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Carla Gauthier, LGCF Inc. President

2025 - 2027 President
Carla S. Gauthier

​Theme: “Our Roots Run Deep at LGCF-PLANT AMERICA for Another 250 Years"

​LGCF President’s Projects-Sharing is Caring Updates
From 2026 LGCF Convention Reports


Club Membership $250 Challenge
• At our upcoming 2026 Summer Board meeting, the Membership challenge club winner will be announced. The winning club will receive $250. It’s not to late to recruit new members to your clubs. 

Hum Zinger Scholarship Fund/Garden Club Scholarship Challenge
• Hum Zinger is still flying around the room for scholarship donations. With both the club scholarship challenge and Hum Zinger we collected enough to fund our scholarships. Thank you so much to those that have so generously donated. 

Independence Celebration Oaks Series
• Our live oak registration has surpassed all expectations, what began as 76 to celebrate America’s 250th birthday has grown to 303. The winning tree will be given a special name and appear on the Homepage of our website for the rest of my term. 

LGCF Newsletter Photography Contest
• Our April Newsletter is filled with a variety of topics; we have a winner for the photo contest. Darnelle Delcambre, a member of New Iberia Garden Club. She has received $50 for her beautiful photograph of a passionflower, that appears on the Spring edition Newsletter cover. Our runner-up winner was Connie Moore, Covington Garden Club. Thank you to all the members thar submitted photographs. We are introducing another photo contest, this time highlighting completed floral designs with another $50 prize. Details are in the April Newsletter.

New 2026 LGCF Awards
• Two new awards were added to our LGCF Awards list, LGCF Award # 18B Hummingbird Award and LGCF Award #37 Patriotic Container Gardening Award. Also, several awards were revised and some removed. Please check under the Awards Section-LGCF Lists-Forms rules on the LGCF website for specific information. Also take a moment to check out the DSGC Award winners on the LGCF Website. After the NGC Convention, May 4-6, 2026, the 2025 NGC and LGCF Awards will be posted. Congratulations to all that took part.

Keep Louisiana Beautiful Partnership
• We now have an official partnership with Keep Louisiana Beautiful to replace our Cleanest City Contest. The new initiative is called “Litter Free Schools” for grades K-5. Each District, through a committee, will train club members to go into the schools to present programs provided by Keep Louisiana Beautiful. Our goal is to have all this ready by the fall. As partners we encourage all clubs to support all the programs KLB promotes for a clean and beautiful state. 

Thank you for your continued support of all our LGCF programs and activities.
​Carla S. Gauthier. LGCF President 2025-2027
“Our Roots Run Deep at LGCF-PLANT AMERICA for Another 250 Years”

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President's Gallery

Gauthier Family

LGCF Inc. Convention - April 7-9, 2025
​Holiday Inn Downtown - Alexandria

Summer Board July 2025

A Note from Carla Gauthier, LGCF President



​What an eventful Summer Board meeting! The Independence Park Botanic Garden, with those beautiful irises painted across the front, was the perfect setting for such an event. We shared ideas, made new friends, reacquainted ourselves with others, learned a few things we did not know before, laughed, all the while carrying on the business of LGCF. I wanted to thank all that attended the function and those that took on the many tasks necessary to make it perfect. As I said at the meeting, I have a new extended family now, so many of you stepped forward to help, I didn’t even have to ask, just like a real family. I look  
forward to sharing more happy times with all of you over the next two years…...Carla

Beauty of Life - Breast Cancer Awareness Garden,
West Baton Rouge Garden & Civic Club - ​October 1, 2025

West Baton Rouge Garden & Civic Club dedicated their Beauty of Life Garden honoring Breast Cancer Awareness on this first day of October. Representing Louisiana Garden Club Federation Inc. were State President Carla Gauthier and President Elect Kyle Martin, District VI Director Vicky Fannaly, Landscape Design School Chairman Clara Earl, WBR President Kim Callegan and the hardworking Geaux Native team from WBR Garden Club - Elisa Tubbs and Leigh Prather who designed and planted the many beds like this and others for pollinators, native plants, birds, and wildlife habitat. All clubs are members of Deep South Garden Clubs Inc. and National Garden Clubs Inc.

District II Fall Meeting - October 21, 2025
​Cafe Hope - Gretna

District III Fall Meeting - October 22, 2025
​Ellendale Country Club - H0uma

District VI Fall Meeting - 10/23/2025
Maritime Museum - Madisonville

District VII Fall Meeting - 10/28/2025
Historic Wolff Banquet Hall - Washington

District VIII Fall Meeting - October 29, 2025
​Pineville Community Center

DISTRICT V FALL MEETING - October 30, 2025
Delta Community College - Winnsboro

Baton Rouge Garden Club: Perfect Vision 11/1/2025

W. Baton Rouge Garden & Civic Club Christmas Tea
Home of Steele Loubiere - December 9, 2025

Winter Council - January 19, 2026

DEEP SOUTH CONVENTION - March 2026

Deep South Convention Cruise! Sassy Mauldin, Carla Gauthier, Diane Hunter

LGCF Convention - Houma - April 13-15, 2026

National Garden Club Convention May4-6, 2026