FACEBOOK FOR GARDEN CLUBS

Garden clubs are the last bastion of civility holding neighborhoods together. Garden clubs keep neighborhoods current. They let members know who has moved, who has just moved in, who's ill, who died, what the current crime issues are, put together open gardens, arrange for strewn trash to be picked up, plant & maintain neighborhood entries and they arrange for holiday decor. My jobsite this morning, above & below. A garden club ripe for Facebook.

Facebook was invented for garden clubs. Notes among members can be seen by all on the Wall. Picture albums can be uploaded. Decades of scrapbooks can be scanned for all to see. Garden club Facebook groups can be kept private.

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Valuable historical data is within garden club scrapbooks. Residential landscape design for the middle classes is one of the least examined areas of social history.

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Middle class landscape design says more about who we are as Americans than upper class landscape design.

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In my view, garden clubs have a responsibility to take part in social networking to leverage the work they do. Ironically, Facebook will make garden club work easier & more effective.

My garden club lecture today, above photos, was in a private home. Garden clubs are stronger when they meet in private homes.

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I do PowerPoint at larger venues and slide-shows in homes. Hydrangeas were the topic today.
Slides are superior to PowerPoint in beauty & I'll use them as long as I can.

On the way home from lecturing was, oh dear, my favorite thrift store. Above & below.

It's good shopping when a man appears & says, I'll carry these to your car. Wicker pet basket, wall sconce for the garden and another plinth for a cloche.

Below, more pictures of Hydrangea Heaven. All of the pictures at my lecture today were from Hydrangea Heaven.

Below, a dwarf hydrangea at Hydrangea Heaven.

Remember, FACEBOOK is for GARDEN CLUBS...............

Garden & Be Well, XO T