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!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/148155358579274/ – check out our member page on Facebook!

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.

“America’s Treasures – Our Native Azaleas” – we welcome Don Hyatt, national authority on azaleas and rhododendrons, to the Club on Thursday, February 16, 2012.  Our business meeting begins at 10 AM, and our exciting educational program begins at 11:00AM.  Lunch follows at noon.  Our meeting is held at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, 6025 Little Falls Rd, Arlington, VA 22207.  Our meetings are free and open to all, but please RSVP  by clicking ‘contact’ above, or email us at [email protected]

The Botany, Horticultural History and Future of Chrysanthemums

     On Sunday, February 12^th, The Old Dominion Chrysanthemum Society will present a 3/4 hour pictorial program and discussion.  Drawing on publications from the early 1800s from Europe and the United States, Todd Brethauer will cover  the “Botany, Horticultural History and Future of Chrysanthemums.”  The meeting will be held at the Falls Church Community Center, 223 Little Falls Street, Falls Church, VA starting at 2:30PM. Open to the public. Free Admission and refreshments.

Call Jim Dunne (703-560-8776) for more information.

Here’s the link:  http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/

Click this link to find out more about gardening seminars being held at Merrifield Garden Centers:http://www.merrifieldgardencenter.com/What-s-Happening/12-01-eBlast.aspx

Keep busy with your gardening interests until Spring let’s us back into our gardens!