🍸A Garden Party 🍹

Where: The Dumitrescu Garden in Midtown  -  771 Myrtle Street. Look for the Little Free Library and well, heck if you can't spot the place, replace your glasses yesterday! There will be signs too. Leo, Aquarius, Capricorn . . . .

When:  Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, 7 pm - 8:30 pm? Rain or Shine

Who’s Invited:  Members of the GPPA 

Annual Georgia Perennial Memberships will be available at the garden party: Individual - $35; Dual -  $50; Business - $65; Sponsor - $100 

Note:  We’d prefer you join online and save time for schmoozing & drinking. www.georgiaperennial.org/membership.  You can join or renew now.

The Dumitrescu Garden in Midtown surrounds a two story yellow house that has been perched on the corner of Myrtle and 5th Street for over a hundred years.  Shaded by too many trees for vegetable growing, Kathleen's plantings spill into the hellstrip* and creep into the alley behind the carriage house.   

With no hose that reaches past the sidewalk, only the strong survive in the hellstrip.  Miniature Gardens rest adjacent to the sidewalk and beneath the little free library.  Retaining Wall Vignettes can be found along the 5th Street side of the house underneath the irritatingly robust ivy.  The ponds in the front and back yards share a migrating frog. The tree house overlooks two giant rain/condensate barrels, a series of compost heaps, and a potting bench.  Many of the garden's plants are in containers because Kathleen doesn't own a jackhammer — yet.  

7:00 pm: Herb-based garden cocktails and mocktails will be served next to the membership table.  Come meet your fellow gardeners, have a drink in the garden, and collect whatever seeds are falling out of the plants.  

8:00 pm: Kathleen will give a brief tour of the hellstrip plantings and the miniature gardens. It is likely that at least half of the information she provides will be based on fact.  

Bring your gardening friends and join Georgia Perennial Plant Association if you haven't already.  Fall speaker schedules will be available along with information about our next nursery field trip (so your garden will look better and your bank amount will develop a freshly weeded look).

Feel free to contact us with questions. Attire is informal recognizing that September frequently clings to the hotter than the hinges of Hades theme.  OFF will be available and bad hair is seen as a badge of honor.  You can find Georgia Perennial at www.georgiaperennial.org.  If you choose to join on line before you come to the garden party, you’ll have more time to enjoy yourself: www.georgiaperennial.org/membership.  If you have garden party questions: kathleendumitrescu@yahoo.com.

We look forward to seeing you.  

*Uncertain what a hellstrip is?  Per This Old House, "the hellstrip is where dogs urinate, trash collects, heat from paving dries out soil, and people exiting parked cars pay little heed to what's underfoot."  You'll know what a talented gardener Kathleen is when you see what she's done with her hellstrip!  Maybe you can even trample one of her plants when you park. . .  but try not to.  Parking in this area on a Monday night should be easy enough that you can damage other neighbor's hellstrips instead.