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May is a vibrant time in the garden, buzzing with life and bursting with growth! Shortly after Mother’s Day is an excellent time to plant a wide variety of flowers, vegetables, and herbs. I’ll be planting dahlia tubers at the end of the month.
Read MoreJoin us on Tuesday, May 28th for a tour of Spice Acres Farm. Spice Acres is not only a 13-acre sustainable family farm nestled inside Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Read MoreThe Floral Design committee will be hosting 3 workshops over the summer.
In June, we will be covering a basic design recipe for a centerpiece. The arrangement can be made to scale.
This time of year, I am known by those who ride in the car with me to call out “Privet! Privet! Privet!” in the same tone that others might use to acknowledge rattlesnakes on a footpath or hippopotami in the swimming pool.
Read MoreIf you want a taller alternative, one of the classic American small hedge trees is Maclura pomifera, the Osage orange. Its native range extends only to southern Ohio, but it is quite hardy here and is a very effective privacy hedge, armed with a multiplicity of savage thorns.
Read More11:00am – 1:30pm
BigHearted Blooms’ studio
5122 St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44103
Read MoreIt has been more than a year since Jane Ellison, Robin Schachat, Kathryn Craig and Wendy Donkin began creating the program for homeowners that would become Nature in My Backyard, and which was launched as a pilot program at the 2023 Audubon Society of Greater Cleveland (ASGC) Centennial Celebration.
Read MoreWe have lost 3 billion birds in the last 50 years and the decline is continuing …… What is a person to do??
Zoom in on MAY 1 at NOON to hear…..
Read Morerobinschachat@gmail.comStart at 10 AM at the Leach Research Station, for a Breathtaking Walk through the Acres of Blooming Rhododendrons and Azaleas
This is a Special Day only for Members and Families of SLGC through our Visiting Gardens!
Read MoreWe are looking for SLGC volunteers to help provide some love and care in the Rid-All Community Garden. Spend about 2 hours working in the tree nursery or other areas of the garden.
Read MoreNature in My Backyard (NMB) is a program designed to address the global biodiversity crisis by bringing research-based information to homeowners for improving habitat on their property.
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!
THIS IS THE LAST MAY NEWSLETTER POST!
Read MoreGoing to the National Affairs and Legislation conference is so EMPOWERING! Not only is it a meeting where we learn about solutions to climate change but the GCA is a force of influential women who have a real impact on our nation’s legislators.
Read MoreJust us at The Cleveland Museum of Art for a docent led tour of the many works of art featuring gorgeous flowers and gardens! Lunch to follow on your own in the cafe or restaurant.
Read MoreApril 16 at 7 pm
Drinks and Dessert
Join SLGC to celebrate Earth Month!
Read MoreON THE ROAD WITH THE GCA: GREENWOOD GARDENS
Thursday, May 16, 2024 11 AM – 3 PM
ON THE ROAD WITH THE GCA MARTHA STEWART'S GARDEN
June 11, 2024 10 AM – 3:30 PM
Read MoreAs you see, this month our Newsletter offers two new opportunities to visit famous gardens in the New York area with “On the Road with the GCA”.
Read MoreIt's so much fun to peruse glossy catalogs of beautiful veggies and flowers in the depths of winter. It's even more fun to grow unusual varieties that no one else can buy at the garden center by starting your own seeds.
Read MoreEarly in the spring it is a great pleasure to go for a walk and see the lovely fresh green of early emerging foliage on trees and shrubs – “spring green” is a happy phrase almost whenever you hear it, signaling renewal, regrowth, the onset of longer and sunnier days. Unfortunately, locally one of the earliest of these pretty sights is the soft green leaf of a bush honeysuckle.
Honeysuckles are members of the genus Lonicera. None of the bush species of Lonicera is native to Ohio.
Read MoreFirst of all I am going to make an assumption. Most of us whose gardens have been invaded by bush honeysuckles have not set out intentionally to include them, so the vast majority are invaders into existing mixed hedges, woodland edges, and odd spots.
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