OUR JULY GARDEN CLUB MEETING July 9 we will meet at the church at 5:30 to car pool for a field trip to Villa Maria in New Bedford, PA. Villa Maria encompasses 726 acres of picturesque farmland, wetlands, a bird sanctuary, nature trails, herb gardens, and a labyrinth. It is home to a small herd of cattle and a flock of sheep. The sisters maintain a working organic farmons sell their naturally grown produce and flowers on the grounds.http://www.humilityofmary.org/eco-spirituality.html

Mercer Garden Club Activities in May and June

Mercer Garden Club will meet on Monday May 14th, 7:00 p.m.; Mercer Methodist Church. We will be finalizing our plans for Uptown planting and hold our annual spring plant exchange. Please label all plants for the exchange and if possible, be prepared to tell everyone a little bit about what you brought ( variety, where you got it, requirements to keep it growing) Saturday, May 19 10a.m. ---Uptown Bed Clean up and Prep Wednesday May 23, 5:30 --Uptown Planting Rain Date is Thursday May 24, 5:30 Monday June 11, 7:00p.m. Mercer Methodist Church. Doniele Russell will present a program about invasive plants in Northwestern PA.

Your Garden: Journals and photos

The March meeting will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, March 12 at the Methodist Church. Chris Hunter Hall will present a program on Recording Y our Garden: Photos, Journals, and Recordkeeping. If you have ever kept a garden journal or photo album (or even have a sample of an unused journal),
please bring it to share. We will hopefully also have time to share our “most unusual garden tip or hint.” Chris is going to attempt to be the host for the month as well.
For our meeting on April 9, we will also be at the Methodist Church at 7:00. Jacqueline and Chris from Munnell Run Farm will return to present a new program: W onderful W orld of Wildflowers. They invite us to come learn how to identify the spectacular spring wildflowers that inhabit our area. Hosts are Edyie Swingle and Andie Brown.

Cold and snowy

Garden club members please sign up to follow by email. you will get an email when the blog is updated with new info. you can also add comments and send in your pictures of your winter flowers. I wonder if anyone in Mercer Garden Club ever looks at this Garden Club Blog?

DJ, spring plants and winter snow

Last night we had a informative discussion with DJ from DJ's Greenhouse. DJ talked about some of his favorite books and plants for spring gardens and year round color in your garden.
The spring garden walk will be April 14.
Ladies Night Out June 1 and June 16 Breakfast with DJ are popular monthly events that our members are encouraged to attend. Check his web page for details. www.djsgreenhouse.com

Garden Club Feb.13 meeting

Our first meeting of the year will be on Monday, February 13, at 7:00 p.m. at the Mercer United Methodist Church. The guest speaker will be our friend Dennis James from DJ’s Greenhouse. He will speak about new annuals and perennials for 2012. He will also answer our general garden questions.

Hosts for the month will be Diana Jackal and Pat Whiting.

Candle light meeting in November

Our November meeting was one to remember. We had an excellent power point presentation about native herbs used by the local Native Americans. Just at the end of the program we could hear a storm outside then the lights went out.

From somewhere candles appeared and the meeting continued.

We will all remember our first candlelight meeting. Somehow it seemed appropriate since we were just talking about living in the old days and healing with herbs etc.

We approved a slate of officers for next year, decided not to meet in January, had our drawing for the wonderful gifts that were donated. Leslie suggested we bring to a wrapped white elephant for a gift exchange game to be played after the Christmas Dinner. So mark your calendars and look for a fun gift for the gift exchange game.

Please if you read this pass this info on to Garden Club members that do not look at the internet.

I will mail a link to this post to all the folks on my list. Nancy G

Mercer Garden Club Annual Christmas Dinner

The Mercer Garden Club will meet on Monday Dec.12 at 6pm at the United Methodist Church.

This is an hour earlier so mark your calendar.

We will celebrate the close of our Garden Club Year with our annual holiday dinner party.

Meat and beverages and dinnerware will be provided. Please bring a side dish to share, call Nancy or Pat to let them know what you plan to bring. Bring your spouse or a friend; all are welcome.

Nancy O.T. 724-662-3986 Pat 724-475-4301

No raffle in December.