University Hospital's Garden Needs Volunteers
Caroline Emmet
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.
Read MoreNewsletter Posts
Filtering by Category: Horticulture
You are Invited to a Potluck Seed Starting Workshop
Susan White
When: April 18 from 10 AM to 12 PM.
Where: Susan White’s Garage,
94 West Summit Street
Chagrin Falls, OH 44022
Removing Bulbs from Cold Storage
Amy Miller
So, you have waited patiently for the required 12-16 weeks of bulb chilling. Now, it’s time to reap your reward!
Remove your pot from its chilling spot and observe the bulbs – there are often yellow shoots coming out of the soil. Place the pot in a low light location for about a week where the temperature is between 50-60 degrees to slowly ease your bulbs out of their cold storage.
Read MoreGot Ladybugs?
Cynthia Druckenbrod
You’re not alone! The multicolored Asian ladybeetle (Harmonia axyridis) can be a frequent visitor inside our warm homes in the winter, sometimes to our great consternation. Introduced in to the southern US in the early 1900’s to control soybean aphids, the Asian Ladybeetles are now well established across much of the country, to the detriment of native lady bug species.
Read MoreForcing Bulbs into Early Bloom
Amy Miller
A small but mighty group of SLGC members met at the CBG in November to prepare pots of bulbs to enjoy in the spring. The workshop was ably led by Amy Miller, who gave us the following directions:
Read MoreAmazing Airplants!
Cynthia Druckenbrod
One of the hottest new trends in houseplants are the diminutive and cute group of plants known as airplants.
Read MoreA New Home for “Shrek's Ears”
Karen Colini
If you’ve been collecting succulents the last few years, you may have noticed that after a while their growth slows down and the leaves become less colorful or shriveled. These are signs that the plant is outgrowing its original container and should be re-potted.
Read MoreAsk Horti
Molly Dixon
Dear Horti,
I am anxious for snow to cover the sins of my garden, since right now it is brown and bare without blossoms and leaves. Thoughts?
Yours,
Dee Rabb
For Horti’s brilliant answer, read on.
Read MoreAsk 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.
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 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 MoreHorticulture Help
Robin Schachat
All your concerns and questions about Horticulture answered here!
By Miss Hortense E. Toity
(a.k.a. Horti Toity)
Fall Horticultural Ideas
Robin Schachat
Native Perennial Plants to Put in the Garden Now
To Enjoy Next Year and for Many Years to Come
Read More
Fall Horticultural Program
Molly Dixon
Tuesday, September 11 at 10:30 am
at Bluestone Perennials Nursery
7211 Middle Ridge Rd, Madison, OH 44057
RSVP to molly.dixon@mac.com.
Horticulture Help
Molly Dixon
Dear Horti,
I’m feeling the urge to transplant some perennials. Any tips?
Autumnally yours,
Miss Placed
Horticulture Help
Molly Dixon
All your concerns and questions about Horticulture answered here!
By Miss Hortense E. Toity
(a.k.a. Horti Toity)
Guide to Spring Garden Prep
Molly Dixon
1. Order summer bulbs & seeds
2. Clean gardening tools
3. Fix fences, gates & trellis
4. Clean up flower beds and borders
5. Hunt down garden pests
6. Stake
7. Prune
8. Divide and transplant
9. Amend soil
For details, click here:
Read MoreA Flower Show Workshop
Margaret Ransohoff
Cocktails and Castor Beans
(but not mixed!)
Thursday February 22nd at 6:00
Home of Margaret Ransohoff
19850 Marchmont Rd.
Shaker Hts. 44122
Christmas Amaryllis
Martha Marsh
Now What?!
Many of us have lovely amaryllises blooming in our houses over the holidays, either by design or from gifts.
Read MoreShirley Meneice Horticulture Workshop, Omaha September 2017
Robin Schachat
To begin with, Shirley wasn’t there.
For the first time in all 16 years of workshops, Shirley Meneice was absent, stuck at home in California following a bad fall. Shirley is one of the GCA’s stalwarts, a champion of horticulture practice and programs, and the greatest supplier of seeds to GCA Seed Share.
Read More