NAUSET GARDEN CLUB’SFall 2011, VOL XXVII, No. 1, Issue 122Bev Singleton, Editor

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE – Mary Ellen Sussman

Well, I admit that this been a great summer, even for someone as lukewarm as I am about our usual seasonal madness. Not too hot, not too dry--and the hydrangeas have been sensational. In the latter half of July, I was lucky enough to get to see some great gardens in Vancouver, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, including the famous Butchart Gardens in Victoria, B.C. What a treat. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many roses as I saw on that trip. The weather must be ideal for them there.

Now it’s time to get back to business. Your committee chairmen have been hard at work putting together a great program for the coming year. Just to mention a few people, Irene Mitchell and Carol Newsome have spent many hours devising an exciting design

program. Fran McClennen has put together a very nice horticulture schedule, and Elizabeth Mead has come up with a workshop schedule that I think will be great fun. Our membership rolls are in great shape thanks to Sue McFarlane and Jan Crabtree; five of our currently active members have become associates, and we have ten provisionals coming on board. They will be welcomed into the club by Sandy Marshall, her committee, and the members who will act as their mentors. I surely cannot fail to also mention Bev Singleton, who has the very considerable task of getting this Grapevine issue and the yearbook to press simultaneously. Not many of us would be able to do it so well, and always on time.

I am working on a few ideas for the coming year, including the possibility of getting a Junior Gardener group going. I hope we can arrange for some more field trips. (The World Association of Flower Arrangers’ show was truly sensational, and the trip to Mal Condon’s Hydrangea Farm on Nantucket great fun.) Of course we’ll be gearing up for our Standard Flower Show next June and doing some major organizing for our (regionally famous!) Christmas at Crosby Mansion show in November 2012. My modest hope is that the coming year will be at least as good as last year, and that everyone has a lot of fun. See you in September!

RECEPTION FLOWERS for CCMNH – Debby Saliba Each week one of our members supplies a plant or flower arrangement to be displayed on the reception desk of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History. Assignments are made alphabetically.  The arrangements are to be delivered on Thursday in a disposable container, if possible.  If the container is not disposable put your name on the bottom and the member delivering flowers the following week can pick it up and return it to you at the next meeting. A card with the names of the plants should be tucked under the container. No artificial plant material may be used. A quarterly schedule of museum flower assignments is published in

the Grapevine and on the web site. If you are unable to fulfill your assignment, please find someone to replace you and notify the chairman, Debby Saliba, at 508-255-8652.

SEPTEMBER 1 – Mary Finan OCTOBER 6– Stephanie Gray NOVEMBER 3 – Sally Herbst 8 – Devon Foley 13 – Carrie Guiliano 10 – Nora Hersey

15 – Jan Gagliano 20 – Suzanne Hamilton 17 – Barbara Hoadley 22 – Jane Geiger 27 – Karen Helliwell (Wed.) 23 – Beth

Holden 29 – Dinny Goodwin

CALENDAR

SEPTEMBER

7 BOARD MEETING: 9:30 AM* – Hostess: Sharon Davis*Refreshments at 9:00 AM

All Board meetings will be at Cape Cod Five (CCF), 20 West Road, Orleans 9 WORKSHOP: 9:00 AM – Cape Cod Museum of Natural History (CCMNH)

“Bountiful Harvest: Pot au Fleur” presented by Jean Anderson, Past President, 1994-1996.Please bring your workshop toolbox, a tray to work on, a sharp kitchen knife, and a spoon. Pumpkins, squashes, fall flowers, and greens will be provided. Call Elizabeth Mead at 508-255-2465 to register. Fee $15.

14 REGULAR MEETING: 11:45 AM – Church of the Holy Spirit (CHS), Orleans (Horticulture and Design entries due at 11:30 AM)

Program: Business Meeting

Design: “Bountiful Harvest” - a design in designer’s choice of style. Use all fresh garden material. Accessories permitted. Staged within 18” x 18” area.

Horticulture: “Huge and Hardy Hostas” – one large hosta leaf with a width of 6” or greater, displayed in appropriate container. (Handbook pages 139-140)

Member’s Choice Exhibit “Something Specialto Show or Tell” – not to be judged. Describe on a 3x5card with your name on the front.

Special Presentation: “Are Your Tools in the Dulldrums?” – a 15 minute presentation by Charlie Wilson, The Tool Doctor, on the selection, use and care of tools. Charlie has offered to sharpen one hand

clipper or lopper for each member, at no cost, after the meeting.

