April 2019 General Meeting – with Guest Speaker Tom Rainer!
April 10, 2019
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Our next meeting is Thursday, April 18, 2019 beginning at 10:00 a.m. with our business meeting and at 11:00 a.m. our Program, Functional and Resilient Landscapes with Tom Rainer.

Tom is an author and Principal, Phyto Studio, Washington, DC; and is a registered landscape architect and a leading voice in ecological landscape design who has designed for the U.S. Capitol and New York Botanic gardens.  RSGC is a fan of Tom and we are thrilled to have him with us.

Guests and perspective members are very welcome to attend our program, which is free and open to the public. Following our meeting is a delicious lunch and if you’d like to stay and join us, please RSVP to [email protected]

 

 


March 2019 Gardenzette!
March 20, 2019
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Here you go!  The latest happenings at Rock Spring Garden Club! Click here —>Gardenzette Mar 2019 web


March General Meeting – Thursday, March 21, 2019, 10:00 a.m.
March 6, 2019
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Happy March!  We have a really good speaker for our March general meeting – Kathy Jentz, Editor and Publisher of Washington Gardener Magazine and a wonderful gardener in her own right.  Kathy will be speaking to us about gardening in the shade and resources for understory planting.

Our meeting begins at 10:00 a.m. and our program at 11:00 a.m., followed by lunch.  Our meeting is free and open to the public.  Guests are welcome! Do please RSVP if you are attending and would like to join us for lunch at [email protected]  Our meeting is at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, 6025 Little Falls Road, Arlington, VA 22207.

Photograph by Julie Williams of a piece of art created by flower petals, on display at the Philadelphia Flower Show. copyright @2019

Interested in joining?  RSGC is a fun gardening organization and over 60 active members.  We love gardening!  Come check us out!


February 2019 Gardenzette is here
February 11, 2019
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Read all the goings on at Rock Spring Garden Club.  And see you at our next meeting on Thursday, February 21, 2019!  Gardenzette Feb 2019 web


Looking Forward to Seeing You on February 21, 2019 at our Next General Meeting
January 27, 2019
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Our next general meeting will be held on Thursday, February 21, 2019. Our meeting is free and open to the public. Interested in joining a garden club?  Let us know!

Rock Spring Garden Club’s meeting begins at 10:00 a.m. at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, Lower level Friendship Hall, 6026 Little Falls Road, Arlington, VA 22207. Be sure to check out our Horticulture, Design exhibits and so much more! Our speaker’s presentation will begin at 11:00 a.m.  Stay for lunch!  A delicious warm lunch will be served immediately after the program and guests are very welcome to join us. We ask for a small donation.  Please RSVP your attendance and if you are staying for lunch by emailing us at [email protected]

We look forward to our guest speaker, Drew Asbury, Horticulturist and Garden Manager of Hillwood Museum and Gardens in Washington, D.C.  Mr. Asbury will speak about the Hillwood Estate’s cutting garden and adding cut flowers to your own garden plantings.  For more information about Hillwood, follow this link https://www.hillwoodmuseum.org


The Gardenzette January 2019
January 14, 2019
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Hot off the press! See what’s going on at Rock Spring Garden Club!


What’s Coming Up In January 2019
December 4, 2018
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2019
Join us at our first meeting of the year. Our general meeting and program is free and open to the public. Considering joining Rock Spring Garden Club? You are very welcome to come and see what we are all about. Our meeting will be held at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, 6025 Little Falls Road, Arlington, VA 22207.  Our business meeting begins at 10 a.m. and our program begins about 11 a.m. followed by lunch.  Please RSVP if you’d like to attend to [email protected]
 
Program: “Rain Gardens in Arlington County’s Storm Water Management Program”
 
Speaker: A representative from the office of Aileen Winquist, Watershed Outreach Program Manager
This presentation by the Arlington County Environmental Services Office will discuss developments in the county’s storm water management program with particular attention to the county’s use of rain gardens.

Happy Holidays!
December 4, 2018
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               floral design by member Renee Bayes

Rock Spring Garden Club wishes you and yours a wonderful Holiday Season 2018.  Our December activity is a club member-only Holiday Tea at a member’s home. We all get together and decorate the home with decorations and floral designs. It’s a wonderful time to visit each other and enjoy some fabulous seasonal goodies.


December 2018 The Gardenzette is here!
December 4, 2018
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Just click here for the December issue of The Gardenzette ———> Gardenzette Dec 2018 web pdf

 

Enjoy!


RSGC’s next general meeting is November 15, 2018 10:00 a.m.
November 4, 2018
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Please join us for our next general membership meeting of Rock Spring Garden Club, on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, 6025 Little Falls Road, Arlington, Virginia 22207

Guests and perspective members are very welcome to join us. We do ask that you RSVP your attendance at our meeting and if you’d like to stay for lunch, great (we ask for a small donation) to [email protected]

The business portion of our meeting begins at 10:00 a.m., followed by a break to visit our horticulture and design exhibitions, our Ways & Means display, and visit.  At 11:00 a.m. our program begins with an exciting design presentation, followed by lunch. 

Our speaker, Ellen Seagraves, will demonstrate the high style that defines her Chic Floral Designs in Bethesda, MD. She will create an evolving tablescape, showing how one can elaborate on a theme from one great arrangement, adding in more and more, to create something fantastic.

Ellen has a BFA in Weaving and Textile Design and often incorporates elements of those disciplines in her work along with Ikebana. Her arrangements have graced the White House and the Blair House among other prominent addresses.

See you soon!


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