District II
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2025 - 2027 District II Director
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Director-Elect -
Secretary - Charlene Ardoin (Covington)
Treasurer - Nancy Tizzard (River Ridge)
Parliamentarian - Dottie Hebert (River Ridge)
Cleanest City Contest -
Chairman Finance Committee -
District Nominating: Elizabeth McDougald (Chair), Patricia Ortalano, Marlene Alvarez
Secretary - Charlene Ardoin (Covington)
Treasurer - Nancy Tizzard (River Ridge)
Parliamentarian - Dottie Hebert (River Ridge)
Cleanest City Contest -
Chairman Finance Committee -
District Nominating: Elizabeth McDougald (Chair), Patricia Ortalano, Marlene Alvarez
Federated Garden Clubs in District II
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Acres of Green Garden Club
Mary Crumb, President (Metairie) DEEDS AND DOINGS Aurora Plantation Gardeners Barbara Hanson, Co-President (Metairie) Dana Schmitt, Co-President (Metairie) Belle Chasse Garden Club Ann Oustalet, President (New Orleans) Colonial Garden Club Margaret Seale, President (Harahan) Country Club Home Gardeners Nikki Kann, Co-President (Metairie) Barbara Clinton, Co-President (Metairie) Fleur de Lis Garden Club Kathie Harrell, President (New Orleans) Grand Isle Garden Club Ronald Sampey, President (Grand Isle) Green Thumb Garden Club Letitia Lemairie, President (Folsom) Lake Forest Garden Club Diane Baur, President (River Ridge) |
Lake Terrace Garden Club
Judy Nides, Co-President (New Orleans) Pam Flotte, Co-President (New Orleans) Lakeview Botany Guild Debra Johnson, President (New Orleans) DEEDS AND DOINGS Metairie Ridge Garden Club Karen Whitaker, President (Metairie) DEEDS AND DOINGS Petals of North Bridgedale Garden Club Pat Wilson, Co-President (Metairie) Cindy LeCount, Co-President (Metairie) River Ridge Garden Club Ricki Rigby, President (Harahan) DEEDS AND DOINGS Riverside Garden Club Jeannie Bourgeois, President (Gramercy) Shady Oaks Garden Club Andree Gernhauser, President (River Ridge) DEEDS AND DOINGS WEBSITE Terrytown Garden Club Marlene Alvarez, President (Terrytown) WEBSITE Twilight Gardeners Terry Pizzalato, President (Gretna) |
INVITATION TO THE 2027 CONVENTION SKIT
District II Hostesses - From Courtyards to Coastline
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Jefferson Parish Council - May 26, 2026
Held at Vincent's Italian Cuisine in Metairie, Luncheon Chairman were Charlene Ardoin and Stephanie Kenning. A PowerPoint featuring activities of JPCGC was shown throughout the meeting.
Shelly Ferro of "Urban Tree" presented a program on the planting of small trees.
Shady Oaks Garden Club won the Club Achievement Award.
The Council's top award "the Marie Bradburn Individual Lifetime Achievement Award" was presented to Elizabeth McDougald.
Shelly Ferro of "Urban Tree" presented a program on the planting of small trees.
Shady Oaks Garden Club won the Club Achievement Award.
The Council's top award "the Marie Bradburn Individual Lifetime Achievement Award" was presented to Elizabeth McDougald.
Jefferson Parish Council - April 28, 2026
Cutting the ribbon of the Standard Flower Show sponsored by Jefferson Parish Council of Garden Clubs and New Orleans Federated Council at City Park's Pavilion of the Two Sisters are, from left, Margaret Seale, Colonial; Mary Ellen Miller, Shady Oaks; Eileen Braud., River Ridge; Diana Offner, Shady Oaks.
The show was titled America 250 in honor of this year's celebration of 250 years of independence. Members entered categories of floral creativity, horticulture and photography. |
Margaret Seale, president of Colonial Garden Club, was the speaker at the April meeting of the JPCGC. Her very informative program was about the evolution of the earth and its creatures with the main topic being on saving species of the butterfly and moths. She had members assist her in the program by experimenting how different soils and plants pollute the earth. Following the program, she gave a handbook she'd made to each of them with all of her scientific knowledge in her program displayed.
