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, October 8th, 2008

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

Program 11:00
 “Fragrance in the Garden”
by Geri Laufer, Award winning garden author

The Williams Room ( at the Dunwoody Library)
5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road

There is life in the ground:
When it is stirred up, it goes into the man who stirs it.   
author unknown

The scarlet of maples can shake me
Like a cry of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills to see the frosty asters like smoke upon the hills.
William Bliss Carman

IN THE GARDEN

Weird time to think of hay fever?   No.   It’s planting time and here are some plants that the American Lung Association says are not likely to cause respiratory allergies (species):

Firs (Abies),
dogwoods (Cornus)
magnolias (Magnolia)
pears (Pyrus)
viburnums (Viburnum) 
begonia (Begonia)
poppies (Papaver)
rhododendrons and azaleas		 redbuds ( Cercis)
ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
pines (Pinus)
fire thorns (Pyracantha)
yuccas (Yucca)
daffodils (Narcissus)
tulips (Tulipa)

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
  October 23 , Thursday, 10:00 a.m.-noon
Program: “Enjoy the Small Stuff - Bountiful Bonzai”
Dan Naas, President, Atlanta Bonsai Society

"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October." 
Nathaniel Hawthorne

UPCOMING EVENTS

October 1, Wednesday, 7:00 p.m., Registration
American Hydrangea Society Fall Meeting
 Day Hall, Atlanta Botanical Garden
"Upside Down Hydrangeas: The New Zealand Way"
By:  Glyn Church, Noted New Zealand Plantsman and author.
 Info:  bwielage@bellsouth.net
 
October 20, Monday, 9:30 a.m. Registration/Coffee 
Redbud District Annual Meeting, LaGrange, GA
"Designs of Fall".   Info:  bettylester@charter.net
 
November 13, Thursday, 10:00 a.m.
Southeastern Horticultural Society 
At:   Atlanta History Center, McElreath Hall
"I like it, I love it, I want some more of it . . . Favorite Perennials for the Southeast"   Non-members $20.00
info@sehort.org     404-351-1074

For more information, contact: rose@DunwoodyGardenClub.com