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Members: If you have not filled out your CIWGA application and/or received your membership card, please contact Carolyn or Greg Knop at the next meeting.



Members can receive the newsletter either via e-mail or postal mail. The e-mail version is on our website and includes color as well as more pictures. The regularly mailed version has the same text but with fewer pictures to save on printing and mailing costs. If it is possible for you to receive the newsletter by e-mail only, please let us know. Members will be sent an e-mail notification of the website’s newsletter update each month. While the e-mail version is the most economical for the club, membership entitles you to receive the newsletter any way you want.



Planned and Proposed Activities

April 2 - special Des Moines meeting, see the Big Toad's Ribbiting Report for more information.


April 9 - next CIWGA meeting, Tom Kenney is scheduled to speak on potting up lilies.


Water Garden Tour – definitely, July 14 and 15


Plant Exchange – definitely, date TBA


Fish Exchange – possibly


Pond Expo – possibly a year from this spring (This maybe a joint venture with the other two water garden associations in the state.)


Mini Member Tour – definitely, during summer, TBA (This would be CIWGA-only tour of members’ water gardens.)