November 2021 Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club Newsletter

 

 FALL COLOR AND WINTER INTEREST FOR GARDENS

A Virtual program 

Sunday, November 14 at 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Sign up to get the Zoom link https://sandyspringmuseum.salsalabs.org/gardenclubspookyworkshopcopy1/index.html?page=register

Fall and winter garden beds can sometimes look brown and drab. Kathy Jentz will show you how to spice up your autumn gardens with perennials, ornamental grasses and the fall colors of trees and shrubs. She will review plant materials that can give your fall and winter gardens a real "wow" factor.

Kathy Jentz is editor and publisher of the award-winning Washington Gardener Magazine, host of the podcast Garden DC and co-author of The Urban Garden: 101 Ways to Grow Food and Beauty in the City. She has presented at Monticello, the Philadelphia Flower Show, the US Botanic Gardens, Brookside Gardens and other prestigious locations. She has also appeared on regular gardening guest spots on local TV and radio shows. Her mission is to turn black thumbs green! She believes in inspiration over perspiration.

Spooky Workshop

There were no spooks, but plenty of bow makers, pinecone painters and star makers at the Spooky Workshop, enjoying fellowship and tasty treats. Thanks for helping us prepare for our Holiday Greens Sales Workshop.

Holiday Greens Sale Workshops

Every December we have a Holiday Greens Sale. We cut and prep greens from members trees and shrubs, fashion boxwood and mixed greens wreaths, kissing balls, door and window swags, hurricane arrangements, decorated tabletop trees and candle arrangements of all sizes. These are all embellished with our bows, pinecones and stars made in previous workshops. To order your beautiful Holiday Greens contact our club's email.

Meet us in the basement of the Museum for the workshops. You may drop in or email for more information.

    

November 12,15 & 17     Greens Cutting                              10 am.

                                         Greens Prep                                   12 pm 

    November 13 &16      Boxwood cutting                            9 am or 2 pm

                                         Greens Prep                                   12 pm

                                        

    December 3                  Mixed Green Wreaths                    9:30 am-3 pm

    December 4                  Kissing Balls                                  11 am-1 pm

    December 5                  Boxwood Wreaths                          2-5 pm

    December 6                  Boxwood Wreaths and Trees          10 am - 5 pm

    December 7                  Hurricane Arrangements                12-4 pm

                                         Mixed Green Wreaths                     5-8 pm

    December 8                  Swags, Sprays and Mixed Greens  1-8 pm

    December 9                  Arrangements                                  1-8 pm

    December 10                Order completion                            1-8 pm

    December 11                Order Pick-up                                  10 am-1 pm

    December 14                Clean-up                                          9 am-1 pm

 

Garden Club Trip 

Several of our members and friends traveled together to see the Annmarie Garden and Art Center in Solomons, MD, where the Patuxent River meets the Chesapeake Bay. The sculpture garden features a 1/4 mile walking path that meanders through the woods past permanent and loaned sculpture, including over thirty works on loan from the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art.

Fall Recipes

Mini Pepperoni Pizza Pumpkins

Turkey Cranberry Pinwheels

Mini Apple Pies with Crumb Topping

Acorn Cake Bites

Gardening Podcasts you may enjoy while putting your gardens to bed for the winter:

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach

GardenDC  by Kathy Jentz

Let's Ague About Plants from Fine Gardening Magazine

The Joe Gardener Show , Organic gardening with Joe Lamp'l

Two Minutes in the Garden from the Empress of Dirt

Find these and more on Spotify, Stitcher or iTune, or download the app.

The Garden Club is a body of the Sandy Spring Museum

Learn more about our activities and how to join the Garden Club.

https://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/programs-and-events/garden-club

email:  gardenclub@sandyspringmuseum.org or call 301-774-0022.

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October 2021 Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club Newsletter

Garden Club News

Fall Color and Winter Interest for our Gardens

with Kathy Jentz

Sunday, November 14  2-4 PM

Zoom presentation  

Check HERE to receive the Zoom link

Fall into winter can sometimes look brown and drab.  Our November speaker, Kathy Jentz, will discuss how to spruce up our autumn gardens with perennials, ornamental grasses and the fall colors of trees and shrubs.  She will review plant materials that can give our fall and winter gardens a real "wow" factor. 

