May 2025 newsletter
The May 2025 issue of Seeders and Weeders shares a talk on dried flowers and celebrates another good plant sale.
Guest speaker: drying flowers
Club secretary Mary Jackson grew and sold cut flowers for about ten years. She showed members how to dry flowers at home:
- Pick flowers just before they open fully, and strip the lower leaves
- Tie them in bunches and hang them upside down
- Keep them somewhere dark, dry, and airy so they hold their color
- Press flowers in a heavy book between sheets of parchment for two to four weeks
Some of the best flowers for drying are strawflower, statice, yarrow, lavender, celosia, larkspur, and hydrangea.
Plant sale
The May sale was a success again, thanks to members who donated plants, set up, helped customers, and cleaned up. Master Gardeners and FireSmart had tables. Hostas were a big seller, and the issue lists two websites to learn more about them.
Other news
- Petunias for the city planters cost $800 this year. The Chamber of Commerce gave $350 toward them.
- Members planted the gardens and pots at Pleasant Valley Manor on May 22.
- The club will support the vegetable and flower divisions at the IPE.
- The summer potluck may move to September, when it is cooler. Members were asked to think about hosting.
- The club welcomed new member Aviva.
Coming up
- O’Keefe Ranch plant sale: May 24 and 25
- Next meeting: June 3, 2025
