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Sunday, July 30, 2023

August 2023 Newsletter of the Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club

 

Garden Club News

GROWING AND USING COOKING HERBS

Sunday, September 10 at 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

A Master Gardener for over 25 years, Pat Kenny is a well known speaker on the topic of herbs. She has been a member of the Herb Society of America for 40+ years and a medical and biological illustrator at NIH for 30 years. Pat was also the caretaker of the National Library of Medicine Herb Garden at NIH. Over several decades she has taught about herbs and herb craft at the USDA Graduate School-Evening Programs as well as many others. Her herb presentation will include descriptions, propagation, specific harvesting and processing hints from experience, failures/successes, and typical uses of which some may be out of the ordinary!

Herbs will be available at the plant sale table.

Light refreshments will be served.

Admission to this event is free for members. There is a $10 fee for nonmembers.

For accommodation requests, please contact the museum via email or at 301-774-0022.

Register HERE

Courtyard Gardens

Despite the heat and an erratic sprinkler system, the courtyard gardens are looking lovely. Thank you to our mighty gardeners who came to help one hot morning, and later cleaned the whole shed!!



Christmas in July



The Holiday Greens elves had a wonderful time preparing forms and bows for the Greens Sale in December.


Looking Ahead

Sunday, October 22, 1-4         Spooky Workshop       
More fun with the Holiday Greens Sale Elves

Sunday, November 12, 2-4 pm    Homegrown Mushroom program

The Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club is an activity group of the Sandy Spring Museum. Our activities can be found on the  Garden Club webpage:                        https://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/programs-and-events/garden-club/.

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