Ardmore

On Saturday, April 16th, 2011 SABA will be hosting it's annual Spring Clean-up and Planting in Normandy Botanical Gardens. Come join us for for some fun while beautifying our neighborhood park. We will be spreading compost, pulling weeds and planting any plant donations.

We welcome all plant donations whether purchased or brought from your home garden as transplants. Plants like Susan's,
Cone Flower, Sedum, Lilac, Hosta's among others are what we are looking for to plant at Normandy Gardens.

I've included some photo's from last years fall clean-up. We will be working in some of these beds seen in these photo's.

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We will look for you next weekend from 10am to 1pm in the neighborhood garden!

On October 3rd, SABA will be hosting our annual Fall Planting event at Normandy Botanical Gardens. Please come join us for some weeding and mulching on this first Sunday of October. Bring a pair of gloves, a garden spade, a favorite weeding tool and your family to meet some of your neighbors at the park. We will be focusing on four areas; the two existing garden beds at the corners of Cricket and Oakford and Cricket and Normandy, and the corner of Oakford and Aubrey and the beds surrounding the house(see pics below). Now that the house has been painted and repaired on it's exterior and the arborvitae trees have been removed it is time to focus on the beds around the house. We will be weeding and turning soil around the house and elsewhere as needed and applying mulch to all areas for the winter. Any plant donations are welcome and greatly appreciated. We ask that you bring any plants for donation to the garden on the morning of the planting.

This summer has been busy at the Ardmore Food Pantry. In June we fed 226 family members, July's total jumped to 574, not to be outdone August finished with serving 780 families!! So we are VERY appreciative of donations - food and cash -while always looking for assistance. A big thank you to all volunteers for a GREAT job during these HOT months - we all know how hot the kitchen can get! Whether helping to pack food, stock shelves, pick & wash produce, care for the gardens or donating, you are really appreciated!!!! Also a special thank to Oakmont Farmers market vendors; Lindenhof farms for donating fresh eggs & frozen meats, & Lime Valley Farm for the yummy organic produce.

*March 22 Living in History: A Town Meeting about Ardmore and historic districts
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7pm meeting in St. Mary's Episcopal Church (church next to Ardmore post office) to help the neighborhood consider whether to create an historic district. Speakers include historic property homeowners, members of township staff and some Commissioners. Organized by the Lower Merion Conservancy, co-sponsored by the Ardwood Civic Association.*
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Branching Out For Rotary

In 1912, the United States Government and Japan exchanged dogwood trees for cherry trees as a gesture of friendship between the two countries.
The 50 Ohio dogwood saplings were planted in Tokyo and 3,000 cherry saplings were planted along the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.

President Taft’s wife admired cherry trees while living in the Philippines during her husband’s term as Governor. The Japanese gave the cherry trees as a gift to the United States for the aid given to Japan during the war with Russia in 1904-05.