All posts by Debbie DeFilipps

January 2017 Newsletter

January-2017-Newsletter

Features:

  • January meeting program: “Developing a Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary for the Beauties of Nature” presented by Jim Ullrich
  • “Meet Up” discontinued. A big Thank You to Gloria Woo!
  • “Delights of the Season” photos from our December meeting
  • “Nature Happenings” for January, from Jim Ullrich’s website
  • Helping the Bees, by Carole Menser
  • Book review “Gardening for a Lifetime”
  • Vegetable-soup-in-30-minutes recipe

 

December 2016 Newsletter

December-2016-newsletter

 

Features:

  • December meeting program: “Delights of the Season” Members bring something they have grown or created to share.
  • President’s message from Lenda features photos and names of Hawaiian indigenous plants.
  • Photo of a Jon Throne arrangement from our November meeting.
  • WSFGC Holiday Show “Parisian Holiday” report and photos by Karen Lee.
  • Book review: Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life
  • Poor Man’s Caviar recipe
  • Indoor Plant Tips.

November 2016 Newsletter

November-2016-Newsletter

Features:

  • November meeting program: “Holiday Design Beauties” presented by Jon Robert Throne.
  • Thank you volunteers ‘poem’ by Chrissy Brockway, Issaquah Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
  • A message about Awards, by June ann Hassebroek.
  • Planting for Pollinators.
  • Antidepressant Microbes in the Soil, by Bonnie L Grant.
  • How to Clean Garden Tools.
  • Garden things to do in November.
  • Digging and storing Dahlias.

April 2016 Newsletter

April 2016 Newsletter

Features:

  • April meeting program: “The Magic of Bellevue Botanical Gardens” BBG volunteer docents will lead the garden tour.
  • Photo of Growing Great Gardeners work party.
  • Thank you from June Ann Hassebroek to all who signed the commitment to “Bee a Wildlife Action Hero”.
  • Photos of Judy Griesel, our March speaker and June Ann’s “Wildflowers Across Washington” display.

March 2016 Newsletter

March 2016 Newsletter

Features:

  • March meeting program: “Four elements necessary to convert a yard into a wild life habitat” presented by Judy Griesel.
  • Photo of work party at Issaquah Elementary School and thank you from Dianne Tanner.
  • Elizabeth C. Miller Library programs and information-Most extensive horticulture collection of any Pacific NW Library open to the public.
  • English Ivy: Noxious weed information
  • Caring for Summer Bulbs
  • Questions and Answers: Master Gardener information from Louise Luce
  • Photos from February meeting: Lana Finegold arrangements and June Beckman table arrangements.
  • Photo of arrangement created by Marian Nacarrow at the ELWD General Membership meeting 2-22-16.
  • Photo of Karen Lee’s pot of Tete-a Tete daffodils.

 

January 2016 Newsletter

January 2016 Newsletter

Features:

  • January meeting program: “Savoring the Magic of our Heritage (High Tea)”. Speaker Erica Maniez, Issaquah Historical Museum Director.
  • Things to Do in January.
  • Issaquah Garden Club won a National Garden Club Award and cash for their Issaquah Historical Museum native garden project.
  • Ethnobotany….Plants sustaining people.
  • Million Pollinator Garden Challenge.
  • January is National Soup Month:  4-2-1 Vegetable Soup recipe.