Upcoming Meetings

 

 

Our native butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa, mingles beautifully with Coleus ‘Dipt in Wine’ and Sedum ‘Angelina’

Thank you all for your generous support at our 2013 plant sale and rain barrel fundraiser!  

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

Next meetings:  

Tuesday, September 3rd, 7pm, in the Clubhouse meeting room.

All meetings are held in the Clubhouse meeting room unless otherwise noted.  Questions?  Phone Laura at 410-349-3390 or email flokell@verizon.net.  New faces always welcome!

 

Nosy Gardener Tours, 2013

Learning about growing eating and wine grapes, right here in Cape!

Club members admire the asparagus, tomatoes, baby pecan trees, and a beautiful view

A beautiful hydrangea catches our eyes

Cape living at its best: gorgeous gardens and water access all around!

This Yard of the Month winner’s yard: BEFORE…

… and AFTER 20 years of loving attention — so inspiring!

How fortunate we were to be invited to visit these 3 beautiful gardens.  Thriving, healthy edibles, rain gardens full of native plants, and luscious curved beds inspired us!  Afterward we shared a delicious potluck lunch poolside.  Thank you to all our host gardens for a lovely and informative tour!

Cooling off at last.

2013 Plant Sale Preview

Eringium ‘Big Blue’

See and buy these beauties on Saturday, May 18th, 8am-2pm in the grassy area across from Graul’s.  Eat your eyes out here all you want, but NO EARLY BIRDS!

FOR SUN…

Coreopsis ‘Jethro Tull’ (Native)

Phlox ‘Katherine’ for a sunny garden (Native)

Sedum Lime Zinger, tiny but gorgeous!

Helenium ‘Canary’ (Native) sports bright yellow daisies

Alstroemeria ‘Tangerine Tango’ is hardy!

Chelone ‘Hot Lips’ (Native) loves a moist spot

Dracocephalum ‘Blue Dragon’

And FOR SHADE…

Actaea pachypoda (Native), common name bugbane, has fantastical white berries after it flowers

The mighty Royal Fern Osmunda regalia (Native) grows 4-6′ high in time!

Delphinium exaltum (Native) is 4′ of bold blue for your shade garden

Tiarella ‘Elizabeth Oliver’ (Native) has pale pink blooms in spring

2013 Rain Barrel Fundraiser to benefit Goshen Farm Preservation Trust

Winter Sowing Workshop, January 2013

Members sow cold-hardy seeds in translucent containers recycled from their kitchens

Delicious cookies, salmon spread, corn-bean salsa, chocolates and nuts, and punch

A variety of cold-hardy seeds

At our January meeting, after a short business meeting and nibbling wonderful refreshments provided by three of our members, we adjourned to our Winter Sowing Workshop.  Members punched holes in the tops and bottoms of translucent containers recycled from our kitchens, and added seed-starting soil.  After wetting the soil, members added seeds from a variety flowering perennials and vegetables.  Each member took the boxes home to place in a sunny, outside location – yes, in the cold of winter!  By early February, most of us will have a box of gorgeous green seedlings germinating despite winter’s chill, a much needed promise of spring.

Looks like fun, doesn’t it?  Join us next January for another round of winter sowing!

Winter-sowing means seedlings in January — outside!

Garden Club matches Rain Barrel Fundraiser proceeds for Goshen Farm

After searching in vain for a matching donation, the Garden Club voted unanimously at our October meeting to match ourselves the $700 earned in our Rain Barrel Fundraiser, bringing the donation total to $1400.  Early in 2013, Broadneck realtor Mona LaCovey came through with a $1000 matching donation for this fundraiser!  This brings the total to $2400.  The best part is: this entire donation will be doubled yet again by the matching grant Goshen Farm has obtained from the State of Maryland, bringing the total to $4800.  Every dollar you spent became nearly $7 thanks to Mona’s generosity.  We are so grateful to her and to all of you who purchased a rain barrel for your home, and those who loyally shop at our plant sale year after year — your generous support made all this possible!  We are so honored and excited to be a part of Goshen Farm’s devoted efforts to preserve this important historic home and treasured open space right in our own community.

Sharon Biondi, Barb Morgan, and Nicole Neboshynski of Goshen Farm join Carol Collison, Audrey Lengbeyer, Laura Kellman, and Michaela Allen of the Garden Club

September reunion and Weed ID Workshop

Our members identify weeds from our gardens.

A warm welcome to our newest attendees, Teresa and LeeAnne!  It’s always wonderful to meet new gardening friends.

Holding plates heaped from a buffet of bountiful refreshments, we had a lively and laughter-filled business meeting. We wrapped up our plant sale from the spring and planned for another year of engaging speakers and topics, fun plant exchanges and raffles, and, of course, more food and laughing!  Afterward, we looked at the various weeds from our yards (photos): Virginia creeper, crabgrass, nutsedge, goosegrass, carpetweed, yellow foxtail, pokeweed, paper mulberry, and many others.  Of course we kept eating as we looked at weeds.  Of course!

Come join us in October for our Seed and Cutting Exchange: Tuesday, October 2nd, at 7pm. Questions, comments?  Email flokell@verizon.net and we’ll get  right back to you.

Plant Sale 2012 is a wrap!

The Garden Club sends a warm thank you to everyone who came out to support us at our annual plant sale – we had a great sale because of you!  We sold a dozen rain barrels to benefit Goshen Farm Preservation Society, and from the compost donations from our generous customers, we raised $192 for Friends of Broadneck Park, matched dollar for dollar by the generosity of THE CAPE GARDENER, a landscaping team right here in Cape that has served our community for 17 years.  Please give Bridgette and Vince Presti a shout out for their generous matching donations that doubles the value for Friends of Broadneck Park.   The Garden Club topped it up with funds we raised in our pre-sale plant auctions, so in total we and The Cape Gardener donated over $700 to this wonderful cause.  Thanks to our hardworking members and to our loyal customers who came out to make our sale a success!