Luncheon08

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.

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Coffee, 9:30; Meeting, 10:00: Program 11:00

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

Program: Joyce Amacher - Using Greens in Your Holiday Decorations

Over the river and through the wood,
To grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way
To carry the sleigh,
Through the white and drifted snow.
Lydia Maria Child, Thanksgiving Day, 1845

Exotic Peru lilies are always a treat, blooming well into November

Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring.
I am quite sure that a garden doesn't like to be ignored like this. It doesn't like to be covered in dust sheets, as though
it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance.
Beverley Nichols

and now setting seeds for next year's increase

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.


	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. Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Coffee, 9:30; Meeting, 10:00: Program 11:00 North DeKalb Cultural Center, Room 4 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road (Adjacent to Dunwoody Library) Program: Joyce Amacher - Using Greens in Your Holiday Decorations Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. *Lydia Maria Child, Thanksgiving Day, 1845* Exotic Peru lilies are always a treat, blooming well into November Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a garden doesn't like to be ignored like this. It doesn't like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance. Beverley Nichols and now setting seeds for next year's increase 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.		DeKalb Federation of Garden Clubs www.dekalbfederation.com *In 1863, Abraham Lincoln, decleared the last Thursday of November to be a National Day of Thanksgiving.* odd green bee on ligularia flower Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods. William Allingham If you go out early in the morning you will find some bees are still sleeping on a soft bed of flowers November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear. Sir Walter Scott Mexican sage still blooming and attracting the bees If it is true that one of the greatest pleasures of gardening lies in looking forward, then the planning of next year's beds and borders must be one of the most agreeable occupations in the gardener's calendar. This should make October and November particularly pleasant months, for then we may begin to clear our borders, to cut down those sodden and untidy stalks, to dig up and increase our plants, and to move them to other positions where they will show up to greater effect. People who are not gardeners always say that the bare beds of winter are uninteresting; gardeners know better, and take even a certain pleasure in the neatness of the newly dug, bare, brown earth. Vita Sackville-West