This past week, Karen Colini, Nancy Zambie and I had a chance to visit the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA). Last year, we voted to give CIA a Charitable Project grant to fund a student competition.
Fellow Gardeners: Along with planting gardens, it’s time to provide the funds for the wonderful SGLC activities and programs planned for the 2019/20 year.
Active dues are $175 Associate dues are $200 Provisional dues are $100
The beautiful photos are all in and it’s time to vote. Check out the photos, scroll through and enlarge pictures in each category. Then click here to vote. You may have difficulty making a decision! Votes must be in by May 15, and results will be posted in the next newsletter.
Check here for information about the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, Holden Arboretum, the Botanical Gardens, and the Cleveland Metroparks. Our representatives to these organizations will keep us informed as to events of interest for our members.
Here 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.
Excellent, 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.
One of the plants at the top of my favorite perennial list is Baptisia australis, False Indigo. Native to many of the states in the Midwest, it is reliably hardy and tolerant of most soils.
The SLGC membership has voted to award its 2019 major grant to Stonebrook Montessori School, a tuition-free public charter Montessori school within the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, located on Wade Park Boulevard in the Glenville neighborhood.
Many thanks to the Shaker Lakes Garden Club members who designated the Grosscup Scholarship in their SLGC Charitable Projects giving. You make it possible to continue the important work that we do, supporting young scholars from our region in their pursuit of an education in horticulture and its related fields.
For a special garden project for this year, we will be helping University Hospitals create a healing space on the main campus - UH Cleveland Medical Center.
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!