At the last meeting I showed a logo I’d designed and a couple sheets of business cards developed from that logo. We are going to have a box of these cards printed out, hopefully by our next meeting. All of…
Our CGC Business Card
Author: suji
The Actual “Beautiful Garden Certificate”
The Beautiful Gardens Committee has designed a specific certificate that gets mailed out to house owners who have worked to design and maintain a lovely yard.
Visitor from another planet
I’m always hopeful of finding mantis egg cases and getting them to the hatching stage. They sure are cute when they are tiny. Once full grown, the mantis can certainly be a large insect. It has a most alert way…
Joan Epler: Article to Carroll County Times
Some Carroll County residents have been getting a surprise in their mailboxes this summer: a certificate proclaiming that their front yard is a beautiful place to see. The Carroll Garden Club, which meets in Union Bridge and welcomes new members,…
Fermented Pickles
Baskets and baskets of cucumbers plus a ceramic top hand-me-down stove meant no hot water canning of pickles this year. I read that canning on these types of stoves is not recommended. So, Mrs. Wages Refrigerator Pickles (sweet, bread and…
Sages for hummingbirds
Salvia coccinea : “Scarlet sage” and Hummingbird Sage var. “Coral Nymph” are easily grown from seed. Not reliably hardy here, they are a perennial treated as an annual. I usually have a few of the red ones show up the…
Indomitable Dottie
Member since 2002 2013 Publicity and Historian chair We can thank Joan Mann for bringing Dottie on board with Carroll Garden Club. Like other friendships begin, both were members of the same Homemakers Club and Joan convinced Dot to come…
Introducing EVENTS- plus “Day Trippers” with Rideshare and Calendar
In the Members Only section of the website, there is a category called EVENTS in the menu. “EVENTS” includes normally scheduled monthly meetings, invitations from other clubs to attend something, District V and State of MD meetings plus field trips. …
Life in Pennsylvania
I think by now everyone knows that I have a fixer upper farm in Pennsylvania in Upper Adams County, north of Gettysburg in the prime fruit growing region. My husband and I used to go on junkets through the countryside…
Everybody’s friend, Jan
Member since 2001. West End Place Garden Therapy Chair-@ 8 years Jan found out about Carroll Garden Club through friends at the Methodist Church, including Lura and Carolyn Scott and tried to join even earlier. By the time I came…