Mini-Pumpkin Making Draws Crowds
to Fall Open Garden Oct. 28 |
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WGC held its Fall Open House at the Town Green Community Garden Oct. 28. About 60 people (adults and kids) came. The free mini-succulent pumpkin making table was the most popular spot. Thanks to all who helped! |
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Get Free Showy Milkweed Rootstock Saturday |
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Windsor Garden Club will have asclepias speciosa "Showy Milkweed" ('Davis' variety) rhizome cuttings available this Saturday, Nov. 11, in the Town Green Community Garden. Planted straight into the ground during fall, the rhizomes can grow to a mature plant with flowers in the first year. The milkweed is a key feeding plant for Monarch Butterflies and their caterpillars! |
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Available between 9 a.m. and noon at the Town Green Community Garden. (See below.) Rhizomes/rootstock are free to all, but WGC will appreciates any donations. The Community Garden is located at the corner of Windsor Road and Joe Rodota Way in the Town Hall complex. WGC leader Cindy Fenton grows showy milkweed and other types of milkweed as part of a cooperative project with the club and the Healdsburg Pollinators to turn our towns into havens for Monarch Butterflies. The monarchs need the milkweed to feed and reproduce. Visit the WGC Website for information on how you can use your garden to support Monarchs and other butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds. They're the pollinators who power our plants!
Click here for more info |
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Community Garden Work Party is This Saturday |
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Community Gardeners: This Saturday, Nov. 11, is November's Second Saturday work morning. Hours are from 9 a.m. to noon. Garden leaders want to remind you that the end of the year and the summer growing season are approaching. This is the time a to complete (if you haven’t already) your six (6) hours of annual required volunteer time in the garden. Bring a hat, garden gloves, some water and help spruce up the common areas of the garden. Check in with work party leaders when you arrive to see what maintenance tasks need doing, and be sure to record your hours in the notebook in the kiosk. |
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Plant in November for Spring Flower Bloom |
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Hollyhocks, lupine, California poppy, Borage, Blue Flax, Rannunculas, Zinnias, Sweet Peas, Pansies, Peonies, and bulbs. Any kind of flower bulbs. November is the prime time for planting them all in Northern California! November is the last "good" month to plant from seed straight to ground in Windsor's climate zone. All of them do better with a bit of winter chill and winter rains after planting. |
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The Press Democrat has a wonderful story on what to plant now in Sonoma County for 2024. For seeds and bulbs, check out Prickett's Nursery between Windsor and Healdsburg. Prickett's is a supporter of Windsor Garden Club. Are you a WGC member? Don't forget your WGC Membership card while shopping there - members get a 10 percent discount!
Read the PD article online |
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Sign Up For the Holiday Wreath Making Workshop |
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WGC's popular Holiday Wreath Making workshop is set for Saturday, Dec. 2, from Noon-2 p.m. Ticket price is $25 for WGC members, $40 for non-members. Space is limited to 25 people. Location is indoors in Windsor and will be emailed to participants upon ticket purchase.
Ticket price includes materials: wire frame for wreath, a variety of evergreens and other greens, floral wire, tape, plus all embellishments (rose hips, berries, pine cones, and more). Participants are ask to bring wired fabric ribbon or bows in colors of their own preference if so desired (Burlap? Red? Plad? You decide!). Also, if you've got cuttings from your own, please bring them to share. Juniper, pyracantha (red-berried Firethorn), fresh Bay leaves, citrus, citrus branches are all examples. Don't want a bow and don't have cuttings? That's fine! Don't worry.
We are very happy that once again Mary Robledo will be the workshop instructor! Mary will open the workshop with a wreath creation lesson and live demonstration. Participants can then pick their materials and Mary and other veterans from WGC will be available to help participants make their own spectacular wreaths. |
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