Down To Earth Garden Club

As usual there won't be one! Stop by the mall and visit us from the 19th through the 24th near Bavarian Pretzel and Mr. Tool at the mall. We will be gift-wrapping for a donation and handing out solicited and unsolicited gardening advice.
Have a Merry Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year. May your perennials all survive the winter and may the 2009 gardening season bring healthy plants and the brightest of blooms.

The Down to Earth Garden Club could use a few gift wrappers December 19th through the 24th. There are still holes in our schedule and the more hours we can cover the more plants we can buy for 2009. The groundhogs have take their toll on the embankment plantings and keeping them in bloom has become an expensive  proposition. If you have a few hours please come help us wrap.
email downtoearthgardenclub@hotmail.com or call 371-8672. Come meet a great bunch of people.

The club will be wrapping at the Mall near Bavarian Pretzel from December 19th through Christmas Eve. Please look for us there and bring your gifts for us to wrap. The donations we receive will fund almost our entire program for 2009. There will be a number of other booths there this year (the word is out and we now have quite a bit of competition) so please come search us out.
Stop by and say hi even if you don't have gifts to wrap. Maybe there will be cookies!

Can someone please tell me why this thread has gotten so many hits?
We found that the cicada article which was also getting a lot of hits had a link on another web page but we can't figure out this one.

We sent some sweet woodruff up to Treasure Lake this summer. Sweet woodruff is a pretty ground cover that gets tiny white flowers. It is rather delicate looking and tolerates shade. The verdict was, that while the deer nibbled it, it came right back.
We'll continue to look for plants that are not bothered by critters. Sending them up to Treasure Lake is the ultimate test. If anyone else has a plant that should go on the list please post it.

You are going to have to do what you have to do. It is probably a bit late to move anything since they need time to develop a good root system before the ground freezes. Fall is the time that plants make a lot of their roots. You have a little more leeway in zone 6 than we do here in zone 5. One of the consequences of planting too late is that the root system won't take hold and the plant will heave out of the ground over the winter.
I'd say move them since you have to do it and mulch them good. The rhododendrons are probably going to be the trickiest since they are evergreen.

I moved to the 'Burgh in August and transplanted many of my favorite flowers and shrubs in September from the DuBois house.
I have found out I must move them again as excavation is to begin here next week.
Can I move the Althea, Rhodo, hydrangea and my giant lillies, columbine, lupine etc. again this late in the year?
If there are any special hints please also include them.
thanks all
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There was a really good turnout for this event. The pictures are now up in the gallery.

See the pictures of this bed in the picture gallery that were taken by Lisa this fall. The bed turned out really cute and is attracting some butterflies. Lisa has requested a senna plant that was donated this year in hopes of attracting some sulfur butterflies. More next spring.
We need to get some pictures of the one at Oklahoma School next year. Pat says there is a water feature.

Quite a turnout for the composting. We got it all done in about an hours. Should be ready in a year or so. Meanwhile if you need a small amount for potting (for members) email us or call.