Wednesday, September 16 at 10 a.m. at Orcas Center

— by Jan Jacobson —

GCLogo“Welcoming and Designing Roses to Your Garden” with Nita-Jo Rountree will be the featured speaker at the Garden Club’s first meeting of its 2015-16 year.

Ms. Rountree, prior to relocating to the Northwest, began her garden design in Atlanta, Georgia. She has had her Bellevue garden featured on HGTV’s Gardening by the Yard. She  presently serves on the Steering Committee of Heronswood Nursery and is on the Board of Directors of the Bellevue Botanical Garden Society.

Nita-Jo is now a Seattle-based garden designer and educator, a frequent guest on Gardening with Ciscoe, and a past-President of the Northwest Horticultural Society. Using garden-design principles, she will teach us how to successfully incorporate a variety of roses into our mixed beds and landscapes.

September 16, 2015, 10 a.m. in the Madrona Room of Orcas Center is Garden Club’s first meeting of the new 2015-2016 year. Come, see your neighbors, join Orcas Island Garden Club for another wonderful year of great speakers, friendship & good eats at the social time after the meetings. Dues are $20 per year. For more information see orcasislandgardenclub.org or find us on Facebook.