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This News section contains information that has appeared in a monthly newsletter, pertaining only to Club members. The newest articles appear at the top of the page. Each entry is categorized for easy sorting and archiving.
Do you recall, years ago, when we first began to hear why we should not drink water from plastic bottles? That we should never use plastic wrap in the microwave? Why we should not store food in plastic containers marked Recyclable 7?
Read MoreIn May, at the Shaker Lakes Garden Club flower show, Cynthia won the prestigious Catherine Beattie Medal. The Award is named in honor of Mrs. Samuel Beattie, a member of Carolina Foothills Garden Club and former President of GCA.
Read MoreYears ago, the first fall in a new house and garden I was surprised when lots of lilac colored flowers appeared in September. They looked like crocus, but blooming at the wrong time of the year.
Read MoreThe entries are in and it's time to vote on your favorite in each class! Take a look at all the entries (click on the photos to enlarge them) and then click on the link at the bottom of the page to vote. Voting is open from September 10 until September 25, and the results will be announced in the October newsletter.
Read MoreMonarch butterflies are everywhere in Cleveland! I have been raising Monarchs for years and have never seen as many as we have seen this year. I'm hearing the same story from many other butterfly lovers.
Read MoreSeveral club members visited Clara Rankin's former garden at the corner of Chagrin River Road and Shaker Boulevard in August. The garden was designed by Ellen Biddle Shipman, a well-known landscape architect, who described her plantings as if she "were painting pictures as an artist." Mrs. Rankin's garden, designed and installed in the 1920's, has been lovingly maintained over the years.
Read MoreOn the morning of September sixth, 12 garden club members, along with husbands and friends, visited the garden of Brian Thompson in Lyndhurst. The approach to Brian’s garden is up a herringbone brick driveway that is lined on both sides with patterned stone walls. The walls curve to form garden rooms - a morning room to enjoy coffee, a relaxed space to watch the sunsets, a curving wooden path that leads to a small water stream and onto a pavilion overlooking a fish pond. And all of this on Richmond Road.
Read MoreDear Horti,
I’m feeling the urge to transplant some perennials. Any tips?
Autumnally yours,
Miss Placed
Read MoreThe Garden Club of America is made up of 200 members, which are independent garden clubs from across the United States. Shaker Lakes Garden Club has been one of these since 1919 – we are entering our hundredth year.
Read MoreDear Horti,
My hostas look like this:
What shall I do?
Hortfully yours,
Aspar A. Gaceae
The Garden Club of America Annual meeting was challenging, inspiring, entertaining and absolutely educating. Across the country came 600 delegates from the 200 GCA clubs, to learn more about the Garden Club of America, and 400 members who volunteered to help with this meeting.
Read MoreWe arrived in San Francisco on a beautiful, sunny day. Buckets of gorgeous flowers stood on street corners, musicians played their instruments, and the warmth of the sun felt divine. After a very chilly April in NE Ohio, we had arrived in paradise for the GCA Annual Meeting.
Read MoreThe GCA Katharine M. Grosscup Scholarships in Horticulture were awarded to eight students for the 2018-19 school year, for a total of $21,500. The Scholarships, named in memory of a Shaker Lakes Garden Club member, are managed locally by three members of the Shaker Lakes Garden Club, and three members of the Garden Club of Cleveland.
Read MoreAt our May 29 Membership meeting Cathi Lehn, from the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, and Sandra Albro, from Holden Forests and Gardens, talked about the Sustainable initiatives in the Cleveland area.
Read MoreJ. Sterling Morton and his wife moved from Detroit into the Nebraska Territory in 1854. Morton became editor of Nebraska’s finest newspaper and used journalism to share agricultural information and his enthusiasm for trees.
Read MoreIt’s almost like being there – well, not really. But a few of the presentations Cynthia Druckenbrod and I enjoyed at the GCA’s NAL Meeting are available, as slide presentations, on the GCA website. The quality of professionalism and research represented in these presentations is astounding.
Read MoreMany of you know I am in the GCA Horticulture Judging program, but I am not sure that you know that means I am expected to enter Flower Shows. Like many of you, I have looked at the entries and thought, or even said aloud, “I could do as well or better than that!”
Read MoreThis time of year, when we are being teased by occasional days of brilliant blue skies and sunlight that lasts into the early evening, I try not to look too hard at the motheaten snow that continues to adorn my front walk.
Read MoreOn February 12, eight enthusiastic and obviously talented provisionals met for a “hats” workshop. This was in preparation for the provisional only class in our upcoming flower show! As you can see from the pictures, this is an amazing group!
Read MoreSobering, insightful, inspiring, and transformative are just a few of the words that I would use to describe my first-time experience at the NAL conference in February. It’s impossible to distill all that we learned there, but these are some of the highlights:
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