The first meeting of the season will be at the Flagler County Cooperative Extension Service 150 Sawgrass Road Bunnell, FL
Gathering of members and guests start at 12:30PM, meeting starts at 1:00PM. Come join us to learn “What makes the Garden Club Grow”
150 Sawgrass Road Bunnell, FL
Hildegard Benedick of Crosstie Court has been recognized as September 2019 Garden Selection of the Month by The Garden Club at Palm Coast.
Mrs. Benedick moved from Virginia to Palm Coast in 2004 to the gated community of Grand Haven. She is an avid gardener and has made her front yard a colorful butterfly friendly garden. Gardening is one of her favorite hobbies in addition to competitive ballroom dancing!
Her front yard is small due to living in a gated community, however, this yard has an abundance of plants and flowers consisting of Bougainvillea, purple Salvias, red and pink Petunias, blue Delphinium, yellow Gerbera daisies, pink and purple Gazania, Coreopsis, butterfly loving yellow and orange milkweed, Blue Daze, orange and yellow Zinnias, red Penta, and purple and white Phlox which the deer love to eat. She has also incorporated some curly leaf Parsley and Sage into her garden. The front door area has a cute Gnome amongst the hedges riding his bright green dune buggy.
The lush green back yard has a variety of palms along with some Firecracker and Fire Spike plants. There is another Gnome inside his tree house sitting on his recliner chair enjoying this tranquil back yard.
Along the right side of the garage there are hedges of Podocarpus bushes with Blue Daze and pink Vinca.
Submitted by Nancy Iandoli
Selection of the Month Committee
If you are an ornamental gardener, you might want to know what is blooming in August:
Or if you are busy producing veggies, then the Edibles activities may interest you:
Easily Survives Transplanting: Beets, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Chinese cabbage, Collards, Eggplant, Endive/Escarole, Kale, Peppers, Tomatoes.
Survives Careful Transplanting: Carrots, Celery, Mustard
Use Seeds: Beans (Bush, Pole, Lima) Cucumbers, Onions (Green, Shallot), Squash (Summer, Winter), Turnips.
Lots to do this month!!!
The Infographics are produced by the University of Florida, IFAS Extension and can be found here online: http://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/plant-of-the-month/infographics.html.
PDF versions of the Infographics can be downloaded and printed if you are interested.
On Saturday, August 10 Greg and Annette Wilson, Nancy Iandoli and Jane Villa-Lobos attended a garden walk at the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens led by Master Gardener and landscape designer, Teresa Watkins.
Teresa with Firebush
The tour was in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibition, “ Precious Pollinators”.
Stations of the Cross
The 3.5-acre gardens were teeming with bees, butterflies and other pollinators. Teresa pointed out pollinator plants, like the native firebush (Hamelia patens), and pentas, planted in front of the Stations of the Cross, which were a flutter with hundreds of butterflies and bees. Quite a sight to behold!!!
Ceiba pentandra
She led the group of 25 through the gardens pointing out some of the flowering specimens, including the kapok or silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra), a tropical species used as food by the larvae of some moth and butterfly species. The green trunk has thorny spines and the pink and white flowers have a foul odor that attracts bats.
Ceiba pentandra
Allamanda
The gardens were very colorful with blooming plants of heliconia, allamanda, candle stick cassia, canna, Cuban buttercup, angel trumpet, black and blue salvia, bromeliads, chenille plant, and pinwheel jasmine to name a few.
Blue Salvia
Heliconia
The current exhibition, “Precious Pollinators”, featuring the Central Florida Watercolor Society , continues through August 25th.
Albin Polasek was one of America’s foremost sculptors of the 20th century. Born in 1879 on Moravia (now Czech Republic) he immigrated to the US in 1901. At the age of 37 he became head of the Sculpture Department at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he remained for nearly 30 years.
In 1950, at the age of 70, he retired to Winter Park designing his home on picturesque Lake Osceola. He passed away in 1965. In the year 2000, Polasek was named a “Great Floridian” by the state of Florida for his significant contributions to the history and culture of the state.
Article by Jane Villa-Lobos
Photography Jane Villa-Lobos
