Federated Garden Club of Vermont Awards June 2025

• Golden Trowel Award #14 to Margie Larson for going above and beyond.

• Yearbook - Certificate of Merit - 1st Place. Last year Jody Gendron did the Yearbook

• Best Ongoing Project - Bouquets for Birchwood. Certificate of Merit. Birchwood Bouquets for Residence to Karen Villanti

• Individual with the Club: Their Own Garden #9 - Certificate of Merit from FGCV to Cindy Lin

• Horticulture: 1st Place Award - FGCV - Dana Mann

• Ruth Dodge Flower Show Award - FGCV - Doris Van Mullen and Karen Villanti

Dana Mann worked endlessly encouraging club and community members to submit their horticulture specimens to the Flower Show.

#14 Golden Trowel Award is given to a member who made extraordinary contributions of time and talent to further the aims of the Burlington Garden Club. Margie Larson, a member since 2022, is an example of a person who has made extraordinary contributions of time and talent to further the aims of the Burlington Garden Club.

Cindy Lin holds her Certificate of Merit for Individual with the Club: Their Own Garden #9.

#20 A First Place Award awarded to the member club presenting a Small Standard Flower Show with the greatest overall educational value. Congratulations to Karen Villanti and Dori VanMullen, 2025 Vermont Flower Show co-chairs.