This contains a list of downloadable documents including NGC School Guidelines, Zoom Guidelines, Refresher Guidelines, Directories, and necessary forms. 

DESCRIPTION:

The Basic 1-6 Floral Design Classes are a wonderful opportunity to learn design skills for home and flower shows.  The instructors teach you basic line designs to more advanced floral designs including table designs and those using accessories and features.  You learn proper skills in handling different plant materials.  You also learn when to cut and how to harden the plant materials so they will retain moisture longer.   This is a hands-on opportunity with skills you learn and then use in a design to take home.  Your instructors are all Flower Show Judges what have been certified to teach these skills.

The Advanced Floral Design Classes 7-9 are a continuation of learning how to use your newfound skills with more advanced design types and techniques. 

Contact: Jan Griffin            Floral Design Unit Descriptions

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This hands-on, make-it-and-take-it-program affords your club a wonderful opportunity for attracting new members, raising funds, endless creativity, community involvement, sharing your talents, appealing to young and old, men, women, and kids. Combine crafts with flowers, fellowship, and, most of all, FUN! Contact Emilie Palmieri               

“Digging It!” is Florida’s NGC Award winning Horticulture Study Series covering topics such as Nomenclature, Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, Containers, Arboreal, Fruits and Vegetables, Vines and others. This program has 14 optional topics to trade in and out to suit your area and interests. After the first course, the others can be taken in any order. Individual topic outlines can be used for garden club, junior gardener or horticulture therapy programs. This is a hands-on workshop, informally formatted program with a certificate upon completion of all 10 lessons in two years’ time. A General Guide and a 171 page Instructor’s Manual are available for purchase. Contact your District Horticulture Chairman to find out if and when a “Digging It!” series is being held in your area. 

State Coordinator: Tina Tuttle

Short Course North is a two-day event held yearly in the Florida Panhandle every August. It is an exclusive FFGC educational opportunity with speakers, horticulture and design, workshops, field trips, food, vendors and door prizes.  A variety of topics related to gardening, landscaping, and the environment are explored. Speakers represent IFAS, area growers, and other knowledgeable plant experts. 

Chairman: Joanne Connor                                    

Tropical Short Course is an annual two-day educational event sponsored by FFGC and District X. This course incorporates speakers on the environment, gardening, landscape and floral design. There also is a Chinese auction and vendors. Those attending the event come away from Tropical Short Course with new information, ideas and most important a desire to reach out to fellow gardeners, and friends about what they learned.

Chairman: Maria Wolfe

Annual FFGC/UF event held in Gainesville. Leaders in horticulture and design speaking throughout the event.  Qualifies as a Tri-Refresher.

Chairman:  Carol Binello

Mission Statement:

“To teach environmental literacy to cherish, protect, and conserve the living earth.”

NGC Environmental School (ES) was developed to teach the science behind many of today’s environmental issues, most of which are quite complex. How people can make a significant effect in their homes and communities is stressed.

The school consists of a series of four two-day sessions, focusing on the living earth, land, air and water issues.  Particular emphasis is placed on regional issues as they relate to the land, air, water, plants, and animals.  This is particularly important in Florida with its unique environment and geology.  The curriculum is constantly reviewed and periodically updated to reflect new concerns and changing situations.   The required field trip in each course is an opportunity to directly explore the special interests and issues for that region.

Instructors are professionals in their fields or have the requisite higher education to make the classes interesting, relevant, and meaningful.

FFGC State School Chairman:  Jennifer Barber 

Download the NGC Ecology Workbook

Come learn about flower shows and flower show judging. The horticulture will be something we can grow and show. The designs will be exciting and fun.  Those attending will learn the basics of a Flower Show Schedule and all about the new shows we can hold in our clubs.  It is always more fun to bring a pal and learn together.  

But that isn’t all, if your district is interested in growing, look at holding a flower show school.   Becoming a Flower Show Judge is exciting, rewarding and educational.  Contact the Flower Show Schools Chairman for all the information you will need to hold a Flower Show School.

FFGC State Chairman: Susan.Hillson@gmail.com