Welcome!

The Garden Clubs of Australia Inc. is a non-profit organisation that provides a range of services to our Affiliated Members with a current membership of 720 affiliated clubs representing more than 45,000 individuals.

Contact our President for a presentation on how it can benefit your organisation.
The Garden Clubs of Australia’s 2021 Annual General Meeting is to be held in Townsville, North Queensland 12-17 September 2021.
The thoroughness and planning by the Townsville Garden Club will make the GCA Convention an exciting and wonderful experience as the past two GCA Conventions in 2017 and 2019 have been.
Click Here to read Libby Ratten’s (Goulburn Garden Club) account of the Convention at Norfolk Island.
Click here GCA Convention Townsville 2021 Flyer for an overview of this exciting event.

Attention All Secretaries

Eight GCA Documents are now available for your immediate use and distribution to your respective organisations:

GCA STRATEGIC PLAN v2
GCA OPERATIONAL PLAN
2020 Schedule
2020 Form 1 – Reaffiliation
2020 Form 2 Insurance 2020_2021
2020 Form 3 – Our Gardens Magazine
BULLETIN August 2019
Privacy Letter Locate a Club
DO NOT TO USE FORM 4 FOR AFFILIATE APPLICATION” CONTACT 0407 268 163.

The Garden Clubs of Australia's Awards

There are special people who are contributing to their respective clubs, societies, groups and established gardens.
The GCA invites you to consider nominating your special person or persons for acknowledgement of their contributions to gardening in our awards.
The awards are announced at the GCA’s Convention in Sydney in TBA 2020.
The Convention provides a great opportunity for many affiliated members to share and celebrate the achievements of the Award winners.
There are a number of Award Categories and these can be seen on our GCA Awards page so click HERE to view and talk to your Committee at a meeting and nominate a special member deserving of one of them if not the Ann Williams Clark medal.

Zone Coordinators

Who represents your club on behalf of The Garden Clubs of Australia Inc?
They are appointed for 3 years (currently until 2022) and can do presentations themselves, or provide a list of presenters for your Club Meetings, coordinate, provide advice and information about how The Garden Clubs of Australia Inc can help you.
For those who are interested in being a Zone Coordinator for your area, please email the Director of Zones for further information.

Judges Register

A list of State and Territory Judges are available through The Garden Clubs of Australia in 2020. For further information see the Contact Us Page to contact the GCA Committee representative responsible who may provide details for contact of a appropriate judge.

QUICK LINKS: GCA INSURANCE OUR GARDENS LOCATE A CLUB DIARY DATES MEMBERSHIP
GCA AWARDS NATIONAL GARDENING WEEK SERVICES CALENDAR 2021 PHOTO COMP
RESOURCES CONTACT THE GCA COMMITTEE LINKS TO GARDENING SITES & OTHER INFORMATION
FACEBOOK

Special Notices

Please Note. If you wish to make an enquiry in reference to GCA Insurance, click on this email or contact the Insurance Officer Greg Lane on 0459 782 630, the details are listed on the GCA Insurance page or in Contact Us
David Gemmell is no longer our Insurance Officer and it would be greatly appreciated if you would not contact him.

Garden Clubs of Australia Annual General Meeting 29 September 2020.

Please open the two documents that refer to the arrangements and information of our forthcoming AGM.

Click on this link Notice of GCA AGM 2020 for details please.

GCA Facebook

Australian Gardening organisations are always active and well. Lots of interest created for their members, Community gardens growing vegetables and whatnot, reaping the rewards everyday. Children actively involved with planting, maintaining, admiring and using what they grow. Clubs arranging interesting visits and programmes for their members who happily participate and contribute preparing, growing for displays, attending Fairs to meet and greet friends and exchange information, knowledge and news.

The GCA is achieving this as well by providing a wonderful Insurance cover so that everyone can go about their business knowing that all individual members and the gardening organisations have them covered.

Our Facebook is a terrific way to post the activities and you can visit and like the news and information that can be posted there. For instance below is a link to the Facebook ‘Club Activity’ group which you are most welcome to share your clubs activities including this one. It all helps to get the word out. If there is anything else that can be done for you, contact us by clicking this email link.

Have a fabulous time with your gardening organisation so have a look on our Facebook.

Our Gardens - Winter 2020

Overview of Issue No 85 Winter 2020 – is now available to order on the GCA Our Gardens Magazine page.

What a beautiful cover.

What is in Issue No 85 Winter 2020?
If the cover is an indicator, then I for one, cannot wait to read and see the images of what is inside. Our popular regular contributor Peta Trahar took this beautiful cover shot of her Magnolia campbellii in full bloom but Peta tells us in this issue how she almost lost her precious magnolia in last summer’s dreadful heat and drought. Peta’s garden was threatened by one of the enormous Blue Mountains bushfires but was stopped at their fence. To follow more of Peta’s garden stories visit her Facebook page: Town and Country Gardens.

Become a subscriber and download the latest 2020 Our Gardens Magazine Form 3 to download by Our Gardens Form 3 Generic 2020 The Our Gardens Subscription Card 2020 can also be downloaded here.

Judy Horton is the Our Gardens Magazine’s Editor and what a treasure Judy and her team are to have in The Garden Clubs of Australia Inc.

GCA Insurance

GCA Insurance has its own page on our Main Menu.
The will provide you with a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section that will provide you with wide range of answers to your queries.
There is, further down the details of our very well informed Insurance Officer, and a list of documents that you need to know about.
Click on this email if you wish to contact the Insurance Officer Greg Lane 0459 782 630, the details are listed on the GCA Insurance page or in Contact Us

For an Insurance Update the 2020 Form 2 Insurance can be downloaded by Clicking Here

The GCA's Photo Competition

The 13^th 2019 Photo Competition has now closed and the results will be published in the Autumn issue no. 83 of the Our Gardens magazine and included on this website before end of this year. Don’t be disappointed if you entered and did not succeed in 2019. Click on the Photo Competition page for more details in 2020.

The GCA's Calendar

Our GCA Calendar page can be accessed by clicking here for all information required.
The 2020 Calendar is now available. The 2020 Calendar is the same large page size as in 2019, 34cm x 24cm.
You can email enquiries for the GCA Calendar and view the 2020 Cover Page by clicking here.

The Bulletin

The latest Bulletin is available now.
A new Editor, Suzanne Bushell can be contacted by clicking on this email link.
Suzanne has also created an additional Newsletter with topical news.
Click Here to see the latest edition or click on this link for more.

Gardening Articles

Please go to our Resource Page to read a list of Important Resource Articles for the gardening public in general. They are informative and thought provoking. Here is an example Reward your members

Noticeboard

The 2021 Garden Clubs of Australia Convention

The venue in 2021 is Townsville 11 – 17 September 2021 and details can be found by clicking on this GCA Convention Townsville 2021 Flyer for planning an exciting and wonderful destination for members of your GCA Affiliated Club.

Secretaries of Affiliated Member Clubs

It is advised to contact our Membership Secretary for any changes to your Clubs details and/or Contact details.
If you are seeking documents or information concerning Insurance or access to the GCA’s Constitution you can visit our Services Menu.

The Next Garden Clubs of Australia Committee Meeting

1. The next meeting of The GCA Committee in Sydney is to be advised as soon as COVID-19 restrictions are changed.

2. The GCA Committee meets online Monday August 2 2020.

3. For further details email the GCA Secretary.