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Plant This, Not That

Robin Schachat

Commonly when we think of endangered species in North America, we might think of Polar Bears; when we think of extinct species, we imagine the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. But plants fall into these categories also. According to the website Gardenia, the US Forest Service estimates that invasive species have contributed to the decline of 42% of US endangered and threatened plant species, and the extinction of up to 18%. “They displace and alter native plant communities, degrade wildlife habitat and water quality, and potentially lead to increased soil erosion.

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President's Letter - November 2021

Leigh Fabens

Greetings, Garden Friends –

Our 2021-22 Garden Club season is off to a good start, after a well-attended and well-received September program where Tom Wiandt awed us with the complexity of mushroom cultivation, followed by October’s Joint Meeting, hosted by SLGC this year and featuring Trudy Coxe, CEO and Executive Director of The Preservation Society of Newport County, winner of the 2021 GCA Medal for Historic Preservation.

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A Well-Deserved Honor

Martha Marsh

Cathy Miller has been made a Botanical Arts Judge!

Botanical Jewelry, as it was called in the beginning, became popular in the East in the late 1900’s. Our own Dotty Elliott first saw it at The Philadelphia Flower Show and was so taken with it that when she got home, she invited a woman from the Wissahicken GC to speak at our joint meeting with GCC. Cathy, already a jeweler and metalsmith, was immediately smitten with the art form.

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