NAUSET GARDEN CLUB’SSummer 2011, VOL XXVII, No. 4, Issue 121Bev Singleton, Editor

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE – Mary Ellen Sussman

This year has gone by so quickly, I wouldn’t believe that it’s May except that the trees have just burst into bloom and my tulips are glorious. But, last fall I forgot a basic lesson of tulip culture. Even if you worship parrot tulips, (as I do) it’s best to plant several different varieties. Otherwise, they all bloom at once…and then you have none! There will not be a single one left for “Art in Bloom,” where they had figured prominently in my plans.

Even though our club year is winding down, there’s a whole lot to look forward to. First, of course, is “Art in Bloom.” Then we have the plant sale (where I never dress warmly enough, no matter how sunny the day.) Then there’s the annual luncheon, this year at Eastward Ho! And then, we go to the WAFA show in Boston, which I am REALLY looking forward to.

And that’s not enough? There’s still the trip to the hydrangea farm on Nantucket on July 13 th. After that, a well-deserved summer break for all of us.

I hope you will plan to come to the annual luncheon on June 8 th. It’s a chance to have a good lunch with a spectacular view of Pleasant Bay, get to know some new (or old) members, meet this year’s scholarship winners, and congratulate the winners of our design and horticulture competitions. Also, this year’s terrific class of provisional members will be welcomed into the club.

It’s been such a pleasure working with all of you this year. I’m proud to be part of such a great club.

“ART IN BLOOM” – Nancy Clough/Wendy BellavanceMany thanks for all who made Art in Bloom a success.  As always, the designs were beautiful, and the willingness to pitch in even more so!

PLANT SALE – Gretel Norgeot

Our annual plant sale will be held at Friends Market Place on Saturday, May 28 th

beginning at 7:00 AM. All members are expected to contribute at least six plants to the sale, and have them pre-marked with identification tags and prices. Please deliver your plants by 6:00 AM. Besides contributing plants, members are asked to help set up the sale, assist customers with their purchases, and help clean up afterward. So, be sure to come and help make this fund-raiser a big success.

GARDEN THERAPY – Heidi Quill

By June we will have completed five projects with the students at the Latham School this year. We started off the year with a mixed dried and live arrangement in small hollowed out pumpkins with Norie Leonard and Peggy Sheehan as our leaders. In December Martine Amundson and Barbara Blanchard spearheaded the group, and we made silver, blue and white holiday arrangements with greens. Marcia Bechtold, Mal Bornemeier, and Nancy Miller led our Valentine effort, making cards with live flowers. In April, it was spring baskets planted with pansies and a decorated egg led by Judy Johnson, Sally Drew and Heidi Quill. June will be container plantings for the campus that we will expect to see when we return in the fall. Judy Saulnier, Joanne Smith, and Barbara Blanchard are directing that project. A special thank you to the provisional group, who had four or five members present to help at each event. We really couldn’t have completed all these projects without them! Kate McNulty even came three times. Please get in touch with Heidi Quill (508 945 5093) if you’d like to be involved with us at the Latham School next year.

CALENDARJUNE

1 BOARD MEETING: 9:30 AM* at Cape Cod Five; Hostess: Mary Ellen Sussman

*Refreshments at 9:00 AM

8 ANNUAL MEETING and LUNCHEON: 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM Eastward Ho! Chatham

Please indicate your entrée selection on the form on page 3, and mail it along with your check in the amount of $30 made out to Nauset Garden Club to Joan Karter, Box 734, East Orleans, MA 02643 by May 27th. Members are asked to wear spring hats for this special occasion.

17 TRIP World Association of Flower Arrangers (WAFA): The 10th WAFA Show show is being held at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston from June 15-19, 2011, and will not be held again in the U.S. in our lifetime. The club has chartered a bus to take us to the show on June 17th, leaving from Staples parking lot at 8:00 AM and returning at 5:00 PM. The cost of the bus and your admission ticket will be $50, with reservations on a first come, first served basis. Please mailyour check made out to Nauset Garden Club in the amount of $50 to Nancy Clough, Box 1076, East Orleans, 02643.

