DOWNLOAD YOUR APPLICATION HERE: GOTY_2014_ENTRY_FORM

You may email your form to [email protected]

“Landscape Design for the Home Garden” –  Renowned Washington, D.C. Landscape Designer, Florence Everts, will be our Guest Speaker at our regular monthly meeting on Thursday, April 17, 2014.  The business portion of our meeting begins at 10 AM, with our speaker program beginning at 11:00AM.  Following our presentation, a hot luncheon will be served.  Our meetings are free and open to the public, and we ask that you RSVP to [email protected]  – we ask for a nominal donation from our guests staying for lunch.  We look forward to seeing you!

It’s Garden of the Year time – Rock Spring Garden Club’s beautification program that recognizes homeowner gardens in Arlington County.  If you would like to enter your garden, a neighbor’s garden or a garden you’ve long admired in your travels around our lovely neighborhoods, please do.   Don’t delay!  Applications are due no later than April 30, 2014.  Any questions, just email us at [email protected] .  This year, you may email your entry form OR print, complete and mail. Instructions are at the bottom of the first page of our entry form.

GOTY_2014_ENTRY_FORM – <<<<< click here for download and email entry (word)

Our March 20, 2014 meeting begins with a business meeting at 10 AM; our program begins at 11 AM.  Our Program Speaker is Alonso Abugattas, naturalist, educator, native plant expert and Natural Resource Manager for Arlington County.  His topic is “Pollinators in the Garden” Bees and other pollinators.   Our meetings are free and open to the public. If you would like to stay for a hot luncheon, there is a nominal donation of $5.00   Please RSVP to [email protected]   – We look forward to having you join us!

Our meetings are free and open to the public. Please RSVP at [email protected] or just click ‘contact’ above.  Our business meeting begins at 10AM, our program begins at 11AM.  A hot lunch is available to guests for a nominal fee.  Little Falls Presbyterian Church, 6025 Little Falls Rd., Arlington, VA 22207

WHAT ARLINGTON GARDENS WANT

Our speaker, Rod Simmons, plant ecologist and Natural Resources Manager for the City of Alexandria, will provide a

discussion of native plants, soils and pest control for our area. A collaborator to the Museum of Natural History and

active member of various botanical and native plant societies in the region, Rod will talk about herbaceous and flowering

plants native to our region which flourish in our gardens and public areas. He will be able to answer your questions about

what to plant in our area.

Happy New Year to all from the members of Rock Spring Garden Club!  Perhaps you are considering joining a garden club. Come to one of our meetings and find out what we’re all about.  Our next meeting is Thursday, January 16, 2014. Our business meeting begins at 10 AM, and our program begins at 11AM. Our meetings are free and open to the public.

This month’s program is “Creativity in Flower Design” with Sandi Piccirillo.  Sandi is a member of National Garden Club’s national Flower Show Committee, a Master Judge, instructor in Landscape Design, Garden Studies and Environmental Studies Schools.  Sandi bring to our club her expertise in Ikebana, Historical, Traditional and Creative Designs.

In addition to our program, our monthly floral design challenge is  “Make it Creative!” – members will submit a creative Line Design or a Creative Line Mass Design using a fresh plant material.   Our members will also submit horticulture specimens for judging.  These monthly exercises offer all members an opportunity to practice and improve their floral design skills to compete in future Flower Shows.

We’d love to have you join us!

FMI : [email protected] or use click our ‘contact’ button above.

Rock Spring Garden Club’s 2013 Holiday Floral Design Event was a success – thanks to you –  our members and guests.

What’s great about this education event is that even though our attendees may not be able join a garden club because of other commitments, they are still passionately interested in learning the mechanics of floral design so that they can express their artistic interpretations of the natural beauty that surrounds us into their homes – during the holidays and all year long.

This year our tickets were sold out!  Thank you very much to the Arlington County public and surrounding communities for joining us for this event. Profits from our entrance fee and sales go to support our new and continuing community outreach programs and civic projects.

And big thanks to club member and designer Sheila Moore and  Washington DC floral designer Sarah Von Pollaro, for sharing their expertise and love of floral design with our members and our public.   For more information about our exciting event, check out this article with photos in the Sun Gazette:

http://www.sungazette.net/arlington/news/floral-expert-highlighted-at-garden-club-holiday-event/article_62e065d0-5b41-11e3-a748-001a4bcf887a.html

Please join us for our October 17 General Membership Meeting.  Our guest speaker is Lisa Zeigler, commercial cut-flower grower/farmer from Newport News, Virginia. Lisa will talk to us about organic and sustainable gardening.  Stop by her website www.thegardenersworkshop.com

The business portion of our meeting will begin at 10 AM and our speaker series begins at 11:00 AM.  This month we have an Autumn “Bread Spread” bake sale and a holiday shop in October sale as well as our monthly floral design and horticulture specimen challenge.

Our general meetings are held at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, 6025 Little Falls Rd., Arlington, VA 22207, and are always free and open to the public. FMI, just click our ‘contact’ button above.   Hope to see you!