AGC January eNewsletter

January 2018 Volume 1, Issue 4

IN THIS ISSUE

January Meeting

please RSVP by January 9

Frisky Hickey feature

GCA Zone III Garden Show Entries

Deadline: January 22

AGC 2018 Program Schedule updated

Zone III Site Challenge

2nd reminder

A final thought

Musings from our President

Greetings of the new, our 90th, year! A bragging right indeed.

We will be touting ever so gently numerous our AGC milestones and memories at our afternoon public meeting at Lake Placid Club’s Crown Plaza in July with a table display and a very brief giveaway flyer. Another table will don our award-winning conservation display. Curt Stager and his aptly titled presentation are the centerpiece. What a perfect package for guests to share.

At our August 90th celebratory luncheon at the Ausable Club, Frisky Hickey will bring focus to the finite and fascinating world of botanical art. At our meeting earlier, we will have ruminated on our AGC focus and activity as we meander down the road to our 100th.

I was so hoping to have news about the Zone lll conservation issue selection-which voting closed end of December. Watch for Zone lll eNews. Water received the preponderance of our AGC votes. Pollinators was a close second, so I reported that. Waste also received votes. All are on record. Thank you so very much, one and all who voted, for your thoughtful participation.

Cheers,

Nancy

January Meeting - Reminder to RSVP by January 9

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.

Date: Tuesday January 16, 2018

Place: Hand House / 9N Elizabethtown, NY / Just east of the Sunoco Station on 9N

Time: 10:30 AM

RSVP: Liz Jaques / ljaques1150@gmail.com / 518-576-4233 by January 9

Lunch: Brown bag lunch. Soup, beverage and dessert provided.

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.

Zone III Annual Meeting GCA Flower Show:

May 15-17 in Cooperstown

May 15-17, 2018

Otesaga Resort Hotel

60 Lake Street, Cooperstown

Divisions: Floral Design, Horticulture, Photography, Conservation / Education

January 22, 2018 Floral Design, Horticulture and Photography Registration Deadline

Every Zone III Club is required to enter. Registration forms, detailed rules and guidelines can be found on the GCA website by clicking here .

Division I Floral Design - 1 entry per club

Registration required

Division II Horticulture

2 Entries per club in Classes 1 - 5

2 Entries per club in Classes 6 - 11

1 Entry in Classes 12 - 15

1 Entry per club in Class 16

Registration required

1 Entry per club in Class 17 - 19

Registration required

Division III Photography - 1 entry per club

(24 entries total)

Registration required

One club only may submit 2 entries

For more details on the GCA website: GCA website

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.

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 .

If you are currently growing plants for the exchange and not a member of the Horticulture Committee, please inform Airlie. 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).

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 .

Frisky Hickey's drawing featured in the

American Society of Botanical Artists

Click here for more information about Frisky's botanical drawings and biography.

2018 AGC Program Schedule updated

The Program Committee has updated 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 you at the meetings. Additional details will be included in future newsletters.

Tuesday, January 16

Book discussion at Hand House in Elizabethtown

Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Liz Jaques - RSVP by January 9

Brown bag lunch. Hospitality will provide soup, beverage, and dessert

10:30 AM

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

9:30 AM

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

9:30 AM

Tuesday, July 17

90 ^th Anniversary Open Meeting at the Crowne Plaza, Grandview Room in Lake Placid

1:30 PM - Conservation Meeting – Community Invited

2:00 PM - Curt Stager – “Gardens, Weather or Not”

3:00 PM - Refreshments.

Details to follow

Lynne Perry - RSVP

Tuesday, July 31

Archives Workshop at the Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown

Tuesday, August 7

Please add this date to your calendar!

Visiting Garden Committee has scheduled a visit to

The Kent-Delord House Museum and Garden in Plattsburgh

Details to follow

Tuesday, August 14*

*Note: 2 ^nd Tuesday

90 ^th Anniversary continued

American Native Plants at the Ausable Club in St. Hubert’s

Frisky Hickey – Botanical Drawings

Lois Barrett - RSVP

Lunch catered

9:30 AM

Tuesday, September 11*

*Note: 2 ^nd Tuesday

Annual Meeting at Lyn Flynn’s Home in Westport

Garden Tour and Lunch

Lynne Perry - RSVP

Brown Bag

9:30 AM

Sunday, September 30

Pot Luck at Liz Jaques’ Home in Keene

Liz Jaques - RSVP

11:30 AM

Zone III Communication Challenge

2nd reminder!

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:

1. Go to the GCA WEBSITE: https://www.gcamerica.org/index.cfm/members/natl-org-zone3

2. 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:

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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REMINDER

Visit our AGC website for all the latest news and happenings in zones and committees by clicking here:

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A final thought ...

The Songs of Trees

We look at trees every day. What if we paused long enough to "listen"? Could you hear a song if you put your ear to the bark? If one tree can sing a solo; what kind of symphony would come forth from a forest of trees? Dive into these questions on a long cold day with a warm cup and Maria Popova's review of the book "The Songs of Trees" by David George Haskell. Give yourself the gift of lingering slowly over Maria's collage of beautiful words and images. Savor Haskell's unique approach of scientific study explained with lyrical vocabulary. Envision "the masterful, magical way in which nature weaves the warp thread of individual organisms and the weft thread of relationships into the fabric of life." Go outside today and sit quietly with a tree or two. Listen for what the song of life has to say.

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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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