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The Garden Club of Austin Member Survey  (24 returned) Main purpose of our club Learning about horticulture and friends, promote the love of gardening and educate members, learning about plants and gardening, plants and fellowship, special camaraderie with fellow gardeners together and share information about gardening, educate us all on growing beautiful plants in our home gardens, build

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with Austin Cactus and Succulent Society Featuring Irwin Lightstone  Enter the macrobotanical world of ABSURDITY and AWE. Irwin Lightstone’s “UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL” perspective reveals a world easily overlooked. Using cutting edge digital technology, Irwin may merge as many as 100 nearly identical images, each with a different point of focus, creating final prints with unsurpassed clarity

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Although we still haven’t received any sizeable rainfall amounts to alleviate the drought, the temperatures have moderated some, making for some cool to chilly nights and more reasonable daytime highs. At least it seems a little like fall, which officially started September 23. Thanks to Laura for providing all the delicious foods, drinks, and desserts at our regular October meeting on the 27th

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It is that time of year again! Dues for 2012 should be paid by January 1. Adding national and local dues together gives us the following: Individual- $25 ($18 national and $7 local). Additional members at the same address are $15 each ($5 national and $10 local)  To become a National life member you pay a one-time charge of $200 and then pay local dues of $10 per year.  Spouses of

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The following events are of direct interest to the membership of The Garden Club of Austin. All events are at the Austin Area Garden Center in Zilker Botanical Garden at 2220 Barton Springs Road unless otherwise noted. Additional gardening calendar information may be found every Saturday in the Life and Arts Section of the Austin American Statesman. Nov 14 -Monday: TGCoA Board of Directors

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We received word from the Austin Parks Foundation that they have approved our grant!!!! We have been awarded the full amount of $10,820. I can furnish a copy of the grant to anyone who requests one. AAGC also was awarded a grant of $20,375. for repairs to the Lotus Pond and Patio Pond in the Taniguchi Japanese Garden. If you want to receive the APF e-newsletter, visit their website,

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The average daily maximum temperature varies from 75 at the beginning of the month to 66 at the end. The minimum varies from 53 at the beginning to 44 at the end of the month. Extremes are 91 observed in 1951 and 20 in l976. We average about one day with a minimum of 32 or below. The average first freeze date is November 28. Precipitation averages 2.37 inches but has ranged from a wet 7.91 in

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With the holiday season approaching, you probably don’t have a lot of time to work in your garden. However, there are a few chores that should be tended to. Besides, it gives you a good excuse to get out into the nice cool fall air, which is especially enjoyable after our hot summer. Finish planting all of your spring flowering bulbs in November (except tulips). Tulips should be chilling in the

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The Garden Club of Austin Invites you to a Members Appreciation Dinner October 27th, 2011 at 7 PM Members must RSVP by October 25th, 2011 To Laura Joseph We are having a Mexican Fiesta dinner for club members only. Join us for food, fun and fellowship at the October meeting. 

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Thanks to Laura, we had a very interesting program at our September 22, 2011 meeting. Elizabeth Cannedy spoke about bluebonnets, bluebonnet seeds were given to club members, and several members displayed books and paintings by renowned bluebonnet artist Porfirio Salinas. Other paintings, magazine wildflower pictures, etc. were also displayed. If you didn’t read last month’s newsletter, look back

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Elizabeth Cannedy gave an informative presentation and planting demonstration about our state flower, the bluebonnet, at our September meeting. We were also privileged to have Cecille Marcato, the Neill-Cochran House Museum Director speak to us. She brought the Mode Walker painting that was instrumental in getting the bluebonnet declared our state flower. Cecille gave us a little of the history

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The average daily maximum temperature varies from 86 at the beginning of the month to 76 at the end. The minimum varies from 64 at the beginning to 53 at the end of the month. Extremes are 98 observed in 1991 and 30 in l993. We average about 4 days with a maximum of 90 or higher. Precipitation averages 3.43 inches but has ranged from a wet 12.31 in 1960 to only a trace in 1952. A maximum

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Fall rains and cooler weather have finally arrived (at least for a little while). It makes getting outside to work in the garden a much more pleasant experience than it was during the past several months. Here are a few things to consider doing before the cold weather of winter sets in. Purchase started plants of pansies, snapdragons, dianthus, flowering kale, and flowering cabbage for

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The following events are of direct interest to the membership of The Garden Club of Austin. All events are at the Austin Area Garden Center in Zilker Botanical Garden at 2220 Barton Springs Road unless otherwise noted. Additional gardening calendar information may be found every Saturday in the Life and Arts Section of the Austin American Statesman. Oct 18-Tuesday: Third Tuesday Lunch Bunch.

