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Our
new Board of Directors was installed at our Annual
Meeting & Banquet at the Barker Tavern, Scituate with 65 members in
attendance. Full listing of BOD is on the reverse. There is a change in the
board since the yearbook was published. Robin Greland has joined the
board to join Terri Milley on Programs. Julie Mahoney has resigned from
the board and there is no replacement at this time. Also, Deborah Zawalich,
Director, was inadvertently left off the BOD list in the yearbook. Lorraine
Gaysunas and Judy Grecco, Co
Chairs of the Banquet, and their committee did a fantastic job of putting
together the banquet. Our thanks go out to their entire team. The restaurant was
decorated beautifully and the food & service were both exceptional, as usual
for the Barker Tavern. For the first time we had ‘food stations’. The club
donated a very generous payment towards each attendee’s price, as this was
more substantial than our usual venue. This
was in appreciation of the very hard work done during the Plant sale prep and
sale day.
Boston
Floral & Gifts- Norwell Village
Green– Sue Vaille, Hanover Garden
Craft-Hanover Kennedy’s
Country Gardens- Scituate Hillbilly
Acres-Doug Litchfield, Scituate Wyman’s
Garden Center-Hanson That Bloomin
Place- Pembroke The
Queen’s Garden-Norwell/Weymouth North
River Florist-Hanover Karen
Lee Flowers- Hanover Hanover
Country Florist- Hanover Petal
Pushers– Judy MacDonald, Plymouth Blooming
Arts– Shirley Minott, Hanover Oasis
Day Spa– Julie Mahoney, Weymouth Copper
Garden Art– Linda Boddie Shaw’s-
Hanover Roche
Brothers- Marshfield Trader
Joe’s- Hanover Stop
& Shop- Hanover Village
Gardens-Norwell Whole
Foods Market- Hingham Red
Cider Mill- Hanover Deborah
Zawalich, Hanover Please
thank them by supporting them with your patronage. If
you were unable to attend the banquet please pick up your yearbook during
the hospitality portion of the October 3rd meeting or call Sandra for
other arrangements. (781-826-4734). We will not be mailing them this year.
OCTOBER
3rd GENERAL MEETING The
Life of Bee Keeping by Jeannine Doyle @
Phoenix Lodge. 7:30 PM. Hidden
Hollow is Jeannine & Fred Doyle’s’ environmental friendly retreat. As
avid gardeners they took their passion for bee keeping very seriously and set up
an impressive collection site. Jeannine is an entertaining speaker who will
bring her expertise of bee keeping to our members. GUESTS are welcome. Lug-a-mug
applies at this meeting. Captain:
Karen Pritchard. Hostesses: Kathy Murray, Denise Campbell, Kay Giardiello, Linda
Kakulski, Bea Krupa, Anne Lorge. NEW MEMBERS Please
extend a warm welcome to: Jeannie Griffith, Gail MacDonald, Bill Scarpelli, Ava
Sigsby NEW MEMBERS TEA
Ellen
Butler
will be hosting the tea at her home on October 15th. Any new member
from this year, or last year, who has not been to a new members’ tea is
invited to join. Invitations will go out to this year’s new members. If you
have not been to a new members’ tea and want to attend please contact Ellen
Butler. We all appreciate Ellen’s dedication to her position. Any new member
who is unable to attend can get general information from any board member. Be
sure to RSVP please (Ellen- 781-871-0439). TRIPLE E IN
HANOVER
Triple
E has been found in Hanover so please take proper precautions. GIPSY GROUP FIELD TRIP-Gardeners
Interested in Photographing Subjects for You
DATE:
October 13th (Friday) TIME:
Meet @ Hanover Bandstand @ 8:30
AM SHARP to carpool to the T station in Braintree APPROXIMATE
RETURN TIME: 1:00-2:00 COST:
$25.00 plus tip and T fare. RSVP
ASAP to Rosemary Sampson @ 781-826-3653 or Sandra Woodward @ 781-826-4734. SPACE
IS AVAILABLE. CALL ASAP The
first meeting is another morning with Saba
Alhadi, founder of PhotoWalks in Boston. We will be doing her new Back Bay Tour.
