The Williamson Garden Club presents
Beginning Bonsai
Bonsai is an art form using miniature trees grown in containers. This is a wonderful gardening experience to use your creativity and ingenuity. Come to this lecture and learn the techniques to create your own bonsai tree.
The Williamson Garden Club is pleased to announce that a Master Gardener from the Wayne County Cornell Cooperative will present a talk detailing the facts about bonsai.
This free public presentation will take place Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 7 p.m. in the community room of the Williamson Free Public Library.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
August Members Only Project - Hypertufa Class
Hello Gardeners!
I hope everyone is having a lovely August. Our vegetables are starting to come in (our first ripe tomato!) and the flowers are really enjoying the rain.
If you have a chance, drive down Route 104 and check out the new raised bed near Motts. We had a small but able group to help put the bed together -- a BIG THANK YOU to John Ferrante, Eric Herriman, Scott Utley, and Penny's husband and son, Bill Bishop and Evan Bishop. We have not yet planted flowers yet but plan to do that soon. If you have mums or stella d'oro daylilies to share, please let me know.
Also just a reminder about dues ($10/year). We've received some check and are happy to accept dues at our next event if you'd prefer not to send a check.
For our members only meeting, Betty Morley has generously offered to host a hypertufa class. It is a wonderful opportunity to create something wonderful for your gardens. Last year, she showed us how to make pots. This year, you can do pots or a leaf casting.
The event will be on Wednesday, August 17th, at 6:30. While Betty will provide the material to create the hypertufa, there are some things that it would help if you could bring
1. sand
2. if you want to do a leaf casting, please bring a hosta leaf (or let me know that you need one). Any leaf with good strong definite veins are good for this project.
3. you will need to bring a strong board to carry your project. It will take a few days to cure.
Please let me know if you can attend so that we have enough supplies.
In case of rain, we will meet on Wednesday, August 31st at 6:30.
Happy Gardening!
Subrata
I hope everyone is having a lovely August. Our vegetables are starting to come in (our first ripe tomato!) and the flowers are really enjoying the rain.
If you have a chance, drive down Route 104 and check out the new raised bed near Motts. We had a small but able group to help put the bed together -- a BIG THANK YOU to John Ferrante, Eric Herriman, Scott Utley, and Penny's husband and son, Bill Bishop and Evan Bishop. We have not yet planted flowers yet but plan to do that soon. If you have mums or stella d'oro daylilies to share, please let me know.
Also just a reminder about dues ($10/year). We've received some check and are happy to accept dues at our next event if you'd prefer not to send a check.
For our members only meeting, Betty Morley has generously offered to host a hypertufa class. It is a wonderful opportunity to create something wonderful for your gardens. Last year, she showed us how to make pots. This year, you can do pots or a leaf casting.
The event will be on Wednesday, August 17th, at 6:30. While Betty will provide the material to create the hypertufa, there are some things that it would help if you could bring
1. sand
2. if you want to do a leaf casting, please bring a hosta leaf (or let me know that you need one). Any leaf with good strong definite veins are good for this project.
3. you will need to bring a strong board to carry your project. It will take a few days to cure.
Please let me know if you can attend so that we have enough supplies.
In case of rain, we will meet on Wednesday, August 31st at 6:30.
Happy Gardening!
Subrata
2012 Project - Raised Bed on Route 104
Hello Gardeners -
For our 2011 project, we are continuing with raised beds around Williamson. We are planning putting up a raised bed nears Duffy-Motts on Route 104 and one on Rte 21, across the street from the school.
We are going to work on the one on Route 104 this week. John Ferrante needs 2-3 members to help him move the raised bed to the area and put it together. If you are free during the week, please contact him so he can make sure he has enough people to put it together.
On this coming Saturday, we will be meeting at 9 am at the Duffy Motts sign on Route 104. We will be unloading the truck and filling the raised bed. If you have any mums you can donate to the cause, please let me know. We are planning on putting in bulbs later in the year (fall time).
Please bring buckets, wheelbarrow and/or shovels if you have them.
We hope to see you on Saturday!
Happy Gardening!
