WildeWood Garden Club Blog

Gardeners and sometime gardeners bring your favorite plants from your garden or from Lowe’s or Woodley’s to share stories about and exchange with your garden friends!  Refreshments begin the festivities at 7:00 p.m. at the Wildewood Country Club House.

May event: will be May 8 at the home of Suzi Fields.  Bring a dish – for more information and to RSVP by April 23, cal Carolyn Donahoo at 699-3040 or Lynne Wheeler at 864-3996.  For More Information: May Event 

Progressive dinner:  Amy Bigham has a survey for all of you – whether you attend the progressive dinner each year or no.  Please complete it and get it to her as soon as you can — it will remain anonymous.  And she needs willing volunteers to plan next year’s event! Download the survey here: WWGC PD Survey

Pet Friendly Gardening - Dr. Walter Gregg, a  NorthEast Veterinarian, will give us pointers on how to keep our garden safe for our pets – and enjoyable for both them and us.  Join us – 7:00 p.m. at the Wildewood Country Club

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Save the Date: May 8 for the May event – Jane Whiteside promises a fun evening!

The food was good and so was the speaker.  Here is a recipe from the evening:

Water chestnut Appetizers

1 5 oz can water chestnuts, drained
1/4 C. soy sauce
4 slices bacon, each cut in half crosswise and lengthwise (Sizzelean may be substituted)

Marinate water chestnuts in soy sauce for 30 minutes.  Roll each chestnut in sugar, then wrap with a strip of bacon and secure with a cocktail pick.  Arrange on a cake rack in a shallow pan.

Bake in hot 400 degree oven for 20 minutes.  Drain on paper towels.  Before serving, return to moderate 350 degree oven for about 5 minutes to reheat and crisp up the chestnuts.  Serve immediately.  Makes about 16 appetizers.

Credit to Cheryl DeMouy and Cooks.com

Golfers, Gardeners, Walkers, and the rest of us who spend any time out of doors come to the WildeWood Garden Club February meeting at the Wildewood Country Club on Tuesday February 14 at 7:00.  Dr J. Smythe Rich will talk to us about taking care of our skin and the options available to us.  Door prizes!!

Looking forward to seeing you

Mary Ann Barnum has compiled a list of events and classes about gardening for us:  at Riverbanks Zoo, Richland Library branches and more.  Here it is: Columbia Gardening events.

So much going on even in the winter.  Let Mary Ann know about others you are aware of.

Join us at 7:00 p.m. at the Wildewood Country Club for our monthly meeting.  Amanda Segura from the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden will present: Blooming Botannicals.  She will show us what is in bloom currently and throughout the year at the Botannical Gardens at Riverbanks Zoo.

Please don’t forget to sign up (by October 31) for the Progressive Dinner. You must be a member of the Garden Club to attend the Progressive Dinner.  (See invite below)