Greetings!
New Year’s Day arrives each year with promise and hope. We take the time to reflect on our bond with our family, our friends, and our communities. We define our goals and make our resolutions.
As we consider how we will grow this year, I encourage all of us to think about our relationship with Garden Club of Virginia. What is exciting to you? What do you want to learn? How will you become involved? New Year’s Day signals a time of opportunity. So, let’s not be so resolute with our resolutions. Let’s look for new ideas and discover new horizons.
The Garden Club of Virginia is here for you with so much to offer. Perhaps you would like to discover your talent at our photography workshop in February. Or perhaps you would like to pursue becoming an artistic judge. Come to Legislative Day and learn how we can all support clean air, clean water, and clean soil initiatives. Or maybe you want to curl up in front of a cozy fire and learn about exhibiting daffodils in advance of Daffodil Day.
Whatever your goals might be, I wish you a very happy beginning to 2019, and I look forward to sharing opportunities with you.
Warm regards,
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Claire Mellinger
The Albemarle Garden Club
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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
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Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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Thursday, January 3
Executive Committee, KVH 10:30 am
Tuesday, January 8
Finance Committee, KVH 10:30 am
Wednesday, January 9
Restoration Committee, KVH
Thursday, January 10
Restoration Committee Maintenance Workshop, KVH 10:00 am
Friday, January 11
State Parks Committee, KVH 10:30 am
District 3 Presidents, KVH 11:00 am
Monday, January 14
Development Committee, KVH 10:30 am
Thursday, January 17
GCV Board of Directors, KVH 10:30 am
Monday, January 21
Artistic Design, KVH 10:30 am
Thursday, January 24
Journal
Editorial Board 10:30 am
Wednesday, January 30
Legislative Day, Delta Hotel Richmond
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Legislative Day January 30
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From maritime forests to mountain tops, Virginia trees are an exceptional resource. The Garden Club of Virginia values trees and backs localities’ efforts to increase their tree cover. The 2018 General Assembly allowed localities within the Chesapeake Bay watershed to adopt ordinances requiring the planting or replacement of trees affected by development. That was a good first step, but it limited tree canopy requirements to 20% in residential parcels zoned 10 units per acre or less and 10% for commercial parcels. Trees are a cost-effective way to help absorb polluted storm water run-off and excess agricultural nutrients. In coastal communities, trees help resiliency against sea level rise. In all communities,
trees capture carbon, improve air quality, lessen urban heat buildup and add beauty.
Come to Legislative Day to advocate for more trees. You’ll enjoy chatting with your legislators and the rewards are truly wonderful: cleaner water, cleaner air and a more beautiful Old Dominion.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019
7:30 am - 2:30 pm
Delta Hotel
555 East Canal Street
Richmond
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Virginia Conservation Network organizes Conservation Legislative Day to ensure a strong conservation voice is heard early in the legislative session. Volunteer advocates are invited to join professional staff of Network Partners as we meet with state legislators and encourage them to support environmental policy advancements.
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Smartphone Photography Workshop February 21
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Thursday, February 21
9:30 am - 3:00 pm
Kent-Valentine House
- Principles and elements of design for photography
- Utilizing your smart phone camera to maximum benefit
- Experiment with your phone. Try out new techniques with close up photograpghy and/or outdoor cityscapes
- Entering GCV photography shows
Presented by Claire Mellinger
Workshop is limited to 30 participants.
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Photo by Claire Mellinger
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Artistic Judging Workshop February 22
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Friday, February 22
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Kent-Valentine House
This event will include a hands-on workshop featuring a parallel design, as well as a lecture of instruction on the principles and elements of design as they relate to flower arranging. The workshop is intended for both current and prospective judges.
For prospective judges,
Test 101
, the first of three tests
required to complete the academic portion of the judging program,
will be offered following the workshop. It will not be an open book test, but the material will be presented in the precedeing lecture.
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January? It is only January? But we’ve already had the shortest day of the year, snow, and plenty of dreary weather. When will March ever get here? When will the daffodils bloom?
