At the February 26 Charitable Projects meeting on Zoom, discussion centered around the 13 proposals submitted for consideration. There is currently approximately $16,000 to distribute, although additional gifts are still welcome.
Since the Garden Club of America is celebrating Frederick Law Olmsted this year, and our own club has been reading about his life, our column this month will continue to highlight the impact of Frederick Law Olmsted and his sons’ firm in Cleveland area gardens.
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 just a few weeks away, and the earliest garden plants will be visible before long. Snowdrops, winter aconite, hellebores! Winter is long but February is thankfully short.
The February SLGC Newsletter featured an article that outlined the Founders Fund Award and how its recipients are chosen. The GCA Founders Fund Committee is now pleased to announce the three finalists for 2021.
Last month I wrote about improvements to our ecology, our environment, and eventually our necessary Food Web that are achieved by planting native trees, as well as native shrubs, forbs, et al.
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!
And Happy New Year! The days are getting noticeably longer and we’ve enjoyed some sunny days in between the gray ones that we know to expect in January.
Have you wondered what is going on behind the Art Museum and at the intersection of 105th and Martin Luther King Boulevard? This work is part of the greater project to restore Doan Brook to a more natural state.
All Club Members in Zone X are Invited to the Zoom Presentation! March 9, 2021 from 9:30 - 11:00 am
It is with great excitement that The Garden Club of Dayton invites all of Zone X to join them in a presentation by Kathleen Biggins of C-Change Conversation.
The Fine Arts Garden was opened and dedicated on July 3, 1928 celebrating all of the planning, philanthropy, plantings and sculpture. This was the culmination of the efforts of the Garden Club of Cleveland to create a fitting park in front of the new neoclassical façade of the Cleveland Museum of Art on property that had been donated by Jeptha Wade - now called Wade Park.
Why Straight Species Trees, not Cultivars? What is the Homegrown National Park?
Many ladies of the club have asked me these questions since we settled on the plan for a Shaker Lakes Garden Club Tree Grove to commemorate our club’s first hundred years of membership in the Garden Club of America.
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!
It is only a few days from a new year, and I suspect that most of us will not be unhappy to bid 2020 goodbye. The arbitrary shift from “old” to “new” suggests the possibility for renewal – of our gardens, our connections with friends, our promises to ourselves.
Cleveland has a rich history in Garden Design. The first Golden Age of estate and public gardens occurred in the late 1920s and 1930s. I intend to research that history and write about gardens of that era that are local. It is fascinating to discover who built those gardens and who designed them.