Olmsted Falls Garden Club

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Our Garden Club was founded in 1988 and continues to actively seek knowledge and experience in gardening to enhance and preserve the beauty of Olmsted Falls, Ohio and the surrounding areas.

The next few days, we will be featuring some of the gardens our members help care for - the Village Green at Columbia Ro...
06/18/2026

The next few days, we will be featuring some of the gardens our members help care for - the Village Green at Columbia Road and Water Street has a newly landscaped gazebo and a grindstone surrounded by perennial flowers. Lots of green right now but there will be pops of color all summer and into the fall. Welcome to historic Olmsted Falls!

One week from today, visit the Olmsted Township Co-op for a Farmer’s Market, 12 p.m - 3 p.m. at the Schady Road barns we...
06/07/2026

One week from today, visit the Olmsted Township Co-op for a Farmer’s Market, 12 p.m - 3 p.m. at the Schady Road barns west of Stearns Road.

Club members’ peonies are fabulous this time of year - putting on a show and loving our run of sunny days. Cut the bloom...
06/06/2026

Club members’ peonies are fabulous this time of year - putting on a show and loving our run of sunny days. Cut the bloom when marshmallow-size if you want a sweet-smelling bouquet for your home - no ants (according to The Grumpy Gardener Podcast. Thanks to Vikki B. And Beth S. For sharing their photos

Several garden club members have been busy in the gardens surrounding the parking lot at the corner of Main Street and C...
06/05/2026

Several garden club members have been busy in the gardens surrounding the parking lot at the corner of Main Street and Columbia Road. After weeding, planting annuals among the perennials and mulching the beds, members will continue to tend the gardens through the summer and early autumn. If you see them in the gardens, stop by and say, “hello!”

Olmsted Falls Garden Club has a container garden full of flowers at the Olmsted Township Co-Op to help fill out our nurs...
06/03/2026

Olmsted Falls Garden Club has a container garden full of flowers at the Olmsted Township Co-Op to help fill out our nursing home bouquet project later this summer. A dedicated group will make sure they are well-tended!

From our member Chris S.:”Are you interested in attracting hummingbirds? I enjoy seeing them in my garden. There are se...
06/02/2026

From our member Chris S.:”Are you interested in attracting hummingbirds? I enjoy seeing them in my garden.

There are several different plants annuals, that they really love. Here's what I plant, usually in pots near my back outdoor patio. Tall "sky scraper" salvia - it comes in deep red, magenta, blue violet, blue-black. Agastache -red, coral, pink, yellow, they love all the colors but they LOVE anise hyssop.... they can't stay away from it. And another perennial, Spigelia.... it has red tubular flowers.... they love it.
These and other perennials easily grow here in Ohio in the summer. Hummingbirds also love the large State Fair zinnias, catmint, Penstemon, hostas, bee balm and Nicotania.”

06/01/2026

He emerged from the soil at dusk on a warm June night. One-inch length, dark wing covers with a yellow margin, carrying a lantern he spent two years building.

He doesn't eat.

No digestive system. No way to forage. He spent two years as a larva in the damp leaf litter eating snails and slugs, storing every calorie he would ever need for his final act.

He is a Firefly. And he has twenty-one nights.

Night one — he crawls to the tip of a grass blade and takes flight. He is testing his light, a chemical reaction more efficient than any bulb humans have ever engineered.

Nights two through ten — he pulses his rhythmic code into the treeline. He is looking for a faint, specific reply from a female waiting in the deep grass.

Nights eleven through fifteen — he finds her. They spend their limited hours in the safety of the tall grass, securing the next generation before his energy is spent.

Nights sixteen through twenty — he is burning his final reserves of fat. Getting slower. Lower to the ground. His light grows dimmer with every flight.

Night twenty-one — he will die. In the grass where he was born, or beneath a floodlight that blinded him to the only signal he spent two years waiting to see.

Every spark required to light up the meadow, completed in three weeks, on a body that waited two years for the chance to shine.

🌿 How to keep his light on:

- Turn off outdoor lights from dusk to dawn in June and July — artificial light is so bright it drowns out their signals and prevents them from finding mates
- Leave the leaf litter in your garden beds — firefly larvae live in the damp soil and leaves for two years before they ever become the lights you see
- Stop using lawn chemicals and grub treatments — these kill the larvae and the snails they need to eat while they grow underground
- Avoid mowing after dusk — many females stay low in the grass and a mower can destroy an entire colony in one pass

The magic in your summer nights took two years to build and only three weeks to finish 🌿

Reminder!
05/30/2026

Reminder!

And after you spend the day in the garden, come to our meeting, 7 p.m., at the Olmsted Community Center, 8170 Mapleway D...
05/28/2026

And after you spend the day in the garden, come to our meeting, 7 p.m., at the Olmsted Community Center, 8170 Mapleway Drive. May’s guest speaker is The Mushroom Hunter!
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