Upcoming Events

PRE ORDERS on trees, shrubs, and hanging baskets OPEN APRIL 5-18, ORDER YOURS TODAY!!!

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THANK YOU, CAPERS, for coming out in droves to support our annual Plant Sale fundraiser — We are so grateful for your support!!!

Our Beautification Teams are out all summer at the Clubhouse, Segree Memorial Park (behind the Broadneck Library) and in the Cape St. Claire Rd and Green Holly Drive Islands. Please drive slowly and thank our volunteers for all their hard work! And our Yard of the Month Judges are also out every month continuing this Cape tradition — thank you, Member volunteers!

We are so excited to announce some of the treasures we will have at our 2024 Plant Sale on Saturday May 18th — you won’t want to miss this Cape tradition!

We always accept empty plant pots, red solo cups, 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 970 Woodland Circle.  Thanks for helping us to reduce and reuse!

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Tuesday, Mar 5, 6pm: 49th Anniversary Dinner celebrating our Club’s founding in 1975
• Tuesday Apr 2, 6pm: Dividing Workshop & Plant Sale Planning (FB event here)
• Weds May 1, 7pm at St. Anne’s Parish Hall (199 Duke of Gloucester Street, Annapolis – entrance on Charles Street around the corner): Sissinghurst Through the Seasons by Troy Scott Smith, head gardener at Sissinghurst Gardens, co-hosted with the Annapolis Horticulture Society (FB event here)
• Tues May 7, 7pm: Plant Sale Planning and Members’ Preview Auction
• Sat May 18, 8am-2pm: ANNUAL PLANT SALE, a Cape tradition you don’t want to miss!! (FB event here)

Questions?  Phone or text 410-212-1944, or reach us at capegardenclub@gmail.com.  New faces always welcome!
[All meetings are usually held in the Cape St. Claire Clubhouse meeting room (1223 River Bay Road, 21409) unless otherwise noted.] 

Read more about our year’s events and speakers.

PRE ORDERS OPEN for 2024!

Dear loyal fans, today is the day, you can begin online pre-orders on trees, shrubs, and hanging baskets. You will receive pickup location details with your order confirmation email.

1. Hanging baskets will be ready for pickup April 23-28
2. Native trees from the AA Cty Watershed Stewards Academy Tree Trooper Program (and free bag of mulch per tree) will be available for pickup May 10–11
3. All other pre-paid trees, shrubs, & perennials will be available for pickup May 8-11

Any pre-paid orders not picked up by 2pm on May 18 may not be fulfilled — thank you!

And don’t forget to visit our in-person PLANT SALE on Sat May 18, 8am-2pm at the Clubhouse field, 1223 River Bay Road, for tomatoes, veggies, herbs, annuals, & a stunning array of perennials!

Any questions? Please contact capegardenclub@gmail.com. Thanks for your support!!

2024 Plant Sale Preview

Chase away the last days of winter by feasting your eyes on these beauties, coming to Cape St. Claire in 2024!

These 1 and 3 gallon size shrubs and trees, peonies & clematis, & stunning hanging baskets for sun and shade, will be available for pre-ordering online in early April, with pickups right in Cape in late April and early May.

These plants will be available at the Clubhouse field at Cape St. Claire Rd and Broadview Drive, first-come-first-served on Sat May 18, 8am-2pm. We have colorful annuals, a huge variety of tomatoes, herbs, & veggies, plus sturdy Cape-grown perennials, new and novel perennials, & exotic tropicals for that extra summer punch! Master and expert gardeners will be there to answer all your questions. Free compost & mosquito dunks with every purchase. You won’t want to miss it!

Garden Bingo to ring the new year

What a fun way to ring in 2024! We welcomed six new Members who joined returning Members to play bingo together. Everyone went home with at least one fabulous prize, including flowering plants, pruners, t-shirts, books, worms, and a grand prize garden picnic basket! How gardening hard-core is that, to win some worms for your compost bin?! 
Thanks to everyone who came out to play, our Members who contributed refreshments, and most of all to our hard-working Director Tracy, who arranged the entire event!