The Jefferson Parish Council held its Memorial Service to honor members of families of garden clubs and also garden club members who passed away during the year.
This is Betty Murray, second from right, a garden club member and her family, whose daughter passed away in 2025, a victim of domestic violence. |
The Jefferson Parish Council of Garden Clubs held a Memorial Service to honor members and family members who passed away during the year. Mistress of Ceremonies was Mary Crumb, president of Acres of Green Garden Club. She presented a yellow rose to someone who represented the family or the Club of the deceased. All present joined in prayer in remembrance of those being memorialized.
The names called by Mary Crumb are Kay Allen and Betty Spurlock, members of Acres of Green, and Louis Blanchard, brother of Mary Crumb; Elaine Ory, mother of Nancy Bird; Joyce Boudreaux, member of Twilight and Creative Planters; Willie La Nasa, member of Lake Vista Garden Club; Lois Seibert of Terrytown Garden Club; Jackie Ciuffi of River Ridge Garden Club; Mary McGinnis, mother of Ricki Rigby; Pat Timmons, sister of Valerie Moscona; Kathleen Murray, daughter of Betty Murray; Jo Ann Christopher, founder of Shady Oaks Garden Club; Vivian Neely of Shady Oaks Garden Club; and Evelyn Heinemann of Shady Oaks Garden Club.
The names called by Mary Crumb are Kay Allen and Betty Spurlock, members of Acres of Green, and Louis Blanchard, brother of Mary Crumb; Elaine Ory, mother of Nancy Bird; Joyce Boudreaux, member of Twilight and Creative Planters; Willie La Nasa, member of Lake Vista Garden Club; Lois Seibert of Terrytown Garden Club; Jackie Ciuffi of River Ridge Garden Club; Mary McGinnis, mother of Ricki Rigby; Pat Timmons, sister of Valerie Moscona; Kathleen Murray, daughter of Betty Murray; Jo Ann Christopher, founder of Shady Oaks Garden Club; Vivian Neely of Shady Oaks Garden Club; and Evelyn Heinemann of Shady Oaks Garden Club.
LGCF CONVENTION, DISTRICT III - April 13-15, 2026
SUNSHINE ON THE BAYOU
AWARDS RECEIVED AT THE LGCF CONVENTION
Jefferson Parish Council - February 24, 2026
Jefferson Parish Council - December 2025
River Ridge Garden Club
Jefferson Parish Council - October 2025
Acres of Green Garden Club and Colonial Garden Club hosted the October meeting of the Jefferson Parish Council of Garden Club. Pictured from left are Coleen Landry, Rosalie Edwards, Mary Crumb (President of Acres of Green) all of Acres of Green and Margaret Seale, president of Colonial Garden Club, and Mary Beth Bornholdt of Acres of Green.
DISTRICT II FALL MEETING - October 21
Cafe Hope - Timberlane Country Club, Gretna
Paul Soniat Outing - June 2025
Several members of District II gathered for a concert at the Pavilion of the Two Sisters by Paul Soniat, former Director of the New Orleans Botanical Garden. Paul entertained the audience with songs written by him about the culture of New Orleans in his unique sound. He also invited all of us to an upcoming play that will feature these songs and more --
Mary Ellen Miller
Mary Ellen Miller
JPCGC Inc. Installation, Awards Banquet May 20, 2025
Chateau Estates Golf & Country Club
New Orleans Judges Council of District II decorate the urns at the New Orleans Museum of Art
Memorial Service - Jefferson Parish Council - 4/22/2025
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Butterfly Release after Memorial Service at Council Meeting, courtesy of Kathy Bedenbaugh, Coleen Perilloux Landry
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JPCGC accepting rose in memory of their loved ones. Presentation made by Mary Crumb, Memorial Ceremony Chairman
Hostesses JPCGC hostesses April 25 Coleen Perilloux Landry, Millie Quick, Sharlene Olejnik, Mary Crumb and Mary Bornholdt
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Co-Presidents Val Moscona and Elizabeth McDougald welcome speaker (center) Michelle Collier who spoke on butterflies.
