Slides, videos, DVD’s and
CD’s may be borrowed from FFGC Headquarters for CLUB PROGRAMS!
You may request a "Speaker's Directory" for a nominal fee of $1.50
which covers postage and handling. (Free if you pick it up at
Headquarters)
TO ORDER: Request material in writing at least 6 weeks prior to desired
date of use. Include with request,
borrower's name, street address and garden club name, and be sure to
specify programs number, if
CD or DVD.
Cost: $4.00 if picked up at FFGC Headquarters or $8.00 if mailed to
borrower. Make check or money order
payable to FFGC and
send with request to Headquarters.
NOTE: These programs require a projector, player or a computer to run
them. Know your resources before
requesting.
Slide Programs:
BIRDS AND NATURE
Birds of Northwest Florida Gulf Coast ( 2 boxes)
- 140 slides and tape
Florida Birds, Nests and Eggs - 93 slides
CONSERVATION
Butterflies In Harmony with Nature - 45 slides
State Parks of Florida - 50 slides
Tiger Creek in Lake Wales - 74 slides
FFGC AND ITS PROJECTS
SEEK through 2004 - 39 slides
Wekiva Youth Camp through 2004 - 77 slides (10
minute video also available)
FLOWER SHOWS/FLOWER ARRANGING
Basic Flower Arranging Workshop & Designing Your
Table 70 slides
HORTICULTURE
Hibiscus Culture 50 slides
Horticulture Scenes in England, Ireland and
Scotland 80 slides
WILDFLOWERS
Florida Wildflowers and Roadside Plants 80
slides
MISCELLANEOUS
Chrismons - Christmas Crosses (46 slides)
SLIDES
& CDs
VHS VIDEOS FOR RENT FROM HEADQUARTERS
1 Artist Gardens of Europe - 42 minutes Tour
the gardens that inspired Monet, Renoir, Rubens and Rodin in
France and Belgium, interviews with the caretakers
2. Bartram - 30 Minutes – Bartram’s travels in Florida
3. Book of Evidence Made Simple - 40 minutes, Excellent
description of how to assemble a BOE to apply for
awards. Procedure is dated, but content
remains accurate.
4. Chelsea Flower Show 1998 – Official Souvenir Video - 60
Minutes – from set-up to the winners, Capture
Chelsea’s floral colour on a grand scale
5. Chelsea, Memories of – 60 Minutes – 200 year history of the
Chelsea Flower Show. Plants, gardens, the Royal
Family visits.
6. Christmas Castles - visit some of America's finest old
estates all decked out for Christmas: Biltmore House,
NC; Hearst Castle, CA; the Newport RI
Mansions; Edsel Ford Home, MI; Lyndhurst Castle, Tarrytown NY;
and the McFaddin-Ward House in TX- 45 minutes
7. Deep South Floral Design Course - Set of 7 (Classes 1-6
and 1 review) (not the same as Florida) Lessons of
variable quality, good traditional floral
designs in the 15 minute summary at the end
8. Degradable Plastics and the Environment - 16 minutes,
Succinct look at the usefulness of biodegradable
plastics, a negative perspective
9. ECHO - World Gardening – Feed the world’s hungry
by teaching them to grow food. 9 minutes introduction,
17 minutes overview of the program
throughout the world. Test gardens, drought resistant plants
10. Florida Park Service - 12 minutes, Overview of our state park system
11. Galapagos Archipelago, Protecting the: Paradise Found - 10
minutes
12. Gardens of Australia - 45 minutes – Gorgeous: Tropical rain
forest, classic English Gardens, urban and rural.
13. Gardens of the Netherlands - 45 minutes, Three gardens including
one that is 400 years old, where tulips were
first introduced and the World Famous
Keukenhof Gardens, ‘English country’ garden style
14. Gardens of the World - Narrated by Audrey Hepburn - 50
minutes - Tour world famous formal gardens
15. Good People Doing Good Things – 16 Minutes – How individuals can
make a difference in water conservation
16. Herbs – 36 min, Crafts and Herb Culture and usage. Potpourri. How
to make herb wreaths. Herb
Identification.
