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Please join us on the Second Wednesday
of the month, September - May
All garden friends are welcome from wherever you live!
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
Wednesday April 12, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
North DeKalb Cultural Center, Room 4
5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road
(Adjacent to Dunwoody Library)
Social & Refreshments 9:30
Business Meeting 10:00
Program at 11:00: ORCHIDS
Presented by: William Ellenberg
Nurseryman & Member of Orchid Society
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.."
The Koran
"The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations."
Oscar Wilde
Back Issues of the Newsletter
Aug/Sept 2005
October 2005
November 2005
December 2005
DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs.
Thursday, April 27, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
At Callanwolde on Briarcliff Road, Atlanta
Program: “Photographing Gardens”
Tips on Use in Scrapbooks
"Lord make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us."
W. E. DuBois
Garden Club of Georgia State Convention
April 19 - 21, 2006 (Various Times)
At Crowne Plaza Ravinia, Atlanta
Across from Perimeter Mall.
Theme “Kaleidoscope II”
Each district has been assigned a color.
Redbud District has been assigned the color “aqua” to use/wear at the convention (hats, purse, scarf, clothes).
Chairman Jean Sawyer at jogs2929@aol.com
Co-Chair is Margaret Ballard at mpballard@hotmail.com http://www.redbuddistrict.com/
AMERICAN HOLLY
Ilex opaca
An evergreen tree for the Southeast. It can grow 40 to 50 feet in ideal conditions. It is a native of the Eastern United States and is of broad pyramidal shape. Good in partial shade; soil, varied. Since it is pollinated by insects, the female needs a male to fruit, but look around your neighborhood. There may already be a male close enough. You can tell if you see holly trees with berries. One male is sufficient to pollinate ten females.
The evergreen foliage makes this a good coverage tree for birds all year. It is known to have attracted at least twelve different species of birds. Included among them are: cedar waxwing, eastern bluebird, and northern mockingbird.
"What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened."
