Down To Earth Garden Club

June meeting of the Down to Earth Garden Club. 7 P.M.

First Farmer's Market of the Year. Corner of Brady and West Long from 8 a.m. till noon.

coral bells (Heuchera)  Look at the new Dolce series http://www.djroger.com/coral_bells.htm

We had 10 people from the garden club turn out for the clean-up. We worked on the embankment, the Brady Street lot and the library. Thanks to all.

The final planting date on Friday My 16 is subject to good weather. It will start at 9 a.m. and run until noon. Watch your e-mail or contact Lisa or the garden club for verification. If the weather is bad it will be moved to the following Monday.
Lisa needs help to supervise the kids for this session. The other sessions it is bring your gloves, a shovel and a bucket.
Butterfly friendly plants are being collected. The list Monica uses at Parker Dam is at http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/wildplant/herbaceous.aspx  Lisa is also willing to accept non-native plants especially those that bloom in the spring and fall when classes are in session.

Just an update on the May meeting. We will be announcing the total for the spring plant sale for those of you who haven't heard it (phenomenal)! We will also be hearing from Shelly French and Lisa Huot about the butterfly habitats they are establishing at their respective schools.

Lorraine, who lives at Treasure Lake, says nothing eats lamb's ears. (Stacys lanata) If the deer don't eat it up at Treasure Lake they really won't eat it anywhere!

Meeting for the month of May. There will be some new topics up for discussion.

Plants that I have found to be very resistant to being eaten:
Foxgloves
Hellebores
All of the hyssops (Agastache) The golden on is particularly pretty.
Aconite
Catmints (very pretty, long flowering plants in many different sizes) We're trying Walkers Low on the embankment this year. Where the groundhog problem is horrendous.
More later and feel free to add your own.

Some kind of Mutinus or stinkhorn? Too bad I didn't smell it.