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Have you ever wondered how Founder's Fund projects are selected for consideration?
Each GCA club is encouraged to submit a funding proposal for a project in which they are involved. The scope of the project should be large, with major community impact.
Read MoreWhat is a Garden Folly? English country estates are often associated with intricate networks of rooms and strict social hierarchies. But just outside the country house is an entirely different world—the garden, a freer, more whimsical space where the rules are relaxed. A garden is a place of diversion, distraction and sometimes fantasy. While the house itself is an organized, ordered culture, outside one encounters rain and heat and wind and various surprises. A walk through the garden is different every time. One means of diversion was through the construction of garden follies, little structures that punctuate the landscape.
Read MoreGiverny, Claude Monet's house & exquisite gardens were absolutely magical! It was one of our favorite stops with our TAUCK riverboat cruise on the Seine in September. There were no water lilies this time of year, but we saw so many other incredible flowers as we walked through the pathways of Monet's many gardens.
Read MoreWhen 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 MoreWhen asked to write a description of Mrs. Rankin’s involvement with our Club, I was both flattered and afraid that I could not live up to the task. Many revisions later, I wonder if I have done justice to a woman who is always curious, purposeful and filled with wonder—and is also approachable and candid.
Read MoreIn February of this year, along with Conservation and NAL representatives from national committees and clubs, Cynthia Druckenbrod and I heard a vast number of reports about Climate Change issues. The scientific findings we heard were not presented by partisan organizations, although we did subsequently hear from both Republican and Democrat Senators, Congresspersons, and Members of the Cabinet. The scientific findings presented track quite closely with those that have been presented this week in the press in the new IPCC Special Report. Despite political spin from almost every side, this evidence-based, fact-driven report is dire.
Read MoreDid you know that plastic bags are used on average for 12 minutes? Yet, they can last over 1000 years in a landfill. According to the GCA’s position paper on Waste Management, America alone uses over 380 billion plastic bags yearly!
Read MoreThis month, in keeping with our article on the GCA NAL Position Paper on Waste Management, we are asking you to begin carrying a few other things with you in your car when you go out. That begins, as Cynthia points out, with shopping bags.
Read MoreWhat'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!
Read MoreDear Friends,
By the time you read this, Fall will be upon us. I look forward to our joint meeting with Garden Club of Cleveland. I hope to see you at Cleveland Botanical Garden on October 16 for what promises to be an interesting program.
Read MoreThe entries are in and it's time to vote on your favorite in each class! Take a look at all the entries (click on the photos to enlarge them) and then click on the link at the bottom of the page to vote. Voting is open from September 10 until September 25, and the results will be announced in the October newsletter.
Read MoreCleveland Botanical Gardens
11030 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
11:30 am
$35/person for luncheon and speaker
Parking in garage is $5
RSVP: Annamarie Brancovsky or call 440-289-0279 by 10/9 at the LATEST!
Read MoreIn 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 MoreOn September 6 several SLGC members were treated to a visit at the home of Brian Thompson, owner of Thompson Landscape Designs. His yard includes unique gardens on Richmond Road with intimate personal spaces and beautiful stone work.
Read MoreThe Charitable Projects Committee not only requests your money to fund the projects you choose, we also need your deep community connections. Please stop for a moment and think about organizations or groups that might benefit from money and/or guidance from SLGC that will assist them in “matters related to environmental protection, conservation, horticulture, gardening and related subjects.”
Read MoreYears ago, the first fall in a new house and garden I was surprised when lots of lilac colored flowers appeared in September. They looked like crocus, but blooming at the wrong time of the year.
Read MoreMonarch butterflies are everywhere in Cleveland! I have been raising Monarchs for years and have never seen as many as we have seen this year. I'm hearing the same story from many other butterfly lovers.
Read MoreA quick Intro from your Conservation and National Affairs & Legislation Co-Chairs
Life on Earth depends on plants, both those that we humans eat (broccoli? apples?) and those that our food sources eat (grass-fed cattle? millet-fed chickens?). To procreate, plants must be pollinated.
Read MoreQuestions about recycling? The following letter was sent to me from the County Recycling Center:
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