Subrata
July Lecture - Moonlight Gardens
The Williamson Garden Club presents
Moonlight Gardening
By Master Gardener Mary Moss Sprague
Moonlight gardening -no, this is not something you do after your day job! But if you need a quiet garden to soothe the stresses after a long hard day, nothing brings the problems down to size better than a fragrant moonlight garden of white and pale colored flowers and foliage that literally glow in the dark.
Don't just think of flowers that shine at night. Foliage plants can do the same, or scent the air. Paths with thyme or mint growing between the stones or along the edges are scented as you bruise the leaves along the way. Variegated leaves with white predominating brighten up the area with their reflective glow.
The Williamson Garden Club is pleased to announce that Master Gardener Mary Moss Sprague will present a talk detailing the facts about moonlight gardens.
This free public presentation will take place Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 7 p.m. in the community room of the Williamson Free Public Library.
Moonlight Gardening
By Master Gardener Mary Moss Sprague
Moonlight gardening -no, this is not something you do after your day job! But if you need a quiet garden to soothe the stresses after a long hard day, nothing brings the problems down to size better than a fragrant moonlight garden of white and pale colored flowers and foliage that literally glow in the dark.
Don't just think of flowers that shine at night. Foliage plants can do the same, or scent the air. Paths with thyme or mint growing between the stones or along the edges are scented as you bruise the leaves along the way. Variegated leaves with white predominating brighten up the area with their reflective glow.
The Williamson Garden Club is pleased to announce that Master Gardener Mary Moss Sprague will present a talk detailing the facts about moonlight gardens.
This free public presentation will take place Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 7 p.m. in the community room of the Williamson Free Public Library.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
June Event - Garden Tour and Montly Lecture
Hello Gardeners!
I hope that everyone is enjoying the gorgeous weather! My peonies are blooming like crazy and my roses are looking pretty good.
The Garden Club is planning to provide monthly garden tours for our members this summer. If you are interested in joining or learning more about our Garden Club, please let me know. Eric (the President of the Garden Club) and I are going to have the first tour at our house. Our Members Meeting will be on Wednesday, June 22nd, 7pm at our house. We'll start off with a brief tour of our gardens and follow-up with our meeting.
Our June lecture, June 29th, at 7pm, at the Williamson Library. It is going to be on the Emerald Ash Borer. Laurie Van Norstrand is going to show us how to identify infestation, what the borer looks like and what steps can be taken to fight this problem. She is very knowledgeable and helpful and it looks to be an excellent lecture. As always, our lectures are free and open to the public.
Happy Gardening!
Subrata
I hope that everyone is enjoying the gorgeous weather! My peonies are blooming like crazy and my roses are looking pretty good.
The Garden Club is planning to provide monthly garden tours for our members this summer. If you are interested in joining or learning more about our Garden Club, please let me know. Eric (the President of the Garden Club) and I are going to have the first tour at our house. Our Members Meeting will be on Wednesday, June 22nd, 7pm at our house. We'll start off with a brief tour of our gardens and follow-up with our meeting.
Our June lecture, June 29th, at 7pm, at the Williamson Library. It is going to be on the Emerald Ash Borer. Laurie Van Norstrand is going to show us how to identify infestation, what the borer looks like and what steps can be taken to fight this problem. She is very knowledgeable and helpful and it looks to be an excellent lecture. As always, our lectures are free and open to the public.
Happy Gardening!
Subrata
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
2011 Garden Club Schedule
Hello Gardeners -
I don't know about you but I think I can smell Spring in the Air. Pretty soon we'll be able to sink our hands into our gardens and start planting and growing things!
Our members meetings are on the 3rd Wednesday of each month. As mentioned earlier, Eric and my work schedules have changed pretty drastically. For our non-snowbirds, please let me know by Friday if you can attend on 3/16. If we don't have enough attendees, I will plan cancelling the meeting and sending information by email.
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Pull out your calendars as we have a number of great lectures coming up! The Master Gardeners from Wayne County Cornell Cooperative are providing their services as guest lecturers.
