Council News and Events
The Council's "New Home"
Beginning with the September meeting, the Council’s new home will be The Church of the Epiphany which is located at 8000 Hermitage Road, Henrico, VA. It is a lovely church in a picturesque setting and has ample parking for a group of our size. Our meetings will be held in the Parish Hall and there is a large kitchen adjacent to it. SEE: MAP
Save this date! Monday March 16th
Piedmont District Meeting & Floral Design Program
Four Points by Sheraton in Midlothian, Virginia
Program by Robert Allen Hunt - Floral Designer and Event Planner
Seating will be limited for this sell-out event so register early!
Registration form (CLICK HERE) or visit PiedmontDistrictVFGC.org
Richmond Council of Garden Clubs, Inc. Presents :
Fashions with Flowers XXII - “Let’s Celebrate”
Friday, March 27, 2020 at 10:00 a.m.
(Inclement Weather Date – Friday, April 17, 2020)
First Baptist Church • 2709 Monument Ave., Richmond, Va.
Cost: $30.00 – Fashion Show by Chicos, Floral Designs, Silent Auction, and Lunch
Floral Design Program by Jane VanDenburgh
The lunch menu will be chicken Caesar salad, bread sticks, apple crisp pie, chocolate mousse pie, tea, and coffee. Each club is asked to donate a table floral design and one or more silent auction items. Please send your check made payable to Richmond Council of Garden Clubs, Inc. to Johanna Gilbert, Registrar, 8423 Shannon Green Ct., Henrico, Va. 23228, Phone – 270-6056, Email - [email protected] by March 15, 2020. Please send 1 check from each garden club with the name of the garden club and the names of the attendees ($30.00 per person). Seating is limited to 192. Please contact Pat Merson – Phone – 796-1132 or Email: [email protected] with any questions. Please send this form with a list of the club’s attendees.
Fashion with Flowers Form
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NOVEMBER GARDENING TIPS
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. Luther Burbank
Fall is the ideal time to plant spring bulbs, taking your cues from nature. I have planted bulbs late September to early December in my Goochland garden. Deciding what variety of bulbs you may want to add, securing bulbs should be your present focus. Whether ordering or visiting nurseries, place purchased bulbs in a refrigerator until planting time.
With this dry and hot fall, planting time can be as late as December. Place markers in areas to add bulbs or make a garden sketch, noting the cultivar, essential for horticulture exhibits. Every few years divide bulb clumps in the fall, replanting or sharing the bulbs. This will improve flower production and expand your floral landscape.
Planting is much like painting, space, width, height, color, density, neutral space, all things to consider. Then add the blooming time of bulbs and you will have a wave of freshness and color for months by researching the bloom times and characteristics of the bulbs you have selected.
Below find some suggested varieties of Narcissi that will give you a full spring of color and wonder. These bulbs may be found at many locations, including www.vanengelen.com, www.johnscheepers.com, brentandbeckysbulbs.com.
Earlier Blooming Narcissi
Miniature Trumpet Daffodil Little Gem
Small Cupped Narcissus Barrett Browning
Large Cupped Narcissus Saint Kevene
Large Cupped Narcissus California
Cyclamineus Narcissus Tete-a-Tete
Mid Blooming Naturalizing Narcissi
Trumpet Daffodil King Alfred
Trumpet Daffodil Mt. Hood
Large Cupped Narcissus Fortissimo
Large Cupped Narcissus Fortune
Large Cupped Narcissus Ice Follies
Large Cupped Narcissus Professor Einstein
Cyclamineus Narcissus Peeping Tom
Poeticus Narcissus Actaea
Later Blooming Naturalizing Narcissi
Large Cupped Narcissus Flower Record
Double Narcissus Cheerfulness
Poeticus Narcissus Pheasant’s Eye
Triandrus Naricussus Thalia
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