Greenhouse hobby session and garden club meeting announced
A two hour greenhouse session led by Dr William Healy begins 6 30 to 8 30 p m on Tuesday Feb 19 at the Frederick County Extension Office. The Silver Fancy Garden Club meets Jan 17 at Taneytown Library to learn about drying flowers with Barbara Steele and Marlene Lufrin. Public invited. call 694 1596 or 756 2224 for reservations.
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Frederick County
William Healy
University of Maryland
Silver Fancy Garden Club
Taneytown Library
Grand Drive
Barbara Steele
Marlene Lufrin
Alloway Gardens and Herb Farm
Ranger outlines dogwood diseases at Rosehill Garden Club
Forest ranger Richard Lillard of Gambrill State Park spoke to the Rosehill Garden Club in January about dogwood anthracnose and Eastern hardwood diseases. He noted Maryland fungus prevalence, shown disease slides, and discussed early identification and control, plus forest fire prevention and role in renewal, especially in oak forests. Flower arrangements by a team of named members complemented the program.
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Richard Lillard
Gambrill State Park
Rosehill Garden Club
Lillard
Maryland
Aubrey Arnold
Thaddeus Biser
James Clark
Julien Delphey
Harlan Jessup
William Lowery
Donald Shoemaker
Fayette Wood
George Smith
Margaret Stup
H. Stuart Williams
Seedlings on sale for spring planting in Maryland
The Maryland Forest Park and Wildlife Service invites landowners to order over three million state nursery seedlings for conservation planting. Options include evergreen and deciduous varieties such as white pine Norway spruce white ash red oak and black walnut with wildlife food and cover seedlings also available. Minimums 250 evergreens or 100 deciduous, single species per order. Prices about 40 for 250 evergreens and 27 for 100 deciduous. orders through February end. Call 473-8417 for details and ordering.
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Maryland Forest, Park and Wildlife Service
Maryland
Brookside Gardens hosts two free workshops in Wheaton
Brookside Gardens at 1500 Glenallan Ave Wheaton offers two free workshops with no registration. Rebecca Zastrow presents a berries and ornamental plant talk at 1 30 p m Thursday Jan 24 in the garden library. Jennifer James leads a houseplants care session at 10 a m Friday Feb 1 in the garden library. For details call 949 8231.
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Brookside Gardens
Glenallan Ave
Wheaton
Rebecca Zastrow
Garden Library
Garden
Jennifer James
Perennial Garden Plants in the Modern Florilegium Third Edition
A Timber Press edition of Graham Stuart Thomas’s Perennial Garden Plants, third edition, 1990, 535 pages with 77 color and 85 black and white photos, offering introductory essays, USDA zone data, and extensive lists of over 2,000 perennial species. The volume blends plant culture, photography, and prose and targets serious gardeners.
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Graham Stuart Thomas
Timber Press
W. Wilshire
Portland
Ore
John E. Elstey
Wayside Gardens
Thomas
Grafting for Gardeners Inserting Bud and Cleft Grafts
This guide explains bud grafts and cleft grafts for home propagation. It covers stock sizing, bud shielding, T-cut technique, wrapping, and when to prune or remove growth, with emphasis on cambium alignment and protecting healing grafts.
California Gardeners Endure Freezing Weather
California’s agriculture suffered, yet so did home and public gardens with browning, wilting tropical and tender-leaf plants. Nurseries report short supplies of cold-sensitive ground covers and ornamentals, while prices for cut flowers rise and top-growth recovery is underway. Park officials expect some recovery in Golden Gate Park and possible lasting damage to Cape Province and rain forest collections at Strybing Arboretum.
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California
Kevin Sadilier
Slot Garden Center
San Francisco
University of California Berkeley
Botanical Garden
Golden Gate Park
Janet Hoffman
Yamagami Nursery
Cupertino
Lee Wise
Mordigan’s
Los Angeles
Jack Wick
California Association of
Wick
Mr. Wieck
Hoffman
Federal
Ken Brezzi
Capital Nursery
Sacramento
Jim Rogers
Mr. Rogers
Rogers
Cape Province
South African
Strybing Arboretum
Garden Quotables From Writers Of Gardens Past And Present
A collection of gardening wisdom from Hanna Bion Vita Sackville-West and Charles Dudley Warner. The quotes celebrate gardening as creative work, social notions about community, and playful ethics regarding children and cultivation across eras.
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Hanna Bion
Charles Dudley Warner
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