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Greetings!
We seem to share an uncanny ability to organize. We organize our lives and the lives of those around us. We organize club programs and projects, meetings, speakers, meals and social gatherings. We organize instinctively as we juggle numerous balls in the air. Honestly we're now in full glory as we face the fall season of our garden clubs with their unending needs for organization.
How appropriate that here we are in our August newsletter, offering links to the GCV Conservation Workshop and GCV Flower Arranging School, and providing information about the expanded horticulture exhibit at the Rose Show, all the while scheduling endless committee meetings. We're still in our bathing suits for heaven's sake, and we've already organized our fall season and way beyond. This is what we do best, and we're happy knowing that our efforts are making a difference in so many ways.
So, thanks to every member whose efforts are keeping us organized. We do make a difference.
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Oil on Canvas
Nancy Dempsey
Nansemond River Garden Club
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Thursday, July 28
Historic Garden Week Advertising Call
Monday, August 1
Flower Shows Committee, KVH 10:30 am
Tuesday, August 16
Executive Committee, KVH 10:30 am
Wednesday, August 17
Google Drive Workshop, KVH
Tuesday, August 23
Strategic Planning, KVH 10:00 am
Wednesday, August 24
Centennial Marketing and Communications
KVH
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And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose,
And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows ;
But they can roll and trim the lawns and sift the sand and loam,
For the Glory of the Garden occupieth all who come.
~Rudyard Kipling, "The Glory of the Garden"
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Last Chance to Name Our Daffodil
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You learned last month the Centennial Committee is working with Brent and Becky's to have a named daffodil in honor of our Centennial. Take a look at some of the names you suggested. We'll accept additional suggestions until Friday, July 29. Our next step will determine how to narrow the list and submit names to the growers, hoping they can match us up with a daffodil and register it with the Royal Horticultural Society.
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Beauty of Virginia
Belle of the Ball
Belle of Virginia
Centenarius Virginia
Centennial Beauty of Virginia
Centennial Celebration
Commonwealth Daffy
Commonwealth Empress
Daffodil of Dignity
Daffy Centarian
Dame of Virginia
Garden Club of Virginia
Garden Week
GCV Beauty
GCV Centennial Beauty
Golden Crown
Green Arrow
Miracles
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Old Dominion Debutaunt
Oldie Goldie
Our Valentine
Pocahontas
Rebecca Rolfe
Sagitta viridis virginiae
Virgarden
Virginia Beauty
Virginia Centennia
Virginia Centennial Beauty
Virginia Dame
Virginia Dare
Virginia Garden Beauty
Virginia Garden Club Beauty
Virginia Gardeners' Pride
Virginia's Finest
Virginia's Green Arrow
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2017 HGW Guidebook Cover to Feature Oatlands
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The HGW Guidebook cover is not a random selection. Oatlands, the 2017 cover, was chosen by the HGW Committee in January 2016 from numerous proposals, not only for its beautiful setting, but also because HGW funds are currently being used to restore the pathway and brick edging along the walk to the teahouse with historically accurate materials.
After a visit to the property in early spring, the 2017 Iris 'Nofa Sapphire' was chosen, and a professional cover photo shoot was arranged.
The final cover creation will be revealed in October at the Board of Governors meeting.
Would you like to go behind the scenes at the Oatlands cover photo shoot?
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If your 2018 HGW tour features a property that could be considered for the guidebook cover, contact your HGW District Representative or your District Director at Large board member for details. Submissions must be received by November 10, 2016.
Click Here for your District contact information.
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2016 GCV Conservation Workshop
Monday, September 12, 2016
8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
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It’s All About the Issues: Be a GCV Advocate!
The GCV Conservation and Beautification Committee presents the 2016 Conservation Workshop to inform our membership about conservation issues in preparation for the 2017 General Assembly. Our organization needs informed members to guide us as we submit official GCV legislative positions in January. Learn about the issues and hear the latest news from dedicated, informed experts who support us in our mission to safeguard the beauty of Virginia.
Open to all GCV members.
General Assembly Building, 1st floor - Senate Room B
201 North 9th Street
Richmond, VA 23219
$25 per person, includes box lunch
8:30-9 a.m. Check in and coffee
Allison Clock and Cabell West, co-chairmen
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GCV Flower Arranging School
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
9 a.m - noon
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Featuring Meredith Lauter
Most of us have a basic knowledge of traditional arranging, so why is it that a contemporary arrangement is so difficult to grasp? Meredith Lauter
will take us on an amazing tour of discovery. She will help us understand the process of developing these designs, beginning with the choice of flowers and mechanics often found in the most unexpected places.
Robins Pavilion, Jepson Alumni Center
University of Richmond
$50 per person, includes continental breakfast and box lunch
9 a.m - 10 a.m Check in and continental breakfast
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Every Rose Deserves a Companion
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Our upcoming Rose Show will feature more than roses! An expanded horticulture exhibit will focus on companion plants that provide benefits to organically grown roses and will include annuals, perennials and herbs. Contact Lea Shuba at leashuba@aol.com if you want to exhibit. Classes are limited.
No invasives or rare plants please! Lists of prohibited plants are provided here.
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