Destin Garden Club with Gina Jogan
Gina Jogan gave an informative and entertaining presentation at the Destin Garden Club’s June meeting.
Jogan’s biography is long and full of praise for her achievements. Among other things, she has been a lecturer in design and flower show procedures for the flower show schools of the National Garden Club, NGC, since 2002, an accredited master judge for flower shows, a garden consultant and a landscape designer: Master Emeritus in both fields.
She was a presenter of Creative Floral Arrangers of America and served as district director from 2003 to 2005. She has also served on the Pensacola Flowers Show and Florida Federation of Garden Clubs judging boards, won the Floral Designer’s Award, and was the Pensacola Federation of Garden Clubs’ Gardener of the Year.
Jogan is a graduate of Florida State University and her designs have been published in articles, magazines, calendars and online. She also enjoys reading, traveling, crafting, sewing quilts and spending time with her grandchildren.
“I just love what I do and want to share that joy with others. I give as many programs as possible and try to accept all invitations that fit into my calendar,” said Jogan.
She visited the Destin Club and presented three floral designs using garden art from her landscape. With a basket in front of her, Jogan began her magic.
“This will be primarily a green plant work, with just a few flowers added at the end,” Jogan said.
She started with cedar vine hanging at either end of the basket. Next came Florida anise, which smells like licorice when crushed – more green with forsythia, wild blueberry, stone yew and gardenia with rose hips. Nandina was added to create a delicate and lacy feel. Jorgan takes five cast iron leaves and folds them into a blossom, placing them slightly off-center to the left.
As the basket filled up, she found room to add loropetalum, small azalea leaves, and dwarf cyperus. To top off this arrangement, Jorgan placed five white crepe myrtle blossoms.
Next is a cascading arrangement for a tall vase, but the arrangement does not go up, but very low and to the sides. Jorgan starts with outward-leaning foliage consisting of weigela with its small white flowers and Boston ferns. The center is filled with small pieces of wax myrtle, cedar and variegated pittosporum.
The final arrangement is asymmetrical, using tall oleaster branches intertwined for height. The lower section is planted with sword ferns to fill the area with green peace lilies arranged outward and upward.
The next meeting of the Destin Garden Club will be on September 17th at the Destin Library.
In other news, the Destin Garden Club has awarded the $1,000 scholarship to Casey McClaine, who has a 3.6 GPA in her plant science major with a minor in health. She plans to start a business that designs and builds edible landscapes on her clients’ properties.
The Japanese Garden at the Destin Library is complete and is truly impressive with the moon gate and the 450 pound rocks that look like they came from outer space. It is an amazing addition to the city of Destin. Garden Club member Velda Dougherty had the idea of the Japanese Garden from the beginning when there was little more than dirt and her idea of what it could be. Dougherty was honored by our President Anne Collins with a bottle of liquor called Midori. Midori is the Japanese word for “green.”
This column was written by Laura Hall, a member of the Destin Garden Club.
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