February "Virual" Meeting

Hello Members!

Welcome to our first "virtual" meeting.

1. First course of business: choosing the spring plantings. After talking to Lorraine and Doug Mason, a mix of perennials/drought tolerant plants may be our best avenue this year. According to Lorraine, 5 - 1 gal pots of perennials would cost approximately the same as the large petunia 12" pot which we used last year.

If you feel strongly that we should not use perennials (or should use a different mix of perennials), let me know. Otherwise, we need to get our order to the Masons by next week.

Click on the URL. Please pick 3 ouf the 5 combination planters listed below and email me your vote by Monday, February 18th.
http://tinyurl.com/248w58
1. purple passion
2. towering inferno
3. fire and ice
4. summer salsa
5. twist of lime

2. Second course of business: Chamber of Commerce. Did we want to join, as a group, the Chamber of Commerce? If we join as a group, even though only one person gets to vote, all meetings, etc. are open to any member of the Garden Club. Dues are $35 (I believe) and we have money in our budget to cover them.

I think this would be a good relationship to build upon. Lorraine has started the year very strongly and has already shown enthusiasm and dedication to the Garden Club.

Let me know what you think. If you feel this needs longer discussion than an email would suffice, we can table this question for our March members meeting.

3. Third course of business: in an effort to create one main place where we can upload digital pictures of garden club events, Eric has created a kodakgallery account. If you have pictures you would like to upload to the kodakgallery site, please contact him for the password information.

If there is a better site for pictures (such as Flickr, etc.), let me know what it is and why you think it would be a better fit for us. We are not dedicated to kodakgallery - it is simply the one that we personally use.

I look forward to hearing from all the members-

thanks!
Subrata