17. Herbs and Crafts, Growing Connection in Therapy - 30 Minutes
- Atlanta Botanical Garden - Garden Therapy for Disabled, Adaptive
gardens, Horticulture Therapy
18. Holiday Happenings, Bob Thomas - 30 Minute, Holiday Design Program
19. Hydroponic Garden, How to Build a Floating Garden – 20 Minutes –
Includes handout – How to construct a
soil-free plant growing system with ordinary
building materials.
20. It’s A Miracle – Inspirational Miracle of the Life of a Butterfly –
Tristan’s Butterfly Garden, planted as a
memorial by a DeLand middle school
Special Education Class. 20 Minutes
21. Landscape Pitfalls - 28 Minutes 15 minutes site prep and
installation, 15 minutes maintenance, includes printed
quiz which can be duplicated Well received by
garden club members.
22. Natural Balance - Restoring Native Habitats - 20 minutes, Visually
beautiful. Features North Dakota prairies,
New Mexico irrigation, FL Everglades – get rid of
maleleuca and brazilian pepper
23. Ocklawaha, Restoring the, Florida Defenders of the
Environment - - 22 mins 1990
24. Planting the Bones of the Garden: Landscape Basics, by Penelope
Hobhouse - 20 Minutes, With Longwood
Gardens and other English gardens used
as examples, she explains the structural elements that form the bones of
a garden – where to begin planning a landscape,
defined by it’s framing plants.
25. Reducing, Reusing and Recycling - Environmental Concerns - 25
Minutes
26. Rose Beads – Recycling topic – How to make beads from rose petals –
grind, cook, shape rose beads.
27. Seasons in the Swamp - Barley Barber Swamp - 28 Minutes, Animals,
birds, butterflies, reptiles, wildflowers,
ferns, trees
28. Smokey Bear - Keep It Clean - Woodsy Owl, - 18 Minutes, Aimed at
children
29. The Summer Garden, Penelope Hobhouse - 20 Minutes, Planning color
borders using shrubs, annuals,
perennials, biennials. Also rock
gardening, vegetable plants for summer
30. Water’s Journey: The Hidden Rivers of Florida – 55 minutes. The
story of Florida’s aquifer, underwater
photography of divers in the panhandle.
Absolutely beautiful and fascinating.
31. Water Matters – 28 mins. Environmental restoration projects in FL:
Withlacoochee, Tampa Bay, Charlotte
Harbor
32. Wekiva Youth Camp 10 minutes Tour the Camp, description of
activities. Campers tell all about the camp.
33. Orchid Mystique – 45 minutes
PROGRAMS ON CD and DVD
1.CD a Powerpoint show on Wildflowers, script is built into the
program: “Florida’s Wildflowers…enhancing our native areas”
30 minutes Using native plants and wildflowers to enhance trails
and parks
2. “Wild for Wildflowers” a 30 minute CD presenting native wildflowers
that are readily available on the market that you can use in your
private landscape or in civic projects.
3. Wildlife Matters DVD Movie “Unique Landscaping Using Florida
Native Plants and Wildflowers” 28 minutes by Tracy McCommon Anti
grass, no mowing approach to landscaping.
4. Wildlife Matters DVD Movie “Florida Wildflowers”
Identifying endemic Florida Wildflowers and preserving the population
5. Water’s Journey: The River Returns DVD Follow-up to “Waters
Journey The Hidden Rivers Of Florida”, which is the first program of
the series. (We have that one on VHS – other side) Wes Skiles, a
seasoned camera man, cave diver, and explorer takes his team to the
beautiful St Johns River in Florida to document and explore how the
watershed from this river is being affected by pollution, using footage
above and below water. “Classroom Version” is 30 minutes, there is also
a one hour version on the DVD if you want more detail, “Full Length
Version”. Bonus Programs: A. The 15-minute long "Developing A Better
Way," featuring UF/IFAS extension specialist Mark Clark, visited a
small residential development in Manatee County designed with
environmentally friendly groundwater management techniques.
