Upcoming Meetings

Blue spiderwort & ‘Golden Tusan’ St. Johns Wort in the May Garden

We always accept empty plant pots for reuse in our next plant sale.  We also accept cast-off *plastic* venetian mini-blinds to cut up for plant tags.  Please drop either anytime in the driveway at 1121 River Bay Road.  Thanks for helping us to reduce and reuse!

Please support our RAIN BARREL FUNDRAISER benefitting Goshen Farm Preservation Society.  Or go directly to order your barrels today!  Thank you!

Saturday, May 19th, 8am-2pm: PLANT SALE, featuring exciting natives, stalwart Cape-grown perennials, and a colorful selection of annuals, herbs, and vegetables.  In the grass across from Graul’s.  Rain date Sunday, May 20th.

Saturday, June 2nd, 9:30am: Nosy Gardener Tour.  (See last year’s tour.)  Join us for a fun and informative whirlwind tour of some of our favorite gardens in the Cape!  Please email flokell@verizon.net if you’d like to participate.

Saturday, June 16th, 9-11am: Pick up for our Rain Barrel fundraiser on behalf of Goshen Farm, in the grass across from Graul’s.  Please pre-order if you’d to be guaranteed a barrel.  Thanks!

All meetings are held in the Clubhouse meeting room.  Questions?  Phone Laura at 410-349-3390 or email flokell@verizon.net Join us!

Plant Sale Preview for Saturday, May 19th

Look at this delicious gardening eye-candy!  Come to our sale on Saturday, May 19th, 8am-2pm to go home with some of these gorgeous beauties.  NO early birds please!

Iris, Black-eyed susans, phlox, hostas, ferns, japanese maples, asters, mums, sundrops, forsythia, sedums, nandinas, hardy geraniums, tickseed, coneflower, columbine, lily of the valley, and lots of groundcovers.

Tomatoes, vegetables, herbs, petunias, marigolds, impatiens, alyssums, coleus, and hanging baskets.

New this year: we’ll have compost available that you can take home to use in planting your new finds.  Donations for the compost will be donated to Friends of Broadneck Park, a local group working hard to replace the aging play structure at the park.  Come out and support this worthwhile cause!

Come with a neighbor, bring a friend — we look forward to seeing you again this year.  Thanks for your support!

April 2011: Pruning and Weed ID workshops

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The Garden Club extends warm welcome to our newest members, Kelly, Janet, and Jennifer!  We’re so glad you joined us.

Our very own illustrious master gardener Linda gives pointers to members about what to prune off these crepe myrtles: all tiny branches on the bottom 2-3′ of the trunks, all dead wood that is not leafing out, all tiny branches thinner than a pencil, any branches that are crossing or rubbing, any tiny branches growing into the interior of the tree that will eventually become crossing branches, and old seed pods from last summer’s flowers.  Katie shows we mean business!

Here is a diagram and more details on proper pruning of crepe mytles so you don’t get those awful stumps on yours.

You can see what we learned at our Weed ID workshop here.

Our members look over the lovely selection of choice perennials for our silent auction.  All these were dug from members’ own yards!  We had a lovely evening and a lot of fun.  We will have another silent auction at our May meeting — you’re invited to join us!

Rain Barrel Fundraiser to benefit Goshen Farm Preservation Trust

January 2012 Winter-Sowing Workshop

The Garden Club had a wonderful time making a huge mess of ourselves, as gardeners love to do, at our January meeting’s winter-sowing workshop.  Members brought their own translucent containers, like milk jugs, soda bottles, and produce boxes.  We punched holes in the bottom for drainage and on top for ventilation.  The club provided seed-starting soil mix and a variety of flower, herb, and vegetable seeds ordered from sampleseeds.com, and we all went home with a variety of mini-greenhouses.  2 weeks later, look!  The chard and kale seeds always go first, since they don’t mind the cold weather.  Learn more about this fun way to beat the winter-blues.  Or join us next January!

Wreath-making, 2011

The Garden Club met as usual for our annual festive wreath-making and gift-exchange party.  What a wonderful time we all had using evergreen cuttings from our yards to create 2 evergreen wreaths for Lawyers Mall in downtown Annapolis, near the State House.  We are one of several area garden clubs that contribute wreaths to help make Annapolis festive for the holidays.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

October Harvest Dinner, 2011

 

What a lovely evening we had at our annual Harvest Dinner.  We were so pleased so many of our Yard of the Month winners were able to attend as our guests.  We had an abundant potluck, a photo slide show of the winners’ yards to admire (courtesy of photographer Jim Collison), lots of lovely conversation, and a fun and lively plant raffle.  We had fun getting to know some of our neighbors better, and we do hope to see some of them again soon.  And a warm welcome to Kim, our newest member!  Many thanks to all the members who contributed their energy to making such a lovely evening for us all: cornucopia centerpieces (pictured above, special thanks to Catherine for the photos), halloween-themed party favors, clean white tablecloths, delectable homemade crab dip, and delicious lime-orange punch.  And many thanks to everyone who came early to set up and stayed late to help put everything away.  Many hands make light work and a beautiful event!

 

We also had a very abundant seed and cutting exchange earlier in October at our monthly meeting.  As we put our beds to rest for the season, we gardeners collect seeds and cuttings to share with other members.  We are so thrilled that we were joined that evening by many new faces as well.  We hope to see you all again at our future gatherings!

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 1st, at 7pm, in the Clubhouse meeting room.  On the agenda: fabulous bulbs at wholesale prices, for our members (or anyone who wants to join!), a new slate of officers up for vote, and planning for our evergreen wreath-making and gift exchange in late-November.  Please join us!

 

 

 

 

Tour of Goshen Farm, October 2011

Our members spent a lovely Sunday morning touring Goshen Farm with our guide, Nicole.  (Special thanks to Nicole for guiding us, and to Roy for these photos!)

In the bottom photo we are at the site of Goshen Farm’s Community Garden, currently sowed with winter rye, to keep weeds down.

How wonderful to see this historical site and open land being preserved for future generations of Cape residents by these hardworking folks.  We are grateful to them, and wish them every success in their endeavors!