MARCH - 3/23, 7pm, Williamson Library - Vegetable Gardening
APRIL - 4/27, 7pm, Location TBD - Landscape Design
MAY - 5/14 - Apple Blossom Festival,
5/28 - Possible Garden Sale (to be discussed further)
Downtown planting
JUNE - 6/29, 7pm, Williamson Library - Emerald Ash Borer
JULY - 7/27, 7pm Williamson Library - Moonlight Gardens
7/16 - Pultneyville Homecoming (to be discussed further)
AUGUST - 8/24, 7pm, Williamson Library - Beginning Bonsai
SEPTEMBER - 9/28, 7pm, Williamson Library - Hands-on Terrariums (we'll be creating terrariums)
9/17 - Pultneyville Garage Sale
OCTOBER - 10/26, 7pm, Williamson Library - Stone Wall Construction
NOVEMBER - 11/12 or 11/19 - planting Christmas Trees
DECEMBER - date TBD.
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I am hoping to set up some Garden Tours as well as members-only hands-on classes (such as the wreath-making and hypertufa classes of last year). If you'd like to volunteer your garden or skills, let me know.
Happy Gardening!
Subrata
I don't know about you but I think I can smell Spring in the Air. Pretty soon we'll be able to sink our hands into our gardens and start planting and growing things!
Our members meetings are on the 3rd Wednesday of each month. As mentioned earlier, Eric and my work schedules have changed pretty drastically. For our non-snowbirds, please let me know by Friday if you can attend on 3/16. If we don't have enough attendees, I will plan cancelling the meeting and sending information by email.
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Pull out your calendars as we have a number of great lectures coming up! The Master Gardeners from Wayne County Cornell Cooperative are providing their services as guest lecturers.
MARCH - 3/23, 7pm, Williamson Library - Vegetable Gardening
APRIL - 4/27, 7pm, Location TBD - Landscape Design
MAY - 5/14 - Apple Blossom Festival,
5/28 - Possible Garden Sale (to be discussed further)
Downtown planting
JUNE - 6/29, 7pm, Williamson Library - Emerald Ash Borer
JULY - 7/27, 7pm Williamson Library - Moonlight Gardens
7/16 - Pultneyville Homecoming (to be discussed further)
AUGUST - 8/24, 7pm, Williamson Library - Beginning Bonsai
SEPTEMBER - 9/28, 7pm, Williamson Library - Hands-on Terrariums (we'll be creating terrariums)
9/17 - Pultneyville Garage Sale
OCTOBER - 10/26, 7pm, Williamson Library - Stone Wall Construction
NOVEMBER - 11/12 or 11/19 - planting Christmas Trees
DECEMBER - date TBD.
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I am hoping to set up some Garden Tours as well as members-only hands-on classes (such as the wreath-making and hypertufa classes of last year). If you'd like to volunteer your garden or skills, let me know.
Happy Gardening!
Subrata
February Minutes
Hello Gardeners!
What a gorgeous day! I hope that you get a chance to go outside and enjoy the sun a little bit. This weather makes me want to start digging into the soil and plant things right away - or at least pull out my catalogs and start planning my gardens.
We had a small group of people for our February meeting. Due to time constraints for Eric and myself, I have two requests:
1. I'm going to ask people to let me know if they can attend the members meeting. If we don't have a large enough group, I may cancel the meeting and we can try to discuss outstanding issues by email.
2. I need a volunteer who can call the library every month to schedule the room for the third Wednesday of the month. Please let me know if you can take on that responsibility. We can't reserve the room ahead of time, it needs to be done on a month-to-month basis.
Here are the notes from our meeting:
February Garden Club Minutes
1. Lifetime membership sounds good (suggested $200 for lifetime membership). What about a corporate rate -- $500 or $1000. Did we want to set up an annual corporate amount?
The Garden Club brand is popular enough to Williamson and we have done enough projects to raise our profile.
Give businesses a certificate once they are a corporate sponsor for the garden club.
Did we want to provide signage at table? – at Apple Blossom Festival
At Pultneyville Garage Sale
2. We received a call from Martha Stewart Inc. On the 1st of March, she is doing a garden special and is wondering if we (members of the garden club) wanted to be in the audience for the presentation. Her show tapes in New York City.
