Deb Donaldson Wins 2017 Dorothy Falcon Platt Award
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Pictured above from left to right: Sarah Collier bending over; a happy butterfly; the group of Sarah Collier, Deb Donaldson, Lyn Marinchak, Liz Mercogliano, Barbara Geltosky and Karen Helm; Lyn Marinchak holding a basket of peppers.
This fall, a group of Gardeners has been helping out at Rushton Farms, in Newtown Square, which is part of the Willistown Conservation Trust. We have partnered with the Conservancy in the past to design and build a rain garden and ...
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OCT
OCT
Our first meeting of the 2017-2018 fiscal year was held at Church of the Redeemer and what a treat it was for those in attendance.
Tina Ellor of Phillips Mushroom Farm (their mycologist and techncal specialist) gave us a small lesson in the biology of mushrooms and a huge lesson on the pharmacology benefits of mushrooms. Tina didn’t hold back on plying the membership with freebies: There was a generous variety of fresh mushrooms to be had along with free cookbooks, ...
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SEP
SEP
Every year The Gardeners has a plant sale to raise money for the GCA Scholarship Fund and this May was no different. When we couldn’t force any more plants on our membership, Liz Mercoliano, Barbara Geltosky and Connie Stelzenmuller packed up their cars with the remaining plants and delivered them to Lankenau High School in Roxborough. Why did we pick that school? You may have read about the vandalism perpetrated on the gardens at Lankenau High School several months ago. Read what I ...
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JUN
JUN
This blog about the PHS Flower Show is sooo late, but I couldn’t give up on not sending it to you even at this late date. Here are some stories from our members who entered the show and from our president Karen Helm:
It gives me the utmost pleasure to announce that The Gardeners won the Margaret Buckley Zantzinger Award for the Garden Club accumulating the the greatest number of points in all competitive sections of the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show. A minimum of ...
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MAY
MAY
Ronald McDonald House
What would you have expected to pay for a meal which included great wines of unlimited quantity, high quality craft beers, delicious appetizers that included local cheeses, beef from Helen Elkins farm, hot dogs of high quality local beef, two different kind of soup shots, the best macaroni and cheese that you ever tasted–laced with good bacon and four kinds of cheeses and wonderful vegetables and desserts. Would you have guessed $100? $75? $50?–no, but how about $35.00? Yes for ...
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OCT
OCT
October 1 turned out to be one of those days that we haven’t experienced in a long time this fall–cold That didn’t stop the pollinator party of adults and kids (wearing shorts) from gathering at the Devon Elementary School garden for an official ceremony which included the science teacher, Jeremiah Glass; the principal Todd Parker and the superintendent of schools Dr. Richard Gusick and, of course, the children who participated in the pollinator project.
The children in Mr. Glass’s science class ...
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OCT
OCT
By Anne Barnett
The Garden Club of America
National Affairs and legislation Committee
May 2015
The Changing Face of US Energy
By Barbara Geltosky, Vice Chairman Energy Sources
When I first started writing about Energy as a Zone Rep, under Derry MacBride and Claire Caudill, fracking was just coming to the fore, no one had heard about the Keystone Pipeline, power plants ran primarily on ...
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