OCTOBER 5 BOARD MEETING: 9:30 AM* –at Cape Cod Five, Hostess: Jeanne Berdik

* Refreshments at 9:00 AM

7 WORKSHOP: 9:00 AM - CCMNH“Surprise!” - presented by Stephanie Gray, Past President, 1996-1998Please bring your workshop toolbox, a container, an everyday household object, and your own flowers and greens. No fee. The more the merrier, but please register, so there will be an adequate number of tables and chairs.

12 REGULAR MEETING: 11:45 AM – CHS, Orleans (Horticulture and Design entries due at 11:30) Program: “Go Green! Non-Toxic Cleaning Products for the 21st Century” by Leslie Reichert, The Cleaning Coach.

Design: “Surprise!” – a design in designer’s choice of style, incorporating nontoxic, everyday household object(s) with fresh plant material. Staged within 18” x 18” area.

Horticulture: “Fleeting Roses” – one stem of any variety of blooming rose, with leaves, displayed in appropriate container. (Handbook pages 147-148)

Member’s Choice Exhibit: “Something Special to Show or Tell” – not to be judged; describe on a 3x5 card with your name on the front.

NOVEMBER

2 BOARD MEETING: 9:30 AM* –at Cape Cod Five, Hostess: Sandy Marshall*Refreshments at 9:00 AM

4 WORKSHOP: 9:00 AM – CCMNH “Turkey Day Cornucopia” by Sharon Davis, Future President, 2012-2014

Please bring workshop toolbox. All other materials will be provided. Fee $20.

9 REGULAR MEETING: 11:45 AM - CHS (Horticulture and design entries due at 11:30)

Program: “Floral Design: Autumn Splendor” by Elaine DiGiovanni and Linda Ladd

Design: “Turkey Day” – capsule functional table design for one person. Arrangement must be suitable for a round table seating 6 people, staged within 30” x 30” area. (Handbook page 216, B, 1-4 and pages 215-222)

Horticulture: “Late Summer Bloomers” – one stem of herbaceous perennial still in bloom, displayed in appropriate container. (Handbook pgs. 104-105)

Member’s Choice Exhibit: “Something Special to Show or Tell” – not to be Capsule Functional judged; describe on a 3x5 card with your name on the front. Table Design

9 GRAPEVINE DEADLINE

HOSPITALITY – Carolyn Dowd

Hospitality assignments are being made alphabetically, so that everyone participates in making sandwiches, cookies, a fruit platter, or a centerpiece. Members will be called in advance of the meeting as a reminder of your upcoming assignment. Please list the ingredients on a 3x5 card and bring your contribution on a serving plate to the hospitality area by 11:30 AM. Members bringing sandwiches are expected to set up the luncheon table and serve beverages. Those bringing cookies are responsible for cleanup. If you are unable to fulfill your assignment, it is your responsibility to find a substitute. In that case, please call the chairman, Carolyn Dowd at 508-240-0071 with the name of the person who will be taking your place

SANDWICHES (4 dozen) DESSERTS (2 dozen)SEPTEMBER

Carol Alper Barbara BlanchardMartine Amundson Marilyn BornemeierVirginia Barker Mary Ellen BowerMarcia Bechtold Beth BradaniniWendy Bellevance Janet Brink ConnieBender Eunice Burley Jeanne Berdik Jan Capodilupo

Nikki CarterOCTOBER

Janet Chappel Elizabeth deLimaSusan Christie Sandra DelnickasNancy Clough Sally DewingMelinda Conrad-Cooke Carol DexterJan Crabtree Carolyn DowdDiane Davis Elaine DownsSharon Davis Sally Drew

NOVEMBEREllen Bernstein Kay Nagle

Janet Brink Abby SummersgillCarolyn Dranginis Holly TrevisanKaren Halliwell Barbara WilliamsDeborah Kimball Betsy EvansElla Leavitt Joyce WoodCarolyn Dowd Ann SinclairHOSPITALITY – CONT’D.

SANDWICHES (4 dozen) DESSERTS (2 dozen)DECEMBER

Lynn Farber Carrie GuilianoMary Finan Susanne HamiltonDevon Foley Sally HerbstJanet Gagliano Nora HerseyJane Geiger Barbara HoadleyDinny Goodwin Beth HoldenStephanie Gray Sieglinde Hughes

JANUARYGloria Jaccarino Fran McClennenJudy Johnson Sue McFarlaneJoan Karter Kate McNultyJanet Lascher Elizabeth MeadJoy Long Phyllis MeadCarol Marsh Sherry MetzSandra Marshall Nancy Miller

FEBRUARYIrene Mitchell Diane PavelchakJudy Mitchell Nancy PhelpsPaula Moran Heidi QuillStacey Morgano Kathy RidellCarol Newsome Janet RobertsGretel Norgeot Barbara RoessnerCarolyn Otis Pam Russell

