The Healthy Yard Pledge is the TOP Priority of GCA’s Conservation Committee this year! Please go to the GCA website’s Conservation Committee home page and read about this pledge, and how you can make your yard healthy for family and neighbors, as well as for nature!
Here come the holidays! Are you ready? Have you preheated your ovens, polished your candelabras, completed your shopping? If you are looking for a welcome escape, plan to attend our Greens Workshop on December 11 at Plymouth Church.
Last fall I took time off and did not prepare a list of suggested garden books for holiday gifting, so this year I have two years’ worth of new publications to work from! Lucky me! And I perceive a major trend.
Let’s start our review of this year’s wonderful children’s books with a really FUN interactive charmer that turns into a construction project:Turn This Book into a Beehive! Educational information about bees – both our common natives and imported honeybees – abounds in this happily illustrated, colorful, soft-bound volume.
On a recent visit to Lisbon, Portugal, I had the opportunity to visit the National Palace of Queluz. It was originally built as a summer palace for Portugal’s King Pedro, but thirteen years later became the permanent royal residence. This is an exquisite palace with formal gardens and parkland. Queluz is very much like a miniature Versailles.
This month, we draw your attention to the GCA Position paper on Oceans. As with each Position Paper, this is only one page long and is laid out in simple bullet points in four categories: Pollution Reduction, Funding, Sustainable Resource Use, and Ecosystem Protection, Conservation, and Biodiversity.
On Wednesday October 17th, Mary Bruce and I embarked on our trip to The Zone X Presidents’ Council Meeting in...you guessed it…Dayton! If I had been to Dayton before I didn’t remember it — but honestly now I will never forget it! We experienced a fabulous meeting at The Dayton Country Club.
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!