Newsletter July/August 2018

Upcoming Events

Board Meeting July 10th @ 7 PM at Nolini Barretto’s, 59 Westminster RoadPlease RSVP and let Nolini know if there is anything you would like to add to the agenda, barretto.nolini@gmail.com.

Hort & Design GroupJuly 17th @ 7 PM at Cindy Lannon’s, 66 Ocean Drive EastRefreshments will be served. This meeting is informal, free of charge, and all members are welcome.

Maureen Carson will bring two classes of plants and focus on how a judge would actually judge them. She will go over the point scoring scales of points with specific examples. She will also answer any questions from the floor regarding growing and showing horticulture entries.

Georgia Nostrand will demonstrate petite designs to showcase Africa as the country of focus.

Rusty Ruth will present creative ideas and examples for the artistic craft project, an African headdress or mask.

Thanks to Cindy for opening her home and to Diane White for serving as co-hostess!

July/August Flower Design

Please visit the club website for monthly schedules and entry forms. http://shippanpointgardenclub.org/members-only/

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Design Theme: AfricaType: PetiteSize: 5" high, 5" wide, and 5" deepPlant Material: Fresh and/or driedStaging: Background and underlay recommended but not required

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Botanical Arts We will have two categories of Botanical Arts for our August 2nd meeting – Artistic Craft and Educational.

The artistic craft will be an African headdress or mask. Design an African inspired headdress or mask made of dried or fresh plant material that you will wear to our August dinner. There is no size restriction.

Members are also welcome to consider an educational entry. Please refer to the SPGC website for the rules, accessible at: http://shippanpointgardenclub.org/members-only/monthly- schedules/special-exhibits-division-rules/. One entry per exhibitor is permitted.

Membership Meeting August 2nd @ 6 PM at Ginny Fox’s, 165 Van RensselaerSubmission of Exhibits — 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM (no late entries accepted)Cocktails at 6 PM, Meeting and Dinner at 7 PM

Please RSVP to Sally Russell at sallyrussell22@gmail.com by July 28th. Checks ($10 to SPGC) can be forwarded to/dropped off at Sally’s, 98 Stamford Avenue. Firm counts will be necessary as we will need to rent tables, chairs, and dinnerware. Thanks to Sally for planning what will be a fabulous meal. We offer special thanks to our hostess, Ginny Fox, for stepping up and hosting the Club! We also thank JoAnn Benson and Anne Cheng for serving as clerks, and Cindy Lannon for serving as a substitute clerk.

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Looking ahead, please contact Sally Russell at sallyrussell22@gmail.com if you are able to serve as hostess for upcoming membership meetings, including September 27th, October 25th, and/or November 15th. Participation by all members is encouraged!

Awards

At our June membership meeting, annual design and horticulture awards were announced. The winners of most awards and trophies are based on points accumulated during the year by members who exhibit at our flower shows. Each first, second, third, and honorable mention received has a point value from the schedule in the blue section of the SPGC’s membership book. There are also three very special trophies that are awarded by the Club’s Executive Committee to members for outstanding contributions to the club.

Design AwardsFirst and second prizes are awarded for the most points accumulated during the year in each of the SPGC’s four design classes.

Design Division First Place Second Place Master Dianna Dwyer Georgia NostrandAdvanced Diane Deegan Paul NadziejkoIntermediate Nolini Barretto Rusty RuthNovice Krystyna Vaughn Cindy Richardson

The Helen Galt Memorial Award is awarded to the first-place honoree in the Novice Design Division. Helen Galt was a designer who always encouraged newcomers to take up floral design. This year’s recipient is Krystyna Vaughan.

The Marguerite M. Foster Trophy is given to the member with the greatest number of blue ribbons, not points, in any design division. This year’s recipient received four blue ribbons over the past year and is awarded Dianna Dwyer.

The Design Sweepstakes Bowl is awarded as part of a standard flower show. Although SPGC did have a Standard Show this year with October’s Moonstruck, it did not have a Design Division. Therefore, the award goes to the winner of Best in Show in Design in a subsequent month from the previous year. The winner is for her Best in Show in November was Maureen Carson.

The requirements for advancement in Design Class are a cumulative minimum of three blue ribbons, except for Master where you also need a Best in Show. This year we have no members who will move up in Design Class.