Calling All Gardeners! March
Do you spend hours tilling the perfect spot for your vegetable garden? Do you enjoy picking the perfect perennials to complement your yard? We're filling our Garden Show audience with gardeners of all kinds -- vegetable gardeners, flower growers, and more! If you're interested in requesting tickets, please tell us about your garden and why you would like to be a part of this special audience.
Request Tickets for This Show - http://www.marthastewart.com/get-tickets#gardeners
If you sign up to attend, please let us know. We're trying to figure out a way to have a t-shirt or something made so that the Garden Club's name appears on TV.
3. Monthly lectures okayed (dates okayed – presenters still be finalized)
ACTION ITEMS:
- Perry - starting the publicity of those (church organizations, etc.)
- Penny – work on the posters for the events
Question: Did we want to do a generic poster for the 3rd wednesday, members meeting and 4th Wednesday for lectures and then post them at the libraries and offices/business?
4.Lectures from Cornell Cooperative Program
a. Protecting and Enhancing Your Woodlot: Advice for Landowners
Saturday, March 12, 2011, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon
This program will be held at Wayne County Cooperative Extension, 1581 State Route 88 Newark NY
Registration fee of $10 includes the workshop and printed copy of reference material.
Your woodlot is a valuable resource, providing both a place for recreation and the potential for a financial return. This workshop will show you how to protect your woodlot from both human and natural threats, and offer you ways to maintain a healthy and productive woodlot. Topics will include how to avoid timber theft and poor logging practices, how to recognize various invasive species and the effects they can have on a woodlot, how to develop a management plan, and what resources are available to help landowners practice good silviculture on their woodlots.
Registration deadline is March 5th 2011. To register, send your $10.00 payment along with your name, address and phone number to: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wayne County, 1581 Rte 88 N, Newark, NY 14513
b. Controlling Invasive Species is an outdoor hands-on session and will run from 9am to noon on Saturday, May 21st at a woodlot in Sodus.
We'll cover identification and control options for invasive species in the woodlot and introduce participants to crop tree management, a forestry method well suited for owners of small woodlots. This session is intended to build on our March 12th program but you need not have attended to register for this session. Registration is $10.00
To register for either session send your payment along with your name address and phone number to Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wayne County, 1581 Rte 88N, Newark, NY 14513
Any additional questions please call (315)-331-8415 or e-mail mgwayne@cornell.edu
5. Ontario Library Garden Series – Along with the butterfly garden lecture next week, Ontario is having garden lectures in March and April. Please call them to register.
6. If you have tarps, please bring along to put on the floor for next week’s lecture. Does anyone have seed starting mix to donate or seeds to donate?
7. Penny: please bring sandwich board
8. Business card/seed packet.
Liked the idea but the price was too high. Suggestion – buy seed packets and order business cards from vista or similar. Need to discuss type of seeds, etc.
9. We would like to take out the trees while the weather is nice. Let me know if you are available to do that and we can send a note to everyone who is available. We will leave our truck available for scott or whoever to drop the trees off.
10. The soil and conservation district forever green tree program has a website with a color catalog www.lakeontario.net/swed
Orders by March 20. Pickup april 7 and 8 8338 Ridge Rd East in Alton.
That's all for now
Happy Gardening!
Subrata
What a gorgeous day! I hope that you get a chance to go outside and enjoy the sun a little bit. This weather makes me want to start digging into the soil and plant things right away - or at least pull out my catalogs and start planning my gardens.
We had a small group of people for our February meeting. Due to time constraints for Eric and myself, I have two requests:
1. I'm going to ask people to let me know if they can attend the members meeting. If we don't have a large enough group, I may cancel the meeting and we can try to discuss outstanding issues by email.
2. I need a volunteer who can call the library every month to schedule the room for the third Wednesday of the month. Please let me know if you can take on that responsibility. We can't reserve the room ahead of time, it needs to be done on a month-to-month basis.
Here are the notes from our meeting:
February Garden Club Minutes
1. Lifetime membership sounds good (suggested $200 for lifetime membership). What about a corporate rate -- $500 or $1000. Did we want to set up an annual corporate amount?
The Garden Club brand is popular enough to Williamson and we have done enough projects to raise our profile.
