Ask Horti
Molly Dixon
Dear Horti,
With fall comes napping weather (or should I be doing something in my garden?).
Sincerely,
Naptha Dayaway
For Horti’s brilliant answer, read on.
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Lead the Way
Carol Provan and Sandy Holmes
To fulfill the stated commitment of SLGC to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, members since 1966 have voluntarily contributed to a philanthropic fund, and more than $262,000 has been distributed.
Read MoreFounders Fund Information
Lee Warshawsky
Have you ever wondered how Founder's Fund projects are selected for consideration?
Each GCA club is encouraged to submit a funding proposal for a project in which they are involved. The scope of the project should be large, with major community impact.
Read MoreGarden Follies
Mary Anne Liljedahl and Joan Fountain
What is a Garden Folly? English country estates are often associated with intricate networks of rooms and strict social hierarchies. But just outside the country house is an entirely different world—the garden, a freer, more whimsical space where the rules are relaxed. A garden is a place of diversion, distraction and sometimes fantasy. While the house itself is an organized, ordered culture, outside one encounters rain and heat and wind and various surprises. A walk through the garden is different every time. One means of diversion was through the construction of garden follies, little structures that punctuate the landscape.
Read MoreMy Favorite Thing
Lydia Oppmann
Giverny, Claude Monet's house & exquisite gardens were absolutely magical! It was one of our favorite stops with our TAUCK riverboat cruise on the Seine in September. There were no water lilies this time of year, but we saw so many other incredible flowers as we walked through the pathways of Monet's many gardens.
Read MoreMy Favorite Memory
Molly Dixon
When I was a little girl, around 7 years old, our family went to Bali for Christmas, where we slept in thatch huts on the beach (before the large hotels came). Remember how blissfully one slept as a child? Well, my mother awakened my four brothers and me in the middle of the night and marched us in our pajamas through 4 miles of jungle (or so it seemed), she leading with a flashlight.
Read MoreAn Afternoon with Clara Rankin
Lee Warshawsky
When asked to write a description of Mrs. Rankin’s involvement with our Club, I was both flattered and afraid that I could not live up to the task. Many revisions later, I wonder if I have done justice to a woman who is always curious, purposeful and filled with wonder—and is also approachable and candid.
Read MoreThe IPCC Special Report on Global Warming
Robin Schachat
In February of this year, along with Conservation and NAL representatives from national committees and clubs, Cynthia Druckenbrod and I heard a vast number of reports about Climate Change issues. The scientific findings we heard were not presented by partisan organizations, although we did subsequently hear from both Republican and Democrat Senators, Congresspersons, and Members of the Cabinet. The scientific findings presented track quite closely with those that have been presented this week in the press in the new IPCC Special Report. Despite political spin from almost every side, this evidence-based, fact-driven report is dire.
Read MoreTrash Talking
Cynthia Druckenbrod
Did you know that plastic bags are used on average for 12 minutes? Yet, they can last over 1000 years in a landfill. According to the GCA’s position paper on Waste Management, America alone uses over 380 billion plastic bags yearly!
Read MoreChange a Bad Habit for the Good of the Environment!
Cynthia Druckenbrod and Robin Schachat
This month, in keeping with our article on the GCA NAL Position Paper on Waste Management, we are asking you to begin carrying a few other things with you in your car when you go out. That begins, as Cynthia points out, with shopping bags.
Read MoreOverheard at the Garden Gate
SLGC
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 MorePresident's Letter October 2018
Mary Bruce Rae-Grant
Dear 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 MoreVotes are in for the People's Choice Contest!
Beth Boles
Summertime and the Livin' is Easy
The 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 MoreOctober Member Meeting
SLGC
Joint Meeting with the Garden Club of Cleveland
Cleveland 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 MoreHats Off to Cynthia Druckenbrod, Winner of the Catherine Beattie Medal!
Martha Marsh
In 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 MoreA Visit to a Unique Garden in Cleveland
Sally Roman
On 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 MoreRequest from Charitable Projects
Carol Provan and Sandy Holmes
The 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 MoreMy Favorite Thing
Anne Ginn
Years 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 Mania
Dozie Herbruck
Monarch 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 MoreGCA Position Paper - Native Plants
Cynthia Druckenbrod and Robin Schachat
A 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.
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