Garden Club
2007-08
Officers
President –Mrs.
Sallie Walker
First Vice President of Programs –Mrs.
Jeanne Kimble
First Vice President of Membership –Mrs.
Marian Blanchard
Recording Secretary –Mrs. Joni
McClure Diaz
Corresponding Secretary –Mrs. Charlene
Baudier
Treasurer –Ms. Patti Garcia
Parliamentarian –Mrs. Laura Carman
Ex-Officio –Mrs.
Susan Bennett
"2007/2008 Lake Vista Garden Club board members (left to right)
Jeanne Kimble - First Vice President, Patti Garcia - Treasurer, Susan
Bennett - Ex-Officio, Sallie Walker - President, Joni McClure - Recording
Secretary, Laura Carman - Parliamentarian, Charlene Baudier - Corresponding
Secretary
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Founded May 1949
Club Flower: Calla Lily
Club Colors: Yellow and White
Club Motto: Gracious living through beautiful gardens
Meetings; First Friday of each month, except June, July and August
Meeting Time: 11:00 A.M.
Meeting Place: Members Homes
Club Verse: Consider the lilies how they grow; they toil not, they spin
not, and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these.
For membership information contact Kimberly Zibilich
at:
KimberlyZibilich@lakevistapropertyowners.com
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LAKE VISTA GARDEN CLUB
AWARDS PROGRAM
The Lake Vista Garden Club Awards Program promotes the beautification of Lake
Vista by providing recognition to the contributions made by individual homeowners
in landscaping their property.
Recognition is provided by bestowing awards in three categories of achievement:
the monthly “Garden of the Month,” “Le Petit Jardin”,
and the annual “Hall of Honor.”
The winners are chosen by a team of Lake Vista Garden Club members who both
walk and drive around the neighborhood during each month, and make their selection
based on established guidelines, included in the descriptions below.
Team members for 2007-2008 are the following:
Alice Lowry – Captain
Laura Carman
Vonni Contreary
Cindy Edwards
Susan Sheridan
Winning gardens are announced at Garden Club meetings and posted on the LVPOA
Message Board and Garden Club link, and identified onsite through the placement
of the official award signs.
Garden of the Month
The “Garden of the Month” designation is given each month to the “best” garden
in Lake Vista. In keeping with the unique park-like and open design of the
neighborhood, with most homes fronting both on a park or lane as well as on
the street or cul-de-sac, gardens in this category are considered from both
sides, although one side may predominate.
Criteria:
1. The lawns and gardens must have been established for a period of three
months or more.
2. Beds, trees, and shrubs are in scale and proportion to the size of the lot
and the house.
3. The garden displays variety and balance in color and greenery: not just
colorful annuals and perennials, but shades of green in horticulture and lawn.
4. The plants, trees, and lawns are healthy and well-groomed; walkways and
sidewalks are neat and clean.
5. Landscape design compliments the home and green space.
Le Petit Jardin
A small, discrete, eye-catching garden, with strong “curb appeal” (whether
on the street side or on the park/lane side of the home) that beautifully compliments
a particular feature of the home, for example, a façade or entranceway,
or a perimeter along a fence.
Criteria same as above.
Garden of Honor
A new annual award to honor consistent, ongoing, outstanding contribution
to the beauty of Lake Vista. The “Garden of Honor” designation
is awarded at the annual garden club “Installation of Officers” to
the previous “Garden of the Month” winner from the preceding two
years which best exemplifies these qualities.
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April Gardens
The Garden of the Month award for April, 2008 goes to Liz and Rene De Boisblanc for their beautifully restored and redesigned garden at 6600 Beauregard Avenue. This past winner, formerly designed around majestic old magnolia trees before Katrina, has been transformed into a predominantly bright and colorful sunshine garden, featuring multilevel beds of spring flowers and oleanders, groups of giant bird of paradise plants, palms, and other tropical plants, balancing in design interest the shadier north side of the garden, dominated by the remaining old magnolia tree and large deep green leafy tropicals.
April GOM
April GOM focal point
April GOM side
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Runner-up to the Garden of the Month – Honorable Mention – is awarded to Tara and Paul Preston for their handsome garden at 76 Tern Street. Always meticulously maintained, the long, linear garden of beautifully sculpted bushes which enhances the lane side of the house is accented by small ornamental trees and big-leafed tropical plants. This month the handsome design of contrasting shapes and textures is richly enhanced by the contrasting greens in the foliage and lawn, the deep red of the Japanese maples, the pink camellias, and the soft rose brick of the house.
April HM
April HM closeup
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Le Petit Jardin for April, 2008 is the street side entryway garden at 59 Gull Street, the home of Charles and Teri Thensted. This elegant and dramatic entryway garden, with its formal topiaries and simple red, white, and dark green color scheme -- very effective against the neutral black, white and gray tones of the façade and entrance court -- beautifully enhances this very elegant home.
April Petit Jardin
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