What’s Growing?

** Please note that our new start time is 9:30 **

Good Morning, Gardeners!!  

Spring is right around the corner! Flowers are starting to pop up, leaves & buds are showing up, everything is waking up! 

REMINDER: Our monthly meeting is happening next week on Tuesday morning, March 11th at the HV Baptist Church. 

Our Guest Speaker will be ~ Leslie Gover, Happy Valley City Arborist, speaking about tree diseases, care, effects from climate change, etc.  

If you plan to attend the April 3^rd Clackamas District Luncheon, please bring a check. Details will be provided at our meeting. 

                   

Hosts – Elizabeth Cathey / Katherene Kerner / Helen Nolen – (Donna Endicott will open the church at 8:30 AM)

** Please note that our new start time is 9:30 **

• 9:30 to 10:00 AM – Social Time – Meet, Greet & Eat
• 10:00 to 11:00 AM – Leslie Gover, HV City Arborist

Upcoming webinars on many great plant-focused, insects, soil, and more gardening topics! Register to receive a link to the presentation if you can’t attend live. Check out the schedule!

10-Minute University News

February 21, 2025

We need your help! The City is teaming up with Friends of Trees for a special volunteer project on Saturday, March 8. Volunteers are needed to help plant hundreds of pollinator-friendly native plants as we transform a section of Village Green Park into a buzzing pollinator garden.

By lending a hand, you’ll be supporting our local ecosystem and giving nature’s tiny pollinators a new home. Plus, you’ll be making our community greener and more vibrant. This event is great for individuals, groups, and families, and all supplies will be provided.

Ready to get your hands dirty and make a difference? Head to the Friends of Trees Event Calendar to sign up for this event today.

(and other tidbits)

Hello Garden Club Friends!

A Coffee Chat was not previously scheduled this month, since the weather was unpredictable. Since it looks like Spring is right around the corner, with some rain, there’s NO snow! So, let’s get out and meet for coffee next week!!

Please join us next week, Tuesday, February 25th at 9:00 AM at Panera Bread outside the Clackamas Town Center (near REI, close to Macy’s ). The parking lot is pretty empty at that time of the morning and access is easy to Panera Bread since you do not have to enter the mall.

You can grab a cup of coffee/tea, bagel or a sweet, oatmeal, a breakfast sandwich…….or, just come and chat.  

Otherwise, we look forward to seeing you on March 11th at the church. Our guest speaker, Leslie Gover, HV City Arborist will speak about tree disease, care, etc.   

Hostesses for March are:

Elizabeth Cathey, Katherene Kerner & Helen Nolen

If you need a ride, reach out to a member or let us know. 

Mark your calendars!

Sandy Platz & Shelley Fenton, HVGC, Program VP’s

Get ready to add more native plants to your landscape in honor of Native Plant Appreciation Month in Oregon and support plant-minded groups in our area!

Check out Sparrowhawk‘s great selection and prepare your list for March 2 when ordering opens!

April 2025

Celebrate with some new native plant additions to your garden, and urge your friends to do the same!

January 8, 2025

Dearest HVGC Members:

I hope this note finds you all well and enjoying this winter sunshine we’ve had these past few days, I know it has boosted my spirits.  I think that is also what I love about a winter ski vacation is the sunshine it tends to bring to the cold mountains if you happen to hit it right.  Christmas decor continues to be taken down and organized (an ongoing chore) and put away, clutter cleared and/or organized and new goals written down and the pursuit of making them happen. I always look forward to welcoming a brand new year.  2024 had some work and health challenges but I’m grateful that most of that is behind me.  Thank you for your cards and encouraging words, I appreciated each message. 

The winter garden is so rewarding.  As I strolled around my own garden today, I was reminded of some plantings we added last spring that are now getting ready to bloom to brighten a dreary garden, it was very exciting.  We specifically added a couple specimen plantings to add interest and be visible from various windows when looking out.  We invested in a yellow-needled Lodgepole Pine variety or Pinus Contorta named “Chief Joseph”.  

The witch hazel we planted this past spring brings forth buds and I can’t wait for it to go into full bloom.  The Helleborus are budding and starting to bloom out, lots of white of course, deep pinks, a couple apricot, and one deep purple almost black hellebore “Black Diamond” all sprinkled through the garden. I cannot wait until February to maybe purchase a couple more from Petal Heads in West Linn.

I even had a few very early bulbs barely popping through the soil and now I can’t remember what I planted but it will be fun to see what pops out, crocus perhaps? Or snowbells? And one of my favorites was the Porcelain or Beauty Berry shrubs that produced a bluish-purple berry this fall and early winter.  I used branches of it in flower arrangements, and just the branches themselves in vases.

I also wanted to reach out to everyone and remind you that we are not planning a January meeting on the second Tuesday this month at the church.

It was so nice to see everyone at the Christmas party.  Priscilla and her team did such a great job with the decorating, gifts and games and the food was delicious.  What a nice time we had. 

Did you know that we have a website now?  www.happyvalleygardenclub.org – It hasn’t been officially rolled out but you are welcome to peruse what has been done including the tab “Scrapbooks”, I think you’ll enjoy it. 

Wishing you all a happy new year and looking forward to seeing you all soon. 

Jennifer