Grayslake Greenery Garden Club

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Welcome Gardeners!

Join us every fourth Monday of the month (except July & August) at 6:30 p.m. at the State Bank of the Lakes in Grayslake at Center and Atkinson.

  • Yearly Garden Walk and Social
  • Fundraisers: Dance Recital Floral Bouquets, Spring Plant Sale, Fall Plant Sale
  • Civic Community Projects: Senior Center and Hawley Manor Plantings, Youth Garden


The next meeting will be September 28th. 

ALL GUESTS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND!

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Club Newsletter JANUARY 2009
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GGGC 2008-2009 Schedule
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Scholarship
Kathy Carper (center), Scholarship Chair presents a $500 scholarship to Sandy Stoner and Tracy Miller
The Grayslake Greenery Garden Club is proud to announce the 2009-2010 scholarship winners! 
This year the Club presented a $500 scholarship to two very worthy applicants.
Sandy Stoner and Tracy Miller, both CLC students.  Ms. Stoner is pursuing a longtime interest in horticulture and Ms. Miller is interested in the ever growing green industry.  Congratulations to this years two winners!

The Grayslake Greenery Garden Club encourages all students who are pursuing a career in the field of horticulture studies to apply. Applications for next years scholarships will be posted in December of 2009.

Club Field Trips
Club members get a private tour of the Volo Bog
Fundraiser
In May the club prepares flowers for the Grayslake Park Districts Annual Dance Recital.
Volunteers assemble the flowers according to pre-orders by the parents of the dance recital participants. After assembling, they group each type of bouquet into buckets for distribution. The day of the recital volunteers handout pre-orders and make up bouquets for last minute sales.
Funds raised from this event goes toward the Club's scholarship fund, community projects and Club expenses.
Every Spring the Club holds their annual sale.
Club members prepare potted plants from their gardens and deliver them the day of the sale. There's always a variety of healthy home grown plants. The sale runs from 9:00 am-noon and is held the end of May.
Funds raised are used toward Club scholarships, community projects and Club expenses.
Club Projects
The Horticulture Committee works with the Grayslake Senior Center planting containers and several inground beds around the building. Nancy Rinker, the committee chair, and several club members volunteer their time helping the seniors maintain the containers. The seniors help with the dead heading and watering. They have fun digging, watering and growing!

The seniors also enjoy the Wednesday morning garden therapy activities sponsored by the club. The committee puts together nine of these programs for the seniors at the center.

Paula Engelman chairs a group at Hawley Manor.  They maintain several pots and inground beds there. 

 
Youth Garden
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In May of 2006 the club leased a 20 x 20 lot in the Grayslake Community Garden. Several club members teamed up with Pack 451 Cub Scouts to grow food for the local food pantry. The scout group named themselves the "Cub Sprouts". An assortment of vegetables were grown from plants and seeds. The boys from Pack 451 participated in the planting, watering, weeding and harvesting of over 200 lbs. of food that was donated to a local food pantry.


The Youth Garden Project continues this summer for the fourth year with a 40 x 20 plot. Crops will be grown that do well in the space.  Tomatoes, beans, potatoes, kale, carrots, beets are a few of the successful plants that have been harvested by the "Cub Sprouts".  Each year the yield increases, hopefully this year the weather will allow the Club to donate a record crop.


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Information

For additional information contact Nancy Rinker, President at 847-223-8485 or email the club at contact@grayslakegreenerygardenclub.org

The Grayslake Greenery Garden Club is affliated with the Garden Clubs of IL, District IX and the National Gardens Clubs, Inc.

You can learn more by visiting their sites at: http://www.gardenglories.org and http://www.gardenclub.org
UPCOMING EVENTS
Field Trips

Garden Conservancy's Open Days    June 27 North Barrington (RR Garden & Estate) $5 or discount tickets through membership in Chicago Botanic Garden.

Check out website  www.opendaysprogram.org  Site gives info on Garden Conservancy. Click on 2009 Schedule for description of gardens in this area.

 

July 11   10:00AM - 3:00PM    Gardeners of Central Lake Co.  (Free) Map and directions available after July 1 at Cook Memorial Library 114 N. Milwaukee Ave., LIbertyville, Wildwood Park Dist., 3325 Sears Blvd., Wildwood or Fremont Public Library, Mundelein. 

Featuring train, rose, kitchen, butterfly, shade gardens.

 

July 17 & 18  Antioch Garden Club  www.antiochgardenclub.org  $25 for lunch and garden walk on July 17   July 18 Walk only - $15 advance or $18 day of walk.   All details and ticket reservation form on their website.

 

July 26  Garden Conservancy's Open Days www.opendaysprogram.org  4 gardens $5. each,  Camp Rosemary in Lake Forest is included this day. A MUST SEE!

A description of each garden on website along with map.  Camp Rosemary directions:

930 Rosemary Rd., Lake Forest    Take Rt 41 to Deerpath Rd., exit right, proceed through town over the RR track to stop sign at Sheridan Rd.  turn right, go 1/2 mile past Lake Forest College, past the blinking light and past Rosemary Rd. on the right.  Go 1/2 block to Rosemary Rd. on left.  Turn left.  930 is in the middle of the blcok on the left.  Park in front driveway area and on the south side of Rosemary Rd.  Garden open from 10Am-4PM.

 

Late July or early Aug.  (Date TBA)  Tour of Dan Kaplan's dahlia garden in Grayslake.  Dinner plate size flowers included.

Please contact Nancy Rinker at nancy.rinker@yahoo.com for more information. 


NEXT MEETING

All meetings start promptly at 7:00 pm at the State Bank of the Lakes in Grayslake

Next Meeting:  September 28th
TOPIC:  To be Announced
SPEAKER: To be Announced


Stay tuned for more fun and informative programs for the 2009-2010 season.