Mercer Garden Club

Tulips planted by Mercer Garden Club

May is our most active month. We not only have our meeting but we get together and plant the summer flowers around the Courthouse and the Mercer Boro building, and beds under signs.

May events:

Conservancy Planting

Tuesday, May 13 at 11:30 AM

Rain date is Wednesday, May 14

At: 911 building and Shannon's

May 12th Meeting Information
7:00 PM at Mercer Methodist Church

Hostesses: Betty Graham, Vera Filer, and Arlene Peters

Program: Paula McComb of Sweet Peas Flowers will speak. She is located at 2259 McComb Road, Stoneboro. Check out her website at www.sweetpeasflowers-stoneboro.com.

Today I took pictures in the rain of the Tulips blooming up town. Thank you to Pat and Gary and all the members that helped plant tulip bulbs last fall. They look wonderful and make our town look more friendly. I smile when I see them and hope other people are enjoying them too.

When do you prune roses in PA?

I was on the www.pghrosesociety.org the Western PA. Component of the American Rose Society web pages to find out when and how to prune roses.

I was surprise to learn that the rule of thumb is to wait till the forsythia bloom. Wow! Why did I miss this info, where have I been, this is so simple.

I have 28 roses bushes some really famous or popular Heirloom varieties that I am trying to keep alive, a few are thriving and the others are just hanging in there. I really need to learn more, I love my roses and some varieties are so much easier to keep than others. I really want to save my Austin and Buck Roses and hope they made it through the winter; so far they look dead. I see some green looking stems near the ground so they will need serious pruning this year.

Pictures below. Mercer garden club members are welcome in June to see my roses. If any Mercer Garden Club members want to talk roses please email me, spinningotter@gmail.com, perhaps we can arrange a rose meet up. Nancy

April 14, Mercer Garden Club meeting

Easy Garden Bed

Learn a quick and easy way to make a new garden bed without digging. Kathy Taylor, Lawrence County Master Gardener, will show us step by step how to do this easy project.

This is our monthly meeting held at 7:00 at the Mercer United Methodist Church on Butler St. There are usually light refreshments and a table of recycled garden Items for our auction. Please bring whatever you can spare or wish to share. All gardeners are welcome.

Mercer Garden Club enjoy program on Seculants for your Garden

The program prived to be quite interresting. There are so many diffirent kinds of seculants. We all gained knowledge an appreciation for this often overlooked type of plant. Think of designing a terrarium or small dish garden that can be created and enjoyed on a pattio ot deck.

We enjoyed a beautiful table of refreshments set in St Patrick's Day Theme. Thank you. Leslie, Karen and Dorothy.

Yesterday Tom and I visited the OSWP Orchid Show in Pittsburgh here are a few pictures.

March and April Meetings of Mercer Garden Club

Marchand April meetings to be held at 7PM, at the Mercer United Methodist Church.

March 10th:

Gary Church will be returning to speak for the evening subject will be a surprise I left it up to him : will be speaker’s choice topic.

April 14th:

Kathy Taylor a Master Gardener from Lawrence County will join us to speak on planting an Easy Garden Bed.

These are pictures of the tulips blooming around the courthouse that were planted by our members.

Members of the Mercer Garden Club planted hundreds of tulips again last fall and we are anticipation a spectacular spring bloom this year. Thank you Pat and Gary Whiting and others for this planting.

Flower Arranging Program

Monday February 10, 7 p.m. Mercer United Methodist Church. We will resume our regular meetings with a program by Debbie Thompson of Nelson's Flowers; arranging flowers with a Valentine's Day Theme.

We wait for spring after this long cold winter. This is a picture of the tulips Gary and Pat planted in the fall of 2012. Members of our garden club planted hundreds of tulips in the fall of 2013 so spring 2014 shouls be spectacular.