Monday, November 11, 2024

December 2024 Newsletter of the Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club

Garden Club Activities

The Greens have been cut and conditioned, ready to be made into beautiful wreaths and arrangements.

Join the Fun!!

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November Program

A wonderful talk by Ann English of the Montgomery County RainScapes Program of the Department of Environmental Protection

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Holiday Events

The Brookside Gardens Garden of Lights runs from Friday, November 22, 2024, to Sunday, January 5, 2024. It will be open daily, 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm.  Garden of Lights will be closed November 25 to 28, December 24 to 25, and January 1.

Tickets are $10 and must be purchased Online for ages five and older.

Join members of the Garden Club on Tuesday, December 17th.

To join in, participants must purchase their own tickets. Tickets are available in 30-minute entrance time intervals and must be purchased only online at the website above.

The Garden Club visit entrance time selected is 6 pm to 6:30 pm

on December 17^th.

We will gather in the Brookside Visitors Center at 6:30 pm. Tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis from a Brookside vendor (See website). Everyone may or may not be able to get the Garden Club selected time and date. Please try to order and pay soon if you want to join the Garden Club visit.

All ticket sales are final and non-refundable.

Tickets cost $10 each plus a $2.50 Service fee each - Total $12.50. Each person can order more than 1 ticket.

We hope you will join us on this fun Garden Club Trip. If you need additional information, please contact Sunny Banvard, (301-233-2574 cell , sunnybeme@hotmail.com ) or Betty Hiner (301-938-2813 cell, hinerbe@yahoo.com)

Please let Sunny or Betty know if you have tickets and will meet us in the Brookside Visitors Center at 6:30 pm on December 17^th.

Brookside Gardens, 1500 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD. The Washington, Virginia & Maryland Garden Railway Society returns for its 18th year to operate a garden railway inside the South Conservatory. The South Conservatory comes to life with a landscape in miniature, as trains and trolleys wind their way through town and country scenes, past one-of-a kind models of the Brookside Gardens Conservatories, the Dentzel Carousel, the Chautauqua Tower of Glen Echo Park, and many other Montgomery County landmarks. Colorful plantings light up both greenhouses, plantings providing accent and contrast in the scene. Winter may rule the outside landscape but the conservatories will be bright with color and active with sound and motion to match the festive feeling of the season. November 30 through January 5, 10am – 3:45pm daily. Closed Christmas Eve and Day, and New Year’s Day. Please note the conservatory and train display is NOT open during the “Garden of Lights”.

US Botanic Gardens Season's Greenings 2024

Our popular annual holiday display “Season’s Greenings” features model trains in the gated outdoor gardens, festive lights throughout the Garden, and the poinsettias, holiday decor, and D.C. landmarks made from plants inside the Conservatory. On the lawn in the gated outdoor gardens, G-gauge model trains circulate from 10:00-5:00 daily through displays of pollinators made from plant parts. These scenes range from oversized models of native U.S. flowers like milkweed and bats pollinating a banana to an orchid bee pollinating a vanilla orchid flower, a chocolate midge pollinating a cacao flower, a lemur pollinating a traveler’s tree flower, and more! The Garden will be closed on December 25.

Outdoor Train Display

This year, the outdoor holiday display includes a model train display in the gated outdoor gardens, with trains running from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. between Nov. 28, 2024, and Jan. 5, 2025, closed Dec. 25. The train display will run until 8:00 p.m. on select Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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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/.

Saturday, October 26, 2024

November 2024 Newsletter of the Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club

Garden Club News

Garden Club: Managing Stormwater Runoff and Increasing Biodiversity with RainScapes

Sunday, November 10, 2:00-4:00 pm
Free Admission

Come learn about how to evaluate your home landscape for stormwater runoff opportunities and what kinds of solutions have worked in Montgomery County! The focus will be on showing predominantly native RainScapes gardens that are managing stormwater and providing beautiful biodiversity benefits too.

The featured speaker Ann English, PLA, ASLA, LEED® AP BD+C, CBLP 1 &2( D+I), has a life-long love of plants and nature. Her design work has been in the private, non-profit and governmental sectors as well as the academic, with focus on plants, designing with plants and how they perform in the environments in which they are planted, with emphasis on stormwater management. She has degrees in American History/ Architectural History (BA, Penn) Regional Planning (MRP, Penn State) and Landscape Architecture (MLA, UGA), is the manager of the Montgomery County RainScapes Program of the Department of Environmental Protection and has been gardening since she first planted tulips and zinnias with her father at age 5.

Light refreshments will be served.

There will be a plant sale table managed by the Garden Club.

PLEASE REGISTER

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At the Spooky Workshop members made bows, forms for wreaths and tabletop arrangements, painted and wired pinecones and organized for our Greens Sale products.