Join us to see how to capture Copley Square at its best. Cost is $25.00 plus tip
and cost of the T. PLEASE RSVP IMMEDIATELY TO ROSEMARY OR SANDRA. We
will take the T from Braintree (or Quincy) if there is parking there, if not, we
will drive in. the tour is about 90 minutes. If you want to be on the Gipsy
email group listing please send your name, email address, and telephone number
to Rosemary
Sampson or Sandra Woodward. Being on the list does not commit you
to anything. If
you attended the filming of the UPN38 Morning Show - Robi on the Road last May,
please see Sandra Woodward during the refreshment part of October meeting for a
DVD of the event. (Marie Sisk, Judy Grecco, Suzanne Fox, Betsy Jackson,
Louise Sironi, Suzanne Mahoney,Sandra Woodward, Rosemary Sampson- if anyone is
missing in this listing please call Sandra immediately so another copy can be
made before the meeting.) WORKSHOPS NEW
FALL PERENNIAL DIVISION WORKSHOP Geared for the novice gardener. Suzanne Mahler
will host a hands-on workshop featuring division of Siberian iris,
daylilies, hosta, and peonies on Tuesday, October 10th at 10:00 a.m. at 152
Brookwood Road, Hanover, rain or shine. Bring gloves and bug spray. All
other necessary gardening tools will be provided. RSVP to Leslie Murphy at jlja@comcast.net. Hope
to see you there! DECORATING
WORKSHOP IN DECEMBER We
are looking for new ideas for our projects offered at this Holiday Workshop, our
most popular meeting of the year. Our usual projects are boxwood trees, kissing
balls, mantel & centerpieces, swags, and boxwood topiaries. We are adding
odapter rings (for insertion into candle sticks and sold as a pair). Last year
we added grapevine trees and will do that again this year and may add a
grapevine wreath too (see note for grapevine projects). Give your suggestions to
Leslie
Murphy or Ann Litka. NOTE:
The grapevine projects involve a preliminary meeting on October 17th
@ 10 AM at the home of Suzanne Mahoney to cut the grapevines and form
the base shape. Rain date is Oct. 24th.Then you bring the form to the
Workshop Meeting and finish the project. Also,
we are planning a HYPERTUFA workshop and a TOPIARY workshop in the
spring of 2007. Details will follow at the appropriate time. HALLOWEEN
PARTY FOR ALL MEMBERS, YOUNG AND OLD
Club
member Teri
Mallory and her husband, Norm Cedarstrom, are hosting a Halloween
Event on October 22nd from NOON to 4 PM at 33 Farm Hill Lane,
Norwell. All
club members, their children (and friends), and grandchildren are invited to
attend. Helen Mischler and Michelle Hardy will be chairing a Juniors Carving
Table. Please bring a pumpkin. You can clean the seeds out ahead but it is not
mandatory. When you cut the top remember to cut at an angle so the top does not
fall into the pumpkin when put back on. We will have some carving tools but if
you have your own please bring them. We have some craft items left over from
last year but if you want something special you can bring your own. Full details
will be presented at the October General Meeting. If you donate any food items
for the snack they must be labeled ‘NUT FREE’ or ‘CONTAINS NUT PRODUCTS’
(even if a nut oil). We have nut allergies amongst the Junior Gardeners and want
to take full precautions at all meetings involving them. JUNIOR GARDENERS
Our
Junior Division Chairs, Helen Mischler and Michelle Hardy, are taking
names for Junior Membership. Please let them know if you want to be included in
their personalized notices. You are not committed by signing up. CALL
TO FALL CONFERENCE of
Garden Club Federation of MA Held
at the Holiday Inn in Mansfield on Wednesday, October 25th.
Design Program speaker is Andrew Anderson with ‘Using the Unexpected and the
Everyday in Floral Arranging’. 8 AM registration with adjournment at 2:45 PM.
Deadline is approaching, reservation application will be available at the
October meeting. Cost is $45, includes meal. RECYCLING
We
are still collecting empty ink-jet cartridges from your printer, toner
cartridges from printers and copying machines and we are now also collecting old
cell phones. Use our pre stamped mailing packages to dispose of these toxic
offenders. They will be recycled properly and at the same time will be producing
a small income to the club. The mailing bags are available at our general
meetings. SOUTH
SHORE BREAST CENTER, WEYMOUTH- FLORAL DONATIONS
Sept.
18th- Ann Litka Sept.
25th- Sandra Woodward Oct.
2nd- Thea Nestervich Oct.
9th- Mugsie Sarson Oct.
16th- Nancy Arienti Oct.
23rd- Jeannine Doyle Oct.
30th- Louise Sironi Please
see Suzanne Fox to sign up for November or December. FUNDRAISING PROJECTS
GARDENERS’ PALATE
We
have cookbooks for sale. Gardeners’ Palate books are $18.00 each and have over
525 recipies included, along with cooking tips. Suzanne Fox and Louise Sironi
chaired this fundraiser. Louise has posession of the books and will have them at
each meeting, or you can call her directly for pickup at her home. PLANT MARKERS
Suzanne
Mahler
continues to sell our plant markers. They will be available at the October
meeting. If you want them between meetings please contact Suzanne directly. 13”=
$ .75 or 20”= $ .80 GARDEN GLOVES
The
price for our gloves is being dropped to $4.00 a pair. They are available at
each meeting until sold out. We may not order again so get your gloves now. ANY IDEAS?
