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Filtering by Category: October 2018
What's the news? What did you hear over the garden gate? Has your contact information changed since the new Directory was published? Who heard what? Who has learned something to share with us? Who has a great new idea? Who loves to share the miracles of nature? It's all here!
Read MoreDear Friends,
By the time you read this, Fall will be upon us. I look forward to our joint meeting with Garden Club of Cleveland. I hope to see you at Cleveland Botanical Garden on October 16 for what promises to be an interesting program.
Read MoreThe entries are in and it's time to vote on your favorite in each class! Take a look at all the entries (click on the photos to enlarge them) and then click on the link at the bottom of the page to vote. Voting is open from September 10 until September 25, and the results will be announced in the October newsletter.
Read MoreCleveland Botanical Gardens
11030 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
11:30 am
$35/person for luncheon and speaker
Parking in garage is $5
RSVP: Annamarie Brancovsky or call 440-289-0279 by 10/9 at the LATEST!
Read MoreIn May, at the Shaker Lakes Garden Club flower show, Cynthia won the prestigious Catherine Beattie Medal for a black (deepest purple) Paphiopedilum Orchid. The award is named in honor of Mrs. Samuel Beattie, a member of Carolina Foothills Garden Club and former President of GCA. It is intended to stimulate participation in and improve the quality of entries in GCA Flower Shows.
Read MoreOn September 6 several SLGC members were treated to a visit at the home of Brian Thompson, owner of Thompson Landscape Designs. His yard includes unique gardens on Richmond Road with intimate personal spaces and beautiful stone work.
Read MoreThe Charitable Projects Committee not only requests your money to fund the projects you choose, we also need your deep community connections. Please stop for a moment and think about organizations or groups that might benefit from money and/or guidance from SLGC that will assist them in “matters related to environmental protection, conservation, horticulture, gardening and related subjects.”
Read MoreYears ago, the first fall in a new house and garden I was surprised when lots of lilac colored flowers appeared in September. They looked like crocus, but blooming at the wrong time of the year.
Read MoreMonarch butterflies are everywhere in Cleveland! I have been raising Monarchs for years and have never seen as many as we have seen this year. I'm hearing the same story from many other butterfly lovers.
Read MoreA quick Intro from your Conservation and National Affairs & Legislation Co-Chairs
Life on Earth depends on plants, both those that we humans eat (broccoli? apples?) and those that our food sources eat (grass-fed cattle? millet-fed chickens?). To procreate, plants must be pollinated.
Read MoreQuestions about recycling? The following letter was sent to me from the County Recycling Center:
Read MoreEach year, members of the Shaker Lakes Garden Club are requested to make a contribution, above and beyond dues, to fund charitable projects that fit within the club’s mission. Proposals submitted for these projects are carefully vetted by the Charitable Projects Committee and the very best are voted upon by the membership. Over the years, our club has nurtured small projects and strengthened larger ones.
Read MoreWhat's the news? What did you hear over the garden gate? Has your contact information changed since the new Directory was published? Who heard what? Who has learned something to share with us? Who has a great new idea? Who loves to share the miracles of nature? It's all here!
Read MoreThe entries are in and it's time to vote on your favorite in each class! Take a look at all the entries (click on the photos to enlarge them) and then click on the link at the bottom of the page to vote. Voting is open from September 10 until September 25, and the results will be announced in the October newsletter.
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