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Dear Members and Garden Friends
For garden fun and garden know-how, wherever you live, please join us in our activities in the
upcoming year.
April 8th, Wednesday, 9:30 a.m - 12:00 p.m.
Coffee and Refreshments 9:30-10:00
Meeting 10:00-11:00
Speaker 11:00-12:00
North DeKalb Cultural Center, Room 4
5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road
(Adjacent to Dunwoody Library)
Program
Paula Refi - English Gardens: Up Close and Personal - Paula has studied those really beautiful, lush cottage gardens in England, taken lots of pictures and talked to the owners and has really gotten the nitty gritty of how these gardens were created and evolved. See the work behind the famous English gardens!
Also - this is our Plant Exchange Day - bring a good plant - with its info - to exchange for a new plant for your home OR your garden.
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing. Eleanor Perényi, Green Thoughts, 1981
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964
For some more really excellent gardening tips, please check out "Gail the Gardener" column on the Redbud website. Go to www.RedbudDistrict.com and click on Education, then Gail the Gardener. Also Renee Hopf has a very nice Birds and Bees page. Lots of good info on this site.
OTHER EVENTS
The Garden Club of Georgia State convention is in Atlanta this year-April 14,15 and 16th. If you would like to attend any or all of this, let Maria know. It would be fun to have a group. Check the website www.uga.edu/gardenclub for details.
Spring Plant Sale
Date & Time: 04/04 08:00 AM to 02:00 PM
Event Cost: Free admission
Phone: 706-542-6156
Let Garden staff and volunteers help you choose plants for your Garden. Plants include herbs, annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs, as well as heirloom vegetables.
Location: The State Botanical Garden of Georgia (Athens, GA):Visitor Center & conservatory
Peachtree Road Farmers Market
Date & Time: 04/04 - 12/19 08:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Event Cost: Free
Phone: 404-365-1078
Offering naturally grown produce, fresh eggs, local meats, award-winning cheeses, honey, artisan breads, fresh pasta,
prepared foods, native garden plants and herbs. Every Saturday, April-December, in the parking lot of the Cathedral of St. Philip.Location: 2744 Peachtree Road, NW Atlanta, GA 30305
 Native Plant Sale
Date & Time: 04/04 10:00 AM
Event Cost: Free
Phone: 678- 891-2668
Azalea Madness! Come shop at the largest native azalea sale in the southeast. We also have a great selection of native shrubs, native trees, vines, native perennials, native ferns, and native grasses. Join George Sanko at 9:30 for a special 30 minute garden tour featuring the "Best of the Top ten Spring Ephemerals"
Location: Georgia Perimeter College Native Plant Garden
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DeKalb Federation of Garden Clubs
www.dekalbfederation.com
April 23rd - DeKalb Federation Annual Plant Sale Fund Raiser will be little different this year. Plants have been ordered for sale from No Longer Bound as well as a selection of plants for sale from member contributions. No white elephants or baked goods for sale this year.
Please bring any nice plants you are dividing. Be sure to put names on them if you can.
I think it pi**es God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
Good Compost Grows the Best Veggies!
Date & Time: 04/04 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Event Cost: Free - Phone: 404-869-7447
The key to great vegetable gardens is healthy, vibrant soil. The renowned Farmer D will be here to answer all of your questions, so donít miss out! Hastings is located at 3920 Peachtree Rd. "in Brookhaven". Attendees receive a 10% discount coupon. Location: Hastings Horticulture Education Center
Norcross Garden Club Spring Plant Sale
Date & Time: 04/18 09:00 AM to 03:00 PM
Phone: 6783622761- Spring is here, so get ready to plant. Come shop with us and find some great local grown plants for your garden. Norcross Garden Club spring plant sale will offer pass-a-long plants, native plants, drought tolerate plants, and plants from No longer Bound Nursery. You won't want to miss this great selection! There will also be fabulous containers already planted for you available for sale, and other handcrafted gardening items. Pottery and other Art - Location: 33 College Street Norcross 30071 location-Clubhouse
Georgia Dahlia Society Dahlia Tuber Sale & Auction
Date & Time: 04/20 07:30 PM to 09:30 PM
Event Cost: Free - Phone: 770-447-1405
This is the first of two tuber sales/auctions that will be open to the public this Spring. Locally grown, heat tolerant dahlia tubers of every size, form & color will be available. Many large 10" dinner plate varieties will be auctioned as will 2" pompons and all sizes in between. There will be Waterlilly dahlias, cactus form dahlias, the beautiful semi cactus form dahlias as well as the beautiful symmetry of formal decorative dahlias. Local growing guides will be available at no cost.
Location: Atlanta Botanical Garden
Exciting New Perennials and Companion Plants
Date & Time: 04/21 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM
Event Cost: Free - Phone: 404-876-0813
Ted Stephens, owner of Nurseries Caroliniana, is a plant explorer and grower of new and unusual species and cultivars for incorporation into Southeastern garden cuisine. His nursery sells retail, wholesale and mail order. Location: Atlanta History Center
Garden Faire -- "It's SO Easy Being Green"!
Date & Time: 04/25 09:00 AM to 03:00 PM
Event Cost: Free - Phone: 678-320-9997 -Indulge your spring fever at the 6th annual Garden Faire at Bulloch Hall in Roswell. Shop for garden art, tools, plants, one-of-a-kind crafts and much more. Meet Daron "Farmer D" Joffe of Farmer D Organics and learn about successful techniques in organic gardening, composting and raising heritage chickens. Learn secrets of pickling and canning southern delicacies from award-winning Chef Linton Hopkins. Hear about the latest in organic baking using herbs and flowers from Chef Hoyt Williams! Location: Bulloch Hall in Roswell, GA 30075
DeKalb Master Gardener Association Plant Sale
Date & Time: 04/25 09:00 AM to 01:00 PM
Phone: 706 354 0450 -The plants offered at this fund-raiser are from Master Gardener's gardens and rescue sites. You'll be sure to find reliably hardy and reasonably priced plants for your garden. The sale will start promptly at 9am. Proceeds go towards various MG projects and scholarships which DMGA awards to horticulture students at UGA and Gwinnett Tech.
Location: Northlake Mall Parking Lot
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