member of the garden club of america february 2017...
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PRESIDENT’SLETTER
THEIVYVINE
I just loved our January meeting! The observations, comments and ideas were so thoughtful, encouraging, fresh and exciting that I am now completely reinvigorated and looking forward to allthings LGC, new, old and reimagined!
And we have plenty to be energized about, starting with our February joint meeting at Crosstown Concourse. This project, believed impossible by so many, is coming to completion and has already begun lifting a blighted neigh-borhood out of the depths to soaring new heights. The energy and joy sur-rounding Crosstown complements the growth and renewal going on all around our city. It’s a great time to be
a Memphian! I’m especially looking forward to riding the bus (yep, I said it again!) as I know the conversation will be rich and enlightening. See you at theMemphis Botanic Garden bus stop on February 9!
By now everyone who attended the or-chid workshop at Ruthie’s will be bring-ing their flailing orchids back to life - what a wonderful way to start the new year with renewal and restoration! And our Conservation Chairs are heading to Washington to learn about renewal on the national level ... along with many other issues facing our world regarding conservation of our natural resources. The Weed Wrangle is coming up this
The Little Garden Club of MemphisHorticulture, Conservation, Flower Arranging & Garden Design
Member of The Garden Club of America FEBRUARY 2017
Horticulture: Wintertime Color in the Garden ... page 6CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE ... page 1, 2 & 3
~ John Wesley
If your heart is like my heart, thengive me your hand.
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CROSSTOWNCONCOURSEJOINT MEETING 2017 WITH THE MEMPHIS GARDEN CLUB
DATE: Thursday, February 9, 2017
TIME: Meet at the Memphis Botanic Garden at 9:45am & Buses DEPART from MBG at 10am. After our tour and lunch, we will be back on the buses no later than 1pm.
PLACE: Buses will take us from MBG to Crosstown Concourse and Church Health for our 10:30am tour
RESERVATIONS: Mail $25 check for lunch, made payable to Sue Clark, One Cherokee Drive, Memphis TN, 38111. Deadline for reservations is February 4. Need a wheel-chair? Have additional questions? Contact Catherine Erb at [email protected]
CROSSTOWN ESSENTIALS: Page 2CROSSTOWN STORY: Page 3
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as seen in:BERGDORFS | VOGUE | HARPERS BAZAAR | BRIDES | TOWN & COUNTRY | ELLE DECOR | MARTHA STEWART | VERANDA | CARTIER | CLUB MONACO | ADAM LIPPES | BARNEYS | FERRAGAMO | HELLO MR. | WEST ELM | THE KNOT | THE FRICK COLLECTION | WALL STREET JOURNAL
Happenings Market opens at 9am, and the demonstration is from 10 to 11am.Tickets are $75.00 and include admission to the marketplace and demonstration.
Purchase tickets from the LGC ticket committee or visit LGCmemphis.com to purchase tickets online. To purchase tickets or for more information, contact Kate Connell at [email protected].
IT ALL HAPPENS ON MARCH 30 AT THE MBG!
HAPPENINGS TICKETS ON SALE NOW
reDEFINE simple beauty with exquisite artistry, featuringPutnam & Putnam, world-class floral designers, based in New York
The Little Garden Club would like to thank these generous sponsors:
Baker DonelsonCommercial Bank & Trust CompanyDuncan Williams, Inc.Flower MagazineGarden DistrictGreg Baudoin Interior DesignReliant Investment ManagementSissy’s Log Cabin
The Dabney NurseryDenis Ware, William Ware - Hobson RealtorsLimelight Paper & Partyware
Menage Fine Stationery & Gifts
DATE: Thursday, February 9, 2017
TIME: Meet at the Memphis Botanic Garden at 9:45am & Buses DEPART from MBG at 10am. After our tour and lunch, we will be back on the buses no later than 1pm.
PLACE: Buses will take us from MBG to Crosstown Concourse and Church Health for our 10:30am tour
ATTIRE: Wear comfortable shoes for our walking tour of Crosstown.
ACTIVITIES: The tour of Crosstown will end at Church Health, where we will be served lunch and hear our speaker, Dr. Scott Morris, CEO of Church Health and the visionary behind Crosstown Concourse.
RESERVATIONS: Please mail your $25 check made payable to Sue Clark, One Cherokee Drive, Memphis TN, 38111. Deadline for reservations is February 4.
