June

June 2022 Newsletter

Garden Club Award

Do you have a neighbor or know of a home that has a beautiful landscape?

It's time to present our garden club award to a deserving home. The award is presented to a local homeowner that has gone above and beyond in landscaping their property. The homeowner must be the person responsible for the gardening and landscape. Landscaping done by a commercial company does not qualify. 

Send a note to Gisella Bennie with the address of your nomination. giselab@tampabay.rr.com

June Meeting @ Mullet Creek park

Our June general meeting is scheduled to be a planting day at Mullet Creek led by MG Janice Corbett starting at 8:00am Wednesday June 15.  The city is providing lunch!    

Finance:  $5,506 in our account.  This is after the annual picnic.  Expenses:  $690.  Income: silent auction- $262, T shirts, hats, aprons- $140. There are no outstanding bills 

Membership:  90 current members.  54 attended the annual picnic. Current member list is posted on our web site. Go to the list and check your contact info for accuracy. Member info sheet

Our new magnetic name badge with temporary member name is a chance to explore your creativity!
Simply wipe off your name with a damp cloth and create your own design using permanent markers, stickers, whatever you like! But! Leave room for our logo sticker.

 It a approximately 3/4" in diameter. Can't wait to see your personal design!  

JUNE ACTIVITY DATES 

June 10, Friday Follies at Folly Farm

June 11, Saturday at Folly Farm.

2nd Saturday Plant Sale at Folly Farm: 9 - Noon
Volunteers arrive around 8
Always Fun!

Meet the Pollinators Event June 11 from 9-12 pm

This will be a little educational event (not as big as Enchanted Garden), but we need your help!  The purpose of this event is to educate the public on the importance of our pollinators!  There are plans for some native plant vendors to be on site, honey educators and vendors, crafts focusing on our bees and butterflies, a seed give away or swap, and other educational give aways!  

Our garden club will do Butterfly safari’s. If a participant ID’s at least 10 butterflies they will get a certificate from Wings over Florida. We will also have an info table and possibly garden tours.

June 15, Wednesday at Mullet Creek Park

Our June general meeting is scheduled to be a planting day at Mullet Creek led by MG Janice Corbett starting at 8:00am Wednesday June 15.  The city is providing lunch!    

We will be planting and watering in as we continue to build our, "Pollinator Wildlife Corridor," stretching from Folly Farm to Mullet Creek Park.

Many plants will come from our Folly nursery!  A team led by MG Janice Corbett will pick plants from our nursery.  Leslie/Nancy will act as advisors. Additional plants will be purchased from Wilcox.

This is a great gardening event and it will really enhance an already beautiful park!

More summer schedule activities:

July 

Moccasin Lake 40^th year Anniversary Celebration is Saturday, July 30th from 10:00 – 1:00pm (counts as our July general meeting so make plans to attend, enjoy, and help out at out tables!)  We would like to help them celebrate.

There will be music, bird and reptile presentations, a food truck, face painting AND, hopefully, YOU!!

SHGC Moccasin Lake Project plan (by Jennifer)  Seed planting for the children.  4 stations:  a.  cups, markers for child to write their name on the cup   b. bins of soil to fill the cups  c)  choose and plant seeds (can use chopsticks to make holes) 

Native plants will be displayed- educational:   Pictures, Safety Harbor wildlife corridor info, ..

AUGUST   month OFF

SEPTEMBER:  Moccasin Lake.  Pruning talk.  Marquette or maybe John and Harriet

       LATER IN MONTH-hands on pruning at Folly (assign leader- John and Harriet, Art, …)

OCTOBER:  Moccasin Lake.  Container Gardening.  Barbara Nelson volunteered to do the talk and Gisela  Bennie assisting. 

NOVEMBER;  Moccasin Lake;  Perennials for Pollinators, Theresa Badurek

DECEMBER; Christmas party  

Kawanias -  December plant sale.

May Photos! 

Blue Grass in the park!

Gypsy Wind Concert

Happy 2nd Saturday plant sale customer

Mercily enjoys Friday Follies

Monday Folly Farmer 

Memorial Picnic at Folly 

Can you spot the invasive?

Dainty Sulpher spotted!

See you next month!

May

            

Safety Harbor Garden Club

May 2022

Safety Harbor Garden Club May meeting
Safety Harbor City Park 
940 7th Street South

Wednesday, May 18th
11:00 AM 

It's time for our annual picnic meeting!

Picnic food, drink and desserts

New club t-shirts 

Silent auction

Volunteer recognitions

Be sure to RSVP to our Hospitality Chair, Jennifer Rothe. And let her know if you are coming and if you are available to help out. Jennifer Rothe

If you are bringing an item for our silent auction come a little early please.

              Here is a look at some of our activities this past April! 

Friday Folly Walk-about
Was she singing the "The Hills are Alive" From the Sound of Music? 