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by Guy Clark This song is brought to you as the special request of Joe Colwell! There’s also a video you may enjoy of Guy Clark singing his song: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QzLIjL1u4 Ain't nothin' in the world that I like better Than bacon & lettuce & homegrown tomatoes Up in the mornin' out in the garden Get you a ripe one don't get a hard one Plant `em in the spring eat `em

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What’s happening in the beds? Where to start… Hooray, the ferns are alive! The top bed looks pretty good. The lower bed, not so much with a little too much sun! No surprise to anyone. It didn’t help that the sprinkler system wasn’t working for a short time, and they relied on hand watering. The up side is fewer weeds. It is amazing how tough ferns are. They are hanging in there, but not very

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Bluebonnet Presentation Our keynote speaker for the September 22 Bluebonnet Celebration is Elizabeth Cannedy. A fifth generation Texan who grew up in Oklahoma, Liz returned to attend the University of Texas and has been in Austin for 25 years. Her grandmother was a gardener and she passed along her love of plants and nature to Liz. Liz is a self-taught butterfly gardener who began learning

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I hope that all of you had a wonderful Labor Day holiday! As usual, the weather conditions dominated the holiday. For many, it was not a good day because of the strong north winds that had a lot to do with the flash wild fires all over central Texas. Many homes, barns, other buildings, farm machinery, hay, fences, and vegetation were lost to the fires. This latest development just added “insult

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The average daily maximum temperature varies from 93 at the beginning of the month to 86 at the end. The minimum varies from 72 at the beginning to 64 at the end of the month. Extremes are 112 observed in 2000 and 41 in l942. We average about 17 days with a maximum of 90 or higher. Precipitation averages 3.30 inches but has ranged from a wet 8.11 in 1942 to a dry 0.07 in 1947. A maximum 24-hour

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You’re encouraged to submit articles of gardening interest for the newsletter. Send articles or news to brsch07 (at) gmail (dot) com. Submissions should be received by the first Monday after the last monthly meeting. Remember to give credit to your sources both in text and photos.

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Winterize your lawn with a fertilizer containing a Nitrogen-Phosphorus-Potassium ratio of 3-1-2 before mid-October. Don’t do any pruning unless absolutely necessary (i.e., storm damage). Save it for December or January. Bluebonnet and other wildflower seeds should be planted now. Check regularly for aphids and caterpillars on fall flowers and vegetables. BT powder (for example, Dipel Dust)

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As legislators were trying to decide on our state flower in 1901, Texas members of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America lobbied politicians with fresh bluebonnets and a bluebonnet painting by Mode Walker. It is no surprise that bluebonnets and the painting carried the day! In the 110 years since, bluebonnet paintings are loved around the world, and San Antonio artist Julian

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Lauren Garcia, one of our scholarship winners, joined us at the August meeting. Lauren is senior at Texas A&M with a double major in horticulture and landscape architecture and a minor in business and urban and regional planning.  

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Carol Hudson took us on a delightful tour of the Chelsea Flower Show at last month’s meeting. With photos, video and her enthusiastic commentary, we were briefly transported from our drought ridden Texas to England’s most famous flower show.  

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The official insect of Texas is the Monarch butterfly. In 1995 the Texas Legislature voted to make the orange and black butterfly the state insect. Austin is on the flyway for the butterflies as they migrate from Canada through Texas to their winter home in Angangueo, Mexico. If you’re lucky enough to be on their migration path , as we were one October weekend, they will stop to rest and

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