April 2019 Volume 2, Issue 7
IN THIS ISSUE

Upcoming Event: Floral Design Workshop - May 28 :
RSVP: Lynne Perry

Trip to Domaine des Fougeres in Quebec
July 10

Conservation Committee Study IV:
Are you drowning in plastic?

Did you know....?
It's soon time to start your seeds

NY's Buffer in a Bag Gives Free Trees to Protect Tributaries

Zone III Flower Show:
Entries needed!

2019 dates updated
Thoughts from Peru
The ice on Lake Champlain is breaking up so Spring weather must be close - if not here already! Our AGC season is approaching, and there are many dates and details to remember. The program committee has presented an exciting schedule for this summer, and visiting gardens has added some fabulous extras. Please make a note of opportunities afforded by their efforts and keep those dates open on your busy calendars. The full schedule is below along with complete details for our first meeting in May. You may print the schedule if you would like it at your fingertips but remember we update the calendar regularly with more information, so do read the newsletter!

Many of you cast a vote for a Founders Fund Project, and club tally was conclusively for the Zone III Jane Colden Native Woodland Garden. We will see how the competition shakes out after all clubs in GCA have cast their votes.  

If you visit the GCA website (early and often!) you will discover we (that's the GCA) won the Rachel Carson Women in Conservation Award! Soon you will be asked to help our organization maintain its world-class standards into our second century - that's a hint of things to come.

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Upcoming Event: Floral Design Workshop - May 28
Let’s Have Fun With Flowers!
led by Renee Lewis and Grace Crary

We are fortunate to have our own members, Design Chairs Renee Lewis and Grace Crary leading a workshop in Floral Design, "Fun with Flowers."
You will have the opportunity to create a design and take it home. The AGC is providing containers for each participant complete with oasis. The container may be used for your future designs.

Bring the following:
  • Three types of flowers, ideally different shapes
  • Greens of any type, but not vines
  • Clippers and scissors and other tools you might think are useful
  • Your creative spirit

Time:  9:30 am – 1:30 pm
Place: Whallonsburg Grange / 1610 NYS Route 22 / Whallonsburg, NY
Lunch: Brown bag.  Beverage and dessert will be provided
RSVP: Lynne Perry  / 518-359-2630
Reply by: May 21, 2019
Trip to Domaine des Fougeres in Quebec
The Visiting Garden Committee invites you
to visit
Domaine des Fougeres
Knowlton, Quebec
July 10, 2019

Are you interested in participating in this wonderful opportunity? Please respond to Deborah Trudeau so we know the level of interest among club members.

The visionary  Claire Leger and Claude Allaire privately own this property  and are good friends of our AGC member Deborah Trudeau. Deborah has graciously offered to coordinate this garden trip! This is a fabulous mini “Cabot Garden” with many sections, themes, sculptures, ponds, where you can discover the Lovers' mirror, the Haida path and its totem poles, the pond of the Women rider, the Embers corner and many more remarkable features. Paths were designed in the woodland area covered with abundant ferns (fougéres).

Physically fit visitors can easily walk several kilometers on hilly grounds. Several members from our club visited the gardens several years ago with rave reviews; it’s a real wonder!  Claire Leger has also offered us to enjoy our bag lunches on the porch overlooking the exceptional view of Brome Lake and the surrounding mountains.

Driving time is approximately 2.5 hour from our area.  We plan to carpool from various locations depending on how many sign up to go.

Trip Date: July 10th / Rain Date: July 11th, 2019
RSVP Date: June 10th, 2019

Address: Domaine des Fougeres, 27 Blackwood, Knowlton, Quebec J0E 1V0
For more information please contact: Deborah Trudeau  or Audrey Desjardins
Conservation Committee Concentrated Study
ARE YOU DROWNING IN PLASTIC?

Below are a few suggestions to help you live plastic free.
  1. Carry a Reusable Bag at all times.
  2. Use Mason Jars for food storage.
  3. Use left-over jars from other food
  4. Use glass food storage containers. Rubbermaid is one source.
  5. Use Stainless steel food storage containers
  6. Use two plates or two bowls. Sandwich your leftovers between the two plates or two bowls and stick them in the fridge.
  7. Use Reusable Food Wraps such as Bee’s Wrap handmade in Vermont from organic cotton infused with beeswax, organic jojoba oil and tree resin.  They are used and reused and typically last for about a year.
  8. When worn out, use as a natural fire starter for your grill or fireplace.
  9. Create a travel kit with a stainless-steel coffee cup, bamboo utensils, steel straws and a cloth bag to carry out your food.
  10. Shop the bulk aisle in your supermarket. Bring glass containers.
  11. Learn where to buy milk and yogurt in glass bottles.
  12. Grind your own peanut and almond butter and put in glass jars.
  13. Look for dental floss made of silk, wooden toothbrushes made with pigs hair, stainless-steel ice cube trays.