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Get your order in TODAY

Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club 2024 Greens Sale
Wreaths, arrangements, tabletop trees, kissing balls, and holiday sprays

Place your order for the SSM Garden Club’s Annual Greens Sale. Proceeds from this event are used to benefit the Museum grounds and gardens. The greens are unique and limited in quantity as they are made by our hard-working Workshop Elves (Garden Club Members and friends). We are accepting pre-orders only. Due to limited resources, some items may sell out early.

Order Form available on the website

ORDER BY NOVEMBER 15: Email form to thatsamohre@outlook.com or bring to the museum.

PICK UP: Sunday, December 8, 2024, 12 PM to 3 PM Payment by check or cash.

TO SCHEDULE ALTERNATE PICK-UP DAY or TIME contact Marilyn @ 240-475-0263 or marilyn38858@comcast.net

TO VOLUNTEER: Contact us at marilyn38858@comcast.net

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Calling all Greens Sale Elves

Collecting the Greens

11/14, 19 and 26 Cutting Greens 10-1 Meet in Museum parking lot at 10

11/15, 16 Picking Boxwood 10-12 Meet in Museum parking lot at 10

11/15,18 Picking Boxwood 2-4 Meet in Museum parking lot at 2

11/14, 15, 16, 19 Place Greens in water 12 until done

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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/.

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

October 2024 Newsletter of the Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club

Garden Club News

Garden Club: Managing Stormwater Runoff and Increasing Biodiversity with RainScapes

Sunday, November 10, 2:00-4:00 pm
Free Admission

Light refreshments will be served.

There will be a plant sale table managed by the Garden Club.

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The September Program was enjoyed by a a full house.

The Extrordinary Lives of Bees by Phil Frank

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Come Join Us...

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The Greens Pre-Sales start soon!!

Order forms will be available at the Museum and on the website

Mark your calendars

We need many Elves to collect greens, then construct the handmade product in our workshops.

Fellowship and food provided!

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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/.

Sunday, September 1, 2024

September 2024 Newsletter of the Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club

Garden Club News

The Extraordinary Lives of Honey Bees

How they make babies, honey, wax, fill our dinner plates, and are the smartest insect.

Sunday September 8, 2024, 2-4pm

Learn...

· Why honey bees are irreplaceable (how they are unlike any other insect or pollinator)

· How a colony of 10's of thousands of honey bees behaves as a single animal

· How honey bees make honey (very labor intensive!) and where honey gets its flavor.

· How honey bees make more honey bees (bizarre and always deadly)

· What is killing the bees, and how you can help them

· Loads of fascinating bee facts you can take home to impress your friends... including "No male honey bee has a father, only a grandfather." And you will be able to effortlessly identify the gender of any honey bee you see on flowers in your garden!

Our speaker, Phil Frank, is a science journalist, writer, TV producer, and director of non-fiction films. His programs have been seen on CNN, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, Science Channel, A&E, Travel Channel, Headline News, History Channel, TLC, NY Times website, Washington Post website, and international channels. While producing a National Geographic program about mass animal die-offs, Phil became fascinated by honey bees. In 2014, he started his first hive and now has 15 hives on his deck, and one glass walled hive in his kitchen where he studies busy bees year round. Phil developed and runs websites for the Maryland State Beekeepers Association and Maryland’s Montgomery County Beekeepers Association. He designs beekeeping curricula and teaches honey bee biology for beekeepers. After years of study, he earned a Master Beekeeper certification from Eastern Apicultural Society.

Phil recently coauthored and published 'Hive Tour' a photo-rich book showing the extraordinary lives of honey bees.

There will be time for a Q & A.

Light refreshments will be served.

The Garden Club plant sale table will be available.

Admission to this event is free for Museum Members (use promo code memberssm).

There is a $10 fee for nonmembers.

Please register at www.Sandy Spring Museum.org

or call 301-774-0022

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Upcoming Events

Managing Stormwater Runoff and Increasing Biodiversity in the Home Landscape with RainScapes

Sunday November 10, 2024

2pm – 4pm

Come and learn about how to evaluate your home landscape for stormwater runoff opportunities and what kinds of solutions have worked in Montgomery County! The focus will be on showing predominantly native RainScapes gardens that are managing stormwater and providing beautiful biodiversity benefits too.

Bio: Ann English, PLA, ASLA, LEED® AP BD+C, CBLP 1 &2( D+I) has a life-long love of plants and nature. Her design work has been in the private, non-profit, governmental as well as the academic sectors. Her focus is designing with plants that perform well in the environments in which they are planted, with emphasis on stormwater management. She has degrees in American History/ Architectural History (BA, Penn) Regional Planning (MRP, Penn State) and Landscape Architecture (MLA, UGA) and is the manager of the Montgomery County RainScapes Program of the Department of Environmental Protection and has been gardening since she first planted tulips and zinnias with her father at age 5.

Light refreshments will be served.

Hosted by the Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club, a plant sale will be held concurrently

Free admission with registration at www.SandySpringMuseum.org

Or call 301-774-0022

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