Library Display
Members of The Bartram Garden Club, Inc. place complimentary floral designs in the foyer of the Fernandina Beach Branch of the Nassau County Public Library System on a rotating basis during every month. This community service project allows members to hone their floral design skills in a fun and relaxed venue, and at the same time, introduces the general public to specific plant materials and mechanics commonly used in floral design art. As an additional educational tool, all plant material is identified with the common and scientific botanical names.
To see previous library designs, visit the Library Designs 2017 - 2019 page and Library Designs 2020 - 2022 page.
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April 2024
“Tequila Sunrise”, by Frances Ambrose
“April Fools”, By Linda Martin
Plant materials: Sago Palm (Cycas revoluta), Carolina Jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens), Asparagus Fern (Asparagus aethiopicus), Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus).
Don’t be fooled by a plant’s common name.
Sago palm is not a palm. It’s a cycad, an ancient group of plants common during the Jurassic Period.
Carolina jasmine, sometimes called false jasmine, is not jasmine. It’s a member of the Gelsemiaceae family. True Jasminum belong to the olive family, Oleacea
Asparagus fern is not a fern. It’s related to vegetable asparagus (Asparagus officinalis). This plant is common but should be used with caution in the Florida garden as it is easily spread by seed and may become invasive.
March 2024
“Happy St. Patrick’s Day,” by Karen Reily.
Plant material: Dracaena sanderiana “Lucky Bamboo,” Pittosporum tenuifolium “Variegatum,” Serenata repens “Saw Palmetto.”
March 2024
“Top o’ the Mornin’”, by Kathleen Lunman
March 2024
“Spring… is just around the corner,”
by Kathleen Lunman
February 2024
“Before the Flags,” design by Linda Martin
Plant materials: Coontie (Zamia integrifolia), Live Oak (Quercus virginiana), Red Maple (Acer rubrum), Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria), Wax Myrtle (Myrica ceritera), Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides), Resurrection Fern (Pleopeltis polypodioides).
At the time of European contact, the Timucua indigenous people occupied over 19,000 square miles in northeast and central Florida and southeast Georgia. The native trees and plants of the area were vital to their way of life. Trees from the maritime forest were crafted into dugout canoes. The women used "tree hair" (what we call Spanish moss today) to make skirts. A ceremonial drink was brewed from the leaves of the native yaupon holly tree and they baked bread made from the root of the coontie plant.
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February 2024
Display by Marianne Salas
January 2024
Gourdeous, by Beverly Williams.
Features dried wild onion blooms (Allium), and dried gourds staged in a
gooseneck lamp.
January 2024
Celebrating a World of Music, The Universal Language, by Karen Reily.
Plant materials: Red pinecone ginger- Zingiber zerumbet, Canna seed pods - Canna x generalis, Statice- Limonium sinusitis, Bird of Paradise- Strelitzia spp, Variegated Pittosporum- Pittosporum tenuous.
December 2023
Design by Karen Stanley:
Variety of Chrysanthemum, Juniper, Southern Magnolia, Viburnum and Red Statice.
December 2023
Christmas design by Jill Guenther
November 2023
The Big Fat Turkey, by Betty Raker
Plant materials are Crotons, wheat, and pinecone.
The Big Fat Turkey
There’s a big fat turkey down at Grandpa’s farm,
And he always gets his way.
He spreads his tail to a great big fan,
And struts around all day.
You should hear him gobble at the girls and boys,
He thinks he’s singing when he makes that noise.
He’ll sing his song another way upon Thanksgiving Day!
Author Unknown
November 2023
Autumn’s Palette, a collage of colorful mums, by Kathleen Lunman.
October 2023
“Witches Cauldron”, by Elizabeth Rawson.
Purple static, babies breath, small rose hip, yellow fern and dried flora sprayed gold.
Scare up a good book while you’re at the library,
October 2023
Fall scene, by Betty Raker
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September 2023
“Stubble and Stones”, by Linda Martin
Plant Material: African Lily pedicel (Agapanthus africanus) and Fakahatchee Grass pedicel (Tripsacum dactyloides)
Inspired by the poem "End of Summer", by Stanley Kunitz, Poet Laureate of the United States 2000.
"I stood in the disenchanted field
Amid the stubble and the stones,
Amazed, while a small worm lisped to me
The song of my marrow-bones."
September 2023
“Who’s Been Painting My Roses Red?”, by Beverly Williams
Plant materials: painted dried Sago Palm, painted dried Roses, Leatherleaf Fern, and Moss
September 2023
Design by Kathleen Lunman
August 2023
“Back to School” arrangement by Kathleen Lunman.
July 2023
"All I need is the air that I breathe", a floral display by Karen Reilly.
Plant materials: Tillandsia caput-medusae.
July 2023
Fourth of July exhibit by
Beverly Williams
Plant materials: Carnations and dried painted iris seedpods.
June 2023
Library exhibit by Frances Ambrose
June 2023
"How Does Your Garden Grow?" by Linda Martin. In celebration of National Garden Week, June 4-10, 2023.
Plant material: Wax Begonia (Begonia semperflorens), Verbena (Verbena x hybrida), Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum ‘Tidy Treats’), Garden Sage (Salvia officinalis), Aloe vera.
May 2023
Design by Linda Martin
P.S. You Have My Heart,
Letter excerpt from correspondence
between sisters, Carolyn and Margaret,
in the novel, The London House, by
Reading together, growing together!
Katherine Reay.
Plant Material:
Sago Palm, Cycas revoluta Shore Juniper, Juniperus conferta Podocarpus, Podocarpus macrophyllus Ferns, Davallia fejeensis and Cyrtomium falcatum Spider Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum spp.
May 2023
Design by Mary Butler: White Spring Mix
Hydrangea Quercifolia, cherry Laurel, Burnet Roses, Star Jasmine.
April 2023
Display by Julia Lizza, promoting our Alice in Wonderland-themed flower show at the library: Down the Rabbit Hole
Tulips, Hyacinths, Birds Nest Fern, dried Fig Tree leaves.
March 2023
Happy St. Patty’s Day, by Karen Reily.
Plant material: Serenoa repens (Saw Palmetto), Pittosporum variegata, Aspidistra elatior (Variegated Cast Iron), Stromanthe triostar (Stromanthe), Alpinia zerumbet (Variegated Shell Ginger), Neoregelia carolinae (Blushing Bromeliad).
March 2023
Down the Rabbit Hole, by Beverly Williams
Chrysanthemum and Philodendron “Xanadu”.
February 2023
Valentine design by Kathleen Lunman.
January 2023
Educational display to commemorate Florida Arbor Day 2023, by Francis Ambrose.
January 2023
“Finale!!, Turning the Corner for 2023”, by Karen Reily
Saw palmetto (Serenoa repens)
