Upcoming Meetings

FIVE varieties of Milkweed in 2018!!!

Contact us at capegardenclub@gmail.com

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 1121 River Bay Road.  Thanks for helping us to reduce and reuse!

THANK YOU, CAPERS, for coming out in droves to support our annual Plant Sale fundraiser — We are so grateful for your support!!!   Last year, your loyal support cleaned us out of milkweed within two hours!  This year we’ll have FIVE varieties of milkweed and an enormous selection of exciting NATIVE perennials along with our stalwart Cape-dug perennials for sun and shade.
 THANK YOU for your generous and continuing support!  

Tuesday, May 1st, 7pm: Members Only Preview Auction + Plant Sale Planning

Saturday, May 19th, 8am-2pm: PLANT SALE

Tuesday, June 5th, 7pm: Speaker Justen Garrity of Veterans Compost talks about the magical process of Composting your kitchen waste into gardening gold!

Saturday, June 23rd: Secret Gardens Tour

July & August: Summer Break

All meetings are held in the Cape St. Claire Clubhouse meeting room (1223 River Bay Road, 21409) unless otherwise noted.  Questions?  Phone Catherine at 410-212-1944 or salca01@comcast.net, or reach us at capegardenclub@gmail.com.  New faces always welcome!

Read more about our year’s events and speakers.

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2018 Plant Sale Preview

Feast your eyes on these beautiful native perennials we’ll have at our Plant Sale on Saturday, May 19th, 8am-2pm, in the field at Cape St. Claire Road and Broadneck Drive.

FIVE varieties of milkweed, tomatoes, veggies, & herbs, tough Cape-grown perennials for sun and shade, free mosquito dunks and compost, Master Gardeners to answer all your questions — come chat with your neighbors, support our annual fundraiser, and beautify your garden all on the same day!

We thank you for your continuing support!!!

 

Anenome canadensis

Aquilegia canadensis

FIVE varieties of Milkweed in 2018

Asclepias ‘Hello Yellow’

Aster ‘October Skies’

Aster ‘Woods Pink’

Helenium ‘Tiny Dancer’

Heucherella ‘Stoplight’

Monarda punctata

Echinacea ‘Green Twister’

Chrysogonum / Green & Gold

Heuchera ‘Carnival Watermelon’

Helianthus ‘Low Down’

Tradenscantia ‘Sweet Kate’

Sisrinchium ‘Lucerne’ / Blue-Eyed Grass

Pycanthemum flexuosum

Lonicera ‘Magnifica’

Polysticum / Tassel Fern

Heliopsis ‘Summer Night’

Spigelia marilandica / Indian Pinks

Penstemon digitalis

Tiarella cordifolia

January 2018 Seeds & Rocks

Members paint garden markers

Ready to go into the garden!

Seed-Sowing & Rock-Painting

Four Lauras all at once!

And read all about our upcoming February Meeting on Bay-Wise Gardening!

Wreath Workshop 2017

Many hands made light work of these beautiful wreaths.  Two will join others made by area Garden Clubs for decorating the Maryland Statehouse, and two are for our own Cape Clubhouse.

Autumn Interest Slideshow & Arranging Garden Materials

At our November 7th, 2017 Meeting, Members shared photos from their gardens and their travels, showcasing the color of the fall garden.  We all had a marvelous time learning plant names, insect names, and favorite garden haunts from each other!

You can see the entire slide show by clicking Autumn Interest Sharing Slideshow Nov 2017.

Afterward we all enjoyed the Arranging Garden Materials Workshop.  Thanks for a fun meeting, everyone!

Succession Blooming at the Clubhouse

In late 2016, The Cape St. Claire Improvement Association asked the Garden Club to renovate and maintain these beds flanking the Clubhouse doors.  We were happy to oblige and contribute to all their great work renovating our community’s Clubhouse.

We’re happy to hear that the Board of Governors and our neighbors think the new beds look great.  Below are pictures from the first season of blooms in 2017.

Many thanks to all our Member volunteers who donated their time to source and transport plants, dig out and plant the beds, and to water and weed all summer long.  You can see that our hard work paid off handsomely!

Spring: Euphorbia ‘Rainbow Ascot’, Dianthus ‘Firewitch’, & Achillea ‘Moonshine’

Summer: Hibiscus ‘Peppermint Schnapps’, Verbena ‘Hot Pink’, Phlox ‘David’

Autumn: Aster ‘Raydon’s Favorite’ & Chrysanthemum ‘Rustic Glow’

Harvest Dinner 2017

A delicious potluck, crab dip and wine punch, fall-blooming flowers for our plant raffle, pumpkins and gourds decorating every table, and celebrating another good harvest with gardening friends — what more do we need?
A toast, to yet another year of gardening fellowship!

September 2017 Members’ Garden Stories

Members’ photos contributed to a lively and enlightening discussion about gardening successes, failures, journeys, trials, and new ideas.  What a marvelous way to start up again after being apart over summer break!

Have a peek at the entire slide show here:

Sharing Members’ Garden Stories Sept 2017