April | 2019 | Garden Club of the Sandhills

Hartley Fitts came up with a great idea. Let’s have a Blooming Art show here in the Sandhills featuring art from our homes and floral arrangements interpreting that art by members, other garden club members and local artists. It was held at Campbell House and was an unqualified success! We literally had hundreds of attendees and the entire community was buzzing with great feedback.

Dolores was kind enough to capture pictures of the entire event, and they follow!

We gathered the designers together for a group shot! What a talented group

Linda and Ellen in front of Linda’s beautiful painting

The event was all Hartley’s idea and she submitted multiple pieces… and matched them with her colorful blouse. Thank you Hartley for all the work!

The artist of our terrific promotional poster, our own Ann-Boyd, poses with her two works of art!

Anne Holmes used orchids and hydrangeas with her boat sculpture to interpret her painting.

Diana’s arrangement was absolutely angelic

Discorded Rhythms was absolutely stunning – in art and flowers

We hear Elaine’s talented husband helped out with this lovely spring arrangement over the fireplace! It was a “wow”!

Heath at Hollyfield Design depicted this luscious peacock in flowers.

Jan’s whimsical interpretation was a delight

Leslie’s interpretation of the amazing Einstein portrait was amazing in it’s own right!

The picture doesn’t fully capture the beauty of Linda’s second arrangement… The sculpture AND the basket were wonderful works of art!

Marilyn Grube provided three wonderful and colorful arrangements – each in a very special container.

Matt Hollyfield reversed things for us … putting the flowers in a frame on the wall… his creativity knows no bounds

Nancy’s gorgeous use of color in this arrangement interpreting the wonderful “hunt” painting was spectacular

Nancy’s hunt painting – isn’t this a glorious fall day?

Furniture can be art too! Especially this amazing needlepoint chair and the arrangement interpreting it from Richard and Donna

The smallest picture in the show was marvelously interpreted by Dolores Muller!

Another of Marilyn’s wonderful arrangements … marvelous use of South African Protea, forsythia and hydrangeas.

We had the good fortune to have our meeting room located directly next to the gardens which were awaking in beautiful fashion. If you didn’t get to attend the meeting, do stop by and walk in the lovely gardens.

We had wonderful and plentiful refreshments in a lovely Easter theme provided by Sharon Lawson, Diana Meyer and Peggy Sarvis.

Our program was presented by Dr. Michael Rowland, who is a retired general surgeon and now a local organic farmer. His presentation was “The Circle of Life: How Soil, Food and Human Nutrition are All Intertwined. You are what you eat. Healthy Soil, Healthy Food = Healthy People”. We were totally engaged in his very educational presentation on how much of our soil has been depleted of key nutritional components, and what to do about it.