Next meeting at my house is: 6/29 (Thurs) 6:30pm
Come w/ ideas for upcoming meetings.
An upcoming event you should try and take advantage of is the Mass Garden Tour.
To learn more about other activities check out the Garden Club Federation of Mass(JP doesn't belong to this group but you can participate in many of the events).
Regards,
Carol Garfield
Mark your calendars: the Massachusetts Horticultural Society will host The Society Row Plant Sale Sunday, May 21, 2006 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Elm Bank Horticulture Center in Wellesley. Members are invited to a special preview from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. that day. The plant sale will consist of approximately 30 displays by local plant societies and vendors selling their plants and will feature free plant clinics and demos throughout the day given by plant society members and other experts.
Hello to all JP Gardeners,
We like to call the JP Garden club the most laid back garden club in Boston! In recent meetings we met in members yards to see their landscaping and planting ideas and took a couple of trips. For example, we had a private tour of the Forest Hills green houses and visited a local nursery.
I'm planning to host a "great ready for spring" meeting at the end of March!!
Please forward your ideas on what you would find interesting to include in upcoming meetings. In particular, I'm interested in your knowledge on leads for speakers (for free) that would come and talk at the meetings. Also, your ideas for community activities.
Please note my garden club email address is:
carol.jpgarden [AT] gmail.com
Please use that email address to send your ideas----
Think Spring---
Carol
On Wednesday February 1st from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at the Milky Way Lounge and Lanes (403-405 Center St in Jamaica Plain), Neighbors for Neighbors, JP will host a Community Organizing meeting that will be attended by approximately 150 residents of Jamaica Plain.
From 7:00 to 7:30 PM attendees will socialize and connect with each other. The Organizing meeting will begin promptly at 7:30 PM.
This focus will be on introducing and creating new community projects that residents will lead and participate in as volunteers. New projects include but are not limited to Name Tag Day, Gardening Club, Knitting Club, Left-Right-Front-Back, and re-introducing Safe Walk.
More info here:
Hey Let's Go - Community Organizing Meeting in Jamaica Plain MA
Is this a weed? - a photoset on Flickr.
Every Spring when weeding we come upon plants that we don't know if we should pull them up or not.
Are they weeds or are they perennials that will grow into gorgeous flowers.
Sometimes we let them grow and we end up with a flowery surprise or a big old weed.
Please help us. Is this a weed?
Visit my Is this a weed? photoset on Flickr and let us know in the comments!
Thanks!
This week Carol demonstrates how to plant pansies in pots.
Landscaping:
This month we visited a local garden and give a member ideas on their landscape project.
Lots of great ideas were shared. We discussed the idea of creating a Japanese Garden with a ton of rocks, until we found out that the rocks need to be raked everyday. That's too much work.
We discussed many different tree possibilities.
One was the American Eastern Redbud Tree. Another was a Red Japanese Maple. A hard to spell one was the Amelanchier canadensis also known as Shadbush serviceberry.
Then we talked about ideas for landscaping tha wall of the garage. One possibility was a Climbing Hydrangea on a cedar trellis.
Hi JP Garden Club Members and All,
Most of you could not attend the Forest Hills Cemetery Greenhouses tour on Saturday. Fifteen lucky attendees walked away with countless ideas and free fibrous begonias. Did you know that the cemetery has the largest collection of Victorian sculptures in the country? Take in the Daniel Chester French relief, a memorial to the Millipore family, to the left just as you enter the cemetery from Morton Street.
I am forwarding a few tips, for the attendees who didn¹t have paper and pencils:
The cemetery uses 5-10-5 fertilizer and lime in the outdoor beds.
Safers insecticidal soap controls the aphids.
Neem oil is a staple in the greenhouses for controlling insect larvae growth.
Diatomaceous Earth is used to control slugs.
Among the plants that inspired inquiry:
"Kiwi Fern" Coleus
"Inki Pink" Coleus
Plectranthus... a fuzzy leafed shade lover, slug resistant, low growing, green will yellow edges.
Thuja plicata (rooting #3), "Tree of Life". A spring green, deer-resistant Arborvitae
Harringtoniana, shade loving yew. Very hardy.
The Cemetery Personnel:
Brian King is the greenhouses manager.
The volunteer grounds tour guide was Al Maze.
Nini Colmore is the Cemetery marketing manager who organized the event for us. If anyone wants to thank her personally she can be reached at
ncolomore@foresthillstrust.org.
Upcoming Events:
Anyone can plan events. There is a lot of enthusiasm for trips to nurseries that specialize in grasses or clematis, garden tours in other towns, visits to each other¹s gardens here is J.P, etc. All we need are self-motivated planners!
Feel free to take the initiative. E-mail your event idea, dates, times, locations to other members. A good tip: No date is good for everyone. Just pick the date and time that works for you.
The Jamaica Plain Garden Club held it's first meeting of the season on Saturday April 24th.
It was a field trip to the Forest Hills Cemetery Greenhouses.
We were taken on a tour by Brian King. Brian showed us around the greenhouses that were built in 1899. Inside the greenhouses, we saw many types of plants that were being propagated for Spring planting.
Here's a photo album of our tour!