This SATURDAY!!!!

Come one, come all!

On Saturday Nov. 18th, we will be having a work day at the Wildflower Sanctuary starting at 8:00.  Please come help with weeding, planting seeds and repairing protective the fences around our trees.  If you have them, please bring gardening gloves, tin snips, weed diggers, eye protection and a tarp or bucket for hauling.  We will be meeting by the dam and then moving over to the boardwalk area.

 

Thank you for your help!

Sarah 

Leaf Shredder for Sale

Leaf Shredder/Mulch Maker For Sale

Jan Miller has a Leaf Shredder for sale.  The Flowtron Leaf Eater chops leaves that can be added back to your gardens to hold moisture and control weeds. Electric. $40 (New at Amazon for $149.)

Located in Geneva. Contact janmiller123@ameritech.net.
if you are interested in purchasing it.

Here's the link to the listing on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Flowtron-800-Leaf-Eater-Electric-Shredder/dp/B00006XMTL/ref=sr_1_4?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1490824951&sr=1-4&keywords=flowtron+

leaf+shredder

House Plants Needing New Homes

The Trout's are downsizing and have some lovely house plants that need new homes.  Free!  Please contact Doris to adopt any or all of the following: 

3 spider plants

2 large snake plants (mother-in-law tongue)

1 norfolk fir tree

Call or email:

(630) 482-2572 ...leave a message if no answer!

dttrout5@gmail.com

Corkscrew Willow needs new home

A Corkscrew Willow all potted up and ready to be relocated is looking for a new home.  The tree is 5 foot tall and ready to go.  Give me a call if you would like this little beauty for your home.

Diana Sharp
(630) 879-7578

Pots - Saturday morning only

Planning ahead for next year's plant sale?  Yvonne Richter is getting rid of a great amount of pots.  All sizes.  They are only available Saturday morning (July 29) until the "Got Junk" guys arrive.  Her address is 2250 South Stret in Geneva, IL.  If you need to call her the number is (630) 450-0037.  Stock up now! 

A Beautiful Day to Garden in the Wildflower Sanctuary!

The weather forecast for Saturday (July 8) looks perfect, and we will be having a work day at the Batavia Wildflower Sanctuary at 8:00.  We will be working on weeding and trimming on the east (shady) side, but near the dam.   If you have them, please bring gardening gloves, weed diggers, clippers, loppers, a bucket or tarp for hauling and eye protection.

 

Thanks for your help!

Sarah  

Pop to the Wildflower Sanctuary Monday!

Hello Gardners!

The rain has softened up the soil, and the weather forecast for Monday looks perfect, so we will have a "Pop-Up" Work Day at the Wildflower Sanctuary to go after the weeds that have popped up while our backs were turned.

 

Please join us on the east (shady) side of the Riverwalk at 10:00 on Monday.  If you have them, bring gardening gloves, loppers, clippers, weed diggers, eye protection, and a bucket or tarp for the weeds.

 

Thank you so much!

Sarah

 

P.S. Please note the unusual start time.  

Natures Edibles - May 16

Join us Tuesday, May 16 for "Natures Edibles" to entice the palate and intrigue the gardening mind.  Social time at 6:45pm, short business meeting 7:00 pm, and "Natures Edibles" right after that!  We will meet at the Batavia Public Library in the large meeting room. 

Countdown to Plant Sale...Saturday, May 13

Mother Nature is busy watering all the beauties that are waiting outside our homes to go to the Plant Sale this Saturday! 

We need club members to come on Friday afternoon and evening to do the set up (from 3:30 pm to 7:30pm).

We open to the public at 9am Saturday, May 13th in the gymnasium of Bethany Lutheran Church 8 N. Lincoln in Batavia for the big native and perennial plants sale.  Proceeds go toward the Wildflower Sanctuary.

With this wonderfully lush spring, there are some new additions to what I hear will be available!  In addition to many of the perennials we all love, expect to see hellebores, dropwort, dwarf Solomon seal, trillium, May apples, Jack-in-the-pulpits, and some interestingly beautiful blooming natives.  The ferns I've already seen are spectacular! 

Plan to join us for the sale....to help or to purchase...or BOTH!

Need Pots? Need blank labels?

If you are digging plants for the plant sale and run out of pots to put them in, Yvonne Richter (630) 450-0037) has a big stash of them (she is on the south side of Geneva) or Bob Dahlstrom(630 879-2629) has a big stash of them and is mid-city Batavia.  Bonnie Hines has the blank materials for labels if you need them, too (630) 879-9434. 

Warm Up with a Public Gardens Tour

We are pleased to have Brock and Ruth Ann Seney join us Tuesday night to share their presentation "Inserting Public Gardens into Your Travels Plans.  a visit through pictures to public gardens from Hawaii to the east coast and points in between.  Come and bring a friend to enjoy this little vacation to warm places in the midst of January!

 

Social time 6:45 pm

Short business meeting (budget vote) 7:00 pm

Presentation follows business meeting

 

Join us at the Batavia Public Library meeting room and ward off winter for just a little while! 

Volunteer to help JB Nelson 5th Graders Consider a Courtyard Garden Using Native Plants

The 5th Graders at J. B. Nelson need a volunteer or two to help them learn about native plants.  They are interested in potentially using native plants in their courtyard and looking for some basic information, help finding information and to think about how they might develop a plan for this at their school.  If you are interested in helping some motivated students, parents and teachers to explore ideas and learn more about native plants this semester, please contact Diana Sharp (630) 879-7578 for more information.  You do not need to be an expert, just someone who enjoys working with others and helping them discover information about native plants.  Spread the joy of native plants!  Volunteer.  You will be enriched more than you can even imagine!