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Meets
7 p.m.
First
Tuesday of the month (except
July) at the
Pleasant
Hill Community Center
320 Civic Drive
Pleasant Hill, California 94523
entrance is from
parking lot behind Police Station and past YMCA (click for location
map)
OPEN to
all
interested in gardening...
Guests
always welcome to programs!!!!
Upcoming
Events:
note:
of possible interest to PHGSC members;
some are PHGSC events and some are not.....
May
10
PHGSC Plant Sale,
9am - 2pm,
Winslow Center, Pleasant Hill (map)
May 17
CREEC
Tour: Carquinez
Regional Environmental Educational Center
10
– 12 noon. This is
one of our previous contribution
recipients. We thought
it
would be interesting to see what they are up
to at the Carquinez
Regional Environmental
Education Center in Crockett. This environmental restoration
project site includes a
greenhouse to propagate plants that enhance wildlife habitats. Lunch
will be at the
well-known Dead Fish restaurant. More info to come in the May
newsletter. Sign-ups up
at the April and the May meeting.
May
17
DVC Plant Sale, 9am - 1pm, Pleasant
Hill (map)
May
17
Markham Arboretum
Spring Festival, 4pm - 7pm
Plant
Sale starting at 3pm
1202
La Vista, Concord (map)
June
3
Membership Meeting - Birds in the Garden
Jenny Papka, Curator, Native Bird
Connections
June
14
Markham Arboretum
Plant Sale, 10am-2pm
1202
La Vista, Concord (map)
TBD
PHGSC Members Garden's Tour (for
2007 garden tour pix... click)
(mid - June to
late July)
July
No Scheduled PHGSC Membership Meeting
August
2
Markham
Arboretum Plant Sale, 10am-2pm
1202
La Vista, Concord (map)
August 5
Membership Meeting -
The Gardens
of New Zealand
and Australia
Jan Coyle, Garden
travel tour guide
more
on
upcoming events...
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Objective:
Organized
for the purpose of developing an interest in home gardening and the
subsequent beautification of the community.
Other Information On-line
(available
where
underlined):
Who
We Are and
Membership
Club
Officers and Committees
Latest
information (click)
PHGSC Plant
Sale, May 10, 2008
days: hours: minutes:
seconds
till plant sale
Recent
& Past Events:
some
descriptions and pictures where available
2008 2007 2006 2005
2004
earlier
PHGSC
Picture Galleries
Pictures
of Some Member's
Gardens
(not
part of the PHGSC Member Tours) 2006
2005
Fine
Gardening's Guide to Pronouncing Botanical Latin
Get
ready for
summer with Watering 101
from Orchard
Nursery of Lafayette providing
informative guidance on how to water your garden ..
for more
see CCWD's conservation web page
as well as EBMUD's conservation
web page.
Some great hints on
organic
gardening were given at our September 2007
meeting, "Autumn:
The Season Begins for Organic Gardening" by Wendy
Krupnick... check 'em out
...
also "Some Hints on
Propagating
Seeds and Cuttings" from Kathy Echols,
DVC Horticulture
Instructor, at our December 2007
meeting.... check
them out too
To some of our
favorite
garden
links:
Pleasant
Hill
Recreation & Park District (our sponsor)
...
and more links
PHGSC
is a member of
the Diablo
Foothills District of
the California
Garden Clubs, Inc.
District
members, events, and newsletter...
Sponsored
by:
Web
Contact: Steve Morse
Email: s.j.morse@sbcglobal.net
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