Garden Club June 2015 Plans

June promises to be an exciting month for the Garden Club. You’ll definitely want to help out with the Strawberry Festival on June 6 ^th  and see all the native plants at Tawes Garden on June 13 ^th .  The exciting details are below: 

Strawberry Festival, June 6th

This year's Strawberry Festival will be held on Saturday, June 6.  There is lots going on and it looks as if we may have record breaking attendance!  What an opportunity for us and our Plant Sale Booth.  We will be having our 2nd annual Fairy Garden Table, along with a new Butterfly Waystation Table.  This will include different types of milkweed, along with different plants, and flowers perfect for attracting butterflies, and other pollinators to your garden.  And of course, our wonderful selection of vegetables, herbs, perennials, and annuals! 

Volunteers are needed to help ensure the success of The Plant Sale Booth.  Set up will begin on Friday, June 5 from 9-2.  You may stop by at any time during those hours to help. Our set up includes prepping plants, and getting them organized so they are ready to be placed on the tables Saturday morning.  We will be doing everything from pricing, to labeling, to cleaning them up (pinching any dead leaves, etc.)  Set up is crucial to the success of our sale.  

The day of the Festival, we will need volunteers from 8-6.  Shifts are two hours each.  8 - 10 is set up, 4 - 6 is final sale, and clean up.  If you can help at either of these shifts, or anytime in between, please let us know.  

If you are available on the 5th or the 6th, please contact our Plant Sale Chair Andrea Mohr thatsamohre@aol.com.  The Plant Sale Booth is always so much fun, and with our new and exciting features, promises to be the best booth yet!

The Tawes Garden – Annapolis,  June 13^th

Mark your calendar for Saturday, June 13^th, and join us for a two hour garden tour of “Annapolis’ best kept secret.”  The  Helen Avalynne  Tawes Garden is a “Maryland in miniature” featuring native plants in representations of the state’s various geographic areas.  Five acres of gardens include   a Western Maryland forest, a streamside environment and an Eastern Shore peninsula. In addition, the barrier-free garden contains pleasant ponds; a raised planter with plants of varied textures, tastes and fragrances; and many cultivated plantings.    In 1982, the garden won an award for design excellence from the American Society of Landscape Architects

The tour is open to all and is free.  We will meet at 9:30 a.m. at the Sandy Spring Museum parking lot and coordinate carpooling.  Reservations will be made at a local Annapolis restaurant for our group.  Some may wish to stay a while in Annapolis and tour the city .

Please let us know if you are interested and to reserve a place by calling Sunny Banvard at 301-924-4645 or  Sunnybeme@hotmail.com  by June 10^th.  We will need to know the number of participants to make appropriate arrangements for the tour and restaurant. 

2015 Garden Tour...Be Inspired

Everyone seemed to really “be Inspired” by the 2015 Sandy Spring Museum Garden Tour. All of the gardens were simply spectacular. We are very grateful to the garden owners that welcomed us. The Ex Libris Ensemble was a delightful treat as we enjoyed our delicious box lunches. It was a wonderful to view the Plein Air Artist’s impressions of the gardens while we partook of wine and hors d’oeuvres at the “Wine in the Garden.”  Even the weather cooperated until the very end.

Organizing an event as special as the Garden Tour takes many volunteers. As we started counting everyone, we easily reached over 75 volunteers. We couldn’t possibly mention them all by name and we surely would miss someone. We appreciate all those that helped.

There are 3 people that we want to mention. The first two are Kathy Gaskill and Penny Sidell who started working on the tour last summer. They spent countless hours driving around the community selecting the gardens and working with the garden owners. We would also like to thank Kathy for inviting us into her home and garden for the lovely “Wine in the Garden.” Finally, we want to thank Dee Hawkins our 2015 Garden Tour Chair. She worked tireless hours coordinating the amazing tour.  Without her dedication and hard work, we could not have had such a spectacular event.