SPECIAL NOTES: Riding the bus in this case is best for all of us!!! If you drive your car, you risk missing the tour and being lost. Please help us all out by joining us on a brief bus ride with our GCA friends! It will be a fun component of this meeting. ALSO, f anyone needs a wheelchair for the tour, please let Catherine Erb know at [email protected]
CROSSTOWN JOINT MEETING 2017 ESSENTIALS :
month, and I can promise you’ll learn more than you ever may have wanted to know about invasive plants when you participate in this event!! We’ll commence the battle against privet - and the privet won’t win!
Our Zone lX meeting in Natchez is March 21-23, and we’re going to need lots of Horti-culture so start thinking about the beautiful blooms and plants you may want to enter. Sally and EJ are preparing a fabulous flower arrangement, and we’ll all be heading to Natchez before you can say “Spring is here!!”
And when spring has sprung, Happenings will be springing too! Putnam & Putnam willspread their magic in floral design as they“reDefine simple beauty with exquisite art-istry.” Fabulous!!!
I’m so happy to be on this journey with you all, learning and sharing experiences togeth-er. Scott Morris, founder and CEO of Church Health, puts it this way with a quote of John Wesley’s ... ”If your heart is like my heart, thengive me your hand.” What a blessing that we can join our hearts and hands while we learn, grow and give back with a sense of purpose and joy! Happy Valentine’s Day to all!
Barbara WilliamsonPresident
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CROSSTOWN CONCOURSEOriginally the Sears Roebuck and Co. distribution center and retail store, this 1.5-million-square-foot building sat vacant for decades until a group of visionary leaders dreamed up a plan to transform the building into a focal point for Mem-phis.
Rebranded the Crosstown Concourse, the development has become a mixed use project anticipated to create 800 jobs and $37 million in new wages. Agents of good health, healing, arts and education comprise the group of tenants who will be part of a “vertical urban village” forging a new future for the building and the surrounding area. Tenants include Church Health, A Step Ahead, CBU, The Curb Market, Crosstown Arts, Crosstown High, Methodist, St. Jude, Memphis Teacher Residency and the Kitchen Next Door to name a few, though not all, of the people and businesses coming together to be Crosstown Concourse.
We will have the opportunity to tour this amazing facility and see first hand how true sustainability comes from the relationships between the tenants and the or-ganizations sharing this unique and historic space. We’ll hear from Dr. Scott Morris, CEO of Church Health, its new name and new brand that reflects its larger mission. Dr. Morris is one of the original pioneers of the project. CH is considered its anchor tenant, occupying 150,000 square feet of the space.
This is also a unique chance for us to see the conservation and horticulture efforts underway at Crosstown Concourse. We’ll see you on February 9, 2017 as Cross-town makes history in Memphis!
For further information on Crosstown Concourse and Church Health, view the video links below:
http://crosstownconcourse.com/gallerieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erg9JBYCgC0
We really look forward to seeing everyone at this meeting!
~ Catherine Erb & Leslie SchuttPrograms
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PRESIDENT’SLETTERA NEW FOCAL POINT FOR MEMPHIS
Each December the Memphis Area Master Gardener’s organization sells a beautiful and informative calendar with all the events for the year—LGC Happenings is included! Remember to buy one from your local nursery next December! A few highlights for the February To-do List:
• Apply pre-emergent weed control when forsythia is in bloom.• Fertilize boxwood and spring flowering bulbs.• Cut back monkey grass, ornamental grasses and ivy.• Late in the month prune hybrid tea roses by reducing canes by a third
and cut out all crossed branches. (Climbing roses are pruned in May.)• Spray dormant oil if not done in January.
1 - Kim Lowrance
5 - Julie Hussey
7 - Peggy Jones
9 - Connie Adams
14 - Linda Mallory
15 - Virginia Rowland
18 - Mimi Graves
FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYSGARDENING TO-DO LIST: FEBRUARY
~RuthieHorticulture
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Happy New Year! I hope that everyone is refreshed for the New Year and is excited about photography. There are a lot of upcoming flower shows, and photography is a fun, easy way to enter. The GCA website has all of the information on it. Go to the GCA website, sign into the member’s area, click on GCA Committee Pages, then Flower Shows, then Flower Show Committee. When you get to the Flower Show Committee page, then click on Upcoming Flower Shows, in the right hand box, and it will take you to the complete list. A few of the big shows that are juried are: Boston Mass Hort, Florescence in Houston and Maryland, which is the Annual Meeting. The Flower Show schedules tell you exactly how to email and enter in. If someone has a photo they want to enter and they have questions, they can call Vance or Tempe for help. Here are just a few reminders for what is coming up in flower shows:
1. Boston Flower Photography Division, Juried show, registration deadline is January 20th.
2. Florescence Waves, Juried show, registration closes January 21st. If you have registered for Florescence in the past then your user name is your email and your password is FloHouston2017.