Are you having these same thoughts? Well, you have come to the right spot to get some answers! The daffodils will be at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond when we celebrate Daffodil Day on March 26. We anticipate one of the largest collections of daffodil stems in the nation on our horticulture floor. Our floral arrangers are waiting to sign up for the available spots on our Artistic Design floor. Photographers are pulling out their best shots from last year to submit. It is almost here and we are so ready.
Daffodil Day 2019 heralds spring with the
March of the Trumpets
. Visit the website for details and registration. Even if you don’t register to participate, mark your calendars to be at the show when it opens to the public at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, March 26. You will not want to miss this!
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Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Laughter is truly the best medicine. Your “side-splitting” stories have kept me in “stitches” – the good kind. Did you know that not only do GCV clubs have a designated club flower, some have designated club beverages i.e., Margaritas, Mint Juleps, Bloody Marys, and Grandma’s Punch Recipe? You will have to wait and see the stories behind these special concoctions.
There is more time for you to submit your humorous recollections, either through your club’s historian or to Judy Perry at
gcvhistorian1920@gmail.com
by
June 1, 2019
. Please share your lighter moments for the GCV Centennial history. Everyone has at least one memorable garden club moment!
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Hungry Mother State Park 2018 Grant Recipient
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Goals
- Create Discovery Area
- Create Signage
- Take Home Messages
- Develop Skills
- Create Space for Interpretation
- Create Pollinator Garden
Project Activities
- Design, layout and install Parker the Red Fox's Discovery Area.
- Create and install signage for each area with an environmental education message.
- Create a take home activity to be stated on each sign by Parker himself.
- Create activity spots that teach youth a variety of various physical skills.
- Create activity spots to be used in Interpretive programs.
- Create a pollinator garden within the boundaries of the Discovery Area.
Expected Outcome or Impact
- The Discovery area will provide a safe outdoor play area for children to increase their social, physical, and mental skills and to decrease the obesity rate in Southwest Virginia. It will also increase their awareness of the out of doors and an attachment to the park.
- Interpretive signage will help increase youth and adults' knowledge in the outdoors and will spark interest in learning more about the sign's theme.
- Adults will go home knowing more about a subject and have an idea of activities they can do with their children to continue the individual learning at home.
- Youth will increase balance, flexibility, strength, and comfort in physical challenges to help him/her develop underdeveloped skills. The parents will have a safe place to allow their child for participate independent exploration and socially challenging situations, but still be in visual contact with the child at all times.
- A developed area will allow park interpreters to use the various activities in a variety of interpretive programs to enhanced existing programs or create new programs. This area will also allow the interpretive personnel to use this area during field trips to augment these outdoor school trips.
- The Discovery area will provide a habitat for pollinators in the area that is free from pesticides. This will help to increase pollinator numbers and allow adults and children to discover the wonder of pollinators and their importance to humans.
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Hungry Mother State Park grant application was submitted by Friends of Hungry Mother.
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Member Club Activities and Community Projects
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The Garden Club of Norfolk
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Wednesday, February 20
Linda Jane Holden
and
The Gardens of Bunny Mellon
Norfolk Yacht and Country Club
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Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club
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Saturday, February 23
Middleburg
Horticultural Symposium
Planting Outside the Lines
The Hill School
130 South Madison Street Middleburg
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Alexandria
Jennifer Adams
Charlottesville
Susan Timko
Little Garden Club of Winchester
Brenda Bacon*
Linda Miles*
Lynchburg
Linda Duerson*
Susan Ebling*
Deirdra Flavin
Liz Foster*
Mimi Hopkins*
Virginia Kayes*
Sally Pickle*
Kate Poats*
Jen Sittason*
Ashley Rae Vaughan*
Emily Wolanski*
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Tuckahoe
Lisa Elliott
Renee Gardner
Linda Hanson
Lynn Jacob
Penny Peebles
Warren County
Carol Cavanaugh
Dixie Jackson
Misa Mulroney
Warrenton
Alice Laimbeer
Williamsburg
Catherine Allen
* Provisional member
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