January Membership meeting:
Due to the COVID 19 we are still not
gathering for a meeting.
In its place, please check out this
email/newsletter with updates on club activities and upcoming events plus
timely tips for spring garden prep and seed starting techniques!
30 Years and Still
Growing!
Safety Harbor Garden Club News
Volume 1
Hello, Gardeners!
Welcome to the Safety Harbor Garden Club
News!
This newsletter is an effort to keep
everyone up to date and informed on the events and activities related to the
Safety Harbor Garden Club (SHGC).
2020 was certainly a challenging year and
the challenges continue. Challenge #1 for me is to improve our communications
and hopefully you will find this Newsletter a way to stay current and involved
with the club.
Of course, the timeline for the following
events/activities relies on the status of the COVID 19.
New Logo – Previous
Logo
The Big News-
The Safety Harbor Garden Club, founded by Violet Dumanowski on
April 22, 1991, will celebrate the 30th
anniversary of its birth this coming year on April 22, 2021.
The Board has been making plans to
commemorate our 30th year with some nice mementos spread out over
the course of the year. One such memento is our new logo! You voted, and the
results are in! Special thanks to Rebekah Mason for all of her help designing
the new
logo!
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There has been talk about our new club
logo showing up on a t-shirt!
It’s true, every 2021 current member in good standing will
receive a club t-shirt with our new logo.
T-shirt distribution will happen at our
picnic and 30th anniversary celebration in April.
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The “Folly Farmers”, a band of garden
club members turned friendly garden gnomes, were celebrated with their own
t-shirt at a recognition party for volunteering at Folly Farms.
All we needed was a cauldron:) Check our
Facebook page for more photos of the party!
Masks were down momentarily for a few
quick photo shoots around the Folly fire pit. Smores were cooked and Carol
played songs on her flute!
You are invited to join the “Folly
Farmers” on Monday Mornings around 9:00am at Folly Farm Nature Preserve.
Gardening continues on the flower beds as
part of our VIVA grant. It’s mostly prep work and propagation at the moment but
soon we will be planting two large beds to add to our gardens
there! Planting should occur around May 1st.
Click this link to see FOX 13news
coverage of our gardening efforts!
Safety Harbor
Garden Club planting seeds for Florida's gardening future (fox13news.com)
Partners in
Planting
As mentioned earlier, the Florida
Wildflower Foundation awarded the Safety Harbor Garden Club a VIVA Grant to
install a Florida Native Wildflower garden at Folly Farm Preserve. We partnered
with the City of Safety Harbor and have been working hard in the garden. On
average, 10 of our members arrive on Monday mornings to plant, prune, weed and
plan. They like to be called “The Folly Farmers”.
Well, the city has
taken notice of all our hard work and is supporting us with the use of a
greenhouse, supporting tool purchases and other garden supplies. And plans are
for the City to provide us a shed for our use as a base for our gardening
operations. (Barbara Nelson requested a chandelier
for lighting 😊 She Shed?).
2021 will see the City and the Garden
Club partnership continue to grow!
With all this support we are adding a
small nursery operation at Folly (this is in addition to our ongoing nursery
operation at Sandy Huff’s farm). Plants will be used for Folly, our expanding
gardens at Mullet Creek, Plant Sales and for our members.
Club Dues - Annual dues are $20. But for 2021
membership dues are $10.
Covid 19 has disrupted our meeting
schedule and has made gatherings difficult to say the least. While we have
managed to meet via ZOOM, Folly gardening and a road trip it is not what we had
hoped for. Our Board has voted to reduce our membership dues to $10 for
2021.
***Members in
good standing will receive our SHGC t-shirt (distributed at our April
meeting/picnic). So, send in your due’s payment today!
Send a check made out to “Safety Harbor
Garden Club” in the amount of $10 to: Paula Harvey
1811 Stonebrook Lane
Safety Harbor FL 34695
Please include a note with your current
email, street address, telephone number and t-shirt size.
ROAD TRIP!
“Follow the Garden Trail”
The December road trip to the Nature
Coast Botanical Gardens in Spring Hill along with side trips to the Centralia
Garden Railroad Display train garden and Everlast Inc. Orchids and Supplies was
enjoyed by 20+ members.
The Fairy garden at
the NC Botanical Gardens. The Nature Coast Garden Club plants and maintains the
gardens.
Sharen K waiting on
a train at The Centralia Garden display.
What a great way to spend the day!
Everything was planned with Social
Distancing and masks mandatory.
The Nature Coast Botanical Gardens were beautiful! Even in Winter!
Very impressive! Maybe a model for our
gardening at Folly Farm?
The Centralia Garden Railroad was
amazing! Thank you to Mr. Doug Brainard!
And the tour of the Everlast Orchid
nursery was educational and beautiful (Many Orchids were purchased, what a
variety!)
Thank you, Linda Howard, for setting it
all up!
For more photos of these and other
activities go to our Facebook page
(Safety Harbor
Garden Club Facebook page
Coming attractions:
Save the Date: Sunday, April 25 –
Enchanted Garden Fest
The SHGC first plant sale at Folly will
be part of an “Enchanted Garden Fest” being hosted by the City of Safety Harbor
at the Folly Farm Nature Preserve.
We will be one of many vendors on site.
There will be entertainers, food vendors and contests. The City is limiting the
number of attendees according to Covid protocols.
Get your plant donations ready! (again)
More information coming later…
Get the vaccine when you can and we will
have a joyous reunion picnic in April!
Thank You for reading our first?
newsletter!
There is a lot growing on.
Reminder: Update your membership,
please
Peace, Love and Gardening!
Gary
Check out the page below for January
gardening tips!
Leslie
