Pine Island Garden Gala
The 2012 Annual Garden Gala
Will be held on
Saturday February 18 2012
2012 Gala Chair is Tracy Helin
Want to be a vendor?
Want to volunteer?
Want more information?
E-Mail Tracy at gardengala2012@yahoo.com
GARDEN GALA Raffle Prizes
2012
Flight over Pine Island with Kingfisher Aerials
$200 Winn-Dixie Gift Certificate
Gift Certificates from local businesses
$50 - Carrabba’s
Oil Change, Tire rotation – St. James Automotive
Oil change – Carl’s Auto Service
BOGO Breakfast – Hobo’s Canal View Café
$20 – Ragged Ass Saloon
Cut and Style – Angles
$10 – Little Lily’s
$25 – Micelli’s
Woody’s Waterside – 4 $5 (total $20)
Low Key Tiki - $20
Micelli’s - $25
Great Licks - $10
The Island Grill - $15
“Living Chair”
by Donna Cook
Lazy Flamingo
– Bucket of Beer for a month for a year
Handmade Pillow
- Gretchen Bennett
Glass Art
- Lynne Smith
Hand-painted Rain Barrel
– Marty Kendall
3 Watercolor Flower paintings
– Shirley Glenn
Tropic Star Nature Cruise for Two
Native Plant Basket
– Bonnie Kellen & Carolynn Littleton
2 Paintings
– Marty Kendall
Hand-painted Mailbox
– Marty Kendall
Autographed Gardening Books
Cocktail Basket
– Carlene Sharples
Pen and Ink drawing
– Joanne Niven
White House Plantation
– large gardening Tub
Florida Gardening Magazine
– 1 yr. subscription
Extermacare Pest Solutions
– 1 treatment
Handmade Necklace
– Carlene Sharples
2 Yard Art items
– Island Visions
T-shirts & Gift Certificate
- Andy’s Island Seafood
and more…..
**Plus items too numerous to
mention donated by all our Gala Vendors!!
1/24/12
Pine Island Garden Club is getting ready to celebrate its 11th year anniversary of their Annual Garden Gala to be held on February 18th from 9-2. Over the past years this event has grown to be one of the best events on Pine Island and is enjoyed by people from all over.
Nearly 30 years ago, the Garden Club cleared a small piece of Lee County
property at the center of Pine Island and started the Garden Club Park.
It didn’t have much in it at first, but over the years has grown into a
beautiful nature conservancy with several different gardens full of
native and tropical plants and mature trees. Lee County added some
picnic tables and, with the constant monthly nurturing of the Pine Island
Garden Club, the park is now a respite for nature lovers, visitors, and
home to the annual Garden Gala.
Eleven years ago with fellow Club members Susie Quattro, Margie Vander Kruik and Dottie Kernaghan sat down to brainstorm ways for the
Garden Club to make money to pay for park improvements as well as
provide funds for our Pine Island community needs. It was decided to
showcase the park and have a real “old-town” style nature festival with
local nurseries and arts and crafts. It was so small at first that the music
came from a boom box stuck up in a tree! But it was so very successful
that here we are 11 years later with a huge event that everyone looks
forward to the whole year. We couldn’t be more proud to offer this free
celebration of nature to the people of Pine Island and the surrounding
cities. It’s a lovely opportunity to buy low-cost plants and herbs, shop
for art and gifts, taste scrumptious food and baked goods, meet local
organizations, and learn all about gardening from experts. Wow—we’re
proud of the only free event in town--the Gala.
The 2011 Pine Island
Garden Gala was a great success due to the hard work
of Co-Chairs
Kathleen Hecksher & Barb Peckinpaugh
and all of the members and volunteers.
Here are some fun photos from the event.