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Horticulture AwardsFirst, second, and third prizes are awarded to the three members having the greatest total points in the Horticulture Division.

First Place Second Place Third PlaceDianna Dwyer Maureen Carson Nolini Barretto

The Susan Flynn Memorial Award goes to the member who has accumulated the most points for showing hydrangeas, a particular affinity of Susan’s. This year’s recipient is Dianna Dwyer.

The Mrs. Edward Corning Memorial Award goes to the member with the greatest number of blue ribbons, not points, in Horticulture for the year. This year’s recipient is Dianna Dwyer.

The Golden Anniversary Trophy is awarded to the member with the greatest number of points for the year in both the Design Division and in the Horticulture Division combined. This year’s recipient is Dianna Dwyer.

The Margaret “Sis” Gillespie Memorial Trophy and Prize are awarded to the member with the greatest number of points for roses in our Horticulture exhibits for the year. This year’s recipient is Jan Allen.

The Elizabeth “Libby” Vance Memorial Award is given to the member with the greatest number of points in our Artistic Crafts Division. This year’s recipient is Dianna Dwyer.

The Horticulture Sweepstakes Bowl is awarded to the exhibitor with the greatest number of points in horticulture in a standard flower show. In a year without a standard flower show, the award goes to the Best in Show in Horticulture in a subsequent, rotating month. This year’s recipient is Dianna Dwyer for her Best in Show in Horticulture (Titles Award of Excellence in Horticulture) October Moonstruck Show.

Executive Committee AwardsThe following trophy winners are selected by the Executive Committee for outstanding contributions to the club.

The Freanne Snyder Creativity Award is given to a member who has made an outstanding contribution during the year through his or her innovative and creative participation in Club activities. This year’s recipient is Kristen Hayes for the creation of a seed library – for persevering and educating members about seeds saving.

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The Katherine K. Dashiell Memorial Award is for a chair, vice chair, or temporary chair of a committee who has made an outstanding and noteworthy contribution to the club during the year. This year’s recipient is Maureen Carson for finding a site for May Market, getting it done, continuing to manage and place orders May Market; for leading civic planting; and for her horticulture presentations.

The Alice Hatch Memorial Award goes to the member whose overall contributions to the club have been outstandingly noteworthy. This year’s recipient is Janet McCabe for her leadership and stepping up to the plate on numerous occasions, including drafting an award-winning grant proposal, coming forward to co-lead annuals in Dianna’s absence, managing the many voices as Recording Secretary, overseeing the Welcome garden civic planting, and clerking on a regular basis.

Krystyna Vaughn, winner of the Helen Galt Memorial Award

Maureen Carson, winner of the Design Sweepstakes Bowl

Scholarship AwardAs mentioned in our June newsletter, SPGC’s scholarship was awarded to Josh Appel, who attended our June membership meeting with his parents to accept the award. Josh will be attending Cornell University in the Fall and plans to major in Environmental Studies.

Josh Appel and Marty Cokin Nolini Barretto, Mrs. Appel, Josh Appel, Mr. Appel, and Marty Cokin

Photos courtesy of Georgia Nostrand.

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Garden Tour

Following a wonderful and successful June Garden Tour, Nolini Barretto sent a note thanking Ulli Delmar for all her great efforts in organizing the event (please see below).

Mucho thanks to Ulli Delmar for a wonderful, relaxed, perfectly executed June Garden Tour! We had good weather and terrific turnout – 20 to 25 people in all. Not only did Ulli get the tour together but she made all the lunch!! The lady forgot what “Potluck” means! Her Salmon quinoa salad, Chicken Waldorf salad, Kale salad, hoovies, Blueberry cheesecake and Choc coconut brownies were superb! But Ulli, this is not on – you mustn't singlehandedly feed us all. You MUST let us truly potluck next time. Thank you SO very for all the time, effort and love you put into ensuring we all had a fabulous time! 😘😘

Thanks to Patti Watkins for opening up her gorgeous garden to us and hosting our picnic on her porch – what a view! To Ruth Maggio, who insists that the Garden tour would not be complete without brekker at her house – you are SO right! 😘😘

And thanks to the queen bees of our tour destinations, Erna Szekeres, Jo Benson, Georgia Nostrand and (non-member) Hillary Martin – such lovely gardens, so much fun to visit! You will see photographs in the next Newsletter, but till then, have fun in your gardens!

