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Chippewa Garden Club Newsletter

May/June 2018

Native Plants of Ohio

http://chippewagardenclub.com/

President’s Message National Garden Club, Inc. President—Nancy Hargroves

National Garden Clubs, Inc.

4401 Magnolia Avenue

St. Louis, MO 63110

Central Atlantic Region

Director—Regina Brown

Garden Club of Ohio, Inc.

President—Deanna Stearns

6820 Mapleridge Circle NW

Canton, OH 44718

GCO Cleveland District

Director—Jane Bodnar

21029 Avalon Drive

Rocky River, OH 44116-1117

Chippewa Garden Club

President—Kathy Habib

3490 Mark Drive

Broadview Hts, OH 44147

Vice-President—Jo Ann Bartsch

7700 Fitzwater Road

Brecksville, OH 44141

Co-Secretaries-

Christine Sparano

7443 Old Quarry Lane


Sandy Ladebue

6522 E. Sprague Road

Brecksville, Oh 44141

Treasurer-Laura Springer

3665 Meadow Gateway

Broadview Hts., OH 44147

Co-Finance--

Lynne Evans

9455 Woodchip Lane

Broadview Hts., OH 44147

Kathy Ziemba

8207 Montridge Ct.

North Royalton, OH 44133

Historian-Margaret DeWolf

7001 Crestview Drive


Native Plant Garden

Holden Arboretum

Since our garden club is not hosting a

flower show this year, you might want

to visit other local flower shows.

GCO Convention “As Time Goes

By” June 7-8 (Embassy Suites,

Blue Ash, Ohio)

Toledo Forum “Magic in the

Garden” June 22-24 (Toledo

Botanical Garden)

Emerald Necklace Garden Club/

West Shore Arrangers “Garden

Party” June 23-24 (Brecksville

Community Center)

River Road Garden Club “Summer Sizzle” July 12-14 (Maumee Branch

Library, 501 River Road Maumee, Ohio 43537)

Canton Garden Center Aug 11-12 (1615 Stadium Park Dr NW, Canton,

OH 44718)

Perennial Gardeners “U Can Dig It” Sept 25 (West Geauga Library,

13455 Chillicothe Rd, Chesterland, OH 44026)

Gates Mills Garden Club “Holiday Enchantment” Oct 12-13

(1280 Riverview Road, Gates Mills Ohio)

Lakeshore Garden Club “Deck The Halls” Nov 2-3 (Henn Mansion,

23131 Lakeshore Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44123 )

CGC is an affiliate member of Holden Forest and Gardens which merged

Holden Arboretum and the Cleveland Botanical Garden. In the past, CBG

affiliate news was emailed to members via the newsletter, The Root. The

reorganization has discontinued The Root. Affiliate information may now

be accessed via the Affiliate page on the Botanical Garden Web page:

Go to www.cbgarden.org

Go to “Support the Garden”

On the left, go to “Affiliate Garden Clubs.” From here there are links to

the Affiliate Bulletin Board and Affiliate Garden Club Contacts.

Please turn to page 2.

http://chippewagardenclub.com/http://www.cbgarden.org


Page 2 May/June 2018

President’s Message

Cont.

Members of our Holden Forest

Committee have been busy mak-

ing ornaments from sheet music

for CGC’s tree at the 2018 CBC

Glow Show. We have an eight

foot tree, and our theme is “Songs

of Yesteryear.”

Kathy Habib, President

Squire Rich

For anyone interested in weeding

therapy, we will be meeting at

the Herb Garden on Friday, May

4, at 10:00 a.m. to assess the gar-

den, clean up from the winter,

and get ideas on what we should

do this season.

Weekly maintenance will be on

Fridays at 10:00 a.m. Usually no

more than an hour needed. It’s a

good way to meet other garden

club members and take care of

one of Brecksville’s treasures.

One of the Fridays will be a field

trip to Quail Crest to purchase

replacement herbs..

Thanks, and don’t hesitate to

contact me if you have any ques-

tions.

Judy Guinn

Garden Renovation:

Transform Your Yard

into the Garden of Your

Dreams

March 27th Program

Why this surprises me, I don’t

know: The principles of design

that I so diligently tried to memo-

rize in Flower Show School, keep

popping up in other parts of my

life.

Bobbie Schwartz’s presentation

at our March Membership meet-

ing is just one such instance –

and it shouldn’t have been such a

surprise.

