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Meets 7 p.m.
First Tuesday of the month (except July) at the
Pleasant Hill Community Center
320 Civic Drive
Pleasant Hill, California 94523
entrance is from parking lot behind Police Station and past YMCA (click for location map)
OPEN to all interested in gardening...
Guests always welcome to programs!!!!

Upcoming Events:
note: of possible interest to PHGSC members; some are PHGSC events and some are not.....

Jan 6 Membership Meeting 7 pm
Pleasant Hill Community Center

Plant of the Month: Salvia spathacea (Hummingbird Sage)

Program : "Yes, It is a Daylily"
with Neal Richmond

Daylilies come in about 50,000 varieties and far more colors than we see along roadways and in nurseries.
The delights of this hardy and easily-cared-for flower will be shared by Neal Richmond at our January meeting.
He’s been growing daylilies for nearly two decades and
served for several years as president of the NorCal daylily group, officially known as Region 7 of the American Hemerocallis Society. He has also been a judge and instructor of judges in daylily exhibitions and garden events.

A resident of Concord and a professional gardener by trade, Neal personally grows about 200 daylily cultivars. Members of our club visited his spread in June of 2006, and perhaps some of that year’s crop will be among Neal’s slide show pictures.
“I like daylilies because they give a lot of color throughout our dry season, and t

hey don’t need a lot of work,” Neal said.
Weather permitting, he will dig up some of his daylilies to sell at our meeting. Proceeds would go to the new Bay Area Daylily Society, which will start meeting sometime in 2009. Neal will provide more information on this group when he meets with us.

We look forward to an enjoyable program on this much admired garden plant.

Feb 3        Membership Meeting
                    "TBD"
            program by Alrie Middlebrook, co-author with Glenn Keator of
                "Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community
                Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens" (while the book is available
                    locally, the link shown is to amazon.com so that you can also read some "real world"
                    comments on its content)

There are lots of references to Alrie on the WWW... to see a Google list ...CLICK...
Her sustainable landscape design, build and maintenance company specializing in California native gardens can be seen at http://www.middlebrook-gardens.com/

Mar 3 Membership Meeting
"Vermiculture" (worm culture for gardens)

program by Jerry Gach, see his worms vermiculture in action at http://www.blueridgevermiculture.com/