Important Dates / Announcements

Saturday, August 13th

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

Surviving the Summer heat

This past month has been hot!
But a few intrepid gardeners still made their way to our gardens at
Folly Farm Nature Preserve and Mullet Creek Park.
Thank you for your beautification efforts and your work in the nursery. 

The Parks are really looking good, 
 people are very appreciative, and the nursery has never looked better! 

We had our first Mullet Monday and Tuesday!

The first Monday and Tuesday of the month
we are beautifying the already awesome Mullet Creek Park
come out and join us!

We had a nice outing at the Moccasin Lake Nature Park
to join in and support the celebration of their 40th Anniversary
Our information table with a seed planting station was a hit!
Thanks to all of our volunteers! 

September preview:

In September we will be back to our monthly meeting schedule at Moccasin Lake - Wednesday, September 21 @ 9:30am. 

Our Wildlife Pollinator Corridor project will kick-off in September!
More info soon 

The September schedule also has some fun events at
Folly Farm 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!

Thanks to everyone for your ongoing support :)

Here are a few photos of our July fun  😀😀💓

 

Part of the Moccasin Lake 40th anniversary celebration
We missed you, Jennifer! 

 

Getting seed cups ready. We helped children get seeds started to take home.

More of our beautiful and helpful volunteers!

Planting seeds! Jeanne  photo bomb:)

What are these enchanting creatures up to?

Rick shows off the battle wounds from the Wind Garden 
The ants were angry!

Rip Van Winkle?
(It's Dave at Mullet Creek)

The Twins! Sporting a new look at Mullet Creek Park

A visit from our good friend Stacey Matarazzo!
They're checking out progress in the Meadow Garden
Stacey is the President of the Florida Wildflower Foundation

What is Chris up to now??

See you at the plant sale next Saturday, August 13th! 

Try to stay cool!💦💧😅

Important Dates / Announcements

Saturday, July 9th

2nd Saturday Plant sale at Folly Farm
9-noon  

Saturday, July 30th 

Moccasin Lake Nature Park 40th Anniversary celebration!

10AM - 2:00PM

This activity will count as our July meeting

Starting Monday August 1, 2022 

Our Folly gardeners are bringing their magic to
Mullet Creek Park once a month.

The First Monday of the Month 
will now be known as Mullet Monday as we 
move some of our beautification efforts to Mullet.

First Tuesday of the month will also  
 be a Mullet Park activity.

Summer hours start at 7 

come anytime 

we're usually done by 11:00

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                                 Safety Harbor Garden Club
                                                Plant Sale 
                                Folly Farm Nature Preserve

                                2nd Saturday 9AM -Noon
                                    Saturday July 9, 2022 

                                    Volunteers requested!

                                        Come out at 8:30 

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Moccasin Lake Nature Park 40th anniversary

2750 Park Trail Ln Clearwater FL

 

Saturday July 30th, 10am-1pm

- will start set up at 9am

The SHGC is proud to support the Moccasin Lake Nature Park 4oth anniversary celebration! Come out and enjoy this beautiful park and enjoy the festivities. 

Wear your SHGC t-shirt, and any additional SHGC gear you may have. Let’s represent our club! 

 

Bring your reusable cup/bottle. SHGC will provide our members with some delicious freshly infused water to stay hydrated. 

Bring a chair if you think you’ll need one. 

We'll be staffing our SHGC seed planting station for the kids as part of our support for the event.

Please RSVP if you are able to come out and help for an hour, or a few!   RSVP Link

Thanks! 

Jennifer 

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                                    Name Badge reminder 
Your magnetic name badge has a temporary/removable name on it. That's right! so you can remove your printed name and create your own name badge, your own style.

If you haven't yet received your new name badge, we'll have them at our first regular meeting in September.  

We also have a 3/4" SHGC logo sticker available 
if you want it for your design

SHGC
Photo Journal

Mullet Creek Beautification June 20-21, 2022

Our June meeting was an active gardener outing.
We headed to Mullet Creek for some beautification.

We spent two days weeding, planting and general clean-up.

The city helped by supplying plants from Wilcox native Plant Nursery and the SHGC provided plants from our very own impressive nursery at Folly Farm! 

We were also treated by the city to a working breakfast at the park. 

It is such a beautiful setting made even more so by our gardening efforts. It still has a little gardening left to be done. To that end, we are designating the First Monday and Tuesday of the month as Mullet Monday and Mullet Tuesday. 

Drew and Chris planting the new front bed 

Julia brings in the water 

Nancy and Norma planting the raised beds

Carol and Glenn discuss plan of attack

Barbara is amazing!

Leslie, Cadyn and Alan

Jennifer tries to add just one more!

Snacks by the City of Safety Harbor

Our 9 Squares

Moving fresh plants into the 9 squares

 

Nathan setting up new irrigation

Theresa and Gary pause for inspiration

Gary, Gisela, Nancy and Carol take a breather 

The Tuesday crew!

Some of the Tuesday Crew close-up!

Theresa Barbara Nancy Drew Avis Cheryl Carol Therese
Chris Gisela Gary

Thank you, City of Safety Harbor, for the breakfast break!
Nancy Norma Gisela Theresa Julia Jennifer Rick Colleen Kerri 

With the banner 

Cardboard and mulch addition to the 9 squares

 by Sharen Drew and Karen 
Thanks to Chris for the cardboard!

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The Monday Folly Farmer Crew turned their Monday break 
into a 4Th of July Picnic

They're kicking back now but they worked earlier

Photo from Folly 

It was nice in the Gazebo!

New Gardener Grace gets acquainted 
with the rain garden

Gardeners at Play 

Native butterfly orchid

 donated by John and Harriet in the secret vertical garden

Lot's of good food!

Nice day in the Park

Just chillin'

Thanks for another great month!

The Garden Club will be taking it a little easy
during the rest of the summer.

Our first regular club meeting 

will be at Moccasin Lake Nature park 

Wednesday, September 21

BUT, if something fun pops up before then 

we'll let you know!  

Peace, Love and Gardening!

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!