the garden post summer 2012

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Each club president should have received myinvitation to this meeting. I look forward to seeingall of our club presidents (or a clubs representative)on Saturday, June 16th.

I invited four special guests to talk to us about thedifferent National Capital Area schools. I lookforward to learning more about the schools andpossibly making time in my schedule to participate.

We have some great events in the works for Fall.We have the District 1 meeting on Thursday,September 13. Watch for more about that meeting in

the next edition ofThe Garden Post. We are hosting

Member of National Capital Area Garden Clubs, Inc. - Central Atlantic Region - National Garden Clubs, Inc.

Directors NotesEnjoymentof our gardens, our clubs, and our environment

by Danielle Brabazon, Director, District I

Danielle Brabazon

Director, District I

Where does the time go? Icannot believe June is uponus! That means our annualPresident's Coffee is rightaround the corner!

This year we are fortunateto have our PresidentsCoffee at the home ofNational Garden ClubPresident Shirley Nicolai.

DISTRICT I SUMMER 2012

the NCAGCs General Membership Meeting onTuesday, September 25, which is Yom Kippur. Wewill need each club to help at that meeting and toprepare refreshments. Also, District I is hosting aMorning of Design with the Council of AccreditedFlower Show Judges on Wednesday, October 10.Tanta-Cove Garden Club graciously offered to pro-vide the location for that morning, St. John's Churchin Fort Washington, MD.

I am looking forward to attending my first

Morning of Design!I enjoyed visits with several District I clubs: TantaCove Garden Club, Fergie's Gardeners, CheverlyGarden Club, Mount Airy Clay Breakers GardenClub, and Woodmoor Garden Club.

I was honored to be invited to the Gardeners ofthe Junior League of Washington DC's May Dayflower show and to Goddard Garden Club's 50thAnniversary banquet.

If there is anything I can do to help your club,please let me know.

Im looking forward to the Presidents Coffee.

District I Presidents CoffeeSaturday, June 16, 10:30 am

Hosted by Shirley Nicolai,

President of National Garden Clubs, Inc.,

and member of District I garden clubs,

at her home

12325 Hatton Point Road

Fort Washington, Maryland 20744

RSVP by June 9 at

[email protected] or 301-754-2291


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National Capital Area Presidents news

The Capital Gardener, Presidents Packets to be distributed electronically

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The next copy ofThe Capital Gardenerwill be dis-tributed electronically.

All clubs should be ready by having "buddy"assignments for members who either don't have accessto a computer or need assistance.

The next deadline for The Capital Gardeneris July10, 2012.

Please send club news and pictures to The CapitalGardeners Editor, Arlene Stewart, at:

[email protected] can now do these pictures in glorious, beautiful

color. So keep them rolling in to Arlene.

Also, the Presidents Packet is electronic and online ancagardenclubs.org. Click on the mailbox, and itwill arrive right before your eyes. With this thought inmind, anyone who would like to inform club presi-dents and the rest of us of any information, pleasesend your items to Nancy Angelelli at:

[email protected] Nancy it is for the Presidents Packet, and she willget it on the website.Flowers, and I will see everyone at your June meetings,

Vickie Godwin, President, NCAGCSent from my iPad

Cynthia Chesley, Marian Moreland, Marge Stembel honored at D1 June meeting

Tanta-Cove Garden Clubs Cynthia Chesleyreceived District Is Award of Honor at the annualAwards Meeting held at Behnke Nurseries,Beltsville, MD, in March. Mount Airy ClayBreakers Garden ClubsMarian Moreland receivedthe D1 DirectorsPerennial Achievement in aGarden Club award, and Woodmoor Garden ClubsMarge Stembel received a Central AtlanticRegions Perennial Bloom Award.

Cynthia Heerwagen Chesley has been a memberof Tanta-Cove Garden Club since 1968.

She is a Landscape Design Council Master Con-sultant and curated Fern Valley at the US NationalArboretum for many years.

