Communication Director:
Suzanne Mahoney, Misue150@verizon.net
Volume 40 Number 8
NOTE THE DATE: MAY 13 - 2nd TUESDAY! (NOT 1st TUESDAY) 7:30 PM at Phoenix Lodge
‘Gardening 101’ by Suzanne Mahler Get answers to all your frequently asked gardening questions.
What do those numbers on the fertilizer bag mean? When should hostas be divided? How do I…….?
This meeting should provide all the ‘how to’ needed for this gardening season.
June REGULAR MEETING
June 3 Garden Tea Party at the home of Gina and Michael Kmito.
All members must sign up to bring a food item. Don’t forget to bring a lawn chair and your mosquito deterrent.
NEXT BOARD MEETING
May 20, 2008, 7:30 PM Phoenix Lodge
BREAST CARE CENTER at South Shore Hospital, Weymouth.
May 5 Liz Fallon, 12 Brigid McCue, 19 Kristie Oliveira, 26
June 2 , 9 , 16 Lesley Murphy, 23 Shirley Minott, 30 Linda Boddie
Please sign up at the next meeting to provide an arrangement.
AWARDS
The Rain Garden created by WHGC and HGC will receive an award from the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts at the Annual Meeting May 21-22 at the Four Points Hotel, Leominster, MA. Club members are welcomed to attend.
MEMBERSHIP
Please be sure to fill out your Interest Finder provided in the printed N.N. issue. Otherwise, those who receive the N.N. via Email will find the Interest Finder as an attachment. Please make a copy, fill it in and return it with your annual dues at the next meeting. There are a couple of new committees on the form this year, so be sure to read it through. Please do not forget to include your name on the doc-ument. No dues will be accepted without a completed Interest Finder. If dues are not paid by June 15, a late fee will be imposed. 2008-2009 dues and fees are as follows: Active Member $25, Associate $35, Sustaining Affiliate $25.
PLANT SALE Saturday, June 14, at the Congregational Church Hall, 9 AM. Preparations are underway for this year’s major fundraiser. A colorful logo has been created for the sale’s print publicity and will be used on a club T-shirt. The shirts, to be worn at the plant sale to identify club members, can be ordered at the May meeting. Full payment will be required at that time. BRING YOUR CHECKBOOK!
This year we have a bonanza of hundreds of desirable plants from a beautiful Scituate garden that must be liquidated due to the home’s sale. All these plants are being donated to our club! As a result, we are reducing the number of plants we are asking members to contribute from their own gardens from 10 to 6 -- but more is always welcome! If you need pots, they are available from Suzanne Mahler or from Doug Litchfield at Hillbilly Acres in Scituate.
If you don’t have plants to share, there are many ways you can participate in this event. You can contribute your labor by helping to dig and pot in members’ gardens. On the actual prep day, Friday, June 13, members are asked to help process the plants, set up the hall or pick up plants to be delivered to the hall. There will be plant sale sign up sheets at the May meeting. ALL MEMBERS ARE EXPECTED TO PARTICIPATE IS THIS MAJOR CLUB EVENT!
A WORD ABOUT INVASIVES A listing of prohibited invasive plants in Massachusetts is available at this web site: http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/unitedstates/ma.shtml When you are potting up plants from your garden for our sale, please avoid the plants on the invasive list. The chairman states: ‘If any of these plants show up at the plant sale, they will not be accepted.’ In addition, if you have plants in your garden that you con-sider a nuisance, please do not bring them to the sale! Don’t pass them on if you think they are not desirable.
FIELD TRIP A field trip to Avant Gardens, Haskell’s Nursery, Sylvan Nursery and Quonset
Nursery is planned for May 17. The meeting place to carpool is the Bandstand for a scheduled departure time of 9 AM sharp. Please contact president Louise Sironi if you are planning to participate.
SOCIETY ROW PLANT SALE Sunday, May 18, 9 AM at the MA Horti-cultural Society home of Elm Bank on the Dover Wellesley line. All participating plant societies such as the Rhododendron Soc., the Herb Soc., Hemerocallis Soc., the Hosta Society, American Conifer Society and others will have plants for sale at great prices. This is an annual sale with a very diversified offering of plant material. The sale starts at 9 AM rain or shine. Maps can be found at the MA Hort website.
FREE GREENSCAPES WORKSHOP SERIES Monday evenings, 7 – 9 p.m. at the South Shore Vocational Technical School auditorium, 476 Webster St. (Route 123), Hanover, MA.
REGISTER Online: E-mail debbie@nsrwa.org
Ph: Call North and South Rivers Watershed Association at 781-659-8168 and ask for Debbie
May 5 7-9 p.m.
Tame Your Water-Consuming Irrigation System. Ted Moriarty, CIC, CID, CLIA.
May 12 7-9 p.m.
Growing Green – Using Fewer Pesticides by Knowledgeable Plant Selection. Deborah Swanson, Extension Educator, Plymouth County Extension
May 19 7-9 p.m.
Landscape Design Ideas for Success. Chris Kennedy, Kennedy Country Gardens
NEW ENGLAND FLOWER SHOW UPDATE Shirley Minott’s dramatic prize winning entry at the recent 2008 Flower Show