Also: B. Incredible Flying Inflatable Boats – 22 mins – About the boats
they used to take the video from the air. Note: All these programs are
on this one DVD.
6. New Member Orientation CD, Powerpoint. Made by Temple Terrace
Garden Club, shows the basics of belonging to a garden club in a brief
program about the organization and activities of a garden club.
7. Container Gardens for Florida by Pamela Crawford 30 Minutes
DVD – Easy plants that give the Most Color in a Container, also Color
Magic in Your Home. The companion book may be available for
purchase in our Shoppe.
8. SEEK, 2007, Powerpoint CD The script is on the slides – just
read it.
9. Florida Springs by Jason Evans, University of Florida, CD
Powerpoint.
Program one: 40 slides, Save Our Suwannee – Ichetucknee Springs- excess
nutrients, algae and water lettuce. Program two: 25 slides/photos
– Saving Florida’s Springs – Conservation Challenges and what we can
do. Easy to read summary of the plight of Florida’s Springs.
10. Camp Wekiva Orientation, CD 11 Minutes Entertaining
description of a typical week at camp, narrated by kids who attended
camp. Lots of pictures of the camp and the campers. Color
Movie, entertaining and informative.
11. A Time to Remember – DVD – One Hour - Historical design program
from 2009 FFGC Convention showing some key past presidents of FFGC and
describing their contributions to the Florida Federation of Garden
Clubs.
12. What Florida is doing to conserve Water and Educated Citizens are
Concerned Citizens – Two powerpoint programs on one CD with scripts on
paper that you read along. Very informative. By Ann Moore of St Johns
River Water Management District.
13. Florida’s Troubled Springs – Natural Gems – 20 Minutes
14. DVD - Gardens of Australia - 45 minutes – Gorgeous: Tropical
rain forest, classic English Gardens, urban and rural.
15. DVD Planting the Bones of the Garden: Landscape Basics, by Penelope
Hobhouse - 20 Minutes, With Longwood Gardens and other English gardens
used as examples, she explains the structural elements that form the
bones of a garden – where to begin planning a landscape, defined by
it’s framing plants.
15 b on the same DVD The Summer Garden,
Penelope Hobhouse - 20 Minutes, Planning color borders using shrubs,
annuals, perennials, biennials. Also rock gardening, vegetable
plants for summer
16. DVD Book of Evidence Made Simple - 40 minutes - Description of how
to assemble a BOE to apply for awards. Procedure to make the Book of
Evidence is dated (before computers), but content remains accurate.
17. DVD Poisoned Waters 10 discussion topics explored on PBS
Frontline. Cleaning up and protecting our precious Waterways.
Discussion Guide included.
18. DVD Christmas Castles - visit some of America's finest old estates
all decked out for Christmas: Biltmore House, NC; Hearst Castle, CA;
the Newport RI Mansions; Edsel Ford Home, MI; Lyndhurst Castle,
Tarrytown NY; and the McFaddin-Ward House in TX- 45 minutes
19. DVD Artist Gardens of Europe - 42 minutes Tour the
gardens that inspired Monet, Renoir, Rubens and Rodin in France and
Belgium, interviews with the caretakers
20. DVD Gardens of the Netherlands - 45 minutes, Three gardens
including one that is 400 years old, where tulips were first introduced
and the World Famous Keukenhof Gardens, ‘English country’ garden style
21.DVD Gardens of the World - Narrated by Audrey Hepburn - 50
minutes - Tour world famous formal gardens
22. DVD Holiday Happenings, Bob Thomas - 30 Minute, Holiday Design
Program
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