Flowers Among Flowers

What a wonderful turnout for our Fall 2022 maintenance day at St. John’s Presbyterian Church on Monday, October 17. We have a meaningful relationship with St. John’s for our flower shows. For two maintenance days, we get two meetings a year—can’t beat that.

The weather that was iffy with showers predicted only a few days before, but the day turned out to be sunny and beautiful. The soil was a pleasure ...

Read and see below where your members were volunteering at Stoneleigh or visiting gardens that benefit from the PCGCA Fertilizer Fund:

Stoneleigh  Volunteering– September 20

Seven of us arrived with diggers to remove weeds and clippers to remove vines—Sandy Beale, Eileen Longacre, Bonnie Buchak, Presley Schwinn, Sally Bauer, Wyn Coghlan and Connie Stelzenmuller.  We were rained out on our regular first Tuesday of the month and this was our fill-in date.  It was a beautiful, dry fall day.  We usually have Lindsey ...

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 ...

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 ...