Our 2 coolest new Members, with their worm bingo prize!

Prize table: rose, lenten rose, pruners, books, and holiday ornaments

Jeanne & Sophie take a turn calling. Look at that grand prize basket!

6 new Members join returning Members for many rounds of BINGO!

Dinner & Homestead outing

Members enjoyed a festive dinner out at Brian Boru together before traipsing around Homestead Gardens together, enjoying the poinsettias and other beautiful holiday offerings. Special thanks to Jeanne Klingler for organizing this wonderful outing!

2023 Evergreen Wreath Workshop

Members enjoyed the holiday spirit all together: sipping cider, singing carols, door prizes, and lots of new friends while handling fragrant evergreen foliage. We were so happy to welcome our guests: Bonnie, Jess, Amanda, Keri, & Olivia, who got right to work with the rest of us and learned some wreath-making skills!

All together we made 3 wreaths for our Cape Clubhouse, 1 for the Guard Shack, 1 for the Broadneck Library, and 1 double-sided wreath for display at State Circle along with wreaths from all the area Garden Clubs. What a fun way to welcome in the holidays!

Terrarium Workshop

Our first ever Terrarium Workshop was lots of fun. We learned about the difference between sealed terrariums for moisture-loving plants and open terrariums for desert plants like succulents. Members planted succulents into glass containers and specialized fast-draining potting soil and had a relaxing evening together gabbing while working and getting to know some of our newest Members: Priscilla, Lois, Sophie, Denise, John, Sherrell, and Kim.

Exciting Bulbs: Beyond Tulips & Daffodils

What a meeting! Thanks to all 72 of our Members and Guests who came out for our Speaker Charles O. Cresson of Hedgleigh Gardens on Exciting Bulbs: Beyond Tulips & Daffodils, hosted jointly with the Annapolis Horticulture Society. And what an informative talk, covering not just the spring bloomers but bulbs blooming in summer and autumn as well! The timing of this talk was perfect for the fall planting window for bulbs, and Charles shared his favorite bulb purveyors. We all look forward to expanding our bulb palates for a more colorful and exciting spring next year!!

A warm welcome to our newest Members Pat, Kim, & Priscilla, who joined in September. Special thanks to our Members Kari, Kim D, Mary Ellen, Melissa, & Jeff for their help with setup and the delicious refreshments & festive decor, and to Members Cathy C, Rose Mary, Sherrell, Tracy MB, & Kim C for their help cleaning up. Very special thanks to Members Pat & Ken for donating use of their Firefly Cottage Airbnb for our speaker’s stay. And thanks to Member Melissa Rose for these wonderful photos!

Members’ Sharing Slideshow 2023

Thanks to our very own Sandy Ives for moderating this slideshow each and every year, with her extensive knowledge! Encouraging Members to share stories from their gardens and garden-related travel is her specialty! We especially enjoyed seeing the gardens of some of our newest Members, as well as the progress on our 2020 grant recipient, Goshen Farm Shallow Water Wildlife Pond Garden, and our 2022 grant recipient, Chase-Lloyd House & Garden. See the 2023 Members’ Sharing Slideshow here. 

Plant Sale 2023 is a wrap!

Another May, another epic plant sale! Bringing the very best plants we can find, at the very best prices, to our neighbors here in Cape. Setting up at dawn with our fabulous volunteer helpers, and watching the lines form of our loyal fans, some of them even toting their own wagons! We love seeing our neighbors happily snatching up the beautiful plants we’ve trucked in from the region: colorful annuals, hanging baskets, tomato, veggie, & herb starts, native and Cape-grown perennials that return year after year. Thanks, neighbors, for your generous patronage year after year! Your support allows us to provide to our community 3 speakers, 3 workshops, & 2 dinners, plus Yard of the Month judging and Beautification teams all summer long, as well as scholarships for any Member to become a Master Gardener or pursue other education.