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December 2014–Christmas Workshop
Last year we went to Longwood Gardens for Christmas. This year, we returned to the in-house greens workshop. We scoured our yards and neighborhoods for evergreens and pine cones and purchased floral...
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District V Annual Meeting 2015
The annual meeting this year was held at Ceresville Mansion in Frederick and concluded Carolyn Braverman’s two year period at the helm of District V. Our new District V Director comes from Taneytown...
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Maryland State Meeting (FGCMD) 2015
For most of us, the Maryland State Annual Meeting in March is the highest level meeting we will attend, unless we achieve the rarified air of being elected Director. This year, only Marjorie and I...
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May Meeting–Container Gardening
May’s program was “Gardening in Small Spaces”, especially cogent for those who are downsizing and find themselves with smaller yards and patio planting. Our featured speaker for May was Clair Jones who...
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June Garden Party at Pat’s
Pat Lawler kindly allowed us to hold our tradition of June Garden Parties at her graciously appointed home. The hostesses outdid themselves with all manner of hors d’oevres followed by soup, salad and...
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September 2015 Meeting: A Yellow Flower Show and Fragrance Gardens
September was our first official meeting with Marjorie as our new president. Everyone was asked to bring in at least one yellow botanical item from our gardens and to make certain it was labeled with...
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October 2015 Meeting
For our October meeting, the program committee designed two member show and tells instead of having a speaker. First, we were asked to bring in our favorite garden tool, displayed first at the entry...
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District V Semi-Annual Meeting 2015
District V’s meeting was held at The Portico at St. John’s Catholic Church in Westminster. All clubs were asked to design tabletop arrangements utilizing seasonal fruits or vegetables and flowers. Here...
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CGC November 2015 Meeting
We met as usual at Union Bridge Community Center. Our hostesses decorated with an autumn theme on all tables and provided a wide variety of tastings from soup to dessert. We had a good turnout and...
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December 2015 Meeting
A perennial favorite for our December meeting is some sort of Christmas workshop. Last year, we decorated the Old Courthouse in Westminster, so many of us were working on that. This year, we had no...
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CGC February 2016: Growing Rhododendrons and Azaleas
[Ed.] Our February program was given by the Mason-Dixon Chapter of the Rhododendron Society who conveyed their great enthusiasm for featuring these plants in one’s yard. Sonny showed us pictures of his...
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March Meeting: Orchids and Forced Bulbs
Our intended program speaker, a member of the Orchid Society was unfortunately in hospital on the day of our meeting. Luckily, Marjorie had the foresight to assume the worst and had assigned a number...
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District V Annual Meeting March 2016
The Annual Meeting was out at Ceresville Mansion in Frederick area. Look for the old Ceresville Mill and there’s a turn off driveway off Route 27–before you get to the bridge. The mill is circa 1790’s...
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CGC April Meeting–Featuring Rosarian Joan Epler
We met at Union Bridge for the April 2016 meeting and had a good turnout. Our hostesses were Sue, Denise, Larken and special guest Sarah Christensen, Sue’s brand new daughter-in-law who assisted in the...
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Recipes from April 2016 Meeting
Some of you asked for the recipes from the hostess committee to be put on the blog. Here they are. I think it would be great to do this for every hostess group. Cheese Garlic Biscuits II Recipe by:...
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It’s the June Garden Par-Tay!
For our last meeting of this term, we had our June Garden Party at our VP Brenda Powell’s home. We have visited Brenda’s garden previously, but it was in August so this was an opportunity to see it in...
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CGC September Meeting 2016
We gathered at a room in the Ag Center in Westminster since the Union Bridge Community Center was being painted. Our fearless leader,President Marjorie Schiebel, was off gallivanting in China, so...
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CGC October 2016 Meeting
We met back at the Union Bridge Community Center for our October Meeting. Our hostesses had provided a lovely tea luncheon that was both delicious and a feast for the eyes on all tables, strongly...
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District V Semi-Annual Meeting 2016
The District V Semi-Annual Meeting. led by Director Lynn Walter was held at the St. John’s Portico in Westminster, MD in October which made attendance quite easy for many of us in the more eastern...
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