IMPORTANT DATES / ANNOUNCEMENTS

Monday, September 5th is our
"Mullet Monday"
gardening event 

First Monday-Tuesday of the month we garden at Mullet
we start at 8am
 

Saturday, September 10th
2nd Saturday Plant Sale at Folly Farm
9-noon
Come out and see what's growing on!
Volunteers at 8:30 please

The kick-off of the month-long "Bio Blitz" is also on tap.
Learn how to use the Inaturalist app to help record Folly native plants and insects.

Wednesday, September 21
Membership Meeting
Moccasin Lake Nature Park

Featured Speakers 

Suzanne Hassell & Susan Taylor

"Using Native Plants in Ikebana
the Art of Japanese Flower Arranging"

A beautiful flower arrangement can transform any room

Learn how to bring the beauty of native flowers into your home

Our skilled presenters will show you how!

Refreshments 
Plant of the Month

Plant exchange  

SHGC updates
don't forget your name tag
and drinking cup 

Hope to see you there!

 

The September schedule at Folly Farm 

has some fun events that you won't want to miss!

Films at Folly: Flight of the Butterflies on 9/9 at 7:30 pm
Nocturnal Pollinator Party on 9/9 following the movie
 Harvest Moon Hike on 9/10 
Pickin’ in the Park Bluegrass Concert on 9/23 at 6:30 pm 
Wetlands Expo on 9/24

Hope you can make it out to Folly!

   THE SAFETY HARBOR POLLINATOR PATHWAY PROJECT
Fall 2022

 The Safety Harbor Pollinator Pathway Project creates a patchwork quilt of gardens that offer contiguous habitat and forage to vulnerable native species. This is achieved through having small pollinator habitats, like roadside flower beds and home gardens, connect with the bigger habitats such as parks and meadows.  

Our Pollinator Pathway launches from the Folly Farm Nature Preserve located at 1538 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Street.
Folly is currently the western anchor of the Pathway and Mullet Creek Park is at the Eastern End.

The Folly Farm Nature Preserve already has an award-winning pollinator garden and Mullet Creek Park is undergoing a pollinator plant upgrade!

The Pollinator Pathway project is the latest Safety Harbor Gardening Club public gardening effort. 

Gnomeo, oh Gnomeo Wherefore Art Thou?

The Safety Harbor Garden Club is supporting
local Artist and SHGC member Chris Dotson
as he creates a new addition to our Folly Farm Gardens.

Pictured above is a working model of Gnomeo. 

The full-size version (14 ft?) is scheduled to be installed
during the Enchanted Garden Fest this coming Spring!

Here is an August look at some of our Folly Gardens! 

The Wind Garden at Folly
August 2022

 

Georges Garden at Folly
August 2022

You can now enter your volunteer hours from a link at our website!

Visit our SHGC Website
and look for the "Enter Volunteer hours here" button

(Left hand side scroll down a couple of paragraphs)

Photo Round Up

Chad receives wasp sting care 

Mullet Monday activity

 Stacey Matrazzo, President of the Florida Wildflower Foundation
makes a visit to Folly w/Nancy McClelland and Leslie Zambito 

 

Swamp Hibiscus in the Rainbow Garden

Looking ahead to October

Fright Nights at Folly Farm

Two nights of frightful fun!

Friday, October 28, and Saturday, October 29
6:30 -10pm 

Fright Nights at Folly Farm is two nights of frightful fun full of fall themed activities, a haunted trail, a campfire and more!

The Safety Harbor Garden Club is hosting a scene along the trail! The nonprofits participating will benefits from the event proceeds. think of it as a fun fundraiser.

We will be dressing as scary pollinators: zom-BEES and invasive species.

Mark your calendars and come out and join us!  More info to come..