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WELCOME FRIENDS AND MEMBERS

Please join us on the Second Wednesday
of the month, September - May
All garden friends are welcome from wherever you live!

MEMBERSHIP MEETING

Sept. 13, Wednesday, 9:45 a.m - 12:00 p.m..

North DeKalb Cultural Center, Room 4
5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road
(Adjacent to Dunwoody Library)

Program at 11:00 a.m. Gardening for Wildlife
Renee Hopf will show how to design lovely gardens that care for our native birds and animals.

For a good laugh: Read a conversation between God And St. Francis called God and Lawns

"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a home-grown tomato. "

Lewis Grizzard, American humorist

Water Tips From DeKalb County

1. Plan and design your landscaping with water conservation in mind.

2. Create practical turf areas using drought-tolerant grass appropriate to your needs and the area. Your landscaping will be far more interesting with far less turf. It will also be more water efficient and easier to maintain.

3. Choose your plants carefully. They should be grouped according to sunlight and water needs. Use drought-tolerant plants that require less water. Many plants that are drought-tolerant also attract fewer pests. That means less pesticide for you and the environment.

4 Supplement your soil with compost or other amendments--the county extension service can help you know your soil and understand what works best.

5. Use mulch. It looks good, reduces weed growth, minimizes erosion and doesn't need to be watered.

6. Irrigate smart. Use the water you need - just design your landscape so that you need much less.

7. Pay attention! You've designed and built a beautiful landscape that is environmentally-friendly and drought-proof. Now all you have to do is maintain it. Water only when necessary; mow, weed and prune when you need to.

Looking back to see if you were looking back at me!

For more information, contact:

OTHER EVENTS

DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs.

At Callanwolde on Briarcliff Road, Atlanta
will have its next meeting in September 2006.

Please check their Calendar for details

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. 

James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane

DeKalb County Watering of July 2, 2006:

DeKalb County Residents are urged to follow water restrictions to preserve water pressure for the protection of health and safety. It is very important that all citizens adhere to these restrictions.

Over the past few days, weather patterns have improved slightly allowing the DeKalb County Water and Sewer Department to change the present restrictions from Level 4 – total ban to a revised two-day outdoor watering restriction:

Outdoor water use for all addresses will be permitted only on Mondays and Thursdays from 12:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., effective June 29, 2006.

Exceptions to these restrictions are those businesses that depend on water for their livelihood, such as car washes and nurseries, and to establish newly installed landscape and/or sod (30 days maximum).

www.dekalbwatersewer.com or the Georgia Environmental Protection Division at http://www.gaepd.org/

THESE GUIDELINES WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED.

(Also the Federal guidelines allow you to water "food crops". Got any tasty hydrangeas?)

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling, "The Glory of the Garden"

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