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Thank you all for your confidence in my leadership! As we begin the next chapter, I look forward to working with you to continue to connect each other and our communities to plants and the joy of gardening.
Read MoreThis is my last President’s letter – the next newsletter will be the summer edition, and you will hear from Cynthia Druckenbrod, who will be installed as President at our Annual Meeting on June 28.
Read MoreAt this time of year you can practically stand still and watch the leaves unfurl and the grass grow. Everything is a brighter green, and despite the snow events we have experienced recently, the daffodils, pansies, and hellebores in my garden are holding up.
Read MoreNow it’s officially spring, and we’ve had a few days of beautiful weather, warm enough to get out in the garden and take stock of what’s up and what needs to be freed from the mat of oak leaves that blew in after our fall clean-up.
Read MoreGreetings, Garden Friends –
March is the month of the Vernal Equinox – Spring will officially be here in just a few weeks!
Read MoreGreetings, Garden Friends –
January will be in the rear view mirror by the time you read this, but as I write the snow from the big storm is still deep on the yard. I am thankful that it wasn’t preceded by freezing rain, because that’s what did so much damage last year.
Read MoreGreetings, Garden Friends –
A month ago I wrote about how different our anticipation of the holidays is this year, compared to the prospect of Zoomed family gatherings in December 2020. Well, you know what happened!
Read MoreGreetings, Garden Friends –
I’m writing this a few days before Thanksgiving, and thinking about how different our anticipation of the holidays was last year, when we had to plan for remote celebrations and Zoomed gatherings with family and friends. How fortunate we are now – not out of the woods yet, but able to gather in person and share our thanks.
Read MoreGreetings, 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.
Read MoreGreetings, Garden Friends –
The Fabens are back in Cleveland, but I kept the kayak photo as a reminder of our shortened summer on Georgian Bay. Now we are officially into Autumn, and suddenly it feels like a different season!
Read MoreGreetings, Garden Friends –
I’m writing this on August 17, one week into our relaxing vacation on Georgian Bay, Ontario. We are off the grid (solar works very well, with a little propane for the water heater) and surrounded by water, so life is a complete change from Cleveland!
Read MoreGreetings, Garden Friends –
Summer is in full bloom, and it’s going fast. My own garden has not had the attention I gave it last year, when it was my refuge from the enforced isolation of lockdowns and cancellations, but it’s looking decent – this has been a good growing year for everyone.
Read MoreGreetings, Garden Friends –
What a month we’ve had – gloppy snow on Mother’s Day, 90 degrees two weeks later! Our plants’ heads are spinning, but it looks like most of the flowering shrubs and trees have survived and bloomed.
Read MoreThe progress of Spring has been impressive, with abundant daffodils, flowering shrubs and trees, and herbaceous garden plants reappearing (or not) after a winter underground. Now May is here and the pace is picking up, in the garden and on our calendars, as more of us get vaccinated and we feel safer going out and about, still masked but getting together with friends and family. We know we must remain vigilant, and careful, but the possibilities are opening up and we’re enjoying every bit of it!
Read MoreDaylight Saving Time is here, the earliest Spring flowers are blooming, buds are visible on shrubs and the maples are starting to get “fuzzy.”
Read MoreGreetings, Garden Friends,
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.
Read MoreGreetings, Garden Friends,
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.
Read MoreGreetings, Garden Friends,
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.
Read MoreGreetings, Garden Friends,
We have enjoyed a month of glorious color, some incredibly warm and sunny days, and a little snow to remind us of what we can look forward to in the winter months.
Read MoreGreetings, Garden Friends,
Trees! I have tree news. At our Board meeting this morning the Board voted to go ahead with a tree planting project to commemorate our 100th year of affiliation with the Garden Club of America. A grove of six trees will be planted near the Lower Lake in the chain of lakes the Shakers dammed in the mid-19th century. The space is west of “Lovers’ Lane” and south of the footbridge over the west end of the lake as it empties into Doan Brook on the way out to Lake Erie. This area was hit hard by the microburst in September 2019 and a number of surviving trees are not in good shape. Our trees will be native species.
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