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NEWS & FUN
"GROW NATIVE CONTAINER CONTEST"
Ideas to get you started: For a sunny area, consider creating a Prairie Pot that features native warm season grasses combined with sun-loving forbs such as rose verbena (Glandularia canadensis) or prairie blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya).
To create a Patio Nature Center, consider native plants that attract butterflies such as butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa).
For a moveable arbor, consider native vines such as passion flower (Passiflora incarnata) and include a trellis.
Tips for success: To determine the shape and/or size of the container, know the size and shape of the root system of the plant you will be placing in it. Large containers stay moist longer and are less subject to fluctuating temperatures. Good drainage is important. If your container lacks adequate drainage, add extra holes. Water judiciously. Soil should be nearly dry before you add water. When you water, apply to soil, rather than leaves.
Three winners will be selected. Each winner will receive a bundle of prizes that include:
$100 gift certificate for use at a Grow Native! retail garden center. Copies of Tried and True: Missouri Native Plants for Your Yard, Seedling ID Guide for Native Prairie Plants and an autographed copy of Native Landscaping for Wildlife and People
A Grow Native! gardening wardrobe (hat, apron, t-shirt and vest)
Free admissions to Shaw Nature Reserve or Powell Gardens and a profile of you and your container garden on the Grow Native! Web site.
How to enter: Send your name, address, email address, telephone number and photos of your container garden (taken throughout the growing season, no more than three) to: Grow Native!, P.O. Box 630, Jefferson City, MO 65102
Please include a list of native plants used in the container and their source (retail garden center, neighbor, specialty shop, wherever). Or enter electronically by sending the same information to grownative@mda.mo.gov
Containers will be judged on visual appeal, length of bloom time and native plant selection (color combinations, textures, heights). Judges decisions are final. Missouri Department of Conservation - Missouri Department of Agriculture.
ALL ENTRIES MUST BE POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN OCT. 15, 2009
Grow Native! www.grownative.org
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Please note the change in the FGCM Executive Board and the FGCM Chairmen.
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WWW.LEARN2GROW.COM
Dear National Garden Club Members:
I hope you are enjoying the access to the Showtime Plant Database that we set up last month for you on Learn2Grow.com. Today, I have another gift exclusively for the National Garden Club members - one of our online gardening courses, Getting Green. This course was created for novice gardeners who want to learn the basics in a fun and personal way. I thought you would enjoy seeing how we convey gardening tips and techniques through our “over the fence” style. This course has been one of our more popular titles.
Here’s how access your free course:
· Go to www.learn2grow.com and click on the “Join” tab at the top.
· Create a user name and password and fill in your interests.
· Enter “ngcplants” where asked for a promotional code, then click “add” and finish your registration.
· Once completed, go to your “My Learn2Grow” page. There you will find the link to this course.
· In the future, log in to go to your My Learn2Grow page each time you wish to access the course.
Soon I will be sending another email that gives National Garden Club members a 20% discount off of our newest feature – The Learn2Grow Garden Publisher! Learn2Grow and Sharedbook have partnered to create a program that allows you to be the author of a customized printed garden book. You select existing content and photographs and even add your own - we organize and print it, just for you. With your discount coupon you can either create your own book or purchase a gift certificate for a gardening friend.
I hope you like what you see in Getting Green. I look forward to working with you and continuing to build an exciting future.
The Garden Study Course I - is available at www.learn2grow.com/ngc Cost is $ 100.00. The user id is member and password is daffodil.
Michael Ferraro
President, Learn2Grow.com
mferraro@learn2grow.com
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The 2008 Calendar for the Fox 2 Children’s Garden Club is listed here.
The club is free to all and attracts children and parents (and grandparents) from a wide geographic area around St. Louis. Doug Wolter, Horticulturist with the St. Louis County Parks Department, leads a committed group of Garden Centers in this 12-month program. Meetings are generally at 9 am on the first Saturday of the month.
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Scholarships
Each year just after the public schools begin the college scholarship forms are mailed out to many of our two and four year colleges.
In the spring the Committee holds a meeting to determine who will be the recipients. It is always difficult to choose and it is helpful that there are approximately seven people on the Committee. A copy of each application is mailed in advance of the meeting to the committee members for their review. After receiving copies of the applications, the committee comes together in the spring prepared to discuss the strengths of each applicant. After much deliberation and discussion, decisions are made and successful applicants notified.
Some individual garden clubs do set aside funds to give their own scholarship awards to local students’ pursuit of education in the field of agriculture/landscape or horticulture, or horticultural interests of their club.
Should you have any questions about the FGCM Scholarship, please contact Joyce Lewis, FGCM Scholarship Chairman
Website - contact Elaine Fix
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