- March 6, 2025
Jill and Isin Erel, of Crescent Court South, have been recognized as Selection of the Month for April by The Garden Club at Palm Coast.
They moved to Palm Coast in 2000 from New Jersey. Jill loves plants and found gardening in Florida so different from what it is in the north that she decided to take the Master Gardener's course. She also wanted to make her garden Florida friendly so took some classes. As a result of her hard work, the landscape was certified a Florida Friendly Yard in 2012. This program recognizes homeowners who use environmentally friendly gardening and landscaping practices.
Their front yard is full of color and texture with large blooming viburnums, hollies with red berries, Jack Frost ligustrum, plumbago, bougainvillea, bird of paradise, azaleas, foxtail fern, bromeliads, crepe myrtle, a pomegranate tree and a limequat tree. The limequat has a tiny round citrus fruit with a tart lime flavor. She has also planted an unusual curled-leaf privet which has shiny dark green leaves with wavy margins, providing an oriental look. A Jerusalem thorn with its strap-like leaves that look like long, feathery streamers is ablaze with clusters of pea-like yellow flowers.
Garden Club Flower Show sells out
The African American Cultural Society was in full bloom April 13-14 with The Garden Club at Palm Coast's 15th-biennial Community Flower Show, a free event.
Twenty floral designs and nearly 300 horticulture entries, including those of club members and the public, filled the auditorium. Florida Federation of Garden Club judges presented ribbons to every entry. The plant sale of more than 800 member-propagated plants sold out on Saturday.
FCAL artists learn new form
Suminagashi in Palm Coast? No, not a new form of sushi but the use of Sumi ink on the surface of plain water for printmaking. The word suminagashi translates as "spilled ink." Dr. Tom Anastasio, an artist and professor with studios in Palm Coast and Huntington, Conn., led a standing-room-only group through a series of exercises to loosen the creative spirit.
The next free program will be Days of Knights and Princesses and Dragons, a children’s workshop for ages 6-10, to be held 2-4 p.m. April 27. All materials provided. Space is limited. Call 986-4668 to register.
