Pruning Workshop

Today, Tuesday, March 8, 2022 was cold and windy, but that didn’t stop a mighty group of our gardeners from enjoying the pruning workshop at Stoneleigh in Villanova.

A big thanks goes to Sandy Beale our civic engagement chair who organized this workshop with Sam Nestory of Stoneleigh.  You can see from the pictures below we were on our hands and knees getting down and dirty pruning in this lovely garden.  Some examples of what we learned was how to prune ...

Continue Reading →
0

Protected: February 2022 Meeting Minutes

The Gardeners Garden Club
Meeting Minutes
February 8, 2022
ZOOM

Opening and Speaker:

President Connie Stelzenmuller opened the formal meeting and welcomed all to The Gardeners’ February meet-ing. Prior to the formal meeting, a 15 minute “Friends” conversation was held where members could catch up with each other. Edwina White introduce the day’s speaker, Wendy Mahoney Russell. The presentation, entitled “Understanding Dominance”, helped members appreciate the importance of a dominant aspect to design – whether a photograph or a floral design. ...

Continue Reading →
0

Protected: December 2021 Meeting Minutes

The Gardeners Garden Club
Meeting Minutes
December 14, 2021
St. David’s Church

Opening and Speaker:

President Connie Stelzenmuller opened the meeting and welcomed everyone to the December Gardeners’ meet-ing. Connie thanked Michele Spence and her group of volunteers (Sandy Beale, Lynn Seeburger, Eileen Lon-gacre and Judy Shekmar) for preparing the luncheon. Connie extended a huge thank you to Dora Rogers for coordinating the Christmas arrangement workshop.

Business Meeting:

Minutes from October 2021 meeting were approved as written by a voice vote.

Treasurer’s Report – Bonnie ...

Continue Reading →
0

Protected: Flowers Have a Healing Power

Holly Amsterdam organized a group of The Gardeners for our Ronald McDonald workshop.

On Thursday, November 5, Holly Amsterdam, Bonnie Buchak, Presley Schwinn, Regina Baime, Judy Shekmar and Connie Stelzenmuller gathered to make large and small arrangements for the Ronald McDonald House on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. The RMD folks preferred that we make the arrangements off-site and then deliver to their Ludlow Street ...

Continue Reading →
0

The Gardeners Have a Weed Wrangle

Our Weed Wrangle at Stoneleigh

On Tuesday, November 2, The Gardeners gathered for a Weed Wrangle for their last workday at Stoneleigh. We’ll be back as a group in April 2022. It was damp and overcast, but that didn’t stop us from enjoying being together.

We mostly worked on the long median garden in the parking lot that collects a lot of the rain water runoff. We used our hori hori garden knives, Japanese weeding sickles; and other hand weeders ...

Continue Reading →
1

Protected: October 12, 2021 Minutes

The Gardeners Garden Club
Meeting Minutes
October 12, 2021
Hybrid Meeting – St. John’s Church and Livestream

Opening and Speaker:

President Connie Stelzenmuller opened the meeting and welcomed everyone to the October Gardeners’ meet-ing. Connie thanked the staff at St. John’s for their technical assistance and the use of the sanctuary for the meeting. Connie also thanked Liz Ward for acting as a liaison. Connie noted how wonderful it was to be together in person. Edwina White introduced the guest speakers Leslie ...

Continue Reading →
0

October at Stoneleigh

I’m giving thank-you’s to Margot Patterson, Bonnie Buchak, Judy Shekmar, Judi Garst and Michele Spence, who made it to the Stoneleigh work day today, Tuesday, October 5. We enjoyed one another.

Unfortunately, we didn’t have Sandy Beale, our chair or Sarah Collier our vice chair.  Sandy fell backward down a set of stairs on her backside and banged herself up.  Sarah is still recovering from her fall and must wear her collar for another two months. 

For those of you who couldn’t ...

Continue Reading →
2

Protected: The Gardeners June 2021 Annual Meeting

The Gardeners
June 8, 2021
Virtual Club Meeting Minutes

President Jane Moore called the virtual meeting to order at 10:05 am and welcomed everyone to the final club meeting of the year.
The May 10, 2021 meeting minutes were approved as written. The motion to accept the minutes was made by Betsy Crowell, seconded by Dora Rogers.
A surprise song to Jane, composed and sung by Connie Stelzenmuller and Bonnie Buchak was enjoyed by all. Jane thanked Connie and Bonnie for ...

Continue Reading →
0

Protected: The Gardeners May 2021 Meeting Minutes

Opening and Speaker:

President Jane Moore opened the meeting and welcomed everyone to another Gardeners’ meeting on Zoom. She turned the meeting over to Presley Schwinn to introduce our speaker, Samantha Nestory, an entomologist and horticulturist at Stoneleigh. Stoneleigh is a part of Natural Lands. Samantha’s talk was on beneficial insects in the garden.
Stoneleigh promotes and celebrates diversity of wildlife. She referred to a New York Times article on the dramatic decline in the insect population throughout the world and ...

Continue Reading →
0

Protected: The Gardeners April 2021 Minutes

The Gardeners Garden Club
Meeting Minutes
April 13, 2021
Virtual Meeting on ZOOM

Opening and Speaker:

President Jane Moore opened the meeting and welcomed everyone to another Gardeners’ meeting on ZOOM. Jane called on Presley Schwinn who introduced the day’s speaker, Jeff Groff. Jeff is the estate historian at Wintertur Museum. Jeff’s talk was titled “Lost Gardens of the Main Line”. His presentation, complete with photographs, discussed the types of gardens on the Main Line of Philadelphia during the late 19th and ...

Continue Reading →
0
Page 3 of 16 12345...»