If you know of
a good fundraising project please give your suggestions to anyone on the board
and ask that it be brought up at the next board meeting. TIPS OF THE MONTH-HORTICULTURENOW
is the time to plant crocus, tulips, snowdrops, daffodils, and narcissus. You
can plant anytime up to when the ground freezes. If you don’t have time to
plant now then dig your holes now while the ground is soft and the plant
later, anytime up to November. FALL
COLOR best buys by Rebecca’s Garden™.
Five favorite fall bloomers: mums, asters, pansies, sedum and ornamental grass. 1)
Mums - Their colorful mounds of blooms come in a wide variety of shapes
and sizes, from the more common cushion mums to the tiny, new Belgium bloomers. These
popular perennials are very easy to grow and will produce flowers from September
to the end of October. 2)
Asters - Next to mums, asters are one of the most popular flowers in the
fall garden, and for good reason. Their feathery blooms come in beautiful shades
of pinks, blues and lavenders, and they are one of the last flowers to leave the
garden. There
are over 200 types of asters available. Many are native to North America and
will grow just about anywhere in the country. Asters produce daisy-like blossoms
that range in size from a ½ inch to 2 inches. They will tolerate various
lighting conditions, from full sun to part shade, and reach all different
heights. 3)
Pansies - Pansies rise to glory in the fall. They're surprisingly
cold-hardy in most of the country, and in warmer climates, their bright faces
can bloom all winter long. Fall
planted pansies often grow twice the size and produce more flowers, because they
love the cooler temperatures and their root systems just keep on developing. 4)
Sedum - For a very unusual plant, you have to try sedum. Sedums are
succulents that add a unique texture and color to the fall garden. One of the
most popular varieties is “Autumn Joy.” It has a bushy appearance with dense
heads of broccoli-like flowers. They start out green in the bud stage and slowly
change into a deep, rosy pink as fall arrives. The best part about growing sedum
is that it's low maintenance, drought tolerant and grows well in any type of
soil. 5)
Ornamental Grasses - Now if you want colorful foliage that adds movement
and texture to the fall garden, ornamental grasses can't be beat. On a golden
autumn afternoon, these perennials will light up your backyard. Some are tall
and feathery, while others have soft plume-like foliage. With all ornamental
grasses, you don't want to cut them down, not even in the winter. In the spring,
you should cut them down to about 6 inches from the ground. LOST-
PLEASE READ
The
basket that has a key tied to it was not returned after the May or June meeting
(not sure which one it was lost at). If you worked on the hostess committee for
either of those meetings please try to remember who handled it last. This basket
needs to be returned to Donna Kirby. NOTICE TO ALL BOARD MEMBERS
The
board photograph will be taken at the next board meeting, October 24 at the
Phoenix Lodge. Please be sure to attend so everyone is in the picture
and arrive early. CHANGE OF TIME- 7:15 SHARP. BARCELLOS & KANE
After
the June Plant Sale it was necessary for the Woodward’s lawn to be core
aerated with overseed due to the extreme wet conditions and heavy traffic on the
water soaked lawn. Barcellos
& Kane
came through with an amazing job. The results are fantastic and if anyone wants
to see it close up to get to know more about it you can stop by, call Sandra
first.
NOTE
FROM SANDRA- I would like to
thank everyone involved in voting me in as a Life Member of Walnut Hill Garden
Club. I was surprised to hear it at the banquet and was caught off guard when
asked to speak so I just spoke as it came. I am truly indebted to WHGC for all
the friendships, memories, and learning experiences that have come my way. I
look forward to many more wonderful moments with all our members. With
deepest appreciation, Sandra
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2006-2007 President*-
Suzanne Fox Vice
President*- Louise Sironi Second
Vice President*----
Recording
Secretary*- Liz Fallon Corresponding
Sec.*- Betsy Jackson Treasurer*-
Linda Boddie Auditor*-
Jan Guimond Assistant
Treasurer-Diane Sawin Director
Emeritus- Suzanne Mahler Director-
Deborah Zawalich Programs-
Terri Milley Programs-
Robin Greland Communications-
Sandra Woodward Membership-
Ellen Butler Publicity-
Karen Korszeniewski Hospitality-Donna
Kirby Workshops-
Leslie Murphy Workshops-
Ann Litka
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