Cynthia Chesley (center) holds District Is Award of Honor.

Marge Stembel(left) holds her Central Atlantic Regions

Perennial Bloom Award, Mount Airy Clay Breakers

Garden ClubsMarian Moreland(right) holds her

Perennial Achievement in a Garden Club, an award created

by the Director of District I.

See more photos and info in the Awards Program at:

ncadistrict1blogspot.com

Cynthia served the Tanta-Cove Garden Club in manycapacities. She was President from 1973-1974,Parliamentarian from 1985-1988, and has chaired 14committees over the years. In 1985, she was votedTanta-Cove Garden Club's Most Valuable Member, asshe has always been a knowledgeable and helpfulmember of every committee on which she has served.

Cynthia was the driving force behind the publicationof the fascinating history book,Along the PotomacShore, responsible for finding a lost treasure, BroadCreek. This book about Prince George's County is stilavailable.

Marian Moreland joined the Mount Airy ClayBreakers Garden Club in 1986 and has served in alloffices except Corresponding Secretary.

Marian, who saw a need to have a resource to go tofor books on gardening, flower arranging and othergarden club related information, established a library inher home. She provides a list of everything available tobe checked out by club members and willingly servesas the permanent club Librarian.

She is active in the club's projects: Caring for theHolloway Garden entrance, creating small floralarrangements for nursing home residents, and workingwith the After School Care Children's GardeningProject.

Marian has shown her innate talents for 25 years byinstalling the club's incoming officers with dignity andenthusiasm and presenting several programs on flowerarranging for her club. She is adamant about clubmembers reducing their carbon footprint and is alwaysgiving advice on how members can become moreenvironmentally conscious.

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Whats coming up?

June 3-9, National Garden WeekCelebrate, promote your club, and attractnew members (See green boxes, p6)

Sat, June 9, Behnkes Garden PartyDistricts I and IV promote our garden clubsBehnke Nurseries (US Rte 1) Beltsville, MD 20705

Sat, June 16, District 1 Presidents CoffeeNGC President Shirley Nicolais home

Access the Presidents Packets online at:www.ncagardenclub.org

Tues, July 10, The Capital Gardenerdeadline

Wed, Aug 22, deadline for nominations forCentral Atlantic Regions Perennial BloomAward Submit nominations toDistrict I Awards ChairSally O'Connell: [email protected] or 10223 Big

Rock Road, Silver Spring, MD 20901

Thurs, Sept 13, 10:30a, District 1 Fall Meeting(See details in the next edition of The Garden Post.)

Tues, Sept 25, NCAGC General MembershipMeeting Hosted by District I Each D1 club isneeded to help and to prepare refreshments.

Wed, Oct 10, Morning of Design hosted by D-1with the Council of Accredited Flower ShowJudges, St. John's Episcopal Church, 9801 LivingstonRoad, Fort Washington, MD 20744

Sun, Oct 28 toTues, Oct 30, Central AtlanticRegion Conference, Independence, OH

Register online: www.ncagardenclubs.org

Tues, Nov 13, D-1 Fundraiser at FranklinsFranklins Restaurant, Brewery, and General Store5123 Baltimore Avenue, (US Rte1) Hyattsville, MD

Check the NCAGCs website frequently for updates tocalendar items: www.ncagardenclubs.org

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Awards(from p2)Marian has won numerous ribbons for her horti-

culture and photography and her special raspberryjams at the Prince Georges County Fair. She has alsovolunteered in Fern Valley at the US NationalArboretum. She decorated the windows at the

Botanical Gardens for Christmas as well asdecorating the Surratt House in Clinton, MD.Marge Stembel has been a member of the

Woodmoor Garden Club since 1981.Marge joined the club as the mother of young

children while working full time as a MontgomeryCounty school teacher.

Within the first year of joining the club she beganthe clubs annual Plant Sale. The sale morphed into a41-year old tradition as a neighborhood plant saleand garden walk. Proceeds from the plant sale offset

the cost of speakers for the clubs monthly meetingsas well as the holiday decorations and Valentinearrangements the club makes for the community.