JULY

13 TRIP The club will be taking the 8:00AM ferry from Harwich to Nantucket to visit Mal

Condon’s Hydrangea Farm. Cost of the trip will be $96, which will cover the cost of the ferry ($76) and the $20 fee for the tour of the farm. To reserve your space on this trip, please send your check in the amount of $96 made out to Nauset Garden Club to Mary Ellen Sussman by July 1st.

NO REGULAR MEETING – HAPPY GARDENING

AUGUST

NO MEETINGS – HAPPY GARDENING

10 GRAPEVINE and Yearbook 2011-2012 Deadline

OTHER DATES OF INTEREST:

June 24-26, 2011, Newport Flower Show June 30, 2011, Heritage Museums “Enchanted Garden Tour” in Hyannis Port, 9:30 AM – 3:00 PMJuly 10, 2011, Provincetown Secret Garden Tour, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PMJuly 14, 2011, Osterville Garden Club Garden Tour

July 16-23, 2011, Barnstable County Fair, Standard Flower Show August 3, 2011, Falmouth Garden Club House Tour and Standard Flower ShowAugust 10, 2011, Nantucket Garden Club House and Garden Tour, 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM RECEPTION FLOWERS for CCMNH – Debby Saliba

Each week one of our members supplies a plant or flower arrangement to be on display at the reception desk of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History (CCMNH). Assignments are being made alphabetically. The arrangements

should be delivered to the library on Thursday in a disposable container, if possible.  If the container is not disposable, be sure to put your name on the bottom. Please tuck a card under the container listing the names of the flowers and plants in the arrangement and any specific watering instructions.  No artificial plant material may be used. When you drop off your arrangement, please pick up the container from the previous week (if it was not disposable) and return it to its owner at our next monthly meeting.  If you are

unable to fulfill your assignment, please find a substitute and let Debby Saliba, Chairman, know who will be filling in for you.

JUNE: 2 – Melinda Conrad-Cooke JULY: 7 – Sandy Delnickas AUGUST: 4 – Elaine Downs 9 – Jan Crabtree 14 – Sally Dewing 11 – Sally Drew

16 – Diane Davis 21 – Carol Dexter 18 – Betsy Evans 23 – Sharon Davis 28 – Carolyn Dowd 25 – Lynn Farber

30 – Liz deLima

Nauset Garden Club LuncheonWednesday, June 8th, 2011

11:30 am – 2:00 pmAt Eastward Ho! Country Club, 325 Fox Hill Rd., Chatham, Massachusetts

Entrees – please choose from these selections:

Cobb Salad

Hearts of romaine with Diced Ham, Grilled Chicken, Avocado, Tomato, Smoked Bacon, HardBoiled Egg, Crumbled Blue Cheese and Garlic Croutons with your Choice of Dressing, or

Seafood Trio SaladCrab, Tuna and Lobster Salad served over Field Greens with Sliced English Cucumber, Vine

Ripened Tomato and Avocado

Both served with warm rolls and butter, plusDessert

Individual Seasonal Fruit Tart, Berry Coulis and Whipped Cream

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Your Name_______________________________________________________________________

Your choice: Cobb Salad__________ Seafood Trio Salad___________

Please mail this form and your check for $30 made payable to the Nauset Garden Club to Joan Karter, P. O.Box 734, East Orleans, MA 02643

DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS IS MAY 27TH

MAIL YOUR CHECK TODAY!

Please wear a spring hat to this festive occasion.MEMBERSHIP DUES

must be paid byJune 1st

Please fill in the form below and mail it with your check to Jan Crabtree, Box 858, South Orleans, MA 02662.

Active Member ($50.00) $____________

Associate Member ($60.00) $____________

One-year subscription to the Mayflower ($8.00) $____________

Total Amount Enclosed: $____________

Name: _______________________________________Telephone ________________________________

Address: ______________________________________________________________________________

Email address: _________________________________________________________________________

Please make your check payable to Nauset Garden Club and mail it along with this form to: Mrs. Jan Crabtree, Nauset Garden Club, P.O. Box 858, South Orleans, MA 02662.

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”I heard it through the Grapevine…” Editor’s Note: As time and space permit, we will include items of personal interest in this column. If you have a special gardening story, recipe, poem, photograph, helpful hint, or special event in your life that you would like to share with our members, please mail it to me at 6 Viking Road, Orleans, MA 02653, or email it to seafarms@gmail.com.

