Hello All:
How does your garden grow?
We are pleased to report that our new secretary Dr Roz Hayley is busy at work contacting and updating our members list, no doubt some of you have received her correspondence. She has wonderful ideas so please contact her. drrozhaley@msn.com
How about buying a package of Zinnias and have either in the garden or a pot full of colour these seed are easy to germinate within 4 to 6 weeks
Garden visits thanks to Evelyn and Barbara
Hello Barbara,
Many, many thanks for showing us around your garden on Easter Monday and arranging our trip. The group really enjoyed their visit and your garden was voted one of the top gardens of the trip. Would you also pass on our thanks to Evelyn- every time we saw a desert rose we thought of her!
Should you ever come to the UK do hesitate to contact me.
Heidi Howcroft Tel. + 44 (0) 1963 441183
Land Update: We are in the process to get the land cleared.
Garden Book I just bought this new book; I will have it to share at our next meeting.
(From the NY times review)
In her charming and thought-provoking AMERICAN GROWN: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America (Crown, $30), Michelle Obama describes her plan to use the White House garden as a way to call the nation’s attention to a big issue: the connection between the quality of our food and the health of our children. “Like every gardener, Obama worries about heat and heavy rains and poor soil. Luckily, she has the National Park Service staff at her back.
Immortelle trees, with the emergence of the new leaves they are also deformed and curled up, does any one know anything about this>
New Plants what is growing in your garden? Share with us any new ideas? for a new border, a vegetable garden this is my eggplant
Tropical foliage plants really good ideas for your garden
Copperleafs (Acalypha wilkesiana
Elephant’s ears (Alocasia spp.
Gold-vein plant (Sanchezia speciosa,
Check out GardC the Nature Center
Contact: Roberta Williams
268-463-4121, ext 201 Executive Director
www.gardc.org
Happy gardening!
n1casin