OCTOBER — As our final speaker for this year, Olivia Menard explained how to Successfully Overwinter Mason Bees in Georgia. This action now helps our local food chain and combat pollinator decline and we learned about one of Georgia’s most effective native pollinators – the mason bee. And how to attract them to our yard. She talked about the mason bee habitat and explored some of the stresses that reduce mason bee survival rates. For those who already had a mason bee house, she educated us on what to do with all those little tubes. Everyone left with at least one inspired action to take back to their garden to help more of these little pollination powerhouses survive the coming winter. It was a great program and we learned a lot.
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Helping Hands
Under the guidance of Freda Steward, fourteen members and neighbors helped tidy up Rick and Sandy Krause’s yard. Helping Hands is a new project of the association designed to get a member back on track with their yard.
July 2022 Meeting
We had some outstanding photos shown at our annual Photo Contest. Our gardeners are wonderful photographers. Eric Bowles, a well known photography judge, returned as our contest judge. He has been trained in judging photos by Professional Photographers of America, and judges both digital and print competitions for a variety of groups, galleries and museums. For more information about Eric, visit his website at www.bowlesimages.com. Eric is also an active gardener so makes a perfect match as our contest judge. Follow this link to our Photo Gallery to see the entries.