Marge has given numerous presentations to theWoodmoor Garden Cub as well as to teachers in herschools on gardening and on trips of gardens she hastoured. She has run various workshops on holidayarrangements and on table arrangements.

With one garden 29 years ago, Marge started thecommunity gardens in the neighborhood that nowconsists of four gardens maintained by theWoodmoor club. She also led the club in gardeningat Holy Cross Hospital, a project started 20 years agothat continued until three years ago when theHospital built an addition.

At the March Awards Meeting, District I DirectorDanielle Brabazon congratulated the three accom-plished District I women for their outstandingachievements as represented by their awardcertificates.

Horticulture

Carol Edwards on roses

Carol Edwards, Vice President of CapitolHill Garden Club, did a wonderful review ofroses in this area. You can find it on theCapitol Hill Garden Clubs blog datedFebruary 8 at:

capitolhillgardenclub.blogspot.com Grenada


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Goddard Garden Club celebrates

50 years of memories, friendships

Woodmoor sees green in action

at Sidwell Friends Middle School

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Club News

Goddard Garden Club celebrated its 50thAnniversary with a reunion banquet at Sir Walter

Raleigh Inn, Greenbelt, MD, on May 19.All but one of the clubs six members were present

and were joined by eight former members, fourspouses, and three guests including District I DirectorDanielle Brabazon.

Former club president Linda Foote travelled thefarthest. She came from Florida to be there.

The event proved to be a very special evening oflaughs, heartfelt hugs, and memories.

A silent, continuous, 17-minute, big-screen slideshow provided quick glimpses through five decadesof activities and accomplishments.

A rose ceremony highlighted theevenings program. One-by-one,

each woman there was presentedwith a white rose tied with a sheerribbon bow with streamers whilesomething meaningful was saidabout her and her involvement withthe club.

Club President ChristineHambach was surprised with abouquet of pink roses and long,appreciative, enthusiastic, ap-plause for her leadership and friendship through

nearly two decades as the clubs President.

The memorabilia table set by President Christine Hambach

has some correspondence and notes both to and from

several of those who could not attend.

(See more photos at: ncadistrict1.blogspot.com)

Dorothy Jeanne Aiken

receives her rose with

a smile.

Members ofWoodmoor Garden Club and theWoodmoor neighborhoods Green Team toured

Sidwell Friends Green Middle School Building inApril to see the newly renovated buildings multiplegreen technologies in action.

An enthusiastic Sidwell Friends volunteer led thetour and provided insight into the Quaker values thatled to the transformation of the 50-year old facilityinto a sustainable, green building.

The Woodmore club provides a glimpse below ofthe cutting edge technologies seen during the tour:

Creation of awetland behind the building to treawastewater the same as the municipal system

while creating habitats for plants and animals. Siting the building to optimize daylight.

Conservation of energy required transportingconstruction materials to and from the site:78%of building materials were manufacturedregionallyreducing the energy requiredtransporting material to the site duringconstruction, and 60% of the waste generatedduring construction was recycled and, thereby,diverted from landfills.

Use of 60% less energy through energyefficiency and passive solar design, includingnatural ventilation and shading to reduce airconditioning load. A solar panel system on theroof generates 5% of the building's electricalload.

Green and cool roofing. As rain passes throughthe green roof, pollutants are removed, creatingcleaner water for reuse or overflow dischargeinto the municipal storm drain. Cool roofs keepthe building from heating up and that reducesdemand for air conditioning.

Water efficient landscapingwith droughtresistant plants.

To aid community tours, colorful, hand-paintedsigns made by middle school students were locatednext to green technologies offering explanation aboutthe technology in a question and answer format.Moreover, students monitor and measure the greensystems performances.

To arrange a tour or learn more visit:

www.sidwell.edu/middle_school/

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MAY DAYGardeners of the Junior League of Washington DC presented May Day, a small standard

flower show, at the Sumner Village Community Center in Bethesda on May 1.

