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Installation of the SLGC Charitable Projects funded Raingarden at the Rice Branch Library in Buckeye!
All are welcome at a volunteer opportunity on the install day of the Rice Branch Library Raingarden! The install will start at 8 am on May 5th (May 12th raindate).
Read MoreOn Thursday, April 20, from 2 until 3 pm, comes a Zoom every GCA club member should see –
Read MoreNational Affairs Legislation Conference 2023:
It’s time to register for the NAL conference! The A in GCA stands for Advocate
and this conference brings together GCA members from all over the country to
learn more about GCA’s current focus on legislation and federal policy
initiatives that reflect our purpose.
As we are moving into 2023 and begin planning our gardens, let’s consider a conservation approach. At our November meeting, I shared a brochure developed by Doug Tallamy, an entomologist, ecologist, and conservationist who encourages all to create biodiversity by turning our yards into a “Homegrown National Park”. Let’s move forward by championing Native Plants that encourage the regeneration of our wildlife.
Read MoreYessiree!! That’s where the National Conservation and NAL Committees met up last month.
Read MoreWe love the beautiful fall foliage, but once those leaves fall into our gardens, we are gripped with the urge to blow every leaf away and cut back all our plants. But we know so much more now about what the duff layer provides in terms of both food and shelter to bacteria, fungi and tiny invertebrates, such as earthworms, snails and millipedes, who make a huge contribution to nutrient recycling.
Read MoreThursday, September 22, 2022
Gates Mills Community House, Upper Floor
9:30 Coffee, 10 AM Presentation
Please register by September 9, 2022
Free Admission
The annual 2022 NAL Conference “Advocacy in Action” took place March1 - 3 and was once again held virtually due to the pandemic. While it was disappointing for attendees and presenters not able to meet in person, it was open to all GCA members and over 1,200 attendees participated from across the nation.
Read MoreNAL or National Affairs and Legislation is the advocacy arm of the GCA that has been working with our legislators since the early 1970s to advocate for the environment. The environmental laws (Clean Air, Clean Water, Endangered Species, National Environmental Policy Act, etc.) of this period form the foundation of environmental protection in America. The GCA was there.
Read MoreLast month I wrote about improvements to our ecology, our environment, and eventually our necessary Food Web that are achieved by planting native trees, as well as native shrubs, forbs, et al.
Read MoreAll Club Members in Zone X are Invited to the Zoom Presentation!
March 9, 2021 from 9:30 - 11:00 am
It is with great excitement that The Garden Club of Dayton invites all of Zone X to join them in a presentation by Kathleen Biggins of C-Change Conversation.
Read MoreWhy Straight Species Trees, not Cultivars? What is the Homegrown National Park?
Many ladies of the club have asked me these questions since we settled on the plan for a Shaker Lakes Garden Club Tree Grove to commemorate our club’s first hundred years of membership in the Garden Club of America.
Read MoreThere are approximately 350 million Christmas trees growing on more than 15,000 Christmas tree farms across the United States. Roughly 30 million Christmas trees are sold each year domestically.
Read MoreAs the holidays approach, many will be getting newer and better electronics. The question is what to do with the old. Cleveland Heights and many suburbs will take them for recycling but their schedule might not be yours. What to do?
Read MoreZero waste starts with simple changes that can be easy to adopt and collectively can make a big difference in our environment. Each new habit we form helps us move closer to a more sustainable world and healthier environment.
Read MoreJane Ellison, First Vice Chairman of NAL for GCA, and I traveled to Washington, DC to participate in GCA’s outstanding advocacy leadership that began 37 years ago.
Read MoreIt might seem early, but April 15 is a good rule of thumb for putting your hummingbird feeders out. My personal experience over the last 12 years has been that they arrive within the first two weeks of May.
Read MoreNo doubt many of us are in full plant-buying mode right now. If you are looking to add new perennials, annuals or shrubs and trees to your gardens, check out the Audubon Society’s native plants database: https://www.audubon.org/native-plants
Read MoreHere is a round-up of very simple changes – many of which you’ve likely already made – to choose among when preparing for summer in your yard! For specific details on how to create or install new features, ask around the club as many members have already done these things, or check out local workshops at sources like the Botanic Garden or Nature Center.
Read MoreExcellent, thought-provoking presentations were again the highlights of the 2019 NAL conference in Washington DC. Several speakers presented irrefutable evidence that climate change is real and that we are the cause of it.
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