Sarasota Garden Club is 97 years old this year (2024), and has been a Federated Club, a member of Florida Federation of Garden Clubs (FFGC), for 90 years – AND – FFGC will celebrate 100 years too.
Arbor Day: Garden clubs across the state will plant more than 400 trees on January 19, 2024, to celebrate Florida Arbor Day and the 100th anniversary of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs (FFGC).
Sarasota Garden Club plans to hold our Arbor Day tree planting ceremony at Oak Park School in Sarasota which is a school for special needs students Pre K – age 22.
We will plant a Gumbo Limbo Tree (above). Its scientific name is Bursera simaruba and is native to South Florida and the tropical offshore islands. The gumbo limbo tree is a beautiful large semi-evergreen tree whose soft, light weight and easily carved wood was used for making carousel horses before the advent of molded plastics. The showy red bark peels back – reminiscent of sunburned skin – which gives gumbo limbo the nickname of the “Tourist Tree.”
Livy Haynes, SGC Arbor Day Chairman says: “We think the students at Oak Park will enjoy this very interesting tree in their school yard.”
JOIN US AT OAK PARK SCHOOL, 7285 Hand Rd., Sarasota
FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2024
DIRECTION TO THE SCHOOL: 7285 Hand Rd – Google Maps
For more information contact Sue Angle, sueangle000@gmail.com or (941) 350-9784