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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 13, Wednesday
Garden Talk & Refreshments 9:30-10:00
Meeting 10:00-11:00
Speaker 11:00-12:00
Program: "Lusciously Creative Flower Arranging" John Grady Burns, teacher, Halls Atlanta Floral Design School and author, “Personally Yours”
by special request! here is John Grady's web site http://jgbflora.com/ and our pictures from todays class pictures
North DeKalb Cultural Center, Room 4
5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road
(Adjacent to Dunwoody Library)
For May (Just so you can plan)
May 11 - "Native Gardens for Wildlife"
Renee Hopf, Master Gardener and creator of a certified Audubon Society Wildlife Refuge
Plant Swap - bring your pass-a-longs
Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers.
Thomas Tusser, A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry, 1557
For a good laugh: Read a conversation between God And St. Francis called God and Lawns
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
Dunwoody Garden Club Field Trips:
Wednesday, April 20, Island Ford Nature Walk: Meet at the library at 10:00AM or at Island Ford at 10:30AM for a nature walk at Chattahoochee National Recreational Center. We’ll be honoring National Park week by visiting one in our own back yard; the park service will be honoring us by waiving park fees. Here’s a link for more information: http://www.nps.gov/chat/index.htm. Please let Karen C. know if you’ll be meeting up at the library and carpooling;
Wednesday, May 18, Wilkerson Mill Gardens Tour & Nursery: See http://www.hydrangea.com/ for a glimpse of our upcoming field trip to this very special nursery. We’ll drive down together, tour the gardens, have an opportunity to shop, and have lunch in the area. Please let Karen C. know if you’ll be meeting up at the library and carpooling;
DeKalb Federation of Garden Clubs
www.dekalbfederation.com
NEW!
Member's Gardens - check out
Bonnie's garden for April
The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
a cloud come over the sunlit arch,
And wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March.
Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time, 1926
"And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest."
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Sensitive Plant
Notable:
Friday & Saturday April 29-30 – Plant Sale at the Brook Run greenhouse, sponsored by Dunwoody Community Garden. Organically grown vegetable and herb transplants, as well as perennials, native plants, trees etc. 9 AM - 5 PM both days. The greenhouse is near the skate park; be sure to visit the Community Garden while you are in the park!
Saturday, May 7 - "Through the Garden Gate", a garden tour sponsored by Cobb County Master Gardeners www.cobbmastergardeners.org. This tour was reported to be spectacular last year. Included on the tour is the garden of Jack Driskell, our guide at Smith Gilbert. Advance tickets are $10. The website has descriptions of the gardens. Unfortunately, it is the same weekend as the ABG Connoisseurs' tour (Mother's day weekend).
May 14-15 and May 21-22 Tallulah Gorge spectacular water releases. Water Release and Whitewater Boating have been canceled for April, but rescheduled for May. See http://gastateparks.org/TallulahGorge for more information. Email Betty D. if you’re interested in going.
