Rock Spring Garden Club is pleased to host, with assistance of Marymount University students and expertise from Arlington County Parks and Recreation Division, a clean-up event on Saturday morning, April 21^st from 9:30-12:30.  We invite neighborhood families to help us pull out invasive plants and bushes that are strangling our beautiful old trees and crowding out healthy plants throughout the park , including along the stream bank.  We will gather at the Yorktown Blvd. park entrance and focus on the area along the walkway toward the shaded area of the park where many invasive bushes, ivy and garlic mustard are rampant.  We sorely need as many volunteers – even for an hour- because we can accomplish so much at a critical time in the growth cycle of the natural resources we are blessed to have in our neighborhood.

Please wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants and bring garden gloves and any tools (with your names written on them) you may have.  We will have extra gloves and some tools for those who may not have them.  Light refreshments will be available and we guarantee you’ll have fun meeting neighbors and helping rid the park of unwanted invasive plants that have no natural predators and thus grow unchecked.  Children are more than welcome as are dogs – as long as they are leashed (the dogs, not the children..).

If you are unable to join us but would like to contribute to this effort, the garden club would be grateful for donations which will be used to buy plants for a subsequent planting party in May.  You may send your contribution to:

Rock Spring Garden Club

5014 Little Falls Road

Arlington, VA 22207

And you may also contact us at [email protected]

Just click ‘Newsletter’ above for the RSGC April Gardenzette – our Club’s fabulous newsletter!  Enjoy

It’s not too early to get your garden entered into Rock Spring Garden Club’s Garden of the Year 2012 Program!  Don’t wait until it’s too late to get your application in!  Just CLICK above onto our special Garden of the Year button! Download your application, fill it out and mail it in.  Yes, it’s that easy!  If you love to to do your own garden, we’d love to have you enter this event!  Thank you!

Another benefit of membership with Rock Spring Garden Club!  Take advantage of the National Capital Area Garden Clubs, Inc. Educational Programs!   The next session of Landscape Design School is entitled ‘GARDEN DESIGN NOW AND FOR THE UNCHARTED FUTURE.”  It will be held Sept 19-21, 2012 at Agricultural History Farm Park, 18410 Muncaster Road, Derwood, MD 20855.  Here’s the PDF information and registration form (2 pages in PDF) . Just print it out!

Landscape Design School Sept 19-21, 2012

ATTENTION ARLINGTON CO. VIRGINIA GARDENERS! You’ve worked on your garden for years – plotting, planning, digging, watering – and your efforts have given you, your family and your neighbors a tremendous amount of pleasure and satisfaction.  You are a major part of what community beautification is all about. Enter your garden in our 2012 GARDEN OF THE YEAR AWARD competition.  Download your entry form here: Garden of the Year 2012 APPLICATION  – for further information, use our ‘contact’ button above.  Competition entry forms must be received no later than MAY 1, 2012. Judging will begin mid-May and winner will be announced on June 14, 2012 at our Rock Spring Garden Club meeting.  FMI, see application form.

Our Garden of the Year Award recognizes outstanding and unique gardens in the Arlington County community! This year, enter YOUR garden in our competition!  Details will be announced soon!

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For more information about our Club, please click  ‘newsletter’  above. Our latest issue, February 2012, is posted. Just click one it, or any of the others listed.