Greetings!
Please join me in thanking the members of The Hunting Creek Garden Club for hosting our Board of Governors meeting in Alexandria. These ladies worked hard to provide us with outstanding tours, great food, and inspiring speakers.
And thank you to the Conservation and Beautification Committee for producing an informative and impactful forum, “The Real Dirt on Pesticides: Pollinators, Food and Our Health. We all came away with good information about how and why to limit the use of chemicals in our landscapes.
Congratulations to The Elizabeth River Garden Club, winner of the 2018 Common Wealth Award for their project at Paradise Creek Nature Park where at-risk youth can “Dream a Different Future.” Second place went to The August Garden Club for “Project Dogwood—A Hundred Year Journey.” GCV is proud to be able to support these clubs in their community endeavors.
It is no secret to my friends that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. What can be better than giving thanks with family and friends for all of our blessings. I want to thank each and every one of you for your efforts on behalf of Garden Club of Virginia. And I wish you the very best during the beginning of our holiday season.
Warm regards,
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Claire Mellinger
Albemarle Garden Club
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Thursday, November 1
Bessie Bocock Carter Award Deadline
Wednesday, November 7
Centennial Liaisons, KVH 10:30 am
Centennial Steering Committee, KVH 1:00 pm
Thursday, November 8
HGW Marketing, Bolling-Haxall 9:15 am
Wednesday, November 28
Nominations Committee, KVH 10:30 am
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus
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December 1 Deadline for Awards and Grants!
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Massie Medal December 1
The Massie Medal is the most prestigious award of the Garden Club of Virginia. It is awarded to an individual member or member club of the GCV who has served with unusual dedication and distinction. The deadline for applying is December 1.
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Virginia State Parks Grant Application December 1
Applications for Virginia State Parks Grants are due December 1. Applications will be reviewed in December, and final selections made in early January.
This year marks the fourth year of our five year, $500,000 centennial project funded by Historic Garden Week proceeds. Our funds to date have benefitted 17 State Parks and the Youth Conservation Corps.
Please contact the GCV Executive Director Lynn McCashin for assistance in submitting applications.
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James River State Park 2018 Grant Recipient
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Goals
Beautification
Conservation
Education
Conservation
Stewardship
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Project Activities
Replacing turf with native plants as a landscape alternative.
Selecting native plants that are important to bees and other pollinators.
Identifying native plants that will flourish in a typical Piedmont landscape.
Selecting native plants for a shade garden that are models of high visual interest and drought tolerance.
Establish the garden to be low maintenance.
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Expected Outcome
A generic landscape improved by a variety of flora textures, shapes, heights, and colors.
Birds, bees and other pollinators increase near and in the garden.
JRSP guides explain why native plants are complementary to critters in central Virginia.
Signage for visitors outlines the importance of using native plants in personal gardening choices.
Demonstrate to JRSP visitors that native plants can be both visually delightful and robust in nature.
Decrease use of chemicals requisite to maintaining non-native turf ground cover; serve as an example for gentle land use.
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The James River State Park grant application was submitted by Rivanna Garden Club.
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Tayloe W. Murphy, Jr. Honored
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VIRGINIA
forever
recently honored The Honorable Tayloe W. Murphy, Jr. for his leadership in the protection of Virginia’s natural resources at its annual Bridge Builder Celebration dinner. Tayloe served as Secretary of Natural Resources, and is a former member of the House of Delegates. Tayloe was instrumental in the passage of the Chesapeake Bay Act of 1986 as well as its renewal in 1996. The current Secretary of Natural Resources, Matt Strickler, and House Speaker, Kirk Cox delivered remarks celebrating Tayloe’s extraordinary career. At his side was Helen Murphy, Former President of Garden Club of Virginia and cheerleader for the GCV conservation goals that we all share. We are proud to claim Tayloe as an Honorary Member of GCV!
GCV is a new member of VIRGINIAf
orever
, the only statewide organization that advocates for state funds for natural resources. The organization closely monitors budget discussions affecting the Water Quality Improvement Fund and the Virginia Land Conservation Fund.
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Our members are reporting increasing cases of boxwood blight in their gardens throughout the Commonwealth. It is important that we lead educational efforts in our communities to prevent the spread of this virulent fungus. Visit the links below for additional information.
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The Warrenton Garden Club
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CALIFORNIA TRIP OF A LIFETIME FOR TWO
50/50 Raffle
To benefit Casa del Herrero
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The Warrenton Garden Club
300 tickets - $100.00 each
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Documentary Film by Tom Piper
FIVE SEASONS
THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF
Thursday, November 8
Common House and Light House Studio in Charlottesville, VA
Reception, Screening and Q&A 6-9 pm with Director Tom Piper ($75)
Screening and Q&A 7-9 pm with Director Tom Piper ($25)
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Happy 90th Birthday to the Garden Club of Gloucester
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The Garden Club of Gloucester (GCG) is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2018. Founded in 1928 at historic Goshen on the Ware River by Maude Mackubin, Nina Sanders, and Elizabeth Taliaferro, the Club held an Anniversary luncheon at White Hall, home of member Mari Ann Banks, on October 24, and plans a tour in the spring of restored gardens at Goshen, home of member Adrianne Ryder-Cook Joseph.
From the Club’s first large project in the 1930’s of building a brick wall around the courthouse circle and landscaping the circle, to plantings around the county, to clean-up projects including an effort that led to the county establishing a dump, to decades of support of students at Nature Camp, the Club continues be active in civic projects. Most recently the Club supported education programs at the Middle Peninsula State Park, donated two daffodil sculptures that stand at either end of Main Street, and donated funds for a fountain in a new pocket park on the periphery of the Courthouse Circle.
The Club established the Gloucester Daffodil Show in the early fifties which ran for over sixty years and is now in a new incarnation sponsored by Gloucester County as part of its annual Daffodil Festival.
One of the GCG’s early Nature Campers was Gloucester’s own Brent Heath. Brent later became Director of Nature Camp, and the rest of his career is daffodil and horticultural history! The Club is also proud that its former President Christine (“Teen”) Martin served as President of the GCV and authored
Follow the Green Arrow I.
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Albemarle
Hatsy Vallar
Martha Coates
Brunswick
Pam Palmore
Fairfax
Kim DiBona
Gabriella
Carrie Petrick
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Garden Study
Gale Gravely
Rena Edwards
Elizabeth Morgan
May Hawfield
Crystal Austin
Hampton Roads
Birgit Kingsbury
Martha Sides
Harborfront
Anna Boykin
Hillary Dunnigan
Kathy Marshall
Donna McCullough
Mill Mountain
Mary Lou Bruce
Whitney Leeson
Beth Sayers
Princess Anne
Cheryl Dowell
Robin Warren
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