Make eliminating plastic an adventure! You can do it.

Did you know...
It is soon time to start your seeds indoors!
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Gardening in Zone 3 is tricky. The average last frost date is between May 1 and May 31, and the average first frost date is between September 1 and September 15. These are averages, however, and there’s a very good chance that your growing season will turn out to be even shorter. Because of this, starting seeds indoors in the spring is pretty much essential with zone 3 gardening. Keep reading to learn more about how and when to start seeds in zone 3.

NY's Buffer in a Bag Gives Free Trees to Protect Tributaries
Do you own property along a waterway in New York?  Through the “Buffer in a Bag” initiative, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (NYS DEC)  Trees for Tribs Program  and the  NYS Tree Nursery  will provide landowners with a free bag of 25 bare-root native trees and shrubs to enhance streamside areas of property.

Photo courtesy of NYSFOLA.
Zone III Flower Show - REMINDER
We need an entry for the Zone III meeting in late June. It should be of exceptional horticultural merit - container not to exceed 12” in diameter. Your favorite house plant will be fine! One year ownership required.

Another entry - drought resistant plant - 12" in diameter - 6 month ownership required. Something tough in your garden! Any ideas!?! Please RSVP to Corn .

The Rochester Garden Club and Allyn's Creek Garden Club's "Ripple Effect," GCA Zone III Flower Show schedule is posted on the  GCA Calendar  and  List of Upcoming Flower Shows  on the GCA website. Please open these links for more information.
Click HERE for the complete Ripple Effect Schedule.
AGC Program Schedule
May 28, 2019 *
*note 4 th Tuesday
Floral Design Workshop led by Renee Lewis and Grace Crary
Whallonsburg Grange, Whallonsburg, NY
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Bring the following:
Three types of flowers, ideally different shapes
Greens of any type, but not vines
Clippers and scissors and other tools you might think are useful
Your creative spirit!
RSVP: Lynne Perry

June 18, 2019
Soil and Compost
Speaker: Bunny Goodwin
What types of SOIL are the best and how to correct deficiencies, fertilizers, and composting.
Nature Conservancy, Keene Valley, NY
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Brown bag lunch. Beverages and dessert supplied by Hospitality

June 26, 2019
Visiting Gardens
Rocky Dale Nursery in Bristol, Vermont
Rain date – June 27
Details to be announced

July 10, 2019
Visiting Gardens
Domaine des Fougeres
Knowlton, Quebec
Rain date -  July 11, 2019
           For more information, contact

July 16, 2019
Plastics: The Trash That Won’t Go Away
Speaker: Judith Enck, former Regional EPA Administrator
Site: Lake Placid Conference Center, Lake Placid, NY
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Business Meeting - 2:00 PM
Presentation and breakout sessions - 3:15 pm – 5:30 pm
This meeting is being developed by the AGC Conservation Committee and will be open to the public.
The Garden Club of Lake Placid has agreed to work with AGC to make this a joint program of the two clubs.
Representatives of Adirondack environmental organizations, local governments, and garden clubs will be invited along with members of the community.

August 15, 2018
Visiting Gardens
Sara Jane DeHoff
Gull Rock Camp
Lake Placid, NY
Details to be announced

August 20, 2019
Wild Flowers of the Khumbu
Speaker: Elizabeth Byers
Heaven Hill Farm, Lake Placid, NY
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Catered lunch
RSVP: Lois Barrett

September 17, 2019
Annual Meeting
Lyz Miskovsky’s Home
1010 Springfield Road, Wilmington, NY
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Lunch will be provided by our hostess – thank you Liz!
RSVP: Liz Jaques

Sunday, October 6, 2019
Potluck
Corn Forrence's Home
3531 Lake Shore Road, Peru, NY
Time: 12 noon
Program: Lunch and Business meeting
Spouses, partners and guests invited
RSVP: To be announced.

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