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  • From: Lucy Wilson <lucy.wilson AT gmail.com>
  • To: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [ocba] Let's get in the garden!
  • Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:19:35 -0400

April showers bring... the Hillsborough garden tour this May 20-21st!

The OCBA needs to represent! In addition to partnering with the master gardeners at Gold Park, we need volunteers to show off our OCBA garden, where plants aren't just pretty, they are bee food. 

Have you been to downtown Hillsborough recently to check out the OBCA pollinator garden? The catmint is in bloom! The trifoliate orange, our OCBA logo flower, bloomed in March, and is now creating tiny green oranges. And there are a wayward couple of dandelions that we decided to adopt - they are important sources of nectar!  

Come share the good word about bees, pollinators, and pollinator plants on May 20-21. The tour starts at the Dickson House, home of the OCBA pollinator garden. The garden club will be selling plants. As an OCBA volunteer, you can sell your honey & other products of the hive. Reply to me with your availability....the Tour is Sat 10-4 & Sun 12-4.  

The garden is a great way to get involved in the OCBA and help the bees even if you aren't actively beekeeping yet / anymore / right now, or to get your friends and family involved in your favorite hobby.


We are also looking for more regular garden volunteers.
This is a one hour commitment, sign up by month, go anytime in the month that suits your schedule. Tasks include weeding and deadheading, and later in the summer, staking things up and then cutting them back. We ask for two volunteers per month. The two can either work together or at different times. 

Nearly all of the plants have labels, and are all fully established, so even if you aren't familiar with what is what and where in the garden, you'll have no problems.

 Please sign up using this Google spreadsheet, or by replying to me (lucy.wilson AT gmail.com).  

And enjoy the photos of the garden from this wet weekend... 

Thanks all,

Lucy


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  • [ocba] Let's get in the garden!, Lucy Wilson, 04/24/2017

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