Avalon Park Garden Club

We will take a summer break in August and resume with our regular meetings on September 7th. Please note, the meeting will be held on Tuesday since the first Monday is a holiday. We will be meeting at 7 PM at the Avalon Park Church.

We will hold a special meeting August 9th to brainstorm and plan the upcoming Garden Club events. Invited is everyone interested in actively helping with those events, like the photo contest, tour of gardens and community garden project. Details will be announced via the Garden Club mailing list. if you did not join by now, please do so by signing up on the website’s contact page.

Evelyn

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Next Meeting, July 5, 2010 at 7 PM
Since the Church is closed due to the Holiday, we will hold the meeting at Evelyn’s house at
14526 Golden Rain Tree Blvd.
Please contact Brigitte for more information and directions.

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Yeah!! we are on FACEBOOK!!

we have created a facebook group for all you facebookers in Avalon Park

Please visit and join

Happy facebooking,

Evelyn

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One of the APG club’s supporter, Richie Kidwell at One Stop Bug Shop was kind enough to write an article, the first in a series of three, on how to take care of your St. Augustine Grass

the article will be listed in AP’s newsletter, but you may also read it on our website, click here

Thanks Richie, for your support

Evelyn

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Reminder for all website and blog visitors,
go to our contact page and sign up for the mailing list.
We won’t spam you but send 2 to 4 mails per month (reminders, updates and invites)

Evelyn

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Our PR officer Lori had to give up her office due to personal reasons.
This position needs to be filled, it doesn’t require much of your time

Submitting short articles via email to local newspapers, Brainstorming ideas to get the word out about our club, Designing flyers, Helping to organize plant swap and garden tour… in short, anything PR related.

if you are interested, please come to the next meeting!

Evelyn

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Late summer/early fall
Plant large plants early in the season so they will be established before the cold weather arrives; last month to prune is September; be sure plants are free of insects of fungus
Before the freeze, frost or temperatures in the mid thirties to freezing
Watch weather reports, water plants and lawn but turn off irrigation; move container plants indoor and/or cover plants with sheets/plant coverings and tuck in sides
After the cold
Remove covers and monitor soil moisture
In the spring
Cut back plants damaged from freeze back to new growth after the last full moon in February; Fertilize and monitor insect and fungus problems

Next meeting, May 3, 2010, the topic will be ‘how to convert your sprinkler system to a micro sprinkler system’.

Evelyn

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As discussed at our last meeting the topic for the evening will be “How to recover from a freeze and basic landscape design”.
Joey Waters from City Beautiful Landscaping will be our guest speaker for the evening.

As usual we will meet in the Avalon Church on Tanja King Boulevard

Hope to see all of you on the 5th and please feel free to bring a friend and/or neighbor!

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here is an update on the cutting I received in February.
All leaves dropped, but new ones are growing fast:

Anyone else want to show their cuttings?

~ Evelyn ~

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I followed instructions learned at the Rose seminar by Eric. I see new growth on all of my roses
One rose bush had a plump bud and I just could not bring myself to prune it off. I figured I’ll prune this branch back after the flower is done with.

here it is now, ‘Belinda’s Dream’, one of my favorite roses:

~ Evelyn ~

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