Club Members Flutter to Butterfly Garden

Cypress Creek Lakes Garden Club members Kathy Booth, Norma Chiaramonte, Billie Fontana, Sandra Gilbert, Helen Lombardo and Bonnie Segura helped tidy up the neighborhood butterfly garden on October 16.  After filling up ten garbage bags, the space is looking great. 
New additions will be planted in early November.

Salvia Success!

Tricia Bradbury

 

CYPRESS CREEK LAKES GARDEN CLUB  
 October 8, 2012

President Sandra Gilbert called the meeting of the CCL Garden Club to order at 7:00 PM at the CCL Com. Center.  She welcomed all member and guests.

Sandra announced the YOTM recipients.  They are Mike and Liz Dodson.

Attendees:  Sandra Gilbert, Marcia Mausolf, Mike Owens, Bev Allen, Debbie Haluch, Kathy Booth, Patti Foucha, Helen Lombardo, Ann Schmidt, Bonnie Segura, Norma Chiaramonte, guest Lia Brown, and speaker Tricia Bradbury.

PROGRAM:  Tricia Bradbury, a Houston Fed of Garden Club speaker, gave a talk on “Salvias”. There are over 900 species, some grow to seven feet tall, and they are used in culinary, medicinal, recreational and religious rituals.

Motion was made and seconded to dispense of the reading of the minutes.

Marcia gave the Treasurer’s report:  Beginning balance was $1639.96, receipts of $400.00 and disbursements of $47.00, giving us a balance of $1992.96.

OLD BUSINESS:  Sometime this month we will get together to clean, transplant and trim the butterfly garden.  Time and date will be emailed to us.

NEW BUSINESS:  Sandra reminded us to check out our CCLGC Blog.  It has a lot of information available to us. She also suggested that we send pictures of our garden, birds, insects, etc. that we would like to share and she will put them on our blog.

Our brick fundraiser is going on now through November 2012. Check with your friends and family to see if they would like to buy one.  It’s a wonderful gift for Christmas.  We had our first Q&A this evening.  Several topics were discussed. There are still spots available for hosting.  Please let Sandra know if you can help.

Gardening Link of the Month :  www.thewoodlandsgardenclub.org/.

Gardening Tip of the Month:  “It’s bulb season.  Look for bulb marts/shows/sales.  Except for the bulbs that need refrigeration, most bulbs can go in the ground anytime in Oct. and Nov.”.  Randy Lemmon, 1001 GardenLine Questions with Randy Lemmon.

Our next meeting will be Nov. 12, 2012 at 7:00PM at CCLCC.

Thanks to Mike Owens for hosting this month.

A special thank you to Mike Owens for creating an amazing seasonal display!

Door prize was won by Patti and donated by Debbie.

Sandra adjourned the meeting at 8:30 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Marcia Mausolf

Secretary/Treasurer

CCLGC Announces Fall Fundraiser

The Cypress Creek Lakes fall fundraiser will be a butterfly garden pathway brick sale.  It's a great opportunity for members and non-members alike who would like to honor, celebrate or remember someone with an engraved brick for the butterfly garden pathway.

Each engraved brick is $50, and the funds will continue to support maintenance of the garden and to purchase permanent signage for the garden.

Orders may be placed from October 1 through December 1, 2012. An engraved brick makes a one-of-a-kind gift for that special someone who has "everything!"

Please contact the garden club at cclgc1@gmail.com for an order form.  Share the order form with your family, friends and neighbors!