Love, Nolini

Georgia Nostrand’s Gardens

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Hillary Martin’s Gardens

JoAnn Benson’s Gardens

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Erna Szekeres’s Gardens

Nolini Barretto’s Gardens

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Lunch at Patti Watkins’s House

Photos courtesy of Krystyna Vaughn and Birlie Lau.

Other News

MembershipWe have added three new members to the SPGC: Jennifer Johnson, Kathleen Matthews, and Donna Wiberg. Please take the opportunity to welcome our new members when you next see them!

We currently have openings for two additional members. Candidates for admission to the club must be proposed and seconded in writing by two members of the club. If you have any questions about the nominating procedure, please contact JoAnn Benson, Membership Chair at jombenson@gmail.com.

Civic Planting Work DaysThank you to Marge Pavlov, Janet McCabe, Jen Johnson, Nolini Barretto, and Meg Kelley who joined Maureen Carson and a crew of three of Jaime’s men on June 12th for weeding in all the gardens. Also thank you to Ginny Fox and Sally Russell who did work at the Fairway gardens on June 11th. Janet and Maureen also planted some annuals and removed daffodil foliage while waiting for additional fence estimates on June 21st and Maureen planted a flat of annuals at each of the Fairview and Castle gardens and removed daffodil foliage there as well.

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Our next scheduled civic planting work day will be on Tuesday, July 10th. Efforts will focus on tidying things up and the current schedule is:

Time Location8:30 - 9:30 AM Welcome Corners9:30 - 10:30 AM Katrina Mygatt10:30 - 11:00 AM Fairview Gardens11:00 - 11:30 AM Castle Garden

If you have not helped in the gardens due to physical limitations we understand. But if you are able and we haven’t seen you helping in the past year or more you are not fulfilling your civic responsibility to the SPGC. If you cannot work during scheduled times, please go weed on your own time and let Maureen know! The weeds are always there no matter the day or time and the gardens are open areas with access on weekends. We look forward to more participation.

Photos courtesy of Maureen Carson.

Stamford Neighborhood Grant ProgramThe Stamford Neighborhood Grant work is moving forward. Janet McCabe is heading that initiative. We have met with SPA (as they received a grant for the Gateway Fence) and we are in the process of getting more estimates for the Welcome Garden fence as the current estimate is almost doubled.

Federated Garden Clubs of CT (FGCCT) News

Beyond Beginning “Create your own” – Design plus Group Critiques July 20th, 10 AM - 12:30 PM at CAES, 123 Huntington Street, New Haven, CTRegistration is $5. For details, go to

https://ctgardenclubs.org/event/design-workshop-before-beyond-beginning-3/This workshop is an opportunity to try out your designing skills. You bring your own materials and your own design concept. You will be given four titles to choose from or you can use your own concept. There will be accredited NGC judges present to help you with your mechanics

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and answer any questions. Come and see how much you have learned! The workshop, taught by accredited NGC judges, will feature your own Creative Design and those of your classmates.Depending on the size of the group, critiques will be done in small groups or as a large group. You will see how designs can be improved, often by very small changes. Critiques are one of the most valuable aspects of Beyond Beginning workshops to help improve your design skills.

CAES Plant Science Day August 8th, 10 AM - 4 PM at Lockwood Farm, 890 Evergreen Avenue, Hamden, CT Registration: FREE. For details, go to https://ctgardenclubs.org/event/connecticut-agricultural-experiment-station-plant-science-day/During this annual event hosted by The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES), there will be lectures, presentations, displays, and demonstrations throughout the day, and Q&A for plant diseases and insect inquiries at the CAES special tent. Conservation groups also will have displays and provide insight and counsel on horticultural and environmental issues in a special large tent area; and CAES scientists will be at their research plots. A bus will be available for a guided tour throughout the farm. Walk around many fields of organically grown produce and enjoy the Bird and Butterfly Garden next to the pavilion.

Respectfully submitted by SPGC Corresponding Secretary, Birlie Lau

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