Recipe: Cold Cucumber Soup from Sue Christie

Before we know it, an abundance of fresh cucumbers will be dancing their way into our kitchens, so here’s a recipe for a delicious cold cucumber soup.

Put into blender the following 5 ingredients and blend until liquefied:

1 medium onion, chopped1 medium cucumber, peeled & cubed with seeds3/4 cup chicken broth 1 can cream of chicken soup1 cup sour cream

Add the following ingredients and blend again:6 dashes Tabasco sauce6 dashes Worcestershire sauce

1/4 tsp. celery salt1/4 tsp. curry powder

Chill for at least 2 hours, preferably overnight. Serve with a dollop of sour cream and chopped chives. Serve 4 

SCHOLARSHIPS – Stacey Morgano

This year the club awarded three scholarships of $5000 each for the 2011-2012 academic year. Because the amount of the scholarships was so generous, we had graduate students applying for the first time, in addition to many junior and senior undergraduates. The twenty students who completed applications came from sixteen different towns on Cape Cod and the Islands, and from ten different colleges and universities. Eleven of the applicants are students at the University of Massachusetts graduate and undergraduate schools.

The winners of this year’s scholarship awards are: Keli Ann Gates, Katherine Terkanian, and Jarrod Fowler. All three will be with us at our annual meeting and luncheon on June 8 th. Please introduce yourselves and get to know these talented young people who represent a bright future for our environment.

Keli Ann Gates is majoring in Environmental Policy as a graduate student in the Master of Public Policy program at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She believes it extremely important for decision makers to consider the actual cost value of natural capital which includes wetlands, forests, and open spaces. Keli would establish a Numerical Value System data base for the state’s resources. An example, wetlands may have a value of $4 million annually because of the service they provide the environment. Her grade point average is 3.286.

Katherine Terkanian is a Master of Science graduate student in the Department of Environmental Conservation at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a focus on the ecology and genetics of horseshoe crabs on Cape Cod. Horseshoe crabs are commercially and ecologically important and, perhaps as a result of overharvesting, are in severe decline. Her study will help define what the scale of management should be and will point to important habitats to protect for future spawning. Katherine is currently the project manager for Atlantic crab research at Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, and oversees 75 volunteers working at eight locations across Cape Cod as. Her grade point average is 4.0.

Jarrod Fowler is working for an undergraduate degree in Horticulture Science, at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He plans to apply the principles of biological pest control to problematical systems to address current challenges facing the region. He plans to foster sound horticulture practices for towns, businesses, and homeowners. His example is the invasive pest, the Winter Moth, which has damaged and defoliated ornamental plants of Cape Cod. Jarrod will be assisting a professor, who is a biological control specialist, to introduce and establish a parasitic fly to control Winter Moth infestation. His grade point average is 3.90

I would like to thank the scholarship committee for their great work throughout the year, and special thanks to Mary Ellen Bower for all she did to publicize the scholarships and attract so many well-qualified applicants. A New York Times article on April 11th entitled “Burden of College Loans on Graduates Grows” begins by staying, ”Student loan debt outpaced credit card debt for the first time last year...” As Nauset Garden Club members we can be proud to know that we are doing our part to help ease the problem.

WEB SITE – Carol Alper

Our club’s web site is a work-in-progress, with Terry Machie doing the updating for us.  Any suggestions for adding to the website or making it more user-friendly should be sent to Mary Ellen Sussman, who will be working with Terry on the site over the summer.

Also, Peg Sheehan has created a club account on Shutterfly.com, where we can post photos of club events, so they will be available to be viewed by the entire club.   Type in the website’s name: www.nausetgardenclub.shutterfly.com, then type in our password:

flowers.  Peg has already posted many club photos on the site, and asks that other members add their own photos of club events for all to share. Thanks, Peg, for making this available very useful service available to the club. 

CONGRATULATIONS TO IRENE MITCHELL!Each year the “Florabunda Award” is presented by the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts to one individual in each of the GCFM”s member clubs. This year our club nominated Irene Mitchell for the Florabunda Award. Irene is a member of long-standing with our club, who has taught us all so much about floral design, through workshops and with her gentle manner while judging our design entries each month. She is always a willing volunteer for our special events and programs, and is a very pleasant person to be around. We congratulate Irene Mitchell, our 2011 Florabunda Award recipient.

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