2 Dozen Roses - $44.95 Yellow Roses indicate Friendship and Joy.     With this selection you receive two dozen elegantly wrapped Premium Long Stem Yellow Roses (18"-24"), with Filler Greens, a personalized card, and rose care information.     Your order is wrapped in decorative cellophane and carefully hand packed on ice in an attractive, fully insulated gift box, and shipped via Overnight Courier.

Bold & Beautiful - $36.95     This boldly colored bouquet is sure to fit any occasion! Six Mixed Roses along with three bright Gerbera Daisies and three stems of Mixed Asiatic Lilies are accented with greenery and will brighten any decor. Also included are a quality message card, floral preservative and flower care information. Your flowers come elegantly wrapped in a decorative sleeve and are hand packed in an attractive gift box.

Bountiful Basket - $79.95     Soft pink roses nestle with lilies and other dainty blossoms to create this abundant garden basket bouquet. This all-around arrangement is approximately 13 inches h x 12 inches w.    Based on season and availability this selection may contain: Roses, Veronica, Stock, Lilies, Candy Tuft, Thistle, Curly Willow, Fox Fern, Pittosporum.

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Alabama

Date Of Statehood: December 14, 1819

Capitol: Montgomery

Slogan: Unforgettable

Web Site: http://www.alabama.gov/

State Flower: Camellia Camellia japonica

Gardening in Alabama:
    Alabama is home to the Garden Club of Alabama www.gardenclubofalabama.com What follows is a history of the Garden Club of Alabama, as related by President  Mary Fay Crumly to the Fall, 1996 District Meetings.

“The Garden Club of Alabama, Inc. was established April 28, 1932 at the Jefferson Davis Hotel in Montgomery. Mrs. Charles Bricken of Montgomery was the first President.  Membership was open to all Garden Clubs with 15 or more active members.  Dues were 10 cents per member.  Alabama was Federated in 1934, with 708 clubs and 13,817 members.  By this time, the country was in a Great Depression and Garden Clubs were struggling for mere existence.  However, over 100 people attended the first State Convention in Mobile.

  The Garden Club's goal was to get a stock law.  During the 1934-35 administration the first Judge's School was held.  In this era, Alabama adopted the goldenrod as the State Flower, but some called it a weed that had been defined as "a plant out of place."

  On GCA's 10th Anniversary in 1942 Mrs. R. J. Woods of Mobile became the Club's President.  With the onset of World War II, the world was changing, and GCA was changing with it.  Fearing that the effects of war would interfere with Garden Clubbers, some asked Mrs. Woods about disbanding for the duration.  She said, "No, members could better serve their country through organization."

  Garden Clubbers participated in many lines of war work:  Victory Gardens were planted; clubs held Victory Garden Harvest Shows; clubs supplied flowers, plants and shrubs to Army and Navy hospitals; military posts were landscaped.  Mrs. Woods, Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Wheeler lead the organization in patriotic projects:  the purchase of an ambulance; raising $2500 for the Red Cross's overseas mission; caring for British graves; planting thousands of bulbs and trees at Northington General Hospital in Tuscaloosa.  Westwood Garden Club of Birmingham planted 80,000 daffodil bulbs in large V-shaped beds (for victory) along Highway 78 between Jasper and Birmingham.  Many clubs had canning kitchens and held supper parties for soldiers.  Everyone visited hospitals.

  The first issue of Hortensia won a First Place Award from National in 1942.

  In 1944-45 Alabama was the first state to celebrate "Bird Day."  The governor proclaimed a state Bird Day each year.

  In 1950-52 Mrs. Edwards started the Christmas Lighting program in Selma, and it spread over the state of Alabama.

  The Helen Keller Gardens at Talladega State School for the Blind was planted and won the Bronze Seal Award from NCSGC in 1960. The Garden Clubs of Phenix City, for $15,000, had the distinction of owning the only Garden Club House in the state.

The Garden Club of Alabama, Inc. was legally incorporated during the 1961-63 term, and had its first State Flower Show "Alababma's Debut." In 1965 a table was placed in Kellogg Hall as a gift from The Garden Club of Alabama, Inc., honoring Mary Louise Merriwether.

  As you can see, The Garden Club of Alabama ladies have always been busy and caring.  We should be proud to belong to such a distinguished heritage of service. Every member of our Garden Club of Alabama family should work for our goals.”