Norchester Garden Club celebrates Veteran's Day at Matzke Park

 Norchester Garden Club celebrated Veteran's Day and Arbor Day at Matzke Park 

We were joined by several Veterans and our Houston Federation of Garden Clubs President. Thankful for all your service.
Thank you Debbie for the pictures.

Our Garden Club President 

 Thank you notes to the veteran's for their service attached to newly planted Olive Tree in the garden.

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The southern flannel moth, or puss moth caterpillar, Megalopyge opercularis. In Texas these caterpillars are commonly known as “asps”. appeared on my climbing rose in NW Houston

https://citybugs.tamu.edu/factsheets/biting-stinging/others/ent-3010/

Be very careful with this guys as they have painful stingers.  It is easy for pets or children to be curious about this "ugly" looking thing.

An Invitation

Club Visits Chappell Hill

We had such a nice day in Chappell Hill.

We came home with full tummies after our lunch at the Honeysuckle Coffee Bistro, which is featured on page 16 of your November issue of Better Homes and Gardens!!!!  

And, of course, trunks full of beautiful, healthy plants from the Bluebonnet House and Garden Center in Chappell Hill as well as information about plants that grow well in our neck of the woods.  

What a good day!

Work Day at the Garden November 5th

AT LAST, it's a lot cooler!!!

 

Our scheduled work day in the garden is this coming Monday, November 5th around 8:00 - 8:30 for starters.

Then, we have Plants for all Seasons coming on Tuesday November 13th to plant our Flowering Olive

And then we have our Arbor Day celebration/dedication on Friday November 16th.

 

We would love to see you all (especially on the 16th)!

Norchester Garden Club Meeting Oct.4th, 2018 at the Norchester Activity Center and Matzke Park Butterfly Garden Workday

The Norchester Garden Club, October 4th, 2018 Program will be Terrariums and Begonia Propagation at the Norchester Activity Center, 13439 Jones Road, Houston, Tx 77070.  Come enjoy
"Gardening" ladies for a great program and food.  You DO NOT NEED TO BE A MEMBER or A RESIDENT IN NORCHESTER. Currently 14 club members live outside of Norchester.

The Kroger Community Rewards Program has donated $40.72 for the care and  maintenance of Matzke Park Butterfly Garden. 

 

Our club membership also maintains the garden the next work day is Monday, October 1st. Below is a note from our chairperson.

AT LAST, it's a bit cooler!!!  Come see the garden in full bloom!

 

Our scheduled work day in the garden is this coming Monday, October 1st around 8:00 - 8:30 for starters. The Three Amigos have been doing a great job and Jonathon is getting ready to plant our bricks and spread new gravel!!

I'll be working on the top right corner of the fence line.  That needs to be prepared for the Arbor Day tree planting in November.

 

We would love to see you all (and you can pull a few weeds too)!

Bring ideas for other flowers we can plant also.

 

So bring a cup of coffee, a bottle of water, Champagne(?) and join us!

2018 First Norchester Garden Club Meeting

The Norchester Garden Clubs first meeting of the 2018 - 2019 year will be held at 9:30 am on Thursday, September 6th at the Norchester Activity Center.  You do not need to be a member of the Norchester Community to enjoy our programs and you are always welcome to drop in.

Conn Steele will be presenting our program on Roses and More.  In addition to hearing about the care and feeding of roses - and more, from a life-long gardener, 

we have some important decisions to make at our first meeting.

Update on Reward Program... one no longer has to re-enroll each year.  If the bottom of your Kroger receipt looks like this.. you are still enrolled.  See previous post to enroll for the first time.

Kroger Community Rewards.. Minor Change

Currently have only a few families supporting the Matzke Park Butterfly Garden by having their Kroger cards linked to Association for Better Community Schools (ABCS), It is important to know that if you sign up with the Kroger Community Rewards program, every Kroger purchase will provide an additional amount that Kroger gives ABCS, who then gives it all to the Norchester Garden Club for the Butterfly Garden Support.  

This does not impact a person's fuel points or cost them anything.

We have been informed of the following.  If you are willing to sign up, be advised our new Community Rewards  number is now WT732.

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We have recently upgraded our Community Rewards system, and as a result, your Non-Profit Organization (NPO) has a new account number. (WT732) Please reference the new number when contacting us for assistance. We recommend communicating this new number to your members, and updating any marketing materials with this change. While the previous number will continue to be associated with your organization, it will not be visible to your members when enrolling. New members can enroll by searching for either the new number or the name of your organization. 

To enroll, or if you have any questions, please visit

      https://www.kroger.com/account/enrollCommunityRewardsNow/

Kroger Community Funds Program Update

Thank you to those few households that are contributing to the maintenance of Matzke Park Butterfly Garden by having your Kroger card linked to ABCS.  Every penny is accounted for and very much needed for continuance of the garden.  The fencing was paid for and repainted by Precinct 4.  The garden continues to flourish including weed vines and weeds that need to be removed.  Stop by and see the results of your support! 

A quarterly check  from Community Rewards Program from Kroger is typically about $40.00

2018 New Year Begins

Matzke Butterfly Garden is looking very much like the dreary skies we have been having.  Janet, Kathleen, Joan and Carol lent their hands to clipping and clean up on the gingers, turks cap, candy corn salvia, crepe myrtles and dead salvias.  One of the beds is run a muck with fire ants hills! Please be watchful. Thank goodness the Park guys pick our clippings.

Garden Club January 2018 Meeting

Some terrific reasons to join a garden club: Fun with friends; interesting places to go; introduction to new and current plants; free plants; plant challenges; door prizes but most of all fun with friends.  Guest speaker today was Tom Keepin on Vanda slat basket planting.  Tom brought a lot of begonias and Vanda slat baskets and 5 of our members put together a basket to take home.  Plus we all got a free plant and Tom generously shared his knowledge.  He has become a great friend to our group.  He also donated the huge begonia.  We meet the lst Thursday of each month Sept-May.  We have many exciting programs and trips, guests are welcome to visit at the Norchester activity center on Jones Road in the subdivision of Norchester.