Give businesses a certificate once they are a corporate sponsor for the garden club.
Did we want to provide signage at table? – at Apple Blossom Festival
At Pultneyville Garage Sale
2. We received a call from Martha Stewart Inc. On the 1st of March, she is doing a garden special and is wondering if we (members of the garden club) wanted to be in the audience for the presentation. Her show tapes in New York City.
Calling All Gardeners! March
Do you spend hours tilling the perfect spot for your vegetable garden? Do you enjoy picking the perfect perennials to complement your yard? We're filling our Garden Show audience with gardeners of all kinds -- vegetable gardeners, flower growers, and more! If you're interested in requesting tickets, please tell us about your garden and why you would like to be a part of this special audience.
Request Tickets for This Show - http://www.marthastewart.com/get-tickets#gardeners
If you sign up to attend, please let us know. We're trying to figure out a way to have a t-shirt or something made so that the Garden Club's name appears on TV.
3. Monthly lectures okayed (dates okayed – presenters still be finalized)
ACTION ITEMS:
- Perry - starting the publicity of those (church organizations, etc.)
- Penny – work on the posters for the events
Question: Did we want to do a generic poster for the 3rd wednesday, members meeting and 4th Wednesday for lectures and then post them at the libraries and offices/business?
4.Lectures from Cornell Cooperative Program
a. Protecting and Enhancing Your Woodlot: Advice for Landowners
Saturday, March 12, 2011, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon
This program will be held at Wayne County Cooperative Extension, 1581 State Route 88 Newark NY
Registration fee of $10 includes the workshop and printed copy of reference material.
Your woodlot is a valuable resource, providing both a place for recreation and the potential for a financial return. This workshop will show you how to protect your woodlot from both human and natural threats, and offer you ways to maintain a healthy and productive woodlot. Topics will include how to avoid timber theft and poor logging practices, how to recognize various invasive species and the effects they can have on a woodlot, how to develop a management plan, and what resources are available to help landowners practice good silviculture on their woodlots.
Registration deadline is March 5th 2011. To register, send your $10.00 payment along with your name, address and phone number to: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wayne County, 1581 Rte 88 N, Newark, NY 14513
b. Controlling Invasive Species is an outdoor hands-on session and will run from 9am to noon on Saturday, May 21st at a woodlot in Sodus.
We'll cover identification and control options for invasive species in the woodlot and introduce participants to crop tree management, a forestry method well suited for owners of small woodlots. This session is intended to build on our March 12th program but you need not have attended to register for this session. Registration is $10.00
To register for either session send your payment along with your name address and phone number to Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wayne County, 1581 Rte 88N, Newark, NY 14513
Any additional questions please call (315)-331-8415 or e-mail mgwayne@cornell.edu
5. Ontario Library Garden Series – Along with the butterfly garden lecture next week, Ontario is having garden lectures in March and April. Please call them to register.
6. If you have tarps, please bring along to put on the floor for next week’s lecture. Does anyone have seed starting mix to donate or seeds to donate?
7. Penny: please bring sandwich board
8. Business card/seed packet.
Liked the idea but the price was too high. Suggestion – buy seed packets and order business cards from vista or similar. Need to discuss type of seeds, etc.
9. We would like to take out the trees while the weather is nice. Let me know if you are available to do that and we can send a note to everyone who is available. We will leave our truck available for scott or whoever to drop the trees off.
10. The soil and conservation district forever green tree program has a website with a color catalog www.lakeontario.net/swed
Orders by March 20. Pickup april 7 and 8 8338 Ridge Rd East in Alton.
That's all for now
Happy Gardening!
Subrata
Saturday, January 22, 2011
January 2011 Minutes
Garden Club Agenda 1/19/2011
ACTION ITEM:
Subrata: check on 501(c) status (non-profit organization). What is paperwork, etc. needed for that.
Subrata: check for folder with history/background for garden club.
Eric: follow up with Cavallero and drop off paperwork
John: get rid of pumpkins for 2010 project
Pick up tulips from conservatory this year – a) to plant in raised beds this year and b) for sale at PHS sale
1. Plans for 2011 –
- Discussion of change in Eric and Subrata’s work schedule/work load.
