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Travel Photos
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| Powerscourt Garden, Dublin and hydrangeas throughout Ireland |
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| Wildflowers, turning Aspens and a corn-covered palace in Nebraska and S. Dakota |
End of Summer Blooms
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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September 2023 Newsletter of the Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club
Garden Club News
Growing and Using Cooking Herbs
Sunday, September 10
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.
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
Summer Blooms in our area
| The Brighton Azalea Gardens are restful, cool and beautiful in mid summer |
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| A wildflower garden on New Hampshire Ave |
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| The Westbury Drive entrance at Flower Valley Maintained by the Norbeck Manor Garden Club |
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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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
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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!!
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The Holiday Greens elves had a wonderful time preparing forms and bows for the Greens Sale in December.
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/.
Follow us on Facebook and in the monthly Newsletters on our blogspot.
June 2023 Newsletter of the Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club
Garden Club News
Our plant booth at the Strawberry Festival was a huge success!!
Accolades go to Anne Petzold, who single-handedly chaired the Strawberry Festival plant booth this year. She attended numerous meetings with the festival organizer, arranged for the volunteers, gathered all the supplies needed, and oversaw the setup to take down of the booth. She and her crew of volunteers moved and priced plants to the sale, helped customers, managed payments and cared for the plants.
We are also grateful to Mary Dominique and Kathy Gaskill for coordinating planting and potting at Century High School, as well as at their own homes, then caring for those plants for several months. Many more helpers watered, repotted and transported plants to the festival.
Our perennial selection was especially delightful, thanks to divisions from members and friends. We could offer customers plants for the sun and shade and a few deer resistant flowers. We had a large number of shrubs and even tree seedlings.
House plants and garden gloves were a new addition to our repertoire this year.
Donations from local growers greatly enhanced our selection of plants. Their eye-catching flowers, vegetables and shrubs brought many people to the booth.
Leftover vegetable plants were given to the Friends House for their community gardens and to Harvest Share, an organization that gives free plants to residents in the city.
The Museum Gardens
The many beautiful gardens on the Sandy Spring Museum compound have been lovingly designed and maintained by the Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club soon after the new building was dedicated in 1997.
In the center of the complex is a large open space used for weddings, luncheons and Strawberry Festival activities. The grassy Courtyard Garden area is surrounded by museum buildings and artists workshops and is comprised of six gardens.
The shade garden next to the glass wall of the gallery is filled with ferns, hellebores and begonias, among others.
The boxwoods on the western side are book-ended with two beautiful urns donated by member Jane Keller and planted with colorful heuchera.
Opposite the boxwoods and surrounding the octagonal library are mature shrubs including a huge hydrangea and a winter- blooming camellia. In front of the pottery studios are two large perennial beds and a delightful herb garden. A sculpture by member Karen Montgomery sits among the lavender and other herbs. A plaque amongst the flowers dedicates the gardens to the Garden Club founder, Mary Rice. Last year the club celebrated it's 30th anniversary.
The Garden Club also cares for many gardens at the front of the museum. Near the entrance is a welcoming mixture of perennials and annuals. The wisteria on the arbor has been recently restored and is lined with beds of irises and annuals. In early Spring, hellebores fill an open area under the trees.
Several times a year a dedicated group of gardeners weed, mulch and plant these gardens. We systematically divide perennials and pot them up for sale at the Strawberry Festival, while also adding annuals for instant color.
The Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, in London, is perhaps the most famous flower show on earth, and every year it draws in large crowds. The first Show at Chelsea in 1913 was a three day event. In 1927 the RHS expanded the Show to four days, with one day reserved for RHS members. In 2005 the Show was expanded to five days, with two days reserved for members. Chelsea continues to attract around 160,000 visitors each year.
Chelsea is the flower show most associated with the Royal family, who attend the opening day every year. The first Chelsea Show in 1913 was opened by Queen Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII. This year King Charles and Queen Camilla visited the garden show.
Watch BBC's coverage of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show with British gardeners Monty Don, Joe Swift, Carol Klein, among others. In 12 episodes they interview garden design winners, discuss home adaptations and meet the growers.
Photos of the garden designs as well as balcony gardens can be found at: https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/garden/designs/g43944229/chelsea-flower-show-2023-gardens-winners/
For garden activities is our area visit:
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/.
Follow us on Facebook and in the monthly Newsletters on our blogspot.
May 2023 Newsletter of the Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club
Garden Club News
Saturday and Sunday June 3 and 4
The Garden Club will have its plant booth filled with annuals, perennials, herbs, vegetables, and hanging baskets.
Donate divisions from your garden. Label plants and leave them under the “big tree” near our booth on June 2. Donate 3” and 4” square pots anytime this spring. Leave them in a bag by the back door of the basement.
Volunteer your time on Friday June 2 to set up the booth, on Saturday and Sunday June 3 and 4 to staff the booth (2½ hour time slots), and on Sunday June 4 to take down the booth.
Friday, June 2, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. (You don’t have to stay for the entire time.) We will be placing price sticks and labels in each plant, putting skirts on the tables, carrying and arranging the plants, and gathering and storing boxes under the tables.
Saturday, June 3 Festival hours are 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Set-up – Unload nursery trucks and arrange plants in booth. Finish set-up chores.
During the festival, you will be in the booth helping visitors select plants, answer questions and maintain plants.
Sunday, June 4 Festival hours are 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Staff the booth as described above.
4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Take down the booth.
April Program
The April program, Growing Orchids at Home, was presented by Jason Gebbia, President of the National Capital Orchid Society. With an outstanding display of orchids, he gave a very informative presentation, a power point which included a resource slide. He easily stopped during his talk to answer questions from the audience. The program was preceded by a business meeting and accompanied by delicious food.
Mary Rice Award
Congratulations to Ellen Feeney,
our 2023 Mary Rice Award honoree.
Blooms in our Area
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| Brighton Dam Azalea Garden |
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| Brookside Gardens |
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| Member Gardens |
Area events in May
May 5-6
May 5-7
Bonsai Festival at the National Arboretum, Potomac Bonsai Association
May 6
May 6
May 7
Native Plant Palooza, Robinsons Nature Center, Columbia
May 7
May13
May 13
May 13
May 20-21
May 21
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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