged. There is no admission fee, but the RCGC will
have a box for a "red" donation; all proceeds to go towards the
purchase of the
new tanker for Washington Volunteer Fire & Rescue. For more
details, contact Sylvie
Rowand.
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VA
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JUNE 2008
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14-15
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"Back Alley Garden Tour
and Tea" on June 14 and 15, 2008 from 11 to 4, rain or shine, in
Shepherdstown, WV sponsored in part by the Potomac-Mecklenburg
GC. Admision fee: $18. Visit www.backalleygarden.org for
more details.
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MARCH 2009
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8-10
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SAR Convention -
Blacksburg, VA
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APRIL 2009
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5-8
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West Virginia Convention -
Raleigh County, WV
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WV |
13-16
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Kentucky Convention -
Corbin, KY
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KY |
19-21
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North Carolina Convention
- Statesville, NC
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NC |
23-25
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South Carolina Convention
- Spartanburg, SC
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SC |
26-28
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Virginia Convention -
Bristol, VA
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