Sunday, November 6, 2022

IMPORTANT DATES / ANNOUNCEMENTS

Monday, November 7

Mullet Monday!

We'll be adding plants to the beds and doing some pruning and weeding at Mullet Creek Park

8:30 start-up

Saturday, November 12th

2nd Saturday Plant Sale at Folly Farm
9-noon

Volunteers needed at 8:30 please

"FREE THE TREES"

Invasive plant mitigation along the trail

8:30am till Noon

meet at the Folly Farm Gazebo

SHGC Membership Meeting

Moccasin Lake Nature Park

Wednesday, November 16
9:30 AM

The Delights of a Florida Winter Garden

Learn all about winter visitors to welcome to your yard with Master Gardener Liza.

For many gardens and gardeners, winter is a time of rest from the business of growing, flowering, fruiting, and weeding.

But in subtropical Florida, how do plants detect and respond to winter's arrival?

And, what are plants and gardeners busy doing in this delightful season?

Supporting migrating and over wintering birds is an additional service that Florida winter plants and gardens perform with bounty and beauty.

Refreshments

Plant of the Month

Plant exchange

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

The nursery is undergoing a makeover and it is really coming together.
next up? improved irrigation.

Michele, Karen, Leslie, Arlene and Sharen celebrate new groundcover addition in the nursery!

Janice developed a new and improved potting method in the Nursery Rows!

Our new helper in the Garden, Hunter, gets a t-shirt from Leslie, Gary and Colleen.

October plant sale was a huge success!

Rick shows the size of the torpedo grass he wrestled with in the garden he and Collen care for.

Colleen is happy with the burst of cooler, low humidity weather!

The latest Garden to join the Folly Farm Gardens is called the "Pathways Garden". It's right out front along the fence line. We received a $1,000 city grant to plant all natives to help launch our Pollinator Pathways initiative. (Coming Soon)

Robert looks in on the planting of the new "Pathways" garden
along the front fence at Folly (bordering MLK).

Chris waters in new plants in the "Pathways" garden.

Rebecca, Karen, Sharen and Julia work in the new Pathways Garden near the Folly entry sign.

Sydney and Shari helping out in the Pathways Garden

Alan and Dave add a Yaupon Holly to the Pathways Garden

Mullet Mondays continues... First Monday of every month.
Next up Monday November 7

Carol at Mullet Mondays

Jan is ready for action! Leslie suggests a garden that needs work during Mullet Monday.

Folly Crew dance yoga???

Our Folly Farm Fright Night event was a scary? scene near the pumpkin arch entrance to the scary trail...
Nice turn out from our members
and help from Cayden Renshaw and friends

Friday had rain and Saturday a generator malfunction,
but it was a really cool, fun event!
Our Zom-Bees looked great,
and the silhouette screen looked really good!
We had dancing and dismemberment both nights!

Thank you and Kudos to the City Recreation Department for a great event and letting us join in!

Hive warning sign.

"The Hive" was a big hit on Friday and Saturday night
at "Fright Nights" at Folly.

Kelsy, Brittney, Chris and Gary at Saturday night at the Hive!

Cayden and his volunteer Zom-Bees get ready to frighten!

Cayden and friends helped us out Friday and Saturday night.

Zom-Bees dancing in the Hive...

That Zom-bee can Dance!!

See more photos on our Facebook page

SHGC Facebook Page

Thanks for all the support this month!

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

IMPORTANT DATES / ANNOUNCEMENTS

Saturday, October 8h

2nd Saturday Plant Sale at Folly Farm
9-noon

SHGC Membership Meeting

Moccasin Lake Nature Park

Wednesday, October 19
9:30 AM

Pruning for Health and Beauty

Featured Speaker
Alan Mayberry

Alan Mayberry is one of the most experienced and respected men in the arboriculture industry. He has shared his expertise and knowledge of tree biology by training hundreds of arborists. His 37-year career has included roles as the city arborist for
both Clearwater and Dunedin.

Alan has twice been recognized by awards from the International Society of Arboriculture’s Florida chapter for his accomplishments.
In describing his work, Alan once said, "I became a voice of organisms that have no voice. Trees are the largest organisms on earth, and they do so much for us. I felt they needed someone to speak up for them."

Refreshments

Plant of the Month

Plant exchange

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

Hope to see you there!

Fright Nights Fund Raiser at Folly Farm

Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29

On Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29

the SHGC will be a recipient of some of the gate for participating in
Fright Nights at Folly Farm

This is really a fun event! Don't miss it!

Our Club is creating a Scary scene filled with ZOM-BEES
and a scary ZOM-BEE hive.

ZOM-BEES are the result of not enough native pollinator plants to nectar on!

The bees have to nectar on human blood!

Along with our ZOM-BEES, we will have a table with friendly garden gnomes who have information on native pollinator plants to help combat the ZOM-BEES.

We need some garden gnomes to help us on both nights
To volunteer contact Gary!

***Help Wanted***

SEED LIBRARY

We've had many requests for the

start-up of a seed library.

Do you have good organizational skills

and the desire to help?

Then we could use your help starting up a "seed library"!

If you are interested contact us SafetyHarborGardenClub@gmail.com

Got an Idea?

Topics, Tours and Tips

Do you have a gardening topic you would like to see presented at one of our meetings?

or maybe a road trip or tour you think would be of interest to the club?

send your suggestion to:

SafetyHarborGardenClub@gmail.com

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Pollinator Pathway Planting

Friday, October 21 - Saturday, October 22
8:00 AM

We are planting a new pollinator garden at Folly out front

alongside the fence.

Monday, November 7th is our
"Mullet Monday"
gardening event

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

Thursday, September 1, 2022

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..

Saturday, August 6, 2022

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.

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!💦💧😅

Friday, July 8, 2022

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.