Gulf Hills Garden Club Reminder Gulf Coast Orchid Show Event Schedule

Gulf Hills Garden Club, wants to remind  you of the Gulf Coast Orchid Show.

Below is Their Event Schedule

for 

January 29-31, 2016

Grenada Garden Club "Paints it Pink" for Breast Cancer Awareness

Promote a Passion for Pink
Plant Pink Flowers Everywhere!

 

Make a Statement with Pink Flowers for Breast Cancer Awareness

Our Friends at the Grenada Garden Club in Grenada, Ms., sent us a few images of their club's "Plant It Pink" Breast Cancer Awareness project, or should we say, in there case "Paint it Pink"!
They painted pumpkins pink to use as a display on the Grenada downtown square with pink mums.  A large cancer logo pink ribbon and sign have been placed at the intersection of Hwy 8-51 in Grenada.

The "Plant It Pink" Breast Cancer Awareness project is a project that is being endorsed by the National Garden Clubs. For more information on this project please visit the National Garden Clubs website.

 

Volunteers are shown installing the logo, as directed by Plant It Pink Chairman, Bobbye Dykes. 

Grenada Garden Club member Melanie Gousset is shown painting pumpkins to use in decorating the downtown Grenada Square for Breast Cancer Awareness.

It's Daylily Time for the Gulf Hills Garden Club in Ocean Springs, MS!

Gulf Hills Garden Club member, Sue Manley and the Memorial Garden Committee have been working ever so hard getting the Triangle on the hill above the Memorial Garden on Shore Drive in Gulf Hills ready for planting.

Lots of clean up was involved, to include, Trimming the Azaleas, weeding, placing under mulch plastic down, mulching with a heavy layer of oak leaves, and getting the new beds ready for the planting.

The Daylilies having been chosen, purchased and are ready to be planted in the triangle. 

 

Sue even got the kind people at the volunteer fire department to supply needed water in preparation for the plants.  

The planting will occur on November 9.  

We need as many club members as can make it to the planting area to respond and help with the daylily planting!

From the Garden of a Gulf Hills Garden Club Member, Shrimp Plant-Justicia Brandegeana and Bursting Hearts-Eunoymus Americanus

Here we have two images that were recently taken by one of our club members of two of the plants that they currently have in their Gulf Coast garden.

Shrimp plant (Justicia brandegeana)  The brackets are shrimp colored and resemble the shape of shrimps.  Also available in yellow. As much as we love shrimp here on the South Coast it is just no wonder that this is such a popular plant among our gardeners.

Bursting hearts (Eunoymus americanus) bloom in late summer through the fall.  This plant was purchased at the Spring Plant Sale at Strawberry Plains Audubon Center, Holly Springs, MS.  This gorgeous plant is native to the United States but is on the endangered plant lists in a number of states to include New York and Illinois.  Breath taking when hiking in the woods and the bright red color is seen.

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Shrimp plant (Justicia brandegeana)

Bursting hearts (Eunoymus americanus)

THE MUM'S THE WORD PLANT SALE, OCT. 11, hours 10-12 GULF HILLS OCEAN SPRINGS, MS

Just a quick reminder to Gulf Hills Garden Club members:

THE MUM'S THE WORD PLANT SALE, is on OCT. 11, 2014, hours 10-12. 

Located at the Gulf Hills Memorial Garden on Shore Drive in Gulf Hills, Ocean Springs, MS

ONLY LARGE MUMS REMAIN, COST: $20.00

Gulf Hills Garden Club..Hibiscus Mutabilis, Confederate Rose, Cotton Rose, In Bloom in Ocean Springs MS

Here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast The end of September beginning of October brings the large showy flowers of the Hibiscus Mutabilis, AKA The Confederate Rose, or the older name of Cotton Rose.

This elegant heirloom plant has been grown all along the Gulf Coast for literally centuries. It originated in Southeastern China and traveled with the sea trade to the Gulf Coast very early on. The Cotton Rose is one plant that should always be included in any traditional South Coast historical garden recreation or restoration.

The one that most people in our area think of as the Confederate Rose is the fully double flowering one, which is the magical one that starts out as a pure white double bloom and then turns a medium pink followed by a deep red as the flower matures.
This is the type of plant that really stands out in a garden and always gives a bit of the old wow effect to any garden.  

These plants form a beautiful medium to large bush and have very handsome leaves that have an almost tropical look. These plants are easy to grow and add such a wonderful touch to any zone 10-7 garden.

At the first frost they will loose their leaves and may be cut back, which allows for a thicker more compact plant the next year.

Easy to grow from seed and even easier to propagate from cuttings.  Cuttings may be produced in either a sandy soil medium or just placed in water where they will usually root rather quickly.

The Confederate rose was for many years neglected and fell totally out of fashion. I find that many gardeners seem not to realize that plants go in and out of style in our gardens, but they do. When a plant goes out of favor, many times they will become impossible to find commercially and may even become extinct, because of the folly of current garden tastes. Now due to ease of cultivation and being both drought and neglect resistant this truly Southern garden jewel is making a nice return to the forefront of many modern gardens.

Just like the proverbial little black dress that goes in and out of style, this very old fashioned flowering bush has been in and out of popular acceptance since way before the War Between the States. According to what I was always told this plant was called the Confederate Rose due to the fact that after the Civil War it was very common for Southerners to take these flowers to the cemeteries to place on them on the graves of Confederate soldiers. So it was very commonly considered a funeral flower(as later the Calla Lily) and because of this connotation fell out of favor as a garden plant.

But now it seems to be making a come back and for me this is a great thing to see.

Michael W. Moses
Member
Gulf Hills Garden Club, Ocean Springs, MS