What's Bloomin' at Gloria Dei? The Daffodils Are.

The Daffodils are blooming. Allies Narcissus, Pseudo-Narcissus or Trumpet Narcissus. They’re a bulbous plant, part of the Amarylidacease family. Named after the mythological youth that was so fond of his own reflection that after long gazing at it was changed into the flower. I guess that's where the word narcissism comes from too. So made it’s time you spotted sitting around looking at yourself and got out and look at the flowers.

Thanks
Chuck

Should talks be discontinued due to lack of interest?

We haven’t exactly had a full house for your garden club talks. The first meeting we had four people show up, but then it was snowing the next meeting we had maybe ten , but most of those where Beth’s friends. I’m thinking next year we won’t have any talks just maybe garden tours. We seem to get a fairly good show for the tours. It’s a lot of work for Beth to get speakers and if no one cares why do it.

Chuck

Thanks to the Workers

On April 14th we had a hastily scheduled Courtyard Clean-Up Day, to take advantage of the nice weather. Here’s a picture of the worker bee’s hard at it. Thanks to Marlene Davis and Marlys Jones for all they’re hard work.

What's Bloomin' at Gloria Dei

The crocus wins the race to be the first to bloom in the courtyard at Gloria Dei. Crocus are part of the iris family, they come from the Mediterranean to Southwestern Asia. These may be Crocus Aureus or Dutch Yellow but I'm not positive.

Tips Slug Traps

Beth’s talk last week, at the Glorious Day Garden Club was about shade plants. And you can’t talk about shade plants without talking about hosta’s and when ever the subject of hosta’s comes up the subject of slugs seem to arise.

Slug traps are really the best and safest way to deal with slugs. Slug bait looks like pet food and dogs and cats that eat it can die. Diatomaceous earth and ashes have to be reapplied after every rain. So I think the slug trap is the best. Just set it out in the garden and when it gets ugly looking throw it away. Easy-peasy

Here’s a quick and easy way to make slug traps. Cut off the neck of a plastic bottle leaving part of the full sized diameter.




Add a bead of caulk or some silicone around the large diameter of the neck part so that when it’s stuck into the bottle its glued in place and is made water tight. Place neck part in the bottle and hold in place with some staples.



Fill with some beer and its ready to be placed in your garden, under a hosta or any plant with slugs. The slugs are attacked to the beer they’ll crawle in for a brew but wont be able to crawl out.

By Chuck