November Garden Events in the Cottage Grove Area

Here's a sampling of garden-related happenings in the wider Cottage Grove area this month.

November 1 (Tuesday), 6pm.
Cottage Grove Garden Club. Roger Gossler will be speaking on "Fall and Winter Interest in the Garden." Roger will have plants and copies of his book "The Gossler Guide to the Best Hardy Shrubs" available for sale.

The garden club meeting starts at 6pm, and the presentation begins at 7pm. Light refreshments are provided and all guests welcome.

We meet at the First Presbyterian Church, 216 South 3rd Street. Please enter through the garden area, to the left as you face the front doors.

November 5 (Saturday):
Fall pruning of the heathers at Cottage Grove Community Hospital. 11 am to 1 pm. Join the Oregon Heather Society to maintain the heathers at the Hospital and learn about which heathers can safely be pruned in autumn. Bring your favorite pruners, gloves, kneeling pad, sack lunch.  Dress for the weather. (541) 929-6272 or ewulff@peak.orgu

November 8 (Tuesday):
The Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group. Vanessa Gardner Nagel talks on Locating Your Garden's Bones: Structural Plant Placement. Campbell Community Center (155 High St., Eugene), at 7:00 pm.

November 15 (Tuesday):
CGGC Board Meeting at the Community Center from 6:30-8:00 pm.

November 21 (Monday):
Avid Gardeners hosts Judith Jones the “Fern Madame” at 7pm


December 6 (Tuesday):
Cottage Grove Garden Club Holiday Party

Fall and Winter Interest in the Garden

On Tuesday, November 1, we are very pleased to be hosting Roger Gossler, who will be speaking about "Fall and Winter Interest in the Garden."

Roger is the buyer and main grower for Gossler Farms Nursery in  Springfield. He has been growing and selling shrubs for more than forty years. Roger spends a great deal of time researching what is new in the trade and worthy of inclusion in their catalog and is the leading contributor to the book The Gossler Guide to the Best Hardy Shrubs.

Interested in plants from an early age, Roger quickly became a leader in promoting the use of woody trees and shrubs. Gossler Farms Nursery serves as a demonstration garden where ninety percent of the plants described in The Gossler Guide have been grown.

Roger will give a slide presentation and have books and plants for sell.

Don't miss this great opportunity! The meeting starts at 6pm and Roger's presentation starts at 7pm. There will be light refreshments and all guests and visitors are welcome.

We meet at the First Presbyterian Church, 3rd and Adams, in Cottage Grove.

Cottage Grove Garden Club tours Gossler Farms Nursery
August 2011 with Roger Gossler (left)

October Garden-related Events

Here's a sampling of garden-related happenings in the wider Cottage Grove area this month.

October 4 (Tuesday), 6-8pm:
Cottage Grove Garden Club, "The Promise of Garden Clubs": We will explore some of the projects and community service activities promoted by the National Garden Club: including Blue Star Memorials, Penny Pines, and Plant it Pink. We will also hear about the varied ways that other clubs become active in these projects.

The garden club meeting starts at 6pm, and the presentation begins at 7pm. Light refreshments are provided and all guests welcome.

We meet at the First Presbyterian Church, 216 South 3rd Street. Please enter through the garden area, to the left as you face the front doors.

October 8 (Saturday), 1pm:
The Cottage Grove Garden Club hosts it's last Garden Hop of the season. We will be visiting the home of Beth and Richard. Contact Julie for more information.

October 11 (Tuesday), 7pm:
The Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group. Steve Vininsky of Cherry Creek Daffodils speaking on "Bulbs for the Willamette Valley."

October 17 (Monday), 7 pm:
Avid Gardeners. James R. Myers, Professor of Vegetable Breeding and Genetics at OSU will be speaking. Dr. Myers specializes in dry and snap beans, edible podded peas, broccoli, tomato, winter and summer squash, and sweet corn.

October 28 (Friday):
Willamette District Garden Club General Meeting, open to all garden club members. 9:30am Social time, 10:00 meeting/program, 12:00 potluck lunch. There will be a raffle, a country store, the sale of gloves and “Deadline,” and a fun seed exchange. (Meeting at the Eugene Garden Club, 1645 High St., Eugene).

October 30 (Sunday), 10am - 5pm.
Mt. Pisgah Arboretum's Mushroom Festival.... music, food, art, plants, mushrooms, and a scarecrow contest. Not to be missed!

November 1 (Tuesday), 6pm.
Cottage Grove Garden Club. Roger Gossler will be speaking on "Fall and Winter Interest in the Garden." Roger will has have plants and copies of his boook "The Gossler Guide to the Best Hardy Shrubs" available for sale.