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The McDonough Garden Club was founded in 1998. We meet once a month at 7:00 pm at the Heritage bank in McDonough and have a guest speaker on a wide variety of garden topics. Our meetings usually last about 2 hours. The first hour is for our speaker. We then break for refreshments and then conduct our business. In the months of June (summer picnic) and December( Christmas party) we meet at a home of one of our members. We have a plant swap in lieu of a speaker in October and the February meeting is usually for reccomending projects for the upcoming year as well as voting on the budget and bylaw changes. We also have a big plant sale in April to raise funds for various club projects and expenses.
The McDonough Garden Club is also actively involved in the community.
We have done gardening projects in the past for organizations such as Sacred Journey Hospice and A Friends House. Each fall, we have a major daffodil planting to help beautify our community.
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What's the Name of that Plant?
Every wonder what the name of the plant you saw on the side of the road was or the one you saw while walking in the woods? Each month we will feature a native plant that is blooming or has an interesting fruit or leaf color or one that has naturalized (think kudzu!) in the wild. Many of these plants will grow fine in your landscape, provided you give them the requirements they need. This months plant is Trout Lily or Dogtooth Violet. Trout lily is a mid-late winter perennial creating quite a scene when not much else is blooming. Trout lilies can be found blooming with some of the earlier blooming trilliums, T. underwoodii, T. decipiens, and T. maculatum. The foliage can vary greatly, with some having lots of motteling and some having none. Trout lilies are usually sold by specialty nurseries, specializing in native plants. |