Cheverly Garden Clubs April speaker Don Hyatttook the club on a travelogue through AppalachianVirginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,and Georgia and to northern California during his talkon native azaleas and native plants in those states.

He is recognized as a national authority on azaleasand rhododendrons and as a specialist on nativeazaleas. He has served on the national boards of boththe Azalea Society of America and the AmericanRhododendron Society. He is currently focusing onthe preservation of hard-to-find native azalea speciesand natural azalea hybrids in the wild.

Mr. Hyatt is also an artist and has been paintingbotanical illustrations for nearly 40 years.

He brought several of his azalea watercolor prints tothe clubs meeting for door prizes.

An assortment of his botanical prints can be found

for sale at Arbor House.

Capitol Hill Garden Club President ElviraSisolak invited all members of NCAGC clubs to joinher club on April 14 for a private tour of the manorhouse at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, VA.The club and their guests toured the historic formerhome of Michael and Belinda Straight and theirgardens designed by Beatrix Farrand, designer of thegardens at Dumbarton Oaks.

The group got inspiration from the small vignettedemonstration townhouse gardens, the whimsicalarchitecture in the organic vegetable garden, and thecherry trees and early bloomers in the perennialbeds. The visitors could hike the woodland trailsand could shop the Garden Market where local

growers sell shrubs, native plants, ornamentalgrasses and other unusual perennials and annuals.

Information on Green Spring Gardens can be

found at: www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/greenspringThe Capitol Hill Garden Club received several

awards in the Spring, including the Edith BittingerEnvironmental Improvement Award for thetransformation of the streetscape in the 100 block of7th Street NE, which was Elvira Sisolak's President'sProject.

The award came with a check for $100.

Louvette Aspiotis won Best in Show in theDesign Division for her May Day Meadow Picnicfor Two.

See more MAY DAY flower show photos at:

www.ncadistrict1.blogspot.com

Sandi Birdsongs Paeonia caucasicawonBest in Show in the HorticultureDivision.


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L-O-V-E

A small standard flower showheld in February at the home of

Rosemary Weller

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Club News continued

Tanta-Cove holds a flower

show and has a speaker

Eastland Gardens Flower

Club publishes its book

Virginia Corum wins a blue in the You Light Up

My Life design division in the L-O-V-E show.Images of America: Eastland Gardens by

Eastland Gardens Flower Club

Eastern Gardens Flower Club spent two years ofeffort on their recently published book to share their

hidden and historic community through photographsand oral histories that tell about the families,merchants, redevelopment, churches, and more in thispictorial publication.Copies are available for purchase at Arbor House.

In February,Tanta-Cove Garden Club had aprogram on Protecting Our Community Through

Gardens: Rain Gardening presented by landscapedesigner Cheryl Corson at club member RosemaryWellers home. All the while, the club was alsoholding its small standard flower show, L-O-V-E,in various rooms of Rosemarys house.

Youre invitedto a

Garden Partyto benefit Friends of Brookside Gardens

June 9, 9a - 4:30p

Behnke Nurseries, BeltsvilleFree Admission - Talks

Demonstrations - Food - Plant SwapsRaffles - Door Prizes

Get on Behnke Nurseries email list toreceive their special promotions, coupons,deals, and notices of their speakers, specialevents, and programs: www.behnkes.com

Districts I and IV to host promotional table

at Behnke Nurseries Garden Party, June 9,

during National Garden Week

National Capital Area Garden Clubs represented byDistricts I and IV will be raising funds with the NGCAsbright green tote bags to Save the Azaleas and promotingthe benefits of belonging to a garden club. Well be in-forming interested people of what garden clubs have to offerand collecting names and contact information from thoseinterested in joining a National Capital Area Garden Club.

District I will be assisting District IV Director Bette Daviswho has the lead for this event this year.

If you would like to help at the NCAGCs table, pleasecontact Danielle.

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