FALL IS IN THE AIR!!
O.K., so it’s not in the air yet (its 97 hot and humid degrees outside) but it is on the way….eventually, and the following is information about our up and coming September 9th meeting which is our first meeting of the 2008-09 Garden Club Year!! Members, don’t forget your biographies and be sure to note the new location for our September meeting.
The Woodlands Garden Club’s first meeting of the 2008-09 year will be held Tuesday, September 9th at 9:30 a.m. The club will be meeting at a new location at the Environmental Services Building located at 8203 Millennium Forest Drive (next to The Woodlands High School off of Research Forest Drive ).
In keeping with club president Joyce Nelsen’s theme of “Welcome to Our World”, members Julie Law, Mary Vacek and Diane Milano will Expand Our World by discussing bulbs of Holland, plants of South Africa and plants for care and feeding of butterflies, respectably. The club meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month, September through May and guests are welcome. For more information, please call 281-381-3260.
The Woodlands Garden Club members do not let grass grow under their feet during the summer!
The Woodlands Garden Club meets the second Tuesday of each month, September through May and during the summer months, club members are busily preparing for the coming year. Programs are selected; speakers are secured; research for educational programs is done; tours and pilgrimages are planned; horticultural and design workshops are planned; local, Federation, state, district, regional and national gardening activities and events for the coming year are noted; the club yearbook/directory/calendar is typed, edited, proofed and printed and made ready to hand out at the first meeting in September; members type and work on award entries to be submitted by November 1 for state, regional and national awards and recognition; And, it is the perfect time for members to check out a couple of good books on gardening from the club’s small but excellent library.
We’re also getting ready for the Wildflower Festival.
We are drying flowers - members dry flowers during the summer months to be used on
the club’s famous Christmas ornaments which are sold during the fall and at The Woodland’s Wildflower Festival. An ornament-making workshop is held during September. The sale of the ornaments and plants represents one of the club’s major fund raisers.
And we are potting plants - club members use the summer months to thin and separate plants while potting extras to be sold at the fall Wildflower Festival. With nearly 100% club participation, club members donate plants or money to the popular event held in The Woodlands each fall in late September or October. Each pot will have a label giving the common and/or botanical name of the plant and club members are always on hand at the booths to answer gardening related questions.
A very special person will no longer be with us. The tribute after the memorial service was in the style for which Charlotte was noted. Everything was classy, beautiful and delicious. The Woodlands Garden Club members again stepped in to assist her dear friend Nancy in planning this special tribute to Charlotte for her family and many friends.