Digging in at Mullet Creek Park
Prepping the gardens for planting 

New look for our demonstration garden at Mullet.
Waiting for the rainy season to add new plants 

Library plant swap supported by Garden Club members

                                        Leslie, Becky, Chris, Jennifer, Lee, Gary and Audia   

Library plant swap with Jennifer and Lee
photo bomb by Chris

Mullet creek volunteers: Janice and Cheryl

John gets some sunset photos at Folly

Karen, one of the watering volunteers that keep the plants thriving

Carol adds a Muscadine grape vine to the Folly plant list 
She started the vine from cuttings of a vine at her house!

Folly Artists look to capture Miss Brittney 

Another successful garden club tour
Hillcrest Garden Club

Mullet Creek Volunteers Julia and Sue

More Mullet and that's our Twins (Sharen and Karen) in action with Janice and ?

Miss Donna comes for a visit

Barbara Nelson in the thick of things at Folly

                                          Thanks for all your volunteer time this past month.                                                                             Remember to come out for our monthly plant sale at Folly                                                                                Second Saturday every month from 9 till Noon.

And check this out! Sandy Huff's newest book has published and copies will be on sale at the picnic! 

She has a special deal for SHGC members. Makes a great gift! 

 

 

Safety Harbor Garden Club

April 2022

Safety Harbor Garden Club April meeting
Moccasin Lake Nature Park 
Wednesday, April 20th
9:30 AM 

         

Meet our April speaker.....Master Gardener Liza Ryan.

Liza will be speaking about The Florida Wildlife Corridor and what your yard and garden can contribute!  

   

Bio: Bachelor of Science in Biology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1983). Worked in biomedical research until Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology (2003) from the University of South Florida. Worked for the Florida Department of Health and St. Petersburg College as an adjunct professor in the Natural Science Department. UF Advanced Florida Master Naturalist and Master Gardener volunteer. 

MEETING NOTICES / SIGN-UPS
Get involved!

Our meetings are getting a little greener.

We are transitioning to reusable plates and silverware.

We'd like you to bring your own drink container. 

we'll supply the coffee, lemonade, water and other drinkables!

There will be a sign-up for our Moccasin Lake Nature Park Earth Day table.

The event is Saturday April 23 10:00 AM til 2:00 PM at the Moccasin Lake Nature Park. 

Always fun to be a part of the Moccasin Lake events!

Our award winning Folly Farm Gardens just got bigger!

The Safety Harbor Garden Club Folly Farmers recently added a new garden at Folly.

It is called the Rainbow Garden.

Over 160 native plants were installed amongst the 23 Rainbow Eucalyptus trees previously planted by the city.

Here's your chance to get in on the Folly magic and stake your claim to a piece of the action. Set your own hours, be your own boss and experience the magic of Folly!

See any Folly Farmer for more gardening details.   

March was a BUSY month!

Cardboard Campout

What's a cardboard campout got to do with gardening you ask?  We needed the cardboard, silly!

One of the gardening techniques we use at Folly is using cardboard as a weed barrier. 

Similar to the black weed cloth you see used in landscape installations only the cardboard breaks down after the weeds are eliminated leaving only soil.

So, the morning after the campout, our intrepid campers recycled their shelters into weed barrier for our new Rainbow Garden!  

Building Inspector Leslie checks out Kelsy and Brittney's chalet

Raw Materiels ready for the architect

Cardboard practice night

around the campfire with smores

It was one bright full moon!

Architect/Artist Chris Dotson likes a challenge 

At first, there were just boxes...

and there was dancing...

model home

looks cozy!

morning after breakfast

Celeste was cooking up mountain pies - Pizza and cherry pie for dessert -umm umm good

Campfire cooking

Rainbow Garden Installation

Cardboard barrier from the cardboard campout 

Leslie Zambito and Nancy McClelland put in untold hours
working on native plant lists for the rainbow garden 

composted mulch used to cover cardboard

Mulch spreading

Plant delivery from Wilcox

Like Christmas morning!

A beautiful day for beautification!

Emotive Gardening 

SHGC volunteers enjoying their lunch break

And there was breakfast too!

Come out and see the finished product!

Kiss the Ground
Movie showing 

One of our city partners, Recreation Superintendent Shannon Schafer, was able to arrange a Films at Folly presentation of the widely acclaimed documentary "Kiss the Ground".

We made it a movie night with a BYOB dinner and snacks supplied by Harbor Dish.

Thank you, also, to Donna Mack and staff for setting us up!

Butterfly Gardening 101 class

The SHGC partnered with our City Master Naturalist Autumn Reich to offer an introductory class on butterfly garden tips.

It was a little wet out but that didn't stop this dedicated group of gardeners.

Look for more classes to be offered and posted in the Safety Harbor REAL magazine and on our Facebook page and website.

An exploratory walk through the Folly butterfly gardens

Class attendees left with starter plants

Yes, it was a busy month of planting, propagating, pruning and having some fun with garden friends.

We have another month of planting projects coming up and then we will settle back and get on the garden tour circuit. Stay tuned for trip sign-ups!

Safety Harbor Garden Club T-shirts will be distributed at the May Picnic meeting.

To qualify for a t-shirt you must be a member in good standing: 

Dues paid and at least one volunteer activity! 

Check with any board member on how to satisfy your volunteer activity requirement. 

Thank you for all of the support!

Garden, Smile, ... repeat 😀

More photos from the month.....