December 2017 Volume 1, Issue 3
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Included in this Newsletter:
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- January Meeting
- Wreath-Making Workshop
- GCA Zone III Plant Exchange
- 2018 AGC Program Schedule
- GCA Updates
- GCA 2018 Scarf
- Hart Garden Cards Sale
- Zone III Site Challenge
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Musings from our President
A special turn of mind occurs at this time of year. What’s that view from my post? I see 2018 and our 90th anniversary celebrations as a blend of prideful looking back and thoughtful peering down the road toward our landmark 100th. I see our brilliant new connecting playing a big role in keeping us in sync. Concurrently, I see a ferreting out from the back corners of our minds a host of packages, ideas for us to open up, entertain and exercise. I see another decade nigh. I see our collective world of gardening spirit boundless.
Meanwhile, three cheers for our splendid 2018 season and those responsible. Please partake early and a lot beginning in January with becoming more familiar with trees. You’ll be so glad you did.
As Ever,
Nancy
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The Hidden Life of Trees
by Peter Wohllenben
Mark your calendar for our January book discussion: Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in his woodland.
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Date: Tuesday January 16, 2018
Place: Hand House
9N Elizabethtown, NY
Just east of the Sunoco Station on 9N
Time: 10:30 am
by January 9, 2018
Lunch: Brown bag lunch. Soup, beverage and dessert provided
Volunteers: Would you like to lead the discussion? Please let Liz know if you would like to help.
Donations: Please bring a donation of women’s toiletries – deodorant, etc. We will deliver to
the Food Pantry in Elizabethtown directly after the meeting.
Driving directions:
From the West
Follow Rte. 73 and/or Rte. 9N to Elizabethtown. At the stop sign in E'town turn Left.
At the bottom of the hill, at the blinking light, turn Right.
The Hand House is just beyond the Sunoco station on the right.
From the East
Follow 9N toward Elizabethtown. Hand House is on the left just before you reach the blinking light and the Sunoco station in E’town.
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Annual Wreath-Making Workshop a Success!
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A baker’s dozen of us jump-started the holiday spirit Tuesday, November 28, as we gathered for our annual wreath workshop at the Whallonsburg Grange. This year we were also on a mission – to decorate a wreath for ourselves and another for
Families First. The photo on the left shows those wreaths which were made for
Families First.
We were a merry band, sharing everything from clippers to clippings, baubles to babble. Soups and treats topped off a memorable AGC morning. To hosts, Delia, Lois and Liz, and wreath-maker, Travis Pulsifer, heartfelt gratitude all-around.
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A note of thanks from
Families First
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Thank you so much for the wreaths!!!! They are so individualized and so beautifully decorated, our families are going to love them!
My staff are deciding which 14 families will appreciate them the most and then we will deliver them over the next couple of days.
Can you please give a huge thank you to the members of your Garden Club. We appreciate them for thinking of us and our families and please let them know how much we appreciate their hard work and creativity!
JoAnne Caswell
Executive Director
Families First in Essex County, Inc.
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2018 GCA Zone III Plant Exchange
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The 2018 GCA Zone lll meeting “What’s Brewing” will be hosted by Lake and Valley Garden Club in Cooperstown, NY on May 15-17, 2018.
As part of the meeting there will be a Plant Exchange with the theme of plants utilized in beer brewing. Each club is asked to bring three plants, if possible, grown by three different members.
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Plants must be hardy in USDA growing zones 4-7 and may be perennials or annuals.
Suggestions are as follows:
- Perennial: Hops (Humulus lupulus) or any plants used to flavor beer e.g. Blueberry and Raspberry.
- Annuals: Barley (Hordeum vulgare); Oats (Avena sativa); Wheat (Triticum aestivum); Rye (Secale cereale); Coriander (Coriandrum sativum) and Corn (Zea Mays).
Members of the Horticulture Committee plan to or already have started growing their plants. All members of the AGC are encouraged to participate as well. For any assistance please contact Airlie Lennon at
airlie.lennon@gmail.com
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We have been given three of the required containers; only one perennial can be placed in a container but more than one annual is permitted to be entered in the same container as another annual. The entries will be judged by the usual horticultural merits but in addition an extra point is given for a novice entry. Members of the Horticultural Committee will select which three are to be submitted next May.
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2018 AGC Program Schedule
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The Program Committee announces the calendar for 2018. Please add the dates and times to your personal calendar. We are excited about our topics and look forward to seeing everyone at the meetings. Additional details will be included in future newsletters.