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Art in Bloom - March 2025
RIVER RIDGE GARDEN CLUB MEMBERS
TOURING ART IN BLOOM
BOTTOM LEFT: STEPHANIE KENNING WITH
HER ARRANGEMENT
BOTTOM RIGHT: COLEEN PERILLOUX LANDRY'S
ARRANGEMENT
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Jefferson Parish Council Meeting - March 2025
LGCF chairman from Jefferson Parish -- Left to Right:
Donna Clark, LGCF Youth Activities Chairman; Elizabeth McDougald, LGCF Corresponding Secretary;
Mary Ellen Miller, Flower Show Judges Council President and Flower School School Chairman;
Donna Cline, LGCF Newsletter Editor; Patricia Ortalano, LGCF President; Susan Finney, LGCF District
II Director; Coleen Perilloux Landry, Live Oak Society Chairman.
Donna Clark, LGCF Youth Activities Chairman; Elizabeth McDougald, LGCF Corresponding Secretary;
Mary Ellen Miller, Flower Show Judges Council President and Flower School School Chairman;
Donna Cline, LGCF Newsletter Editor; Patricia Ortalano, LGCF President; Susan Finney, LGCF District
II Director; Coleen Perilloux Landry, Live Oak Society Chairman.
LGCF President Patricia Ortalano displays two blue ribbon she received recently in competition with other state presidents. One was a timed flower arrangement. BRAVO Louisiana.
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Co-presidents Elizabeth McDougald and Val Moscona, and Program Chairman Stephanie Kenning welcome the March Guest Speaker, Katherine Gividen, a Master Naturalist, who spoke on "Foraging for Food in Louisiana". She demonstrated all the weeds that are edible and even gave the members sips of tea made from a holly tree.
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Jefferson Parish Council Meeting - February 2025
Hostesses - River Ridge Garden Club
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Patsy Swanson, Ricki Rigby, Linda Gregson, Susan Finney, Kathy Bedenbaugh, Diane Baur, Becky Giardina, Stephanie Kenning, Elizabeth McDonald, Charlene Ardoin, Mary Ann Kennedy, Kay Johnston, Jan Treuting, Lillie Latham, Valerie Moscona, Gail Boling
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Above left: Stephanie Kenning and her design of a Mardi Crown using plant material.
Above right: Topic-History of Tammany Trace by Cheri Ben-lesau
Above right: Topic-History of Tammany Trace by Cheri Ben-lesau
Happy, Happy Birthday, Coleen Perilloux Landry
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Jefferson Parish Council Meeting - January 2025
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Left: Stephanie Kenning's Arbor Day presentation
Above: Coleen Perilloux Landry's Eagle presentation Below: Gold Star Marker in France |
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The Shady Oaks Garden Club was the host for the Jefferson Parish Council of Garden Clubs January meeting at the Lafreniere Park Foundation Center. Speakers were Stephanie Henning who spoke on Historical Trees and the importance of Arbor Day and Coleen Perilloux Landry who presented a Power Point show of her photographs of wild birds taken locally.
Donna Clark introduced the schedule for the Flower Show "Circus, Circus" which will be held April 5-6 at the Pavilion of the Two Sisters in City Park. She urged everyone to participate in floral design, horticulture or photography.
The co-presidents Val Moscana and Elizabeth McDougald gave reports on the successful and beautiful dedication of the Blue Star Marker at Bucktown Harbor earlier in the month. Coleen Landry told the group that the Jefferson Parish Council is the only group in the United States to install a Blue Star and a Gold Star Marker outside of the United States, referring to the 75th Anniversary of Normandy when JPCGC participated in ceremonies in Normandy to dedicate the Markers.
JPCGC members will hold a Field Trip in February to Mizell's Camellia Hill Nursery in Folsom.
Donna Clark introduced the schedule for the Flower Show "Circus, Circus" which will be held April 5-6 at the Pavilion of the Two Sisters in City Park. She urged everyone to participate in floral design, horticulture or photography.
The co-presidents Val Moscana and Elizabeth McDougald gave reports on the successful and beautiful dedication of the Blue Star Marker at Bucktown Harbor earlier in the month. Coleen Landry told the group that the Jefferson Parish Council is the only group in the United States to install a Blue Star and a Gold Star Marker outside of the United States, referring to the 75th Anniversary of Normandy when JPCGC participated in ceremonies in Normandy to dedicate the Markers.
JPCGC members will hold a Field Trip in February to Mizell's Camellia Hill Nursery in Folsom.
January Hostesses: Shady Oaks Garden Club