3. GCA Annual Meeting, Juried show, registration deadline is Feb. 24th. They really need entries from our zone. LINK TO MARYLAND IN MAY FLOWER SHOW SCHEDULEhttps://www.gcamerica.org/index.cfm/members:main/getprotectedfile?common/document/FlowerShowCommittee_Uploads/Schedules/mim-schedule_final1.pdf
Upcoming Flower Shows:March 11-19, 2017 - Philadelphia Flower Show “Holland: Flowering the World”Zone V Sanctioned Non-GCA Major Flower Show hosted by Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
March 22-26, 2017 - Boston Flower & Garden Show, “Superheroes of the Garden” Zone I - divisions: FD, H, P Deadline is January 20th. Sanctioned Non-GCA Major Flower Show hosted by Mass Hort Society Schedules Contact: Chris Wood, [email protected]
March 21-23, 2017 - Riverside Reflections Zone IX - divisions: FD, H, P, BA, C, EGCA Zone Meeting Flower Show hosted by Garden Lovers of Natchez Schedule Contact: Pam Harriss, [email protected]
March 28-29, 2017- Carousel Zone IX GCA Flower Show hosted by Greenville Garden Club Schedule Contact: Hebe Splane; [email protected]
March 29 - April 1, 2017- The Arts of the Garden Zone XII- divisions: FD, H, P, C, EGCA Flower Show hosted by Woodside-Atherton Garden Club Schedule Contact: Heidi Johnson; [email protected]
April 2-3, 2017 – The Hills Are Alive Zone VIII - divisions: FD, H, P, BA, C, EGCA Zone Flower Show hosted by Carolina Foothills GC Schedule Contact: Cokey Cory, [email protected]
April 3-5, 2017 – Art, Angels and Academics Zone IXGCA Flower Show hosted by Alamo Heights-Terrell Hills GC Schedule Contact: Alicia Brusenhan, [email protected]
April 7-9, 2017 – L’Orangerie Zone VIII - divisions: FD, H, P, BA, C, EGCA Flower Show hosted by Garden Club of Palm Beach Schedule Contact: Nancy Murray, [email protected]
April 18-20, 2017 – Amazing! Zone VIII - divisions: FD, H, P,C, EGCA Flower Show hosted by Cherokee Garden Club Schedule Contact: Fluffly McDuffie, [email protected]
April 18-20, 2017 – Through the Keyhole - Magnifico! Zone IXGCA Flower Show hosted by Founders Garden Club of Dallas Schedule Contact: Joan Smith, [email protected]
April 19-21, 2017 – Star Power Zone XIIGCA Flower Show hosted by Garden Club of Santa Barbara Schedule Contact: Jocelyne Meeker, [email protected] ; Cheryl Miller, [email protected]
April 23-26, 2017- Florescence “Waves” Zone IX - divisions: FD, H, HD, P, BA, NA, Art by Invitation,C, E,GCA Major Flower Show hosted by River Oaks Garden Club & The Garden Club of Houston Schedule Contact: Carole Bailey, [email protected] and Sara Ledbetter, [email protected]
April 28-30, 2017- Les Belles Fleurs - Through the Looking Glass Zone XGCA Flower Show hosted by Indianapolis Garden Club Schedule Contact: Amy Cooke, [email protected]
May 4-6, 2017 - Maryland in May Zone VIGCA Annual Meeting Flower Show hosted by 2017 Annual Meeting Schedule Contact: Kathy Phillips, [email protected]
May 9-11, 2017 – On the Sunny Side of the Hudson Zone III - divisions: FD, H, P,C, EGCA Flower Show hosted by Garden Club of Irvington-on-Hudson Schedule Contact: Barbara Defino, [email protected]
May 11-14, 2017 – Inspirations 2017 Opus for Spring Zone XII - divisions: FD, H, P, BA, C, EGCA Major Flower Show hosted by Portland Garden Club Schedule Contact: Liza Lilley [email protected], Molly Herrle [email protected] (continued on page 5)
PHOTOGRAPHY NEWS
