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HOW
TO JOIN A CLUB
1. Contact
the Federation Office at 410-296-6961 or fgcofmd@aol.com
2. Give your name, address, phone number and E-mail address so
the Federation Secretary can relay the information to the current Membership
Chairman. Also state if you are
interested in a club that meets in the daytime or an evening.
3. Our
Garden Clubs are located within Districts determined by location. District I is the Eastern
Shore-Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s, Somerset, Talbot,
Wicomico and Worchester Counties. District
II is Southern Maryland-Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George’s and
St. Mary’s Counties. District III
-Baltimore and Harford Counties. District
IV -Baltimore City. District V
is Western Maryland-Allegany, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, Howard, Montgomery
and Washington Counties.
4. The individual Club Bylaws determine their membership quota
as well as meeting schedules and site.
Those that meet in public facilities are less limited. Our State Membership Chairman will check
clubs for club membership requirements, according to their Club Bylaws, and then
contact you.
5. Club size can be as small as twelve members or as large as a
hundred or more. This is determined by
the individual Club Bylaws. Several
clubs meet in the evening because of working members but most schedule daytime
meetings. Yes, men do belong to garden
clubs, too.
6. Would you be willing to start a garden club within your
neighborhood, retirement community, at your local library or even at your
Senior Center? This is a wonderful way
to share an interest in gardening, floral design, conservation and landscape
design with others and develop friendships.
If so, try to arrange for ten to twelve interested persons and then the
State Membership Chairman and several Board Members will meet with the group to
explain the simple steps for forming a garden club. We have members that are most helpful by
providing programs for newly formed clubs.
7. It is an opportunity to belong to a
volunteer group of over 4100 members in Maryland helping to beautify local
communities, work with youth, protect the environment, and stimulate our minds
by courses on floral design, horticulture and landscaping. Join us!
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