Just click this link to read the June 2016 edition of our club newsletter, The Gardenzette!  —- >>> 2016_06 Gardenzette web

And happy summer gardening from your friends at Rock Spring Garden Club!

What a fantastic, busy and successful year we had at Rock Spring Garden Club!  We enjoyed wonderful programs and great guest speakers.  We hosted over 200 guests from our community at our Holiday Floral Design Event, an educational and entertaining evening of floral design.

Club members l. to r. Ann Lunson, Mary Kudless, Janice Haines, Anne Collins, Event Co-Chair

In December, we celebrated together with a lovely Holiday Tea where club members decorated a fellow member’s home with lovely floral designs and fresh decorations.

We spent the months leading up to April 22 preparing for our Standard Flower Show, That’s Life – Celebrating Sinatra, His Songbook and Movies.

In May, we took a field trip to the Franciscan Monastary, a hidden garden gem in Washington, DC.  And in June, we celebrated with a showcase of member gardens, and welcomed three new members to our club.  And our club was honored to be recognized with awards for our work in the community.

Whew!  What a busy, exciting and fun year.  If you’re interested in gardening and it’s many aspects, learning and experiencing, and making new friends,  please consider joining our club.  Our first meeting of our new club year is Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 10AM, at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, 6025 Little Falls Rd., Arlington, VA 22207.

FMI, contact us at [email protected]  Feel free to navigate around our website for more information about garden club.

Rock Spring Garden Club’s Invitational Committee was asked to create floral designs for Tuckahoe Elementary School’s PTA fundraising event, The Tuckahoe Home & Garden Tour.  Floral designs were created to enhance the decor of the homes on tour.  We are privileged to be asked to lend our expertise for their worthy community event.   We also partner with Tuckahoe Elementary School for our Junior Gardener Program with their second graders.  We have so much fun working with the children at Tuckahoe.  Here’s some photos of the designs created for the tour by Invitational Committee members, including Joan Asboth, Margaret Eubank, Jenny Sullivan, Ann Marie Fay, Dorinda Burroughs and Becky Salzinger.

2016-05 May Gardenzette web – just click here to see what’s going on this month at RSGC!  And do check out the pictures from our April Flower Show – ‘That’s Life”

The Rock Spring Garden Club’s  Invitational Committee will create floral designs to be placed in homes and gardens for the annual Tuckahoe Elementary School Home and Garden Tour. 

a sample of member designs

The tour is a primary annual fundraiser to support the Tuckahoe Elementary Discovery School yard, the award-winning outdoor learning program at Tuckahoe.  It will be held Saturday, May 14 from 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m.

Featured in Arlington Magazine’s Best Of and WaPo’s Spring Tour line-up, this Tour is ideal for people thinking of renovating or remodeling, this is the perfect opportunity to meet builders and architects and see their projects. The Tour is a self-guided and begins at Tuckahoe Elementary School and continues through the Arlington community, showcasing up to 8 newly-renovated homes and as many as 3 beautiful gardens.  For information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.tuckahoetour.org.  This is another way to support Tuckahoe Elementary School.

THAT’S LIFE

 Celebrating Sinatra, His Songbook and Movies

A Standard Flower Show

presented by

Rock Spring Garden Club

Arlington, VA

Member of

National Capital Area Garden Clubs, Inc.

Central Atlantic Region

and

Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc.

South Atlantic Region

National Garden Clubs, Inc.

at

Little Falls Presbyterian Church

6025 Little Falls Road

Arlington, VA   22207

on

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Free and open to the public from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

That’s Life

Sinatra, His Songbook and Movies

THE PURPOSES OF A STANDARD FLOWER SHOW

To educate club members and viewing public. To stimulate interest in horticulture and floral design. To provide an outlet for creative expression. To convey to the community objectives of National Garden Clubs, Inc. 

PROGRAM

Wednesday, April 20, 2016                                                                              5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Horticulture and Design entries

Thursday, April 21, 2016                                                                                    7:15 am – 9:00 am

Horticulture and Design entries

Thursday, April 21, 2016                                                                              10:00 am – 12:30 noon

Judging

Thursday, April 21, 2016                                                                                     2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Open to the Public

Thursday, April 21, 2016                                                                                     4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Dismantle Show

Our general meetings are free and open to the public. They are held at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, 6025 Little Falls Rd, Arlington, VA 22207.  If you’d like to join us for our meeting and lunch; please RSVP to [email protected] or just click ‘contact’ tab above. A hot lunch follows our program and you are very welcome to join us for a nominal fee of $5.

The business portion of our meeting begins at 10:00AM; our program begins about 11:10AM.  This month we are excited to have Kathy Jentz, Founder and Editor of Washington Gardener Magazine, visit us to talk all about SMALL SPACE GARDEN DESIGN.  Using examples from area gardens, Kathy Jenz will illustrate basic design principles for maximizing garden space. She will address common small- space challenges such as creating privacy and adding light to shady areas. She’ll offer low-or-no-budget solutions as well.

Please let us know if you’d be interested in joining Rock Spring Garden Club! New or experienced gardeners are very welcome!

Interested in what’s going on at Rock Spring Garden Club?  Just click this link to read our latest issue of the Gardenzette 2016_03 March Gardenzette web

RSGC has a lot going on these days.  Our February meeting featured Regina Lanctot, Plant Specialist from Merrifield Gardens at Fair Oaks.  Regina brought with her an assortment of unique houseplants that will enhance any houseplant collection. Regina’s presentation also talked about proper care and feeding of houseplants and orchids, and potting requirements.  It was a wonderful program! FMI on Merrifield Gardens and their programs, click their link to the right on our sidebar.

We also had a wonderful monthly design challenge – Miniatures!  Our monthly design challenges are part of our ongoing emphasis on design and horticulture entries for our UPCOMING STANDARD FLOWER SHOW, “That’s Life – Sinatra’s Songbook and Movies” on Thursday, April 21, 2016, from 2-4PM.  This exciting and fun standard flower show is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!  Please come join us!  Enjoy these photos of our design and horticulture entries.