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THE LITTLE GARDEN CLUB OF MEMPHIS BOARD MEMBERS 2016 - 2018President 1st Vice President Treasurer Assistant Treasurer Secretary Corresponding SecretaryClub Administrator Entertainment Flower Show & Arrangements
Horticulture
Ivy Vine YearbookParliamentarian & HistorianAdvisory
Awards & Medals GCA BulletinPhotographyCommunity Projects &Sensory Garden Conservation &National Parks
Founders Fund &Long Range PlanningGarden Design &History
MembershipJudgingPrograms
Scholarship &Visiting GardensWays & Means
Ad Hoc (Travel)
Barbara WilliamsonVance LewisLeslie DunavantLucia CrenshawLinda Mallory
Michelle DunavantTempe ThompsonMary Call FordSue Clark
Katherine Dobbs Jeanne TaborKate TrammellKim MacQueen Ruthie TaylorChristian OwenVirginia Rowland
Mary SaxtonConnie AdamsAnne KeeseeLisa SnowdenGay BoydJanet MisnerStacey Hussey
Michel SkaggsShelley Turley
Ginger CollierJulie Hussey
Natalie Latham
Suzanne VarnerLisa WilderKatie EleazerKathy AdamsCatherine ErbLeslie Schutt
Debbie PhillipsKate ConnellKim LowranceChristy MullerPaige Proctor
DATES TO REMEMBERApril & May membership meetings are at 11am. (February & March are at different times to accommodate special programs.)
February 9Membership meetingJoint meeting with theMemphis Garden Club
March 30Happenings 2017 with Putnam & Putnam
April 6Membership meeting
May 11Membership meetingSpring picnic
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BOARD MEETINGSThe leadership board will meet on Wednesdays preceding the membership meetings, 10am at the Memphis Botanic Garden.
June 9-10, 2017 - Our National Parks, America’s Best Idea Zone IIGCA Flower Show hosted by Litchfield Garden Club Schedule Contact: Nancy Post, [email protected]
June 15-16, 2017 - By the Sea Zone IGCA Flower Show hosted by Piscataqua Garden Club Schedule Contact: Kimberly Devlin-Brytz, [email protected]
June 15-17, 2017 - It’s All Greek to Me Zone XGCA Flower Show hosted by Little Garden Club of Columbus Schedule Contact: Deborah Kelley, [email protected], Anne Hildreth [email protected]
June 16-17, 2017 - I Dwell in Possibility ... Zone IIIGCA Flower Show hosted by Millbrook Garden Club Schedule Contact: Richard McKeon, [email protected]
June 23-25, 2017 - Show of Summer - Children at Play Zone XIGCA Major Flower Show hosted by Winnetka Garden Club, Garden Guild of Winnetka, Garden Club of Barrington, Lake Forest Garden Club, Kenilworth Garden Club, Garden Club of Evanston Schedule Contact: Molly Stephan, [email protected]
June 23-25, 2017 - Newport Flower Show “Fete des Fleurs: Paintings and Parterres” Zone II Sanctioned Non-GCA Major Flower Show hosted by Preservation Society of Newpor-County Website Contact: Pat Fernandez, [email protected]
July 19-20, 2017 - Meet Me on Nantucket Zone I - GCA Flower Show hosted by Nantucket Garden Club Schedule Contact: Mrs. Charles S. Cruice (Kathy), [email protected]
Don’t miss out, ladies! Last call to jump on this “train” to Georgia!!
Upon arriving in Savannah on Tuesday, April 18, we will be boarding a trolley for our tour of Savannah and onward to din-ner. The following days we have an itinerary full of wonderful tours of historic homes along with some special visits to private gardens. Along the way there will be plenty of delicious food, beverages of choice and some free time to wander on your own.
If you would like to join us, please let us know asap in order for us to obtain any additional rooms. Georgia’s on our mind!
LAST CALL FOR LGC TRIP TO GEORGIA!!!
We would love to have you!
