Master Class Floral Design Series
Cynthia Druckenbrod
11:00am – 1:30pm
BigHearted Blooms’ studio
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NMB Wants YOU!
Robin Schachat and Jane Ellison
It has been more than a year since Jane Ellison, Robin Schachat, Kathryn Craig and Wendy Donkin began creating the program for homeowners that would become Nature in My Backyard, and which was launched as a pilot program at the 2023 Audubon Society of Greater Cleveland (ASGC) Centennial Celebration.
Read MoreMAY DAY, MAY DAY
Robin Schachat and Jane Ellison
We have lost 3 billion birds in the last 50 years and the decline is continuing …… What is a person to do??
Zoom in on MAY 1 (TOMORROW) at NOON to hear John Barber.
Planting is for the Birds - A Primer for your Yard
A Marvelous Way to Celebrate With your Family!
Robin Schachat
Start at 10 AM at the Leach Research Station, for a Breathtaking Walk through the Acres of Blooming Rhododendrons and Azaleas.
This is a Special Day only for Members and Families of SLGC
through our Visiting Gardens!
Join Us at Rid-All!
Stacy Goldberg
We are looking for SLGC volunteers to help provide some love and care in the Rid-All Community Garden. Spend about 2 hours working in the tree nursery or other areas of the garden.
Read MoreVolunteer with Nature in My Backyard
Jane Ellison
Nature in My Backyard (NMB) is a program designed to address the global biodiversity crisis by bringing research-based information to homeowners for improving habitat on their property.
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!
THIS IS THE LAST MAY NEWSLETTER POST!
Read MoreFrom Cynthia...
Cynthia Druckenbrod
Going to the National Affairs and Legislation conference is so EMPOWERING! Not only is it a meeting where we learn about solutions to climate change but the GCA is a force of influential women who have a real impact on our nation’s legislators.
Read MoreMembership Meeting
Hallie Stewart and Lisa Mortimer
Just us at The Cleveland Museum of Art for a docent led tour of the many works of art featuring gorgeous flowers and gardens! Lunch to follow on your own in the cafe or restaurant.
Read MoreWhat’s Up with the Biodiversity Crisis?
Jane Ellison
April 16 at 7 pm
Drinks and Dessert
Join SLGC to celebrate Earth Month!
Read MoreTwo GCA Visiting Gardens Offerings from GCA
Robin Schachat
ON THE ROAD WITH THE GCA: GREENWOOD GARDENS
Thursday, May 16, 2024 11 AM – 3 PM
ON THE ROAD WITH THE GCA MARTHA STEWART'S GARDEN
June 11, 2024 10 AM – 3:30 PM
Read MoreIt’s Visiting Gardens Season Again!
Robin Schachat
As you see, this month our Newsletter offers two new opportunities to visit famous gardens in the New York area with “On the Road with the GCA”.
Read MoreThe Importance of Sterilizing your Seed Trays
Amy Miller
It's so much fun to peruse glossy catalogs of beautiful veggies and flowers in the depths of winter. It's even more fun to grow unusual varieties that no one else can buy at the garden center by starting your own seeds.
Read MoreNon-native, Invasive Honeysuckles: ‘Tis the Season!
Robin Schachat
Early in the spring it is a great pleasure to go for a walk and see the lovely fresh green of early emerging foliage on trees and shrubs – “spring green” is a happy phrase almost whenever you hear it, signaling renewal, regrowth, the onset of longer and sunnier days. Unfortunately, locally one of the earliest of these pretty sights is the soft green leaf of a bush honeysuckle.
Honeysuckles are members of the genus Lonicera. None of the bush species of Lonicera is native to Ohio.
Read MorePlant Suggestions to take the place of Non-native, Invasive Bush Honeysuckles
Robin Schachat
First of all I am going to make an assumption. Most of us whose gardens have been invaded by bush honeysuckles have not set out intentionally to include them, so the vast majority are invaders into existing mixed hedges, woodland edges, and odd spots.
Read MoreYou are Invited to a Seed Starting Workshop
Jennifer Hartford
Friday, April 26th 9:30am
Home of Jennifer Hartford
2761 Chesterton Rd., Shaker Hts.
** Please Bring Your Own Seed Tray Or Container, I Will Provide Seeds And Seed Starting Mix.
Read MoreCharitable Projects Results!
Jane Ellison
Whether you voted or not (and we are glad you did or wish you had) you definitely will be pleased with these results!
Charitable Projects has two winners! They were neck and neck, and thanks to your generous contributions, we have enough money to fund them both, plus money for several other local projects and the Grosscup Scholarship Fund.
Read MoreWeed Wrangle Opportunity
Jane Ellison
SLGC is having one!!!
Saturday, April 27th
1 - 3 pm
Nature, Center at Shaker Lakes, Pavilion
Join the Shaker Lakes Garden Club and the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes for a Weed Wrangle. Working with Nature Center staff and Garden Club volunteers, we'll be learning how to identify and remove invasive species in our natural areas.
Read MoreApril is Native Plant Month in Ohio
Cynthia Druckenbrod
You already know April is officially designated as native plant month and Ohio was the FIRST state in the US to make this important designation.
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!
THIS IS THE LAST APRIL NEWSLETTER POST!
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