The March 3rd meeting will feature a presentation on Low Maintenance Gardening by Lorraine Ballato.

Life is too short to spend it deadheading, weeding, staking, and doing so many other things in the garden that come under the heading of “drudgery.”  Until someone invents the gardening equivalent of a self cleaning oven, we need to garden smarter.  This talk will give you some ideas about how to change your garden and gardening techniques so that you will have less maintenance and more time for all those other things in your life.

The native plant of the month are ferns.   Here is an example of a fern that can see even in these winter months, the Christmas fern (polystichum acrostichoides).   It typically grows in a fountain-like clump to 2′ tall and features leathery, lance-shaped, evergreen fronds.