Geoff and Debbie are the owners of Cool Roses. They design and maintain about 65 gardens in Palm Beach County. They also have a large nursery where they offer various types of roses. The modern roses are grafted onto fortuniana rootstock which makes them hardier and more disease resistant for the south. The eco friendly roses and antique roses are grown on their own roots. Cool Roses also has developed a once a year fertilizer which contains organics and other goodies that can be applied once through out the season.
They will talk about the different types of roses that do well in our area and how to care for them. You can visit the website www.coolroses.com if you would like to pre order roses and fertilizers. The roses are 20.00 and 25.00 each Please call 561-313-0077 for more information. (Ask for Debbie)
Once again an EHS Annual event went well and we all had a good time! This year’s “All Things Green and Herbal Auction,” held on March 27th, was filled with herb, spice and butterfly plants; we had a new auctioneer, K.C. Foster, who worked the crowd with flair and humor and brought in $950 for EHS’s newsletter and Tasting Table and Herb Garden expenses.
Meg Vandereedt, Linda Alphage and Ingrid Menz kept track of the bidding even when it got wild and frantic, and the volunteer runners carried the auction selections, plants gussied up to their inviting best by Denise Friedlander and her helpers, up and down the Auditorium aisles to aid in the audience’s selections. Ingrid donated her usual gorgeous selection of orchids, she and I and Denise brought in enough collectible baskets for everything. Roland Gaudet donated the Raffle Herbs we usually buy from him; and Tom Hewitt styled an enormous pot of summer flowers which brought the highest price of the evening. All our attending members donated excellent specimens of our favorite plants, so our society had a true feast of items to bid on and take home and cherish.
The Tasting Table was swiftly eaten and drunk up with the special dish of the night being
Start potting up and growing some herby plants; do that spring cleaning! Bring them all to the 2018 All Things Herbal Auction. We love buying each other’s treasures!!!
We ask that everyone who attends bring one or two items to be auctioned.
Our February Meeting was doubly exciting, featuring “Dr D.” Marcelle-Coney and our annual Chili Cook-off. Dr. D. is well-known in the community, both for her dedication to her work at the VA Hospital in West Palm Beach and her many volunteering efforts around the county. Her “Second Saturday of the Month” talk at the Lantana Road County Library brought her into the Mounts Auditorium (and has also brought several new members to EHS!). Her power point talk illustrated what a home garden of herbs, vegetables and flowers ought to look like. All the space around her home is covered with edibles of all kinds and made our audience long for the same garden. Emphasizing using your kitchen waste as compost, Dr. D. proved how inexpensively one can make pretty much anything grow and grow and provide some fine eating. A welcome touch to her visit was a bin of bags of coffee grounds for fertilizer, enough for everyone of us to take a sample home, especially for your President who gets her coffee only in “Guatemalan Ripple” coffee and chocolate bits ice cream. Dr. D. is a great example of using what you’ve got - garbage - and making
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Debra Marcelle-Coney, Ph.D., is an Addictions Therapist who established “Growing Ur Esteem with Garden Therapy” at the WPB Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in the summer of 2015. She continues to partner with the Palm Beach County (PBC) Cooperative Extension whom provides support for the Veterans participating in the Change Container Garden. In addition, she coordinated the Rural Community Veterans Forum in Partnership with the City of Pahokee & Farm Share. Dr. D as she is affectionately known, created the Eat Healthy Live Well Campaign and launched the first Farmer’s Market at
The Delray Beach Children's Garden is the only Community Children’s Garden in Palm Beach County. It is designed and built by children. As adults we serve as guides and lead our little off-spring down the garden path to knowledge and interaction with the natural and garden world.
Our plan has been approved by the city, which means we are now in the planting and building stage. We would love to have the assistance of
A delightful, enthusiastic member of both Evening Herb Society and a Board Member of the Begonia Society, Petra Russell, lost her dear husband suddenly and unexpectedly, just as he was moving everything from their New York place down to Florida. At the same time, their daughter
Read more ...introduced to Evening Herb by his friends, members Lynn and Walter Smelt. He made his mark as a willing “guy” member, opening bottles and things that resisted female’s hands, helping in clean-up, and regularly bringing a multi-flavored cheesecakes to the Tasting Table. He promised to bring one
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