MARCHDebby Saliba Bev SingletonJudy Saulnier Diane SmithKaren Schwalm Anne StawiarskiPeggy Sheehan Elizabeth SuraciHelene Simon Mary Ellen SussmanAnn Sinclair Sally Taylor

APRILEdith Ward Ellen BernsteinMarty Williams Carolyn DranginisTina Williamson Karen HalliwellJanie Wilson Deborah KimballJoyce Wood Ella LeavittKay Nagle Martine AdmundsonBarbara Blanchard Janet Brink

MAYAbby Summersgill Virginia BarkerHolly Trevisan Marcia Bechtold

Marilyn Bornemeier Wendy BellevanceSally Dewing Connie BenderMary Ellen Bower Jeanne BerdikBeth Bradanini Janet ChappelEunice Burley Susan Christie

MEMBERSHIP – Sue McFarlane/Jan Crabtree

CONGRATULATIONS to Helga Frazzette, who was made an Honorary member in June!There have been several other changes to the club membership during the year. Five regular members changed their status to associate: Elaine Brooks, Barbara Langford, Susan Magary, Carol Seelbach, and Betsy Wilson. Four active members resigned from the club: Norie Leonard, Lorie Noble, Betty Santry, and Jean Uebele. Four associate members resigned from the club: Jean deJong, Ann Jamieson, Angela McCoy, and Joanne Smith. And, we are sorry that our dear member, Helene Hall, passed away.

As a result of all these changes, we are adding ten new provisional members to the club this fall. They are: Ellen Bernstein, Janet Brink, Carolyn Dranginis, Karen Helliwell, Deborah Kimball, Ella Leavitt, Kay Nagle, Abby Summersgill, Holly Trevison, and Barbara Williams. Please join us in welcoming the provisionals at the first club meeting on Septem ber 14th.

PROVISIONALS – Sandy Marshall

Ten women have joined the club as the provisional class for the coming year,. (See the list of names in Membership paragraph above.) A provisional committee made up of Wendy Bellavance, Paula Moran, Sue McFarlane, Melina Conrad-Cooke, and Sandy Marshall, Chairman, have been busy preparing for this new class by recruiting mentors to help guide the provisionals through their first year. We gathered everyone together in August for a luncheon and an initial informational meeting, and are looking forward to working together in the coming year. Please join us in welcoming the provisionals at the first club meeting on

September 14th. We hope you will take an opportunity to visit with them then and at subsequent meetings.

”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 02653-4624, or email it to seafarms@gmail.com.

“The People in My Garden” by Asa B. Pickney

(Thanks to club member Judy McKenzie, who submitted this.)

The 1990 census counted everyone in my house, but not the people living in my garden. There are at least 19. These people live on in the flowers and shrubs they gave me and my family. Let me see…there are daylilies, irises, wildflowers, and a pink climbing rose from my first grade teacher; daffodils, yucca, mock orange, and plums from Mom-maw; a Japanese maple given me by a professor when I graduated from college; a single red climbing rose from Granny; a 1949 hybrid tea from a great aunt; English boxwoods from the great uncle who taught me how to root cuttings of shrubs; sunflowers and rosy campion from my “adopted” grandparents next door, and many others from friends and relatives.

There is a maxim I have heard all my life – “I’ve never met a stingy gardener.” Whether it is watermelons and tomatoes from the vegetable garden, or a start of a flower or shrub, gardeners always share. The people who gave me plants, cuttings, and seeds did so because they wanted to share a favorite plant with someone who was interested. They gave me something more valuable than the plants, though. They gave me the joy of gardening and of sharing. They gave me a sense of importance - that I was worthy of their attention and worthy of taking care of a valued plant. They also gave me a garden composed of memories as much as of trees and flowers. When I walk through it, I see faces and hear voices; I never garden alone.

I may never get a statue or be honored on a postage stamp, but I’ll be more than happy with the memorial of someone saying, “Asa gave me that; every time it blooms, I think of him.SCHOLARSHIPS – Stacey Morgano

The club awarded three scholarships, each worth $5000, in 2011. Our winners, pictured above with Stacey Morgano, Scholarship Committee Chairman, are Jarrod Fowler (left photo), and Katherine Terkanian and Kelly Gates (right photo).

WORKSHOPS – Elizabeth Mead

This year’s workshops will be titled “The Year of the Nauset Garden Club Presidents, Past, Present, and Future.” All our workshops will be lead by our garden club presidents. As you enjoy the workshops this year, let’s celebrate our presidents’ gracious generosity to share their experiences with the membership, and let’s make it a big deal.

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