Overheard at the Garden Gate
SLGC
Seed Starting Workshop
We had a beautiful April morning for the seed starting workshop. We planted seeds ranging from basil to zinnias. Hopefully the warm weather and abundant sunshine the past few days will give our seeds a good start. Happy spring gardening!
Pot Et Fleur Demonstration a Blooming Success!
The Pot et Fleur demonstration on April 21st was very informative. Margaret Ransohoff demonstrated how to design a variety of beautiful spring Pot et Fleur arrangements She made three very different basic planting designs using rooted plants, and showed how to use fresh cut flowers to make each one work for multiple occasions. Margaret also suggested all sorts of methods for the mechanics underlying how to make the arrangement not only a success, but a lasting basis for your own arrangement that can continue in your house or garden for many, many months. The well-attended demonstration will prove helpful for the participants in the flower show in September! Thank you, Margaret!
GCA Annual Meeting 2023 Scarves Available
If you haven’t heard, our Zone X is hosting the GCA Annual Meeting this year in Columbus on May 22nd-24th. Zone X represents the clubs in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan and our annual meeting scarf reflects the wild life and native plants in our area. Shaker Lakes Garden Club is distributing the scarves this year and we still have a few left. Order yours today through the GCA Marketplace online shop. https://www.gcamerica.org/members:shop/product/id/92
Want a Free Native Tree?
If you live in the Euclid Creek Watershed Area, you should take advantage of this terrific offer. The Western Reserve Land Conservancy, through the Euclid Creek Watershed community, would like to GIVE you free native trees and shrubs for your garden! All you have to do is remove one of the invasive plants listed here, and you get a free exchange. Upgrade your garden right away! This recommendation is provided to you by your own in-club Native Plant Ladies! Click here to read more.
Thank Pollinators When You Eat
From Suzy: When you think of pollinators, birds, bats, bees, butterflies, and beetles likely come to mind. These little animals are massively important to our ecosystem by helping plants reproduce — so much so that they are actually responsible for one out of every three bites of food we take, per the Pollinator Partnership.
Suzy Gathering Pots
From Kathy Annable: Suzy gathering pots for the spring plant sale at the Nature Center. She is transporting her own bushes to hide in!! She should have blended in better with the background branches!
Think
how many long years
this tree waited as a seed
for an animal or bird or wind or rain
to maybe carry it to maybe the right spot
where again it waited months for seasons to change
until time and temperature were fine enough to coax it
to swell and burst its hard shell so it could send slender roots
to clutch at grains of soil and let tender shoots reach toward the sun
Think how many decades or centuries it thickened and climbed and grew
taller and deeper never knowing if it would find enough water or light
or when conditions would be right so it could keep on spreading leaves
adding blossoms and dancing
Next time
you see
a tree
think
how
much
hope
it holds
—Whenever you see a tree by Padma Venkatraman
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