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Spring Garden Club Programs for 2018
It's a new year! That means a whole new line-up of programs and activities for the Cottage Grove Garden Club. Get out your calendars.... here's a list of what's in store this spring! January 2:...
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Rain Gardens: February 6 Presentation
A rain garden is generally a small, planted depression or "sunken garden bed" in your yard where rain runoff from roofs, driveways, and other impervious surfaces is directed. Once in this garden, the...
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Making Compost & Compost Tea:March 6 at Garden Club
Experienced gardeners will tell you, we are not farmers of our vegetables and crops alone, especially if we are striving for productivity and health. We must be farmers of the soil itself, and most...
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The Terroir of Chocolate: April 3
When is the last time you ate chocolate? Last night? Last week? If you are anything like the typical American -- who eats roughly 9.5 pounds of chocolate a year -- it probably wasn’t that long...
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Living Soils: May 1st at Garden Club
When you consider what is living in your garden, you may think of plants, worms, or ground beetles. Or possibly pests like gophers, slugs, and aphids. Let’s go deeper than that. On Tuesday, May 1,...
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Constructing and Caring for Container Water Gardens: June 5 program
Water hyacinths in a small water garden. A small water garden on a patio or deck provides a focal point and a sense of tranquility. And the best part -- it can’t be overwatered! Plus, water gardens do...
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What's Your Sign? Garden Art Project
Free Weeds! Pull Your Own!Gardeners know all the dirtnever enough thymebless my bloomersTrespassers Will Be Composted!time began in a gardenCome Gather in Our GardenI don't remember planting this!This...
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Our Native Bees: October Presentation
Pollination is necessary for most plants to reproduce, and pollinators—including bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, wasps, flies, and others—are happy to do the job. When talking about pollinators,...
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Gardening Forum: November 6
We all have questions about gardening, whether we are new to gardening or have been gardening for decades we all have questions. We all, also, have answers and experiences to share. By popular demand,...
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January 8 Organizational Meeting
The New Year is here! Gardeners everywhere are checking their mailboxes for garden catalogs, curling up with garden books, dreaming, and planning next year's garden. The same is true for Cottage Grove...
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Rainwater Harvesting in the Pacific Northwest: February 5
Cottage Grove Garden Club is excited to start 2019! We have a number of great presentations lined up for the year, at least one field trip, and several social events.Photo ©jrweymouth Flickr cc We...
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Let's Talk About Hummingbirds: March 5 Presentation
Hummingbirds are often considered the jewels of the sky, and many gardeners delight in their brilliant colors and amazing antics in flight. Gardeners in the southern Willamette Valley have likely...
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Indoor Succulents and Cacti: April 2 Presentation with Marcia Peeters
Walk into any store lately and you will likely to see a small display of succulents and cacti growing in tiny 2-inch pots; nurseries and specialty shops will have even more. The variety of whimsical...
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Benefits of being a Garden Club Member
Garden Club members gathering for a private tour of Log House Plants, June 2018 Did you know Cottage Grove Garden Club is about more than just monthly meetings and presentations? Every year, CG Garden...
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Firewise Gardening: May 7th Program
The Willamette Valley is known for its abundant rainfall and lush landscapes, but summer heat and the abundance of fuels can leave the valley just as vulnerable to wildfire as any other fire-prone...
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Keeping Your Garden Healthy: June 4 at Cottage Grove Garden Club
For gardeners, spring brings the excitement of preparing for another season of fresh vegetables and beautiful flowers. With the warming of the soil and longer daylight hours, seeds and bulbs sprout...
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Gardening Forum and Succulent Exchange: Tuesday Sept 3
We all have questions about gardening, whether we are new to gardening or have been gardening for decades we all have questions. We all, also, have answers and experiences to share. Back by popular...
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Gardeners and Climate Change
When gardeners maximize carbon storage without making too much global-warming pollution in the process, we slow the pace of climate change. Here are some ideas:Protect your soil and keep it healthy •...
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Cover Crops: October 1 at Cottage Grove Garden Club
A cover crop is a crop of plants grown primarily to benefit the soil rather than yield a crop. They are often used in the off-season, after harvesting, and may grow over the winter. Cover crops can...
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Creating Pollinator Habitat in Our Gardens: November Program
Our local pollinators are under stress from habitat loss, pesticides, and the spread of new diseases. What can we, as gardeners, to do help the bees and pollinators in our environment? On November 5,...
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Garden Planning: January 2020 Garden Club Meeting
Happy New Year! It's that exciting time of year for gardeners, with the garden catalogs arriving in the mail, new garden tools ready to be used, and hopes of spring peaking around the corner.... we're...
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What's New at Log House Plants: February 4 at Garden Club
Alice Doyle of Log House Plants. Photo by Shawn Linehan Photographywww.shawnlinehan.com Located just east of Cottage Grove, Log House Plants is a wholesale grower of annuals, perennials, vegetables,...
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A Guide to Multifunctional Hedgerows: March 3rd at Garden Club
A hedgerow is a beautiful, functional and biologically diverse component of our landscapes. In both rural and urban environments, these multi-tiered groups of trees, shrubs, ground covers, vines,...
View ArticleApril Meeting and Presentation Cancelled
The April meeting of Cottage Grove Garden Club has been cancelled.... but gardening has not! Enjoy your plants and garden as we all practice a little social distancing the next couple of weeks. (And...
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Online Resources for the Spring Garden
With the “great pause” we are currently experiencing, it is quite possible that you’re spending even more time in the garden this year. Since the Garden Club can’t meet as a group right now, here are...
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