FAREWELL TO CHRISTINA CLARK!     

 Christina is moving from Sequim to start a new adventure with her husband and sons - while we wish them the very best, we will miss them.  We have enjoyed having her in the club and helping to get it started.  SHe is the one responsible for naming it "Our Garden Society" versus "Our Garden CLub".  Much catchier don't you think!  Great job Christina.

Thank you for you efforts in getting our club started and for your labor in Nila's yard. You were pretty handy with those clippers!... An update on that - there are LOADS of little buds on those rhododendrons that were clipped down to the wood.  There will be lots of leaves, and hopefully some blooms by next year! PHEW!  And your son was very helpful as well.  He made many trips to the house to bring water and help set up the luncheon table.  Such and cutie!

BE sure to stay in touch with us here on our blogspot and share your gardening efforts once you start them in your new home.  We are sure you will be busy unpacking and setting up your new home before you don the gloves.    But when you get stressed, put them on and start scratching in the dirt!!

Thanks for all you contributed!  and don't forget about our beautiful Sequim and our lavender fields we are so known for!  Hope you take some lavender with you!

Lavender field taken at Jardin de Soleil LAvender Farm

Fellow Gardeners - Summer Meetings

After discussing the Gardening Club meetings with a number of sisters it has been decided that we will suspend meetings during the busy summer months and start them up again on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month.

Our first meeting in September will most likely be an evening meeting that we can bring friends and spouses to (as we have had some requests for them to join us)  for a "Q & A  Session" with Ed Bourassa.  We will focus on how to prepare your yard, garden, flowers, shrubs, etc for fall and winter.

Ed Bourassa shared that in Sunset Magazine there is a two page article each month on "what to do this month" in the pacific northwest regarding your garden.  There are some very helpful tips in there.  I have a great number of older issues and so will look them up and post some helpful information according to that month.  Hopefully, if any of you or Ed has the current issues, you will also share the information with us ...and of course we will give the credit to Sunset Magazine as we should. 

We wish you all green thumbs this summer and also hope you have time to sit back and enjoy your hard labors in your wonderful gardens.

Remember, share your photos of your plants, yards, gardens and produce you have grown.  We would love to see them.

Receiving my yard of premium topsoil...I thin wheelbarrowed it to the side yard and started planting my perennials and a few annuals to fill in the space until they grow.  Enjoying the work this year, hope to sit back and relax and enjoy this years efforts, next year!  

I must find a BEFORE and AFTER photo of my little side yard. But that project has now extended itself.  I will find a few pics and share what I am doing next!

How about you? what have you done in your Garden/Yard this year?  

How have you enjoyed your Garden/Yard this Year?

Share your photos and stories with us!

Hi fellow green thumbers!!  Well, we postponed the day trip to Poulsbo to visit the nursery as a number of you wanted to go but the date simply did not work out.  We are now tentatively planning to do this in September.  Which by the way, they have short seminars during the fall and winter months that we could join in on.  So, keep that in the back of your mind and calendar for possibly September!