October Meeting

 For our October 14 meeting, Tawnya Hill gave an engaging talk on Seed Saving and Harvesting. She brought a variety of seed heads and vegetables and showed us how to harvest and store the seeds.

 

 

Laura and Theresa provided refreshments and festive decorations with a Halloween theme.

 

 

Parktober Fest 2025

 On Friday, October 3, nine of us met at Jennifer's house and made 20 fall themed floral arrangements.

 Parktober Fest was well attended. We sold all 20 of the arrangements that we made. Twelve of us traded off at the booth selling the arrangements and visiting with our customers.                                                 

We enjoyed the music and some of us did a little shopping and supported the other merchants that were there. 

 

September Meeting

For our September meeting we met on our new meeting day. Because we have grown in size and need a larger room we now meet on the SECOND Monday of the month. 

We had our annual Sunflower Challenge. Donna awarded prizes to the top three. She also brought her Sunflower Cupcakes! 

 

 

Green Spring Gardens July 18

 Several of us enjoyed the morning touring Green Spring Gardens. The weather was perfect and we came away with quite a few ideas for our own gardens.

 

Rainy Day Garden Tour June 27

 We didn't let a downpour stop us from touring Dan's lovely garden. He enjoyed showing us the garden that he has created over the years. He invited us to come back in the spring - on a day when it's not raining!

 When we left Dan's garden we headed to the Merrifield Garden Center Gainsville location. We spent time looking at lovely plants and had wonderful conversations with some of the staff. They were eager to talk because there weren't many customers on such a rainy day! We also enjoyed lunch at their cafe.

 

 

May Meeting

 For our May meeting, we met at the Centreville Regional Library. We saw the updates that our club has made to the gardens. The beds were just stunning and in full bloom.

 

2025 Plant Sale

Our 2025 Plant Sale was Saturday, May 3. These wonderful ladies helped the people of Centreville pick out some lovely plants for their yards.

Spring Cleanup

 On Friday, April 25 we did our spring cleanup of the planting beds at the Sully Government Center.

 

April Meeting

 For our April meeting, Louis Ratchford, from Merrifield Garden Center, gave a talk, "Plant This, Not That" Native Substitutes for Common Plants.  He made suggestions for alternative plants in the planter boxes that we maintain at the Sully Government Center.

 

Plant Sale!

 We will have our PLANT SALE on Saturday, May 3 from 9 - 12 at the Village Shopping Center on Stone Road. We will have perennials for sun and shade, lots of natives, herbs and vegetables. Cash or check preferred.

We have been hard at work getting the plants ready for the sale.

 

March Meeting

 Connie Chubb was the speaker at our March meeting. She gave a talk, Dark Skies at Night. She explained how dark sky conservation is important to human health, safety and the environment.  We learned how lights at night can affect wildlife, especially migrating birds.  She also shared tips on security lighting for our homes.

Floral Design for UMES Garden Club

 We were invited to teach a floral design class to the students of Union Mill Elementary School Garden Club. We had a great time with the students. They paid attention while Theresa taught the basics and they applied what they learned. They were very proud of their arrangements. There may be some future flower shop owners in the group! 

 Theresa, Susan, Mary Beth, Susan, Cathy, Donna.          Donna, helping a student with her design.

February Meeting

 Jim McGlone, Environmental educator and Certified Arborist gave an informative talk on The Basics of Pruning.

 

Jenny, Theresa and Kathleen brought tasty refreshments and decorated the table beautifully in a President's Day theme.

 

January Meeting

 For our January meeting we made floral arrangements in coffee mugs. Twenty-two of us worked for a little over an hour and made a total of 80 arrangements. 

 

 

These are some of the finished arrangements.

Tuesday morning, Robin, Theresa and Cathy delivered the arrangements to Fair Oaks Health & Rehabilitation Center.

 

 

The employees were delighted with the arrangements and thought the mugs were a clever idea.

December Meeting

 We had our holiday party, potluck and gift exchange. There was great food, and we had a lively gift exchange.