May 2019 Volume 2, Issue 8
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IN THIS ISSUE
Upcoming Event: Floral Design Workshop - May 28
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Details of two Visiting Gardens Trips
Rocky Dale Gardens and Domaine des Fougeres
Conservation Committee Study V:
Microplastics: The Invisible Problem
Did you know....?
There is a difference between seed types.
The Real Dirt:
Dig in and win SEEDS!
Membership Updates
2019 dates updated
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Many of our lucky members go to Florida or other points south but I find myself looking out the window at our camp where it has been snowing on and off all day! Not surprising when you consider how close we are to Santa's Workshop! However, back home in Peru the early tulips and daffodils are poking their heads out of the ground. It won't be long now!
May
IS
right around the corner, and our first membership meeting will bring us together again for floral design with our gracious instructors, Grace and Renee. The rest of our calendar is full of wonderful events, visits, activities. The full program is listed below. Please take time to RSVP so we can plan accordingly.
Finally, very sad news that our new member Lynn Harrison has lost her husband in a bicycle accident. We send Lynne and her family our heartfelt condolences.
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Upcoming Event: Floral Design Workshop - May 28
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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
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Visiting Gardens Plan for Two Wonderful Trips
See below for details of both events
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Trip to Rocky Dale Gardens in Vermont
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The Visiting Garden Committee invites you
to join us on a visit to
Rocky Dale Gardens
Bristol, Vermont
June 26, 2019
Please join us on a trip across Lake Champlain to explore this unique venue, and browse their large selection of perennials, annuals, and shrubs. The nursery is situated in a sheltering notch, that enables growing alpines, as well as plants for warmer zones. The many unusual specimens and beautiful display gardens will inspire you. Also, a large selection of pottery and structural elements for the garden are available for purchase. Here is a description from online:
"Rocky Dale Gardens is a destination nursery and display garden, specializing in unique conifers, trees, shrubs, and perennials. The garden and nursery are situated in the schist outcrops and ledges that protrude from the base of South Mountain, one and a half miles north of Bristol village. Started in 1981, the gardens feature many mature conifers and woody plant specimens."
Members will meet at the Essex ferry at 9:45am to take the 10:00 ferry to Charlotte, Vt and then travel to Rocky Dale Nursery in Bristol, VT. (38 minutes). We will have lunch at 1:15-1:30 PM at The Bristol Cafe after our morning garden visit.
Trip Date: June 26 / Rain Date: June 27
Address
: 806 VT-17, Bristol, VT 05443
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Trip to Domaine des Fougeres in Quebec
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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
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Save the Date: Tuesday, July 9
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a special event
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
WeedWrangle
Boquet River Trailhead
9:00 AM
Details will follow
The Executive Committee Meeting will be that same afternoon.
Time to be announced.
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Conservation Committee Concentrated Study
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MICROPLASTICS: THE INVISIBLE PROBLEM
Microplastics are extremely small pieces of plastic debris in the environment resulting from the disposal and breakdown of consumer products and industrial waste.
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Microplastics range in size from a few millimeters down to microscopic. They come from larger plastic pieces that degrade into smaller ones. They also come from resin pellets (raw plastic made into an end-use item such as a plastic bag), and they come from personal-care products that contain microbeads (small, manufactured plastic beads). In 2015, the Microbead-Free Waters Act banned plastic microbeads in cosmetics and personal care products.
Small and large animals and birds consume microplastics. Those consumed by aquatic life are passed up the food chain to guess who? We all have microplastics in our tissues: from the fish we eat, the salt we sprinkle on food (produced by evaporating sea water), the air we breathe, and the water we drink. And studies show there are more microplastics in bottled water than in tap water.
The most abundant type of microplastic in our oceans is called microfibers. These microfibers are shed from synthetic material into the washing machine, escape the filters in the machine, go down the drain and escape the wastewater facilities to flow into rivers and eventually the oceans.
They come from fleece jackets, nylon, polyester, rayon, acrylic, and spandex. The outdoor clothing company Patagonia has been working on the issue of microplastics. A study it funded showed that top-loading washing machines release many times more microfibers than front loaders, and that washing in hot water releases far more than washing in cold water, and that old clothes release more than new clothes.
More on Microplastics in the June Issue.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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Did you know...
There is a difference between seed types?
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Each month, if there are Membership Updates, they will appear in this area of the newsletter. If you have any updates you would like to have published, please submit them
HERE
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Please welcome two new members:
Lynn Harrison
of Tupper Lake
Susan Lacy
of Keene
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DIG IN AND WIN: SEEDS!
Our New Propagation Challenge!
Let’s keep growing together.
You can be a winner in THREE easy steps:
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- Propagate a plant from seed. (It can be an annual, perennial, or vegetable). Use the GCA propagation card to keep track of date started, transplanted, and growing conditions over the next few months.
- Photograph your “entry” at its’ height of perfection. Please note date of photo.
- Send us your photo along with the information from your propagation card by September 15, 2019. To submit your entry simply click here or visit the Horticulture Committee’s landing page in the Members Area of the GCA website to fill out the submission form, or email us at: TRD@gcamerica.org.
Thanks so much for your participation. This is a fun challenge and everyone can participate!
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May 28, 2019
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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
And please bring your creative spirit!
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
PLEASE NOTE:
If you have any specific questions that you would like
Bunny Goodwin to answer during her presentation, please send them to
Liz Jaques
by June 5
June 26, 2019
Visiting Gardens
Rain date – June 27
July 10, 2019
Visiting Gardens
Domaine des Fougeres
Knowlton, Quebec
Rain date - July 11, 2019
Save the date: Tuesday, July 9
WeedWrangle
Boquet River Trailhead
9:00 AM
Details will follow
The Executive Committee Meeting will be that same afternoon.
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: 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Business Meeting - 1:30 PM
Presentation and breakout sessions - 3:15 pm – 5:30 pm
RSVP: To be announced
August 15, 2018
Visiting Gardens
Sara Jane DeHoff
Gull Rock Camp
Lake Placid, NY
Details to be announced
RSVP: 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
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!
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.
For a printable copy, click
HERE.
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AGC eNews
eNews is a monthly publication
produced by the Communications/Website Committee
of the Adirondack Garden Club
PO Box 72
Keene, NY 12942
Editor, Jennifer Lagor
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