We are so fortunate to have Kathy Jentz share her knowledge with us.  Among her many accomplishments, she is editor and publisher of the award winning Washington Gardener Magazine, host of the podcast Garden DC and co-author of The Urban Garden: 101 Ways to Grow Food and Beauty in the City.  She has presented programs at Monticello, the Philadelphia Flower Show, the US Botanical Gardens, Brookside Gardens and other prestigious places.  In addition she has appeared on regular gardening guest spots on local TV and radio shows.  Her mission is to turn black thumbs green!  She believes in inspiration over perspiration.

Join us in November for this wonderful opportunity!

  

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Spooky Workshop

Sunday, October 24   1-4 PM

No ghosts allowed, but there be lots of ribbons and bows.  In this workshop, help with preparations for the Garden Club's Holiday Greens Sale. Learn to make bows of various sizes and other decorations from natural products. Costumes are optional and treats will be served. Register here 

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In September the Garden Club presented a wonderful program on Fall Decorating. There were demonstrations, a creative craft using recycled bottles and dried grasses, and fun food. It included outdoor decorating by Kathy G, Stephanie's topiary pumpkins, table and porch ideas with Amy and beautiful cost-cutting tablescapes by Sunny.

Planting Spring Bulbs

Bulbs are little packets of flower power that make us wait weeks, sometimes months, for results — but boy, are they worth it. The term “bulb” often refers not only to true bulbs, but also plants with tuberous roots, tubers, corms, and rhizomes; the information here can be applied to all of these. With a little basic knowledge, anyone can grow beautiful bulbs. 

Spring bulbs:  Also called hardy bulbs, these bulbs are planted in fall, spend winter in the ground, and flower in spring. Some of the more common spring bulbs are tulips, irises, daffodils, hyacinth, allium and crocus. These bulbs need several weeks of cold temperatures to break their dormancy and flower to their full potential.

Find out more about how to plant bulbs, companion plants and how to make a layered bulb garden in a pot at Garden Design.

                                    Watch a YouTube tutorial on making a "lasagna" garden in a pot. 

                               Add a piece of chicken wire above the bulbs to keep the squirrels out!

And while you're at it, dig out those cannas, elephant ears and dahlias to store for the winter.  You can also overwinter geraniums as done here.

October Garden Events

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October 8-9, 16             Cloverly Civic Native Plant Sale is selling over 900 perennial native plants with 26 varieties to encourage the use of native plants. 370 trees with 5 varieties and 150 shrubs with 3 varieties. Order here for pick-up.

October 17, 10-2           Native plant sale    Chesapeake Natives, Inc. 

                                                                     9640 Rosaryville Road, 

                                                                     Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 

The Garden Club is a body of the Sandy Spring Museum

Learn more about our activities and how to join the Garden Club.

https://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/programs-and-events/garden-club

email:  gardenclub@sandyspringmuseum.org or call 301-774-0022.

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September 2021 Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club

 

Garden Club News

Repurpose and Recycle 

Fall Decorating Workshop

Sunday, September 19       2:00-4:00 PM

$7.50 for Museum members, $15 for non-members

Join Garden Club members as they demonstrate unique fall items to decorate your home.

Fall entertaining ideas, including tablescapes and appetizers, will be featured.

Attendees will have the opportunity to sample the appetizers and beverages highlighted in the presentation.

Our New Compost Bins

We have new compost bins for helpers in the Museum courtyard gardens. It was designed and built by Scouts from Olney Troop 264 using free recycled pallets, some hardware and hard work. Thank you Scouts!

