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President: Ann Korenek
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 BRANCHING OUT Kingwood Garden Club welcomes everyone, from novices to experts, to become a part of our organization. Kingwood Garden club works to support the National Gardens Club, Texas Garden Clubs, and Houston Federation. These clubs provide education, resources and networking opportunities to its members to promote the love of gardening, floral design and civic and environmental responsibility. The theme for 2011/2012 is "Branching Out". I urge everyone to “Branch Out” and do something different in your garden. We can all take comfort in the fact that no garden is fixed. We inflict our own changes on the way we garden, our taste change, and climate forces some different basic change upon us. To keep a garden looking good we must branch out with change and respond and above all enjoy gardening in a new way otherwise, frankly, what’s the point! "Branching out" can lead to a new design or theme in your garden. Branch out to shape spaces, provide natural barriers, or provide an important function like low maintenance. Branching out in your garden can lead to deeper understanding of nature. "Branch out" with the five senses of gardening: Sight, Touch, Taste, Sound and Smell. If you embrace the five senses, your garden will have a new life and bring you much joy. This coming year will be filled with programs on horticulture, floral design, conservation and landscaping design. Also, we will continue our horticulture and floral studies at our monthly meetings. We plan field trips to nurseries, gardens, and vineyards through out the year to further our studies. Our annual pilgrimage planned for April will be a trip to Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Zilker Botanical Gardens and Umlauf Sculpture Gardens. This year the club will host two our fund raisers. In October the club will host an auction “Rediscovered Treasures” The focus will be conservation and recycled items. In April, the club will host “GardenScapes” tour to four homes and gardens in the Kingwood area. The tour includes a plant sale, boutique, and raffle sale. - Ann Korenek,
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