NOVEMBER 2025 SSGC MEETING: “Invasive Species: Friend or Foe?”

Name: NOVEMBER 2025 SSGC MEETING: “Invasive Species: Friend or Foe?”
Start: 2025-11-17T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Brookside Gardens Wheaton Md

Mon, 17 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm UTC-05:00

Brookside Gardens Wheaton Md | Kemp Mill

Publisher/HostKathy Jentz

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$NOVEMBER 2025 SSGC MEETING: \u201cInvasive Species: Friend or Foe?\u201d$

The November 17, 2025, speaker meeting of the Silver Spring Garden Club features a talk entitled, “Invasive Species: Friend or Foe?”
This lecture will feature a brief history of invasive species particularly in the Mid-Atlantic area. Our speaker John Peter Thompson will provide some answers for what is invasive and what is native which can be difficult to define and implement. The areas around all our dwellings wherever located are not natural, but in reality compromises of all sorts that need to be managed by us. He will also talk about desirable natives and non-natives around the home and garden suitable for this area.
In addition to his family founding Behnke Nurseries in Beltsville in 1930, and more recently a sustainability consultant, John Peter Thompson has studied invasive species for many years. He was a founding member and officer of the Maryland Invasive Species Council, the Mid-Atlantic Invasive Plant Council, and the National Invasive Species Advisory Committee. He has contributed to and authored many publications on the subject and lectured about the same across the country.
MEETING START TIME: Monday, November 17, 7:30pm Doors open at 7:00pm.
WHERE: Brookside Gardens Visitors Center/Education Building 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD
BROOKSIDE GIFT SHOP: The gift shop will be open before and after our November meeting for us to shop at with a 10% discount offered to Silver Spring Garden Club members. Think holiday gifts!
REFRESHMENTS: Silver Spring Garden Club members with last names beginning with the letters A-C are asked to bring a snack or drink to share to this meeting. Refreshment Chair Leila Campbell will coordinate the paper goods and supplies.
There will also be a FREEBIES table of garden information, plants, seeds, etc. You are welcome to bring garden-related items to giveaway.
NOTE: If the items have not been picked up by the end of the meeting, please take them back home with you.
We also encourage attendees to bring a flower or interesting foliage in a vase to share on our “something blooming from the garden” table.
This meeting is FREE and open to all. Guests are welcome!