Garden Tour

                                                     THE FRIENDS HOUSE GARDEN

  Located on what was once Quaker farmland in historic Sandy Spring,

  Maryland, the nearly two-acre garden includes beautifully managed

  vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowerbeds as well as an apiary. Friends

  House residents maintain the gardens, employing organic practices that

  emphasize sustainability and land stewardship, and that seek to attract

  pollinators. The joy and satisfaction of nurturing a garden and being

  outdoors are also therapeutic and pleasant experiences for many. In

  recent years an increased emphasis has been placed on making the

  garden more accessible for all residents as well as practical for aging

  gardeners. There are approximately 35 active members of the garden committee.

  Currently, there are 22 cultivated beds bordered with wood and 10

  raised beds; all are surrounded by an electric fence to discourage deer.

  Gardeners may request private plots for their own personal gardening

   and there are also a number of community beds. Specialty gardens

   include the rose garden, the butterfly garden, the Shakespeare garden,

   and the cutting gardens that provide flower arrangements for the main

   building. Just outside the garden fence is the greenhouse, used for

   starting plants from seed and caring for houseplants throughout the

   year. A greenhouse subcommittee manages the greenhouse and the

   care of Flower Alley, located in the commons of Friends House, where

   plants are on display. From the greenhouse, paver paths lead past the

   cutting beds to a pergola where small groups can gather. 

                    

   Within the garden are four compost bins for which the FH gardeners have won

    awards from the Montgomery County Recycling program for the

   composting operation. The apiary currently contains six productive

   beehives; honey from our bees is sold each year, which helps fund

   garden activities.

                    

                                                        September Garden Events

Saturday, September 11, 2021 (10.00 AM - 3.00 PM)
PLEASE NOTE: (Saturday, 8 AM - 10 AM - open to FOBG members ONLY)

Sunday, September 12, 2021 (10.00 AM -1.00 PM)
Brookside Gardens Visitor Center (South Terrace)
1800 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD 20902

MEMBERS RECEIVE 10% DISCOUNT ON ALL PLANTS!!

(RAIN or SHINE, may be subject to change due to Montgomery Parks policy)

MASK POLICY: All patrons are reminded that masks are required inside the Visitor Center and recommended outside while shopping. THANK YOU.

Welcome to the Sunflowers of Lisbon!

Woodbine/Lisbon will be open September 17, 2021-October 10, 2021.

Check for more details

• September 24-26:  National Capital Dahlia Society Annual Show
•  Brookside Gardens, Wheaton MD – 2pm to 5pm on Saturday and 9am to 3pm on Sunday (Bloom Sale at 3 pm on Sunday)

September Garden Chores

Maintenance

Weeding. Spend 1-2 hours per week keeping up with weeding in your garden. Diligent weeding helps prevent weeds from going to seed and also prevents disease in next season’s garden.

Stop pruning and fertilizing. At this point in the season, pruning and fertilizing only promotes new growth that most likely will not make it through the winter.

Repot houseplants if necessary and bring indoors. Place them by a sunny window that has good airflow and make sure to check for pests.

If you want annuals to self-seed, stop deadheading in September. Annual Poppies, Zinnias, Sunflowers, and more will drop their seeds and (most likely) come back next year.

Leave Echinacea, Sedum, Grasses, and Clematis alone to provide habitat and food for birds over the winter months. These blooms also add texture and interest to the winter garden.

Write in your garden journal. Take note of what grew well, dividing your gardens up into sections as it makes sense (containers, vegetable garden, annuals, perennials). This will be a big help when you are planning your garden over the winter months.

Start cleaning up plants as they fade. Cut back any perennial that is diseased or that has started to turn yellow, including Daylilies, Iris, Peonies, Bee Balm, and more.

Dig up/divide Daylilies, Iris, Hostas, and more in September if they have become overcrowded or outgrown the space.

As you cut plants back and continue to weed, top up mulch in all of your garden beds to provide a nice layer of protection for the winter months.

Dig up and store tender bulbs and tubers such as Dahlias, Begonias, Gladiolus, and more.

https://www.americanmeadows.com/blog/2017/08/29/september-gardening-chores

                              

The Garden Club is a body of the Sandy Spring Museum

Learn more about our activities and how to join the Garden Club.

https://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/programs-and-events/garden-club

email:  gardenclub@sandyspringmuseum.org or call 301-774-0022.

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