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Tuesday, December 9 from 9:30-12:30
Workshop cost $60.00; pre-registration is required
RSVP to Sandy Gibbons at sgibbons@ameritech.net, Checks can be made out to SLGC and sent to Sandy Gibbons at 200 N. Main St., Chagrin Falls, OH 44022
Or you may pay online by going to the Members Only page of the website.
Read MoreKnown for their structure, seed heads and graceful movement, ornamental grasses can and should be an integral part of your garden. When planted en masse, they provide a continuity of color when placed amongst broad leaved plants.
Read MoreIn late September the Provisionals enjoyed a wonderful tour of Ann Cicarella’s garden and apiary. We learned about planting pollinators, and how to support bees in the garden.
Read MoreCheck out the Members Only Page of the website to see some changes. It is a work in progress so more changes will be coming.
Read MoreWhat'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!
THIS IS THE LAST NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER POST!
Read MoreThe SLGC Board is pleased to announce that the following women have accepted the Club's invitation to become new provisional members beginning in the 2021-2022 season. An impressive group of women!
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 MoreWe are pleased to have Trudy Coxe, CEO & Executive Director of the Preservation Society of Newport County, as our guest speaker.
Read MoreCathy 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.
Read MoreA Zone X Awards Ceremony Watch Party ZOOM was held at 5:00 pm on Monday, September 13, 2021 at Chagrin Falls Township Hall in Chagrin Falls for the two SLGC-sponsored Zone awards given out this year. GCA had requested there be a small watch party for our two recipients.
Read MoreThe Photography Committee has been busy with upcoming projects and events and it can all be found on our GCA Website’s Photography Landing Page! It has so much interesting information to see such as Photography Video Resources, including How-to Videos; Upcoming Workshops; and Technical Tips for Digital Photography, to name a few.
Read MoreThe November eNews is Zone X’s month to showcase your member’s photographs!
Photo submission deadline is OCTOBER 10!
Read MoreIt is that time of year to begin thinking about Shaker Lakes Garden Club membership. The health of our club is dependent upon our active, talented, and philanthropic membership.
Read MoreThe riot of summer perennials has passed so which plants will continue to attract pollinators when autumn arrives? Here are some worth planting that will extend the flowering season.
Read MoreA Brief Review of the Situation at the Shaker Lakes, with emphasis on the issues surrounding Horseshoe Lake
Historic Background Timeline
1840’s: The North Union Shakers dammed the North and Middle Forks of Doan Brook to create Horseshoe Lake (aka Upper Shaker Lake), so that they could use hydropower to run a mill.
Read MoreThe Garden Club of American acknowledged the $1,200 gift from the Shaker Lakes Garden Club to the Katherine M. Grosscup Scholarships in Horticulture. Thank you to all members who designated their gifts to Charitable Projects for the Grosscup Scholars.
Read MoreWhat'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!
THIS IS THE LAST OCTOBER NEWSLETTER POST!
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 MoreWe will have our first In Person membership meeting at St. Paul’s Church. Our speaker is the legendary mushroom whisperer, Tom Wiandt, owner of Killbuck Valley Mushroom Farm just outside Wooster, Ohio. You may have seen Tom and his wife Wendy (pictured here) selling mushrooms at the Shaker Heights Farmer’s Market where they have a cult following.
Read MoreThe GCA’s Shirley Meneice Horticultural Conference will be virtual again this year. It has always been a big event, but only two members from every club were able to participate until Covid made it virtual and every member could be part of it. This year the organizers asked Cynthia Druckenbrod to do a video about hybridizing daylilies, so plan to join the Zoom conference! The dates are September 22 and 23, from 11:00 - 1:00 and 4:00 - 6:00 both days.
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