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Workshops

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| 2021, How To, Membership, Video

Available for your viewing pleasure and guidance, we now have MULTIPLE perennial plant-dividing workshops on the club website. If you want a non-professional tutorial with your own club officers doing a sometimes-entertaining film, be sure to watch them. They are included in your membership! So far, we have presented hostas, hybridizing daylilies, crossing daylilies and […]

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Traditional Plants

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| 2020, Article, December, Newsletter

Poinsettias, holly, ivy, rosemary, mistletoe, evergreen trees—-there are so many plants associated with Christmas. Did you ever wonder why? Here’s a little history lesson… Greenery was used in ancient times to celebrate the Winter Solstice by warding off evil spirits. When Christianity came to Europe, the greenery was kept but given Christian meanings. Holly’s prickly […]

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Did You Know – Monarchs

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| 2020, November

The monarch you saw this summer probably only lived a few weeks. Only one species of Monarch butterflies is capable of migrating from as far north as Canada to the mountains of Michoacán, Mexico, a distance of nearly 3000 miles. This super-generation that lives up to 8 months only appears every 3-5 generations. They huddle […]

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