- Will try to set up lectures through the the Master Gardener program for the 4th Wednesday of the month. (The 3rd Wednesday will be the member’s meeting and the 4th Wednesday will be our monthly lecture/event). Need to hear back from the library to make sure we can set it up through the end of the year.
- Idea of creating lifetime membership for $200(?)
2. Focus on recruiting new members / outreach into the community
- Send Penny info for monthly posters for events to put out in community. John recommended creating smaller postcard size to put on library desk
- Send info to Don for town calendar
- Penny to check to see if there is lighter sandwich board to use to publicize meetings
- Membership attendance – set up phone tree again (Linda to take on that responsibility)
- Penny - list of presentation/calendar of event for what Garden Club will be doing 2012
- Perry has master list of churches – can set up (1/2 sheet of events). Better off with churches for recruitment than organizations
- Kris to pretty up the sandwich board? Possible to leave it at library on a permanent basis?
- Firemen/School putting up signs for the Garden Club? – Perry to ask Doug about sign. John Manahan for Fire – John to follow up on that (for fire department).
Focus from now until June to do PR and move things along.
Give presentation to organizations
1. Penny to follow up with boys scouts
3. hands-on lectures/garden tours – terrariums (John has small plants in his woods/Penny has moss) – September/October; hypertufa and wreath-making – use as fundraiser/recruit members (make these events members-only).
4. spring plant sale - Talk to Sodus about doing a plant sale
- Possibly Sunday rather than Saturday – car show or airport/pancake breakfast
- Look at business cards as seed packets – Check out this link http://www.4imprint.com/product/6604
500 seed-packet business cards printed with the GROW logo (probably as black and white line art) for $310 or so.
- PR / seed packs / calendar for the year of events?
5. 2011 summer project
- Route 104/Motts – do some outreach to Motts and see if they are interested in donating
- Depending time, Rte 21 (across from school)
- (John to buy materials ahead of time)
- 2010 – stella d’oro daylilies for Cavallero. Go there in May to clean and see how tulips are working.
February
Seed Starting – Penny/4th Wednesday of February (tentative) July:
March
Learning Fair, March 12
August
April
September
PHS Sale
May
Apple Blossom Festival (2nd Saturday of the month)/Plant Sale
Downtown Planting (end of the month for actual plants)
– will need to put in bottom for new planters and put in new soil (discuss in March/April members meeting).
- Put drainage holes in plastic bucket inside the new planters
-hardware fabric
- Begonias for town hall
-Use packing peanuts (compression/floating issues)?
-Peat gravel (John or Penny)
- 4x6 lumber pieces from barn (John) – use for spacers
- causes rust. Need something on bottom so they don’t rust onto sidewalk. Plastic “feet”? wooden base?
ACTION ITEM: bring in unused new planter for next meeting to look at and decide how to best handle it for May.
October
June:
1. Emerald Ash Borer – Cornell Cooperative – 4th Wednesday of July (tentative)
2. PHS House Tour, June 11
- Request for centerpieces (herb planted pots?
- Request for extra plants for homeowners
- Force bulbs for June?
- Ask Masons regarding wholesale plants?
November
Downtown Planting
December
Flower Arrangement
Suggested Master Gardener Lectures
Beginning Bonsai Bulbs: Planting, care and succession of bloom
Beneficial Insects Hands on Gardening
Diagnosing Plant Problems Garden Design with Perennials
Orchids Putting Your Garden to Bed (Fall)
Stone Wall Construction
Honeybees Spring Garden Tasks
Daylilies Perennials
Dahlias
Hands-On (members-only)
1. Wreath-making
2. Hypertufa
3. Terrarium
4. Creating a succulent wreath
Garden Tours
Audrey Ferris Rose Garden
Sylvia and Phil Bornath Oriental garden
Do Members’ Garden Tours for summer as our members meeting
? suggestions for other garden tours
ACTION ITEM:
Subrata: check on 501(c) status (non-profit organization). What is paperwork, etc. needed for that.
Subrata: check for folder with history/background for garden club.
