As we celebrate the holidays this month, I am excited about many special initiatives aimed at strengthening our club, contributing to the well-being and greening of our community and ensuring our club remains relevant both to you and in our community.
During the grey days of winter, a blooming Amaryllis is always a welcome treat. There are so many beautiful varieties of Amaryllis; it is hard to hold back when purchasing new bulbs.
Cleveland Botanical Garden has reinvented its holiday season decor this year with the theme of FROST: An Ice-Capped Garden Experience. There are a dozen winter magic themed rooms like Blizzard Ballroom and Jingle Jungle.
First of all, Margaret Roach of A Way to Garden(if you are not familiar with her blog, check it out!) beat me to it in her column today with a book Cindy Elliott has also recommended very highly.
Which is it? It bloomed at Halloween this year! Judging by the diagram I found on the internet (see below), I’d say it is a very confused Thanksgiving cactus, Schlumbergera truncata.
I love to begin this article each fall with a read-aloud book for adults reading to young children, something with beautiful art and a simple, lovely story.
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!
As we begin to put our gardens to bed for the year and turn our focus toward more indoor activities and the holidays (!), I want to encourage and inspire all of you to be more active and engaged in our club's activities this fall/winter and next spring. We all know the adage: you reap what you sow. With that in mind, why not join us for some of the fun activities that are planned for this fall?
Tuesday, November 28 at 10:00 Location: Rid-All 8129 Otter Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44104
Rid-All is a community based organization in Cleveland's Kinsman neighborhood that turned this forgotten area into an urban farm that grows produce to provide healthy local food to area institutions.
One or the many advantages we all receive, as members of a Garden Club of America, is the opportunity to take wonderfully curated garden trips to faraway places with similarly-minded garden club ladies.
II enjoy watching Monty Don’s Gardeners’ World. Monty always reminds viewers to use peat free compost, his plea made me wonder why is peat so bad? In the United Stated, peat is commonly used to aerate soil and to promote water retention. Peat is used in most seed starting mixes. Peat is formed over thousands of years in bogs know as peatlands, and most of the peat used in the United States comes from Canada.
In this Newsletter you will see ideas from the GCA for glorious overseas travels, for one-day garden visits at Martha Stewart’s home in Maine or, during the freezing season at home, in Naples, Florida, for those of you who winter near there.
Do all of you SLGC ladies know that, in addition to the major trips GCA offers through our Visiting Gardens initiative, GCA also offers one day special tour events within the USA?