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!
Spring is in the air, and it will feel great to putter about in the garden once again. Recently, ten of our members had an early taste of spring. They traveled to Philadelphia to enjoy the Philadelphia Flower Show. This year’s theme was Flower Power.
We are thrilled to share with you the schedule for our Flower Show, Cornucopia, which will take place Oct 19-20, 2019 at the Orange Senior Center. Click here to read the show schedule.
Thank you for your generous support of SLGC’s Charitable Projects. Twenty-two proposals were received by the CP Committee in application for our approximately $12, 000 in contributions for funding.
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!
As the SLGC Liaison for the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, I recently met up with Kay Carlson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Nature Center, and Julia Mitchell, Grants Manager. We had a wonderful conversation about the Center’s community outreach, programming, and current initiatives happening on the 20 acres at 2600 South Park Blvd. Please find a few fun facts taken from my conversation which I have put in the format of “Did you know?”