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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

Our July 6th business meeting was held in the Nature Center due to the extreme heat. After the business meeting we all visited Connie Maley’s garden for an informal tour. It was a lovely summer night and Connie’s garden was beautiful.

Our August meeting will start at 6:30 in the Pavillion at Silver Lake Nature Center unless the heat continues. Stay tuned for a confirmation of whether we will be inside or outside for our business meeting. Then we will tour a member’s garden. Ellen will be in Florida due to a Family matter so I will let you know whose garden we will tour as soon as I know. If anyone wants to volunteer please let me know!

Questions please e-mail me at joanncos@comcast.net

Here we are at the start of another gardening year. Grace has been working hard and here is a list of our upcoming programs.
Feb 2 – Steve Johnson – Perennials
Mar 2 – Carol Ann Moyer – Sharpening and Caring for your Garden Tools
April 6 – Norm Leister – The Science of Gardening
May – 4th Sue Schneck – Gardening for Butterflies

We need 2 people to volunteer to bring our snacks for each of the meetings so e-mail me at  joanncos@comcast.net if you can help out.

As always our meetings are held at the Silver Lake Nature Center at 7PM

Keep warm and I’ll see you all in February!