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The SSM Garden Club Greens Sale
Every year in December the Garden Club holds a fundraiser to fund our many activities at the Museum, support facility improvements and maintain the lovely courtyard and entrance gardens. The gardens provide a backdrop for weddings, concerts, games, and garden parties.
There are many steps to preparation for the Greens Sale:
- Inventory evaluation and purchase of needed items
- Christmas in July - Our first "workshop". A fun gathering of members and friends who enjoy a few hours in which we prepare the foundations, make bows and decorate natural items for our final products.
- Spooky Workshop - Another fun-filled event to finish our preparations.
- Orders - Products for the sale are advertised to the SSM membership and volunteers call the recipients of past orders.
- Greens Cutting - Several dates in November when small groups of members go to various homes in the area to cut the greens - white pine, cryptomeria, boxwood, umbrella pine, holly, arborvitae and chamaecyparis.
- Preparing the Greens - All those cut branches need to be cut into usable sizes and put into containers of water outside the building.
- Greens Workshops - Two weeks in November/December filled with daily workshops led by skilled members, each workshop making a specific item. New and experienced members are encouraged to help.
- Greens Sale - The final products are available for pickup.
- Clean Up - Containers need to be emptied and washed, supplies organized.
We hope all members will come to support and enjoy many of these activities in the months to come. The final products are amazing!
Garden Pics
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| Mockingbird enjoying a blueberry |
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| 3 Fox Pond Garden in Potomac |
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| Flag day arrangement made at Friends |
| Gardens surround the Big Shoe at Clark's Elioak Farm, Ellicott City |
Other July Happenings
July 6, 10-2 Annual Daylily Sale and Exhibition
Meadowlark Botanical Garden
July 19-21 Lotus and Water Lily Festival
Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens
July 27-28 Annual Farm Tour and Harvest Sale in Montgomery County
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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