~Paige & Christy Travel
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~Stacey HusseyPhotography
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WINTERTIME COLOR IN THE GARDEN
Do you have a favorite shrub??? Well, I must admit that I do. In 1996, the year my grandmother died, my good friend in Charlotte, NC, gave me Daphne odora (common name: Winter Daphne) and I have never been without a Daphne in that same protected location since. While most everything in the garden is quiet this time of year Daphne is the first sign of color emerg-ing in January and February. Here it is now in January and then from my photo library in February. Fragrant and bursting with the most vibrant fuchsia it almost seems unnatural in February!
Once the daffodils start emerging the blossoms as if on que are opening into the most beautiful soft shade of yellow. The hel-lebores are blooming underfoot and welcome to the month of February!
While I would not recommend Daphne for Memphis — I would, however, recommend my new #2 favorite, Edgeworthia chrysantha (common name: paperbush) and coincidentally it is from the same plant family, Thymelaeaceae, as Daphne.
Several years ago in February I was at the Dixon and fell in love with this deciduous shrub carrying the most interesting white and yellow blossoms. Once again the garden was quiet and yet this fragrant shrub was putting on quite a show! With our light dusting of snow this week the white blossoms just look like big balls of snow hanging in mid air. This shrub truly brings me so much joy looking out my kitchen window every day.
~Kim & Ruthie, Horticulture
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The leaves in the summer are a lush deep green and you will not be disappointed in this shrub for the woodland garden. The Dixon will have a limited amount of Edgeworthia at the spring plant sale April 7 & 8…I will be there buying my third one!
Dale Skaggs reminded me that Double flowered Lenten roses are good winter flowering plants. I have also added these little jewels each year—reliable and lovely. Witch hazels, camellias, winter jasmine, mahonia, winter honeysuckle are all plants with winter interest that will be at the Dixon Plant Sale.
Look for updates in our next newsletter what to expect from the Memphis Botanic Garden Plant Sale April 21 & 22—Rick Pudwell said they are having lots of new additions! Do not rush springtime…savor these winter months!
Paul Garner, of the Memphis Orchid Society gave us some great tips! Gina, Sue, Mary Call, Chris, Eva Mae, Jean and Lucia soaked up his knowledge and below are a few things we learned.
• Orchids need 50% humidity and medium light.• Water “weekly/weakly” with tepid or lukewarm
water—never on top of the stem but around the top base with 1/4 strength fertlizer (Miracle Gro is fine). The water should have a slight blue tint. 20-20-20 or 15-15-15 with balanced nutrients. You can also take the pot and set in gravel filled tray filled with water for humidity. An Orchid plant should never be placed in water as it will kill the plant.You can fertilize very other week.
• Do not use ice cubes in your orchid—this will cause freeze damage.
• If you touch the leaves and they radiate warmth then you have them in a spot that is too sunny.
• Sterilize your scissors before cutting—wipe them clean with rubbing alcohol. You can dab a bit of cinnamon on the cut for a good fungicide (We will be selling great scissors at Happenings!)
• Orchids like to be root bound and tight…if you repot use Chilean or New Zealand moss; fir or spruce bark are also good for potting. Do not put them in a pot that is too big.
• To clean the leaves and to give them a sheen use milk and apply with a sponge or cheesecloth.
• The decorative pots at Kroger or a florist are good for looks but do not have a drainage hole--the plastic container should later be transferred to a clay pot with a drainage hole.
• Any insects on your houseplants??? 1/2 strength 409 works great.
PLEASE SEND ANY MEMORIALS TO:Lucia Crenshaw160 Cherry Road
Memphis, TN 38117
MEMORIAL FUND • SENSORY GARDENCHILDREN’S GARDEN
We need paper bags with handles for theHappenings Marketplace.
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WANTED:PAPER BAGS
Please drop at the front door of Ruthie Taylor’s house at 4220 Montrose or Loren Powell’s at 469 Goodwyn. We are happy to pick them up from your home too! Thank you for helping us to recy-cle and repurpose for Happenings!
Ruthie (901) 351-4503 and Loren (901) 219-4588
ADVICE FOR ORCHID LOVERS: FROM PAUL GARNER, MEMPHIS ORCHID SOCIETY
~RuthieHorticulture
Don’t miss a special addition to this month’s newslet-ter: Our LGC Conservation team, Ginger Collier and Julie Hussey, have shared an article from TN Conserva-tionist Magazine. The story features a one-man Weed Wrangle® in Memphis at the Lichterman Nature Center, and is included as an excerpt this month.
WEED WRANGLE® NEWS:
Note: The TN Conservationist story is only available in the digital version of your Ivy Vine.
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