NEWSLETTER - March 2005
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February
Happenings |
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24, 2005 Business Meeting: 5:00 – 6:00 Program:– 6:00 – 7:00 pm Topic: Carnivorous Plants At the Everett Boeing Rec Center, Activity Rm |
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2005 El’Nino is weakening. The impact for us in the Northwest: less snow in the mountains during the winter, means less water for our plants, lawns, trees, etc. When planning your spring planting look for drought resistance plants. See your local nursery for more Info. |
Next
Month's Meeting April 28, 2005 5:00 – 7:00 pm |
February
24, 2005 Meeting Minutes.
Prepared by Barb Beaman
Meeting was called to order at 5:00 pm
New
Membership – We introduced Maimun H. Ringold. Maimun expressed
she is interested in our garden club to learn more about plants. She redid
her garden and put in a pond. Do you suppose her favorite flower is a
rose? She said she had at least 20.
Welcome to our group, Maimun.
Activity
Calendar.
Plant Sale Discussion –
Each member is to bring at least 10 plants.
Place: Sue Davis’s house
When: April 16th
Where: 7238 192nd PL SW, Lynnwood, 98036 425-640-6461
Time: 10 – 3 pm.
Pots can be taken home to paint. Pots will be for sale with or without
plants.
July – Potluck to be at the Fairfield's on July 23rd. This is a
Saturday. It will be a potluck, garden tour and wine tasting. It was not
definitely decided if we would still have our Thursday meeting, July 28th.
This is to be discussed at a future meeting.
Club dues were discussed. We did receive many the night of this meeting.
Old Business
Bank
Account – Barb reported out in detail our Savings and Checking.
Balance is $521.54in Savings; $64.51 in Checking. Total = $586.05
New Business
OSO
– NW Native Nursery (out of Arlington)
There was a discussion about visiting this Nursery on March 5th. This
is the only day they could accommodate our group. Angela gathered about
10-12 members to visit the Nursery The topic will be propagation. Way
to go, Angela!
NW
Perennial Nursery, North, is for sale!!!
Activity
Program - Pruning
Richard and Jennifer Fairfield (members of the Garden Club) did an absolutely
wonderful presentation on pruning. They had a detailed slide presentation
that described why prune, tools, plant responses, cuts, timing and common
plants to prune. Paper copies of the presentation hasve great information
about when to prune and how to prune some of our favority plants. Thank
you very much Richard and Jennifer. We hope you had fun putting your presentation
together.
Share
Info –
Angela brought a weed tool to share and give to the Fairfield's for their
presentation this evening.
North West Fuchsia Society Spring Plant Sale -- 2005
Again Held at the UW Center for Urban Horticulture
3501 NE 41st Street
Seattle, WA
Saturday, April 2nd - 9 am to 1 pm
Fuchsia Starts including many “hard to find” and “hardy”
varieties available
Questions? Call (206) 364-7735
Driving
Instructions
From I-5
Take NE 45th ST exit go East through the University District, past the
UW campus, down the viaduct hill and past University Village Mall. At
the next major intersection (5-way stoplight) turn right (south) onto
Mary Gates Memorial Drive. Continue the equivalent of two blocks to the
corner of NE 41st Street. The center is on your right in the bend of the
road.
