We have bulbs ready for you to plant and enter in the Flower Show. These can be picked up immediately from Robin Schachat (216-751-3949) or Margaret Ransohoff.
Please take a few minutes to complete the survey. This will help our club leaders identify talents and interests we may not already know about you and serve as an invaluable tool for recruiting future board members, committee chairs and volunteers in general.
The Charitable Projects Committee of The Shaker Lakes Garden Club is pleased to offer the top two choices of projects received in this 2017-2018 fiscal year. One of these proposals will receive the largest grant.
On an unusually balmy February Tuesday, Debbie Oliver, from Cincinnati's Town and Country Garden Club, visited us. She filled our heads with sunny floral designs. She piqued our interest with clever decor mechanics, and taught us how to make a stunning contemporary design.
Sobering, insightful, inspiring, and transformative are just a few of the words that I would use to describe my first-time experience at the NAL conference in February. It’s impossible to distill all that we learned there, but these are some of the highlights:
On February 12, eight enthusiastic and obviously talented provisionals met for a “hats” workshop. This was in preparation for the provisional only class in our upcoming flower show! As you can see from the pictures, this is an amazing group! Our own Cathy Miller led them through mechanics and tricks of the trade. We are looking forward to their final creations in May…what fun it will be!
This time of year, when we are being teased by occasional days of brilliant blue skies and sunlight that lasts into the early evening, I try not to look too hard at the moth-eaten snow that continues to adorn my front walk.
What's the news? What did you hear over the garden gate? Notice any errors in the new Directory? 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!
THIS IS THE LAST POST OF THE APRIL 2018 NEWSLETTER.
The GCA Founders Fund was established in 1934 to support and encourage member clubs’ civic projects. This year, $30,000 will be awarded to the winning project, and $10,000 to each runner-up.
Roots Rising: A Food Truck and Financial Stability
Dunbar Garden Kitchen-Classroom
A Therapeutic Garden: Nurturing Plants and Lifting Spirits
The Founders Fund Award, established in 1934, was created by Mrs. Harold L. Pratt to honor the Garden Club of America’s twelve founding clubs and the memory of GCA’s first president, Mrs. J. Willis Martin, who served from 1913 to 1920.
In an effort to become more efficient, cost conscious and to avoid envelope adventures we are going to distribute dues notices via email for the 2018/19 year. The notice will go out in April with payment due by June 30, 2018. Those few members without email will receive a notice via regular mail.
What is Aquafaba, you ask? Have you ever opened a can of garbanzo beans (aka chickpeas) and drained off that nasty, viscous liquid surrounding the beans? That stuff you poured away – it’s liquid gold!
What's the news? What did you hear over the garden gate? Notice any errors in the new Directory? 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!
THIS IS THE LAST POST OF THE FEBRUARY 2018 NEWSLETTER.
It’s hard to believe the year has come to an end. We have much to look forward to in 2018; terrific programs, our Flower Show in May and giving to the greater Cleveland community through Charitable Projects.
Speaking of Charitable Projects, this is a reminder that if you haven’t already, it’s time to send in your annual gift to Kate Stenson. Unfortunately we are significantly behind where we should be to date with gifts received. If you sent your check earlier in the year, it’s quite possible that your gift was actually for the 2016-17 fiscal year. If you’re unsure whether you have fulfilled your charitable contribution obligation for 2017-18, please check with Kate.
As the holidays approach, I start baking. I love to make Springerle, and my favorite mold is a very large one my Mother gave me about 25 years ago. It was made in Germany and features a woman watering her garden.