Photo Galleries

The Calusa Garden Club 25th Anniversary Flower Show was held Saturday, March 8 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church’s Parish Hall.

• E-mail this gallery to a friend

Simply Silver Calusa Garden Club 25th Anniversary Flower Show Co-Chairperson Lindy Kowalczyk, on right, counted up approximately $430 for Flower Show raffle tickets sold, while Committee member Sheila Whitfield totaled up $410 in money donated to the club during the flower show.
View photo »

Just a few of the many local residents and tourists who visited the Calusa Garden Club 25th Anniversary Flower Show Saturday, March 8 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church’s Parish Hall.
View photo »

Calusa Garden Club Flower Show Section B. By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Class 5, titled Moon Over Marco, an assemblage created by Club Founder Eva Schlieser won a 1st place.
View photo »

Division I – Design, Anniversary Serenade Section A, Class 1 titled My Blue Heaven display by Linda Spell, pictured at right, won the Award of Design Excellence as well as the Designer’s Choice Award and the 1st Blue Ribbon a prerequisite for winning the aforementioned 4.
View photo »

Tommie Barfield Elementary School’s Junior Gardeners exhibit received an Award of Appreciation: Junior Gardeners, for participation in the program conducted weekly by the Calusa Garden Club members.
View photo »

Lori Fredericks was awarded the Calusa Garden Club’s first Calusa Native Plant Award for this giant inflorescence of an Egyptian Papyrus water plant of the sedge family.
View photo »

Simply Silver Calusa Garden Club 25th Anniversary Flower Show Co-Chairpersons Lindy Kowalczyk, on left, and Doris Wentland created “Gather” a pictorial and written chronological timeline through the years from 1982, when Calusa Garden Club Founder Eva Schlieser started the club with 35 members, to the present day with a membership of 60 and a waiting list of applicants eager to join..
View photo »

Calusa Garden Club Flower Show members created several opulent Container Gardens like this one that were raffled off at the end of the Flower Show.
View photo »

Calusa Garden Club President Sue Oldershaw won Designer’s Choice Award for the highest scoring exhibit Moon Over Marco in By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Section B, Classes 4, 5 and 6 at the Calusa Garden Club Flower Show.
View photo »

Division I – Design, Anniversary Serenade Section A, Class 2 titled Anniversary Waltz ( functional table for two) won a Blue Ribbon for Marianne Foley, and top honors for Linda Spell who won the Tabale Artistry Award for the finest exhibit in Section A, Classes 1, 2 ,1 and 3.
View photo »

Simply Silver Calusa Garden Club 25th Anniversary Flower Show Staging Committee Chair Martha Volino created this lovely waterfall garden tableau as well as staging the flower show.
View photo »

Simply Silver Calusa Garden Club 25th Anniversary Flower Show Co-Chairperson Lindy Kowalczyk braved the blustery weather to direct visitors to the back door when St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Parrish Hall’s entrance door had to be closed because of the high winds on Saturday, March 8.
View photo »