Charitable Projects Request
Carol Provan and Sandy Holmes
Do you want to work for a terrific organization that wants to make Northeast Ohio a better and more beautiful place? Save the environment? Help people love to garden?
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President's Letter December 2018
Mary Bruce Rae-Grant
Here come the holidays! Are you ready? Have you preheated your ovens, polished your candelabras, completed your shopping? If you are looking for a welcome escape, plan to attend our Greens Workshop on December 11 at Plymouth Church.
Read MoreHoliday Greens Workshop
SLGC
Tuesday, December 11 from 9:30-12:30
at Plymouth Church
2860 Coventry Road, Shaker Hts. 44120
RSVP to Meg Furey; cost is $45
Read MoreCharitable Projects Status Report
Carol Provan and Sandy Holmes
Thank you to all who quickly and generously responded to our club’s request for funds for exciting community programs and projects.
Read MoreHoliday Gifts: Gardening Books for Gifting (and Us!)
Robin Schachat
Last fall I took time off and did not prepare a list of suggested garden books for holiday gifting, so this year I have two years’ worth of new publications to work from! Lucky me! And I perceive a major trend.
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Robin Schachat
Let’s start our review of this year’s wonderful children’s books with a really FUN interactive charmer that turns into a construction project: Turn This Book into a Beehive! Educational information about bees – both our common natives and imported honeybees – abounds in this happily illustrated, colorful, soft-bound volume.
Read MoreAsk Horti
Molly Dixon
Dear Horti,
I am anxious for snow to cover the sins of my garden, since right now it is brown and bare without blossoms and leaves. Thoughts?
Yours,
Dee Rabb
For Horti’s brilliant answer, read on.
Read MoreGarden History and Design
Joan Fountain
On a recent visit to Lisbon, Portugal, I had the opportunity to visit the National Palace of Queluz. It was originally built as a summer palace for Portugal’s King Pedro, but thirteen years later became the permanent royal residence. This is an exquisite palace with formal gardens and parkland. Queluz is very much like a miniature Versailles.
Read MoreOCEANS: GCA Position Paper
Cynthia Druckenbrod and Robin Schachat
This month, we draw your attention to the GCA Position paper on Oceans. As with each Position Paper, this is only one page long and is laid out in simple bullet points in four categories: Pollution Reduction, Funding, Sustainable Resource Use, and Ecosystem Protection, Conservation, and Biodiversity.
Read More“You Can’t Go a Day Without Dayton”
Susan White
On Wednesday October 17th, Mary Bruce and I embarked on our trip to The Zone X Presidents’ Council Meeting in...you guessed it…Dayton! If I had been to Dayton before I didn’t remember it — but honestly now I will never forget it! We experienced a fabulous meeting at The Dayton Country Club.
Read MoreOverheard at the Garden Gate
SLGC
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!
Read MorePresident's Letter November 2018
Mary Bruce Rae-Grant
Dear Friends,
It is the middle of October and it has been a whirlwind week. It began with Rick Darke’s program for our joint meeting with Garden Club of Cleveland. Our sister club brought us a wonderful speaker, known for his work in regenerative landscapes. Rick’s knowledge and experience is immense.
Read MoreAn Invitation from Dunham Tavern
SLGC
A thank you invitation for our support of Dunham’s gardens. Please respond immediately!
216-431-1060 – dunhamtavern@sbcglobal.net
November Member Meeting
SLGC
Tuesday, November 27
9:30 am - coffee /10:00 am - meeting
11:00 am - speaker
Western Reserve Land Conservancy
3859 Chagrin River Rd.
Moreland Hills, OH 44022
RSVP to Judy Eakin at judyeakin1107@gmail.com or 440-840-1860
Read MoreAsk Horti
Molly Dixon
Dear Horti,
With fall comes napping weather (or should I be doing something in my garden?).
Sincerely,
Naptha Dayaway
For Horti’s brilliant answer, read on.
Read MoreLead the Way
Carol Provan and Sandy Holmes
To fulfill the stated commitment of SLGC to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, members since 1966 have voluntarily contributed to a philanthropic fund, and more than $262,000 has been distributed.
Read MoreFounders Fund Information
Lee Warshawsky
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 MoreGarden Follies
Mary Anne Liljedahl and Joan Fountain
What 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 MoreMy Favorite Thing
Lydia Oppmann
Giverny, 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 MoreMy Favorite Memory
Molly Dixon
When 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.
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