June Newsletter

SAFETY HARBOR GARDEN CLUB 2ND SATURDAY PLANT SALE: 

Saturday June 10th, 9 to noon.

We are teaming up with the City of Safety Harbor 

in a "Meet the Pollinators " event to celebrate Pollinators!

Local beekeeper Craig Wright will be there to share important info about Bees!

Please come help if you can. Even for a little while. 

Volunteers arrive by 8:30

We take Venmo and PayPal at the sale. 

June SHGC Meeting

June 21 at 9:30 AM. 

Moccasin Lake Park

James Stevenson will be our speaker about MUSHROOMS.

 More Than Mushrooms; the Unsung Heroes of the Fungus Kingdom 

Fungus are neither plant nor animal, but have characteristics of both! 

Meet some of the more unusual types that surround us every day. 

Splash cups, velvet blue spread and stinkhorns 

are among those you will meet in this class.

 

Note: this class will NOT address edible wild mushrooms.

 

James Stevenson is an Education and Outreach Supervisor with the Parks and Conservation Resources Department in Pinellas County.  He works out of the Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center in Tarpon Springs.  James teaches classes on a variety of natural resource conservation topics, including:  plant identification, botany, entomology, ecology and particular groups of native plants such as ferns, wetland wildflowers and epiphytes.

James grew up in Clearwater, then went on to university in Sewanee, Tennessee, worked in botanic gardens in North Carolina before moving to the UK to work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the University of Oxford Botanic Gardens from 1998-2006. James has worked with the UF/IFAS Extension Pinellas County since 2006.

Hello Members!!! 

Hope you’re all enjoying this almost summer weather. Time to put the vegetable gardens to rest for the most part. There are a few things that grow well in our Florida summer heat. Okra, green peppers, herbs like Dill and Loofa gourds. 

Some of the club members got together on "Mullet Monday" June 5 to spruce up Mullet Creek Park. The first Monday of every month is designated as "Mullet Monday" when we head to Mullet Park to prune, weed, plant and general beautification. We are glad to see Sharen Kuckkahn back so soon and ready to help. 

L-R Carol Zieres, Karen Bredow, Gary Sawtelle, Sharon Kuckkahn

L-R Leslie Zambito, Gary Sawtelle, Karen Bredow, Sharon Kuckkahn

A board meeting was held on Wednesday June 7 at Folly Farms. Present were Gisela Benny, Gary and Celeste Sawtelle, Judy Zaccharia, Leslie Zambito, Sharen Kuckkahn, Rebecca Cunningham, Janice Corbett and Lee Sisco. 

Our in-coming new president Ken Fisher joined via telephone. 

He will be announced at our June meeting. 

Treasurer’s report: There are 90+ paid members and as of Wednesday the 7th we had $9,098.30. 

About $900 of this is specified to Pollinator Pathways and the Gnomeo project. 

Total cost of our picnic was $353.00

There are no meetings in July or August.

New SHGC Committees Forming

We are working hard to establish some new committees and sign-ups have already begun!

Some of the new committees are:

Beautification

Communications

Merchandise

Travel/Field trips

Education

Hospitality 

If you signed up already look for an email prior to the June meeting notifying you to stay for a meet after the regular meeting. 

There will be lots more opportunities to sign on to a committee. 

We are planning a possible Open house At the Rigsby center to help us solidify our new committees.  

This will take place in August probably on a Friday evening with hors d' oevres and drinks. 

SHGC Garden Award 

Julie Scott at 535 3rd Street N. is the latest recipient
 of our Garden Club’s Garden Award. 

Julie has lived in Safety Harbor for about 5 years, 

and had this beautiful home built in 2022.

She designed the colorful landscaping of the front yard,
with helpful suggestions from a neighbor.

Julie has placed extra emphasis on also planting pollinator plants, 
aware of our city’s and the S.H. Garden Club’s
efforts to attract more pollinators to our area.  

Julie’s place is a gem in the neighborhood and our town. 

Happy 👩‍🌾 Gardening!