Kirtland Garden Club of Roscommon

08/14/2026

The Kirtland Garden Club will be carpooling to Missaukee Mountain in Lake City on Monday, August 17, 2026 to attend a Wildflower Foraging and Plant ID Workshop. If you are interested in attending please make a notation in the comments and I will get you the details!

08/03/2026

Photo and article from the 2026 Garden Tour. Courtesy of the Houghton Lake Resorter

07/27/2026

We would also like to thank the following establishments who offered discounts the day of the Garden Tour!!!

Beechwood Cafe Roscommon

Cut River Grille

Shaker's Restaurant

Garrett’s Place

Sno Queen

Shrimp Shack at JD’s Old Town Tavern

Sandbar Social

07/27/2026

Thank you to the following businesses who supported the 2026 Garden Club Tour 🌺
Barts Fruit Market

Uncharted Grounds Coffee Shop

Tip'n the Mitten

Latitudes North Gift Shoppe - Higgins Lake

Roscommon Floral & Growing Up Greenhouse

White Pine & Petals

Cedar Inn EST. 1919

07/25/2026

🌾 YOUR LAWN ISN'T DEAD. IT'S TAKING A NAP.
It’s July. Your lawn is brown and crispy. You’re tempted to water it every single day to "bring it back."
Stop. You’re fighting nature’s design.
THE PROBLEM: DORMANCY ▸ Most residential lawns are "cool-season" grasses. ▸ When it hits 90°F+ and dry, they go dormant to survive. ▸ The roots are still alive; the top is just brown. It will green up in September.
THE REAL SOLUTION — THE "DO NOTHING" APPROACH: ✓ Raise the mower: Set your blades to 3.5 or 4 inches. Taller grass shades the soil. ✓ Limit traffic: Keep off the dry grass—foot traffic kills dormant blades. ✓ Water minimally: Only give it enough (1 inch per week) to keep the crown alive, not enough to turn it green.
WHY IT WORKS: ▸ Dormancy protects the plant from burning out in the sun. ▸ Forcing it to grow with excessive water during a heatwave actually exhausts the root system.
JULY CHECKLIST: ▸ Raise your mower deck today. ▸ Stop trying to make it lush. ▸ Accept the brown. It’s part of the cycle.
A brown lawn is a healthy, resting lawn. Let it rest.

07/24/2026

What better way to spend your Saturday than on our 30th Annual Garden Tour. The weather is going to be gorgeous as you view the eight gardens on this years tour!
Saturday, July 25, 2026 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Tickets are still available at the following locations:

Grayling:
Tip'n the Mitten

Roscommon/Higgins Lake
Roscommon Floral & Growing Up Greenhouse
White Pine & Petals
Latitudes North Gift Shoppe - Higgins Lake

Prudenville/Houghton Lake:
Uncharted Grounds Coffee Shop
Barts Fruit Market
Posie Patch Florist And Gift Shop

St. Helen:
Cedar Inn EST. 1919

07/19/2026

These Michigan seed libraries let gardeners borrow seeds, grow something new, and return seeds from the harvest so others can enjoy them too.

07/15/2026

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For three years you've been Googling tree diseases, convinced that gray-green crust on your oak is slowly killing it. Put the phone down. That's a lichen, and your tree isn't dying — it's passing an inspection you didn't know it was taking.

A lichen isn't one thing. It's two organisms living as a single body: a fungus holding the structure and an alga making the food. Apart, neither survives this way. It's not a moss, not a fungus alone, not a disease.

And it doesn't touch the wood. It clings to the bark surface the way a sticker clings to a bumper — no roots drilling in, no nutrients stolen, no decay. If your tree really is struggling, look underground at drought or compacted soil. The lichen just happened to be watching when you noticed.

Best part: it can't survive dirty air. Its presence certifies yours is clean.

Don't scrape it. It's the proof.

07/11/2026

Don’t miss our plant sale tomorrow at the Roscommon Art Festival 🪴 🌺. Our tents are located in the southeast corner of the lawn at the CRAF center.