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Our meeting last night was fabulous! Pat Mutek came and we all made birdhouses out of dried gourds. Pat brought gourds and members brought gourds they had grown and dried. The gourds had been scrubbed with clorox water after they were dried and then Pat used a Dremel to make small drainage holes on the bottom and the center entrance hole. Then two more small holes on the top for the wire used to hang them. After that members chose the kind of paint or shoe dye to use and we decorated them. The final step was spraying them with Varathane clear sealer.
Our meeting next month will be Butterflies and Pollinators and tips on hand raising Monarchs! It will be presented by Luanne Weekes from the Pollination Station in New Jersey.
New members and visitors are always welcome. All our meetings start at 7PM at Silver Lake Nature Center. Our next meeting will be April 3rd.
Questions about the Club e-mail joanncos@comcast.net

It’s been awhile since I posted so here goes! I am looking forward to our meeting on Feb 7th. I will be presenting the secrets of Winter Sowing seeds! Bring any seeds you have to share and we can trade after the demo. We haven’t met since back in the beginning of December so it will be fun to get together and chat! Ellen our President is still in Florida so Jenny Boccardo will be chairing our meeting. Visitors are always welcome and we meet at 7PM at Silver Lake Nature Center, Bath Road in Bristol PA. We’ve had several volunteers respond to me plea for hostesses so we are good with that!

Questions and comments to joanncos@comcast.net

We had another fun meeting filled with good friends, good food and a wonderful presentation! Master Gardener Jim Bray spoke to us about Gardening with Native Plants. What a wonderful informative speaker! Thanks also to our Hostesses for the evening Lois, Alex, Matt and Joann.
Our next meeting will be Nov 1st at 7PM. Our speaker will be Bill Kozemchak. His topic will be Growing Healthy and Beautiful Roses.
As always our meeting are held at Silver Lake Nature Center, 1306 Bath Road, Bristol PA. New members and visitors are always welcome!
Questions please e-mail joanncos@comcast.net or call Joann at 267-992-6316

We had a relaxing evening stroll through Alex and Matt’s lovely garden. Thank you so much for your hospitality! After the Garden tour we had our business meeting and discussed how to attract new members. Rack cards were given to members to give to their neighbors and friends who might have an interest in gardening. We discussed participating in the Silver Lake Green fest with an informational booth.

Our Programs for the coming year are shaping up. Our September 6th meeting will take place at Sesame Place where Chris McCarron will give us a guided tour of the Sesame Place gardens. We will meet in the parking lot right next to Uno’s Pizzaria at 6PM to take advantage of the light. Snacks will be tailgated and an e-mail message will be sent to members to respond so we don’t all bring the same thing!

Questions please e-mail joanncos@comcast.net

We heard that our Butterfly Garden at Silver Lake Nature Center took first place in the summer judging of Bucks Beautiful. We are all so thrilled! It really is looking wonderful and is full of butterflies. Come on down and walk through it if you haven’t already. Many thanks to Lois our Garden co-ordinator and all the volunteers and helpers who worked so hard to mark the garden so lovely.
Our July 5th meeting was a brief business meeting under the Pavilion at Silver Lake and then on to tour Dana’s beautiful Garden in Morrisville. I was unable to attend but her lilies were outstanding and her gardens are beautiful. Our next meeting on August 2nd will be held right at  Alex and Matt’s garden on 26 Canyon Road in Levittown. Come to their Garden between 6-6:30 and we will have our tour and business meeting right there.

Joann
Any questions please e-mail me  joanncos@comcast.net or call 215-946-2935

Our June meeting was great. Michael Johnson from Pennsbury Manor gave a wonderful presentation on the Colonial Gardens at Penn’s Estate. After the presentation we welcomed all the new officers for the 2011-12 Gardening year. We thank Lois and Pat for the great refreshments!
Ellen Miller-Prsident
Jenny Boccardo – Vice President & Publicity
Cathy Raupp – Treasurer
Connie Taylor – Secretary
Lois Glasscock – Garden Coordinator
Joann Cosgrove – Program Chair

Our next meeting will start at 6:30 PM under the Pavilion at Silver Lake on July 5th and then we will tour Dana’s Garden. Alex and Matt will bring pizza to the Pavilion and members should bring beverages and snacks.

Questions and comments please e-mail joanncos@comcast.net

Well here it is Spring and our gardening year is getting into high gear! March’s meeting was our Hypertufa workshop and we all enjoyed Master Gardener Billie Satchell showing us how to make garden pots out of hypertufa.

April’s meeting featuring a presentation by Adam Levine on the Philadelphia watershed and the history of all the streams and creeks that were present when Europeans first settled. Now May is approaching and our May 3rd  meeting will be on “Attracting Hummingbirds to Your Garden” by yours truly! Learn what flowers will entice those hummingbirds to visit your garden.

Visitors are always welcome and our meetings start at 7PM at Silver Lake Nature Center on Bath Road in Bristol PA.

Any questions please e-mail Joann at joanncos@comcast.net

Our meeting for tonight is cancelled due to inclement weather. For those of you who would like to participate in the Hummingbird forum. Here is the URL

http://www.lovehummingbirds.com

Our next meeting will be March 1st at 7PM. Our speaker will be Billie Satchell who will teach us how to make a hypertufa garden pot.

Any questions please e-mail joanncos@comcast.net

We had an enjoyable meeting this month.  We learned about Miraculous Marvelous Herbs! We even had herbal snacks made by our Hostesses Dana and Lois and Ellen made us Tansy cookies!

I promised to include some links to the recipes that were mentioned during the presentation so here are some of them.

Roasted Tomato Bread Pudding with Herbs D’Provence

http://www.gourmet.com/recipes/2000s/2008/07/tomato-bread-pudding

Tuscan Pork roast with fennel pollen

http://onceuponaplate.blogspot.com/2008/09/pork-roasted-way-tuscan-do-joanne-weirs.html

Angelica Liquor for those of you who are daring!

http://www.liqueurweb.com/angelica.htm

Turmeric Yogurt Soup

http://www.herbcompanion.com/recipes/healthful-culinary-herbs-turmeric-yogurt-soup.aspx

Gingersnap Encrusted Ham

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=549962

Our meeting next month will feature Michael Johnson the Gardener at Pennsbury Manor. He will tell us all about the Historical Garden and his upcoming project to incorporate more native plants.

Our meeting will be Oct 5th at 7Pm at Silver Lake Nature Center. Visitors are always welcome. Our Oct Hostesses are Ellen and Maryanne.

Any questions please e-mail me at joanncos@comcast.net

Our August meeting was fun. We met under the Pavillion at Silver Lake for our business meeting plus we had a tomato tasting! There’s nothing more special than a homegrown tomato. After our meeting we toured Ellen’s beautiful garden.  

Our Butterfly garden is looking wonderful and will be entered in the Fall judging of Bucks Beautiful.

Our September 7th meeting will feature a Fall plant trade and a presentation by Joann Cosgrove on Herbs in your garden. Meetings are held at the Silver Lake Nature center at 7PM.

Questions please e-mail joanncos@comcast.net