Tree Planting – What not to plant
July 30, 2012
Author: Admin
Here’s a very helpful listing from Fine Gardening Magazine : click the link:
http://www.finegardening.com/item/23608/fast-growing-trees-to-avoid
Member News! Ann Stevens Kelly’s Book – DIPLOMATIC GARDENS OF WASHINGTON
July 18, 2012
Author: Admin
Club Member Ann Stevens Kelly’s latest book is out! DIPLOMATIC GARDENS OF WASHINGTON, is an exclusive look behind the embassy walls of Washington, DC. Ann’s photographs and Giles Kelly’s enchanting text guide you through the history of the ambassadorial residences. Congratulations, Ann and Giles!
2012 Garden of the Year!
June 20, 2012
Author: Admin
Congratulations to all our Arlington Virginia homeowners who participated in our 2012 Garden of the Year Program!
Photo: Carol Walsh, 3rd place, Bonnie McGready, winner, and Deborah Geanuleas, 2nd place. Photo by Mary Cottrell.
Adding Native Plants to Rock Spring Park
June 11, 2012
Author: Admin
Conservation-minded Gardeners Invited to Help in Rock Spring Park on June 12
RSGC’s Civic Development Committee planned and coordinated two major events this spring to remove trash and exotic invasive plants from the Rock Spring Park. With the help of students from Nottingham Elementary School and Marymount University, volunteers from the Rock Spring Congregation Church, and many RSGC members, at least a ton (not an exaggeration) of invasive plants was removed from the park on two weekends in April. Now begins the next phase and fun part of this year’s initiative – planting!
Starting early on Tuesday, June 12 members of the CD Committee will begin planting more than 65 native plants in Rock Spring Park. The plants, including herbaceous perennials, shrubs, vines and ferns were purchased from such deserving organizations as the Virginia Native Plant Society, Friends of Green Springs Master Gardeners, and Earth Sangha. Members of the Civic Development Committee will welcome the help of any of our friends in the garden club who may be free that day to come and help us plant! Even an hour or two of your gardening know-how would be of great assistance and very much appreciated
Our Invitational Committee – Tuckahoe Home and Garden Tour
May 20, 2012
Author: Admin
Members of our Invitational Committee, Renee Bayes, Dorinda Burroughs, Ann Kelly, Julie Williams, Sheila Moore and Chair Helen McMahon were asked to create floral designs for Tuckahoe Elementary School’s very successful Home and Garden Tour that took place this past Saturday, May 19.
Youth Activities Team
May 16, 2012
Author: Admin
the children made these!
Thank yous to Susan Scotti and her Youth Activities Committee – once a month, our club members visit the students at Tuckahoe Elementary School. We have an excellent, award winning curriculm to share with students who are very eager to learn about gardening and floral design. Youth Activities is one of those very rewarding programs that our club members enjoy.
Susan Scotti and her Youth Activities committee members
Susan Scotti, Chair, Youth Activities
Members and their Moms
May 16, 2012
Author: Admin
Margaret and her lovely Mom
Some Moms of members decided to come along to our Youth Activities May activity at Tuckahoe!
Renee and her sweet Mom
Mother’s Day – Tuckahoe Elementary School Style
May 16, 2012
Author: Admin
how lovely is this arrangement?getting some advice from our expert club members
Our Youth Activities Committee enjoys a very busy year with the students at Tuckahoe Elementary School here in Arlington, VA. Their May activity involved teaching the children to make their own arrangements to be brought home for Mother’s Day – and the children loved making their ’roundy moundies’!! Many thanks to our Youth Activities chair, Susan Scotti, and her team! Enjoy these pictures!
the children selecting their greens and creating their own arrangements
Earth Day Clean Up Activities APRIL 21 ROCK SPRING PARK
April 16, 2012
Author: Admin
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 21st 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]
April Newsletter!
April 10, 2012
Author: Admin
Just click ‘Newsletter’ above for the RSGC April Gardenzette – our Club’s fabulous newsletter! Enjoy