Join us for our next General Meeting – Thursday, January 18, 2018
January 10, 2018
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Guests are always welcome to attend our general monthly meetings – We’ve got horticulture exhibits to share, floral design monthly challenges, garden supplies, and a wonderful guest speaker. This month, we are thrilled to welcome Kirsten Conrad, M.S., Extension Agent with Virginia Cooperative Extension, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Horticulture. Kirsten presentation is Every Home, A Habitat: Living With the Birds and Bees: Establishing a Pollinator-Friendly Landscape

Kirsten will focus on best practices and resources promoted by Virginia Cooperative Extension that residents can use in a variety of landscaping. Whether you have a container or balcony, a shady woodland paradise, or a sunny hillside or hell-strip, there are many ways, large and small, that gardeners can do their part to keep a healthy, welcoming ecosystem going that will support our birds, bees, and butterflies.

 Little Falls Presbyterian Church Lower Level Friendship Hall

6025 Little Falls Road Arlington, VA 22207

Business Meeting: 10:00 a.m.  Speaker :  11:00 a.m. followed by lunch.

Please RSVP to [email protected] if you’d like to attend. Our meetings are free and open to the public. Our delicious luncheon is open to guests. (a small donation is requested).  And do email us if you are also interested in gardening activities and would like to join our very active civic organization.  We look forward to meeting you!


January 2018 Gardenzette – Hot off the press
January 10, 2018
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Here’s the latest edition of the Gardenzette. Enjoy by clicking here —->Gardenzette Jan 2018 web pdf


Happy Holidays!
December 25, 2017
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From our gardens to yours, Happy Holidays from your friends at Rock Spring Garden Club! Happy New Year 2018!


Enjoy our latest issue of RSGC’s The Gardenzette
December 4, 2017
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Here ya go: Gardenzette Dec 2017 pdf web  Enjoy!


See you all at our December Holiday Tea
December 4, 2017
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In December we do not have a regular monthly meeting. Instead we host our Holiday Tea is at the home of one of our dear members. We look forward to seeing all of our members! While our meetings and programs are open to the public, our Tea is for members and guests.  If you’re interested in joining our club, just click the contact button above.  Thanks!  Enjoy your December!

Photo by Annie Spratt of Unsplashed

 


Thanks to our many members for working for our Holiday Design Event!
December 4, 2017
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Holiday Floral Design Event Photos!
December 4, 2017
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NCAGC President Robin Hammer, Designer Susie Poneman, Dorinda Burroughs and Barnet Norris


Thank You to our Sponsors for the 7th Holiday Floral Design Event!
December 4, 2017
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PLEASE SUPPORT OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS:

 

  Susie Poneman,Owner and Designer of Heavenly Hydrangeas

703-534-1308   www.heavenlyhydrangeas.com

 

ANDY’S LAWN & LANDSCAPE

703-241-3752

 

BETTER LAWN SERVICE, INC.

www.betterlawnserviceinc.com  703-346-2178

 

BATTLEFIELD AUTOMOTIVE Manassas and Culpeper Ford, Chevrolet, Toyota

www.battlefieldauto.com

 

SULLY SERVICES LAWN MAINTENANCE

703-909-2085

 

NORTHERN VIRGINIA TREE EXPERTS, INC.

www.northernvirginiatreeexperts.com  703-263-3199

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Our next meeting is our Holiday Floral Design Event! Please join us!
November 3, 2017
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Not only is this a fun event – you will learn to make your own designs at home. Beautify your home all year long with flowers and foliage from your garden or grocer!  Just email us for tickets! [email protected]. And if you want to order on-line THROUGH EVENTBRITE https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rock-spring-garden-club-holiday-floral-design-event-tickets-37476999715

And if you’re curious about membership in Rock Spring Garden Club, this is a wonderful event to find out what we are all about!

 


Arlington County’s Firestation 8 Beautification Project
November 3, 2017
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Rock Spring Garden Club members recently had an opportunity to apply their skills, talents and backs at Arlington County’s Firestation 8. The station’s raised border beds were neglected and deeply overrun with invasive ivy and other weeds.  We approached the chief and asked if we could clean up and beautify their fire house and received a resounding YES!  This particular Firestation is one of our oldest and is slated in the future to be refurbished. Until then, we were able to improve their immediate environs.  A team of RSGC members got to work , cleaning out several waste bags full of weeds. 
Extremely generous donations of chrysanthemums and pansies from Bill’s True Value Garden Center and BJ’s, provided plenty of healthy and colorful seasonal plantings. In addition, club members donated black eyed susans, shade loving native ferns and woodland phlox, as a giant holly tree provides deep shade in one part of the bed as well as a protective bird habitat.  We also got free mulch for the bed from Arlington County’s resident mulch pile to top the border bed.  Several club members worked on this backbreaking project over a three day period, not including the planning time involved.
Special thanks go to Julie Wadsworth, Kate Abrahams, Jo Ella Samp, Carol Cochran and Ann Larsen for a terrific team effort.
The Firestation 8 personnel were very pleased with the beautification project. Deputy Dobson enthusiastically thanked our club for helping beautify the station. They will ensure the plants are watered regularly. Arlington neighbors waiting at the bus stop in front of the firestation will also get to enjoy the new flower beds.
Photos by and copyright @2017 Kate Abrahams

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