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Tuesday, January 16
Book discussion at Hand House in Elizabethtown
Hidden Life of Trees
by Peter Wohlleben
Liz Jaques- RSVP deadline Jan 9, 2018
Brown bag lunch. Hospitality provide soup, beverage, dessert
10:30AM
Tuesday, May 22*
*Note: 4
th
Tuesday
Floral Design at Whallonsburg Grange in Essex
Grace Crary and Renee Lewis
Airlie Lennon - RSVP
Brown bag lunch
9:30AM
Tuesday, June 19
Pruning, planting, maintaining at East Branch Organics in Keene
Horticulture Committee with Heather Coffin
Lynne Perry - RSVP
Rain or shine! Brown bag lunch
9:30AM
Tuesday, July 17
90
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Anniversary - Open Meeting at the Lake Placid Golf House in Lake Placid
Curt Stager – “Gardens, Weather or Not”
Conservation Meeting – Community Invited
Lynne Perry – RSVP
3:00PM Presentation followed by refreshments. Details to follow
Tuesday, July 31
Archives Workshop at the Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown
Tuesday, August 14*
*Note: 2
nd
Tuesday
American Native Plants at the Ausable Club in St. Hubert’s
Frisky Hickey – Botanical Drawings
90
th
Anniversary continued
Lois Barrett – RSVP
Lunch catered
9:30AM
Tuesday, September 11*
*Note: 2
nd
Tuesday
Annual Meeting at Lyn Flynn’s Home in Westport
Garden Tour & Lunch
Lynne Perry - RSVP
Brown Bag
9:30AM
Sunday, September 30
Pot Luck at Liz Jaques’ Home in Keene
Liz Jaques - RSVP
11:30AM
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Garden Club of America Updates
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GCA PRESIDENT SURVEY RESULTS
An overview of the survey we completed last May and highlights the GCA strengths and challenges.
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2018 ANNUAL MEETING SCARF
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The beautiful scarf created for the 2018 Annual Meeting is the design of Elizabeth Rocchia of The Portland Garden Club. Drawing inspiration from the 2018 Annual Meeting theme of "How the West is One," Elizabeth utilized the letter "O" as a graphic link to the seven state flowers in Zone XII.
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Ruth & George Hart Garden Notecards - For sale!
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The Ruth and George Hart Garden
Photo by Nancy Beattie
Archives of the American Gardens at the Smithsonian Institute
This lovely garden was created in 1973 when Ruth Hart unearthed the foundation of St. Eustace-by-the Lakes Church on her property. The stone foundation dates to 1900 and takes the shape of a broad cross. The church was moved in 1927 to its current location on Main Street in Lake Placid, New York.
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A note from Barbara Hail, Chair, History and Archives Committee:
The garden note card project was conceived a few years ago, when Ora Smith and I realized that the AGC had, through the years, researched and sponsored five-member gardens that had been accepted into the Archives of American Gardens at the Smithsonian Institution. Among these were the Hart Garden, Darcy Hale's Scragwood, the Colonial Gardens in Elizabethtown, the Paine's Flatrock, and the Fort Ticonderoga Gardens (because Mrs. Pell was an AGC member). The Hart Garden is the first one to be made into a note card.
The cards are blank inside, with a picture on the front and description on the back.
Each gift box contains eight cards and costs $10. These are available at Nancy Howard's home,(nancyhoward1@yahoo.com) and my home.
We hope that members will see this as an opportunity to make more visible the exceptional gardens of our AGC colleagues, and will support it with their donations. The holidays are coming, and everyone will soon need a card upon which to write thank you notes!
A special thanks and deep appreciation to my daughter, Elizabeth Byers, who was responsible for the technical process of turning the photo into a card. It could not have happened without her.
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Zone III Communication Challenge!
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The
Garden Club of America
would like us all to update our member profiles. Please follow these steps from our Zone III Communications representative Barbara Hoover to upload your photo to your profile. It is fast and easy and there will be prizes at the Zone III May 2018 Meeting in Cooperstown for all who have a member photo posted. More than one club can win.
Barbara is asking that all Zone III Club Members log into the GCA website and upload a photo to their profile. Barbara says, “This is EASY PEASY!”
Follow these steps:
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Log into the gcamerica.org. Click the MEMBERS area and LOG IN. Then follow the steps below.
If you do not remember your GCA password, here's some help:
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Here are the instructions to add a
PHOTO
to your profile:
1. Click on
MY PROFILE
2. Click on
EDIT PROFILE
3. Click on
UPDATE/REMOVE
4. When you Click on
UPDATE
, that will take you to your computer files. Select the file with your headship and double click. Voila!
5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click
SAVE/DONE
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Don't forget to RSVP to the
January Meeting
at
Hand House!
Liz Jaques
518-576-4233
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Hand House
Elizabethtown, New York.
National Register of Historic Places, Hand-Hale Historic District
Essex County, NY
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eNews
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