The Murrysville Garden Club will host its annual plant sale on Wednesday, May 10, beginning at 11:00 a.m. and lasting until all items are sold out. It will be held at the Murrysville Volunteer Fire Department Pavilion at 3235 Sardis Road in Murrysville. The club will sell annuals, perennials, hanging baskets, and patio pots. From their own collections, garden club members will also offer propagated plants, second-hand tools, and garden décor, as well as handmade crafts. Specifically, shoppers will find the following plants for sale:
MGC accepts cash, checks, and credit cards. The club also hopes to engage new supporters from the community during the plant sale, as they are recruiting members who are interested in making new friends and learning about plants, gardening, and the natural world. The Garden Club holds its meetings March through November on the fourth Thursday of each month at 10:30 at Murrysville Community Library. Proceeds from the plant sale will benefit the Murrysville Garden Club scholarship program, which offers support to students in college or a technical school pursuing studies in horticulture, landscape architecture, conservation, forestry, environmental science, or a similar field. Applicants must be current high school seniors or graduates of Franklin Regional High School or relatives of Garden Club Members. The deadline to apply is May 12, 2023. Find the application at www.murrysvillegardenclub.com/scholarships. Learn more about the plant sale, scholarships, and meeting attendance at www.murrysvillegardenclub.com.
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By Joanne Murray
The PA Garden Club convention is going to be held Friday through Sunday, April 21-23, at the Doubletree Hotel by the Monroeville mall. We are encouraged to attend and also to volunteer for various roles such as pages or hospitality room helpers. The convention director will publish a sign up for volunteers sometime soon. The convention has been organized by District VII and our club has arranged the ten programs to be held on Saturday and Sunday:
So click here to look at the schedule of events and obtain the registration form. 10/25/2022 0 Comments Celebrating our 70th Year
10/19/2022 0 Comments Shopping for BulbsBy Joanne Murray At this month’s board meeting, several people asked for recommendations of the best places for ordering all bulbs. Well I’ve been looking at bulb catalogs for a long time, but I still must issue the caveat that this is all opinion based on my own experience of buying what look like the most foolproof bulbs. For a general mix of quality, price, and variety of offerings, Scheepers is a favorite. Their bulbs are unfailingly good-sized, firm, and healthy. Their catalog is a model of clear and organized thinking, and the resources pages of their website will tell you anything you could possibly want to know about growing bulbs. They don’t offer anything weird or highly specialized. Their wholesale branch is VanEngelen’s. Van Bourgondien’s is worth a shout-out because this year they are offering naked ladies and three beautiful cultivars of the wood anemone, anemone nemorosa. Brent and Becky’s Bulbs has an extraordinary variety of cultivars, for example, they have a dozen offerings of fall crocus. They also have many new hybrids of narcissus. Finally, McClure and Zimmerman’s offers some hard-to-find bulbs of native ephemeral woodland flower such as trillium, dutchman’s breeches, and bloodroot. And speaking of spring ephemerals, take a walk in the woods with Amy Mawby, Education Manager at Jenkins Arboretum in Devon PA. Her photographs are splendid.
10/19/2022 0 Comments September Garden TasksBy Camille Erb
I love the sunny days of September. The air is warm in the afternoons and the nights are cooler. However, September is not the time to dawdle. Gardening time is running low, and there is a lot to do before the landscape and garden beds are cleaned up and ready for winter.
Now if you have some left-over time, you might want to tackle this project. Have you ever thought of starting a compost pile? You will have plenty of free material to start that experiment. You will soon have a boatload of leaves and garden waste to start your compost. You can use leaves that have been run over with the grass mower along with clippings from untreated lawns, spent plants from the garden and flower beds (but no seed pods please), and even weed stems and leaves. Find a spot to create your own leaf mold. You don’t have to go out and buy a composter. You can use heavy duty black bags or just try an open pile. If you try an open pile, do not add vegetable scraps or any other items that would attract unwanted critters. The mix of materials should be about two thirds brown to one third green for the composting process to work correctly. You will need to turn the open pile to aerate it and add some moisture. You can buy a compost starter to get things moving. You can find out more about composting on many online websites. |
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