Eric: follow up with Cavallero and drop off paperwork
John: get rid of pumpkins for 2010 project
Pick up tulips from conservatory this year – a) to plant in raised beds this year and b) for sale at PHS sale
1. Plans for 2011 –
- Discussion of change in Eric and Subrata’s work schedule/work load.
- Will try to set up lectures through the the Master Gardener program for the 4th Wednesday of the month. (The 3rd Wednesday will be the member’s meeting and the 4th Wednesday will be our monthly lecture/event). Need to hear back from the library to make sure we can set it up through the end of the year.
- Idea of creating lifetime membership for $200(?)
2. Focus on recruiting new members / outreach into the community
- Send Penny info for monthly posters for events to put out in community. John recommended creating smaller postcard size to put on library desk
- Send info to Don for town calendar
- Penny to check to see if there is lighter sandwich board to use to publicize meetings
- Membership attendance – set up phone tree again (Linda to take on that responsibility)
- Penny - list of presentation/calendar of event for what Garden Club will be doing 2012
- Perry has master list of churches – can set up (1/2 sheet of events). Better off with churches for recruitment than organizations
- Kris to pretty up the sandwich board? Possible to leave it at library on a permanent basis?
- Firemen/School putting up signs for the Garden Club? – Perry to ask Doug about sign. John Manahan for Fire – John to follow up on that (for fire department).
Focus from now until June to do PR and move things along.
Give presentation to organizations
1. Penny to follow up with boys scouts
3. hands-on lectures/garden tours – terrariums (John has small plants in his woods/Penny has moss) – September/October; hypertufa and wreath-making – use as fundraiser/recruit members (make these events members-only).
4. spring plant sale - Talk to Sodus about doing a plant sale
- Possibly Sunday rather than Saturday – car show or airport/pancake breakfast
- Look at business cards as seed packets – Check out this link http://www.4imprint.com/product/6604
500 seed-packet business cards printed with the GROW logo (probably as black and white line art) for $310 or so.
- PR / seed packs / calendar for the year of events?
5. 2011 summer project
- Route 104/Motts – do some outreach to Motts and see if they are interested in donating
- Depending time, Rte 21 (across from school)
- (John to buy materials ahead of time)
- 2010 – stella d’oro daylilies for Cavallero. Go there in May to clean and see how tulips are working.
February
Seed Starting – Penny/4th Wednesday of February (tentative) July:
March
Learning Fair, March 12
August
April
September
PHS Sale
May
Apple Blossom Festival (2nd Saturday of the month)/Plant Sale
Downtown Planting (end of the month for actual plants)
– will need to put in bottom for new planters and put in new soil (discuss in March/April members meeting).
- Put drainage holes in plastic bucket inside the new planters
-hardware fabric
- Begonias for town hall
-Use packing peanuts (compression/floating issues)?
-Peat gravel (John or Penny)
- 4x6 lumber pieces from barn (John) – use for spacers
- causes rust. Need something on bottom so they don’t rust onto sidewalk. Plastic “feet”? wooden base?
ACTION ITEM: bring in unused new planter for next meeting to look at and decide how to best handle it for May.
October
June:
1. Emerald Ash Borer – Cornell Cooperative – 4th Wednesday of July (tentative)
2. PHS House Tour, June 11
- Request for centerpieces (herb planted pots?
- Request for extra plants for homeowners
- Force bulbs for June?
- Ask Masons regarding wholesale plants?
November
Downtown Planting
December
Flower Arrangement
Suggested Master Gardener Lectures
Beginning Bonsai Bulbs: Planting, care and succession of bloom
Beneficial Insects Hands on Gardening
Diagnosing Plant Problems Garden Design with Perennials
Orchids Putting Your Garden to Bed (Fall)
Stone Wall Construction
Honeybees Spring Garden Tasks
Daylilies Perennials
Dahlias
Hands-On (members-only)
1. Wreath-making
2. Hypertufa
3. Terrarium
4. Creating a succulent wreath
Garden Tours
Audrey Ferris Rose Garden
Sylvia and Phil Bornath Oriental garden
Do Members’ Garden Tours for summer as our members meeting
? suggestions for other garden tours
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