Sometime back in May, we asked for photos of what was blooming in your garden. Several of you did send pictures. This spring, in the view from my sun porch where my husband and I have again returned after this long winter, we have a very old wisteria vine that we now have propped up with a board because it is so heavy. It bends down to say hello to the very old azaleas that line the front of our house. We have ...
Continue Reading →What an exciting June show. Lots of entries. Classes were interesting and camaraderie was there among the members. Someone remarked that she was glad to see so much visiting going on at the end of the show.
Many of you have either run the flower show committee or worked as a member of the committee so you know what it takes to put on one of our flower shows. The tables and supplies come by truck from Chester where everything ...
Continue Reading →The planting and transplanting continue at The Grange. When we arrived in June, many thought the two dwarf crepe myrtles in the entrance garden at the bottom of Mansion Walk had met their demise after our grueling winter; but, we should have known that these 4-yr-olds had a lot of fight left in them. We dug around the shrub roots and there at the base was green. I hope when we go back in July, we will see some new ...
Continue Reading →The Gardeners membership applauded and were so proud at our May 2014 meeting when our president Wyn Coghlan presented Joan Roberts with a GCA award in recognition of her 55 years of dedicated service to The Gardeners. In commemoration of this event, the following letter was sent to Joan from our GCA president, Katherine P. Hines:
Dear Joan,
It is with pride and admiration that I send my very best wishes and congratulations on the occasion of your 55th anniversary of membership ...
Continue Reading →Conservation Education Outreach by Barbara Geltosky
In May, 5 members of The Gardeners, with the help of community volunteers, met at St Augustine Church in Norristown to make terrariums with a group of second through fourth grade girls in an after-school program. According to their website, The St. Augustine Academy for youth is an after-school enrichment program for Norristown girls in Grades 1 – 4. The Monday and Wednesday program runs from 3:30 to 5:45 following the school calendar. The St. ...
Continue Reading →National Affairs and Legislation Committee
Barbara Geltosky
Vice Chair Energy Sources
May 2014
“Why We Should Worry About LNG”
As the US begins to produce more shale gas from fracking, the possibility of selling it to markets abroad at a higher profit is creating new dilemmas for environmentalists. Not only is the liquefaction process a potentially hazardous one, but the opening up of export markets will create a more demand for fracked gas with increased environmental impact. The current geopolitical situation, particularly ...
Continue Reading →The Grange workday project for May was a demanding one. Cathy Decker and DeeDee Heyward budgeted for the plants that they researched last fall and finally bought at the Yellow Springs Farm nursery. This is the second major planting for the Grange in the nearly 5 years that we have been there. The first major planting was the entrance garden that greets each visitor coming down the mansion path.
The first Tuesday in May was a perfect day for planting–cool and ...
Continue Reading →Kudos to Sandra Hudson for organizing the annual party and fund raiser for The Gardeners–a lot of work, but financially so successful. The amazing total for the night was $8,536.00. I loved the beautiful floral arrangement that Michele Jamison and Sandra created for the entrance area–gorgeous. They raffled it off and Wyn Coghlan was the winner. You can always depend on Liz Negrey who quietly shows up before the party begins (she has done this in years past) to make ...
Continue Reading →Every year several members of the Gardeners trek to Washington DC right before the Flower Show to attend the National Affairs and Legislation Conference. This year Deedee Heyward and Barbara Geltosky took the most sustainable train to Washington for an action packed four days along with sixteen other members of Zone V. The meeting starts with a field trip- this time it was the outdoor rooms of the Roosevelt memorial and the striking design of the Martin Luther King ...
Continue Reading →I thought it would be interesting to gather some statistics about the Philadelphia Flower Show so I gleaned the following from various sources: It’s billed as the world’s longest-running and largest indoor exhibit of its kind and is produced by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society with the help of some 3,500 dedicated volunteers who work behind the scenes. Behind the scenes of the competition, and at the heart of the Flower Show, volunteers are organized into a complex web of committees ...
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