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 ...

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 ...

Ronald McDonald House

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NOV

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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 ...

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 ...

By Anne Barnett

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JUL

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Devon Elementary Pollinator Project
by Barbara Geltosky

This spring, members of the Gardeners partnered with Devon Elementary school to plant a pollinator garden in raised beds at the school. Although the scope of the program changed when the State legislature enacted stringent backround check requirements for anyone coming in contact with children, we went ahead and created the garden for the school.

Our first work sessions was clearing debris and then on subsequent visits, including one in the pouring rain, we planted ...

Here is what the chairs of the Public Parks and Gardens Committee–Cathy Decker and DeeDee Heyward— sent you following the May workday:

“Many thanks to Anne Barnett, Wyn Coghlan, Sarah Collier and Connie Stelzenmuller.  Plantings put in last year in the Triangle Bed are doing well.  Fothergilla is in exceptional blossom!  We look forward to all of the perennials donated by Sandy Beale to be making an appearance soon. The usual weeding was done in various beds.  Many ferns were removed behind Water ...