Of course, those principles and

elements of design are so im-

portant in landscape design not

just in floral design!

Bobbie emphasized them in sev-

eral of the yard renovations she

has completed.

We saw examples of contrast in

colors both in plants and hard-

scape (loved the colored fence),

dominance using plant material,

rhythm with ornamental grass-

es , and line –that narrow,

straight sidewalk which became

much more inviting with curves

and width!

(Just not sure which element was

violated when she showed the

wood rail fence with a Tudor-

style home!) I’m sure we can all

agree, Bobbie is a very original

designer and her examples can

get us to think along those lines

too.

As an inveterate planner, I found

her emphasis on the steps in-

volved to be very comforting:

Evaluate what you have

Decide what you want

Put your plan into action

How very logical, but still some-

what overwhelming for someone

who has an 80-year-old landscape

and has not been seeing the big

picture, rather, approaching new

beds and new plants on a very

disjointed basis.

So back to the drawing board for

me. I intend to map out that

Fitzwater mess including doing

the sun/shade hour evaluation

Bobbie suggested.

Bobbie signed my book with this

notation:

For Jo Ann who wants

to make changes

Jo Ann Bartsch.

Bobbie Schwartz

Dates To Remember

Tuesday, May 8

Board meeting at 6:30 at the

Broadview Hts. Clubroom

Saturday, May 19

Annual Plant Exchange

Are you ready for our annual

Plant Exchange? This year it

will be on Saturday, May 19, at

11:00 a.m. We’ll be taking over

the Harriet Keeler Shelter in the

Brecksville Reservation, Cleve-

land Metroparks. Here’s what

you need to bring:

Any plants you’re willing to

share with other mem-

bers….they can be divisions,

whole plants you don’t need,

something you started from

seed over the winter. Include

a label telling us what the

plant is and some details

about how to grow (e.g., sun/

shade, loves to be dry/wet).

Remember, it’s perfectly ok to

be just a taker at this ex-

change!

Plants that don’t get adopted

will, however, get composted!

A side dish or dessert to

share. Plant exchanging is

hard work, and we must re-

main fed! The Executive

Board will provide refresh-

ments to keep us hydrated

and the necessary implements

to keep us mannerly as we

exchange.

Any baskets or containers

that might make good combi-

nation planters for our Home

Days Booth (and eventual

sale at our Garden Mart).

A guest! This is one of our

most popular social events

during the year. Exchanging

plants that we’ve grown with

others represents one of the

great cornerstones of what

gardening is all about. Why

not share this event with a

friend, a neighbor….who then

might be interested in joining

our garden club?!

Garden club will sell caladi-

um bulbs at the plant ex-

change, six for $5.00 . These

are bulbs that Judy brings

back from Happiness Farms

of Lake Placid, Florida, the

World's capital for caladiums.

May 22-24

National Garden Clubs’

Convention, Philadelphia, PA

http://gardenclub.org/about-us/

convention-philadelphia-

2018.aspx

June 3-9

National Garden Week

http://www.gardenclub.org/

projects/national-garden-

week.aspx

Wednesday, June 6—Friday,

June 8

Garden Club of Ohio’s 90th

Annual Convention in Blue

Ash Ohio Cincinnati

http://www.gardenclubofohio.org/

LIVEsite/wp-content/uploads/

Spring-2018-GG-Convention-

Pages-Final.pdf

Saturday, June 9

Garden Therapy at Oaks of

Brecksville

“Lupines, Peonies, Iris and Cam-

panulas: The Summer Good

Lookers” Residents will create a

summer floral design using sum-

mer blooms.

Tuesday, June 12

Board meeting at 6:30 at the

Broadview Hts. Clubroom

Saturday, June 16

9:30 a.m.—11:00 a.m.

Children’s Project: Making A

Father’s Day Gift Call Lynne

Evans to volunteer to help with

this fun project.

Saturday, June 23

Summer brings a change to the

Garden Club: less meetings,

more field trips! This year we are

planning to visit Schoepfle Gar-

dens, part of the Lorain Metro-

parks on June 23. Plan to spend

most of your day with us. We’ll

leave via carpool, meeting place

to be announced, at 9:00 a.m.,

arrive at the gardens around 10

and walk around until we need to

have lunch!

Please turn to page 3.

Chippewa Garden Club Newsletter Page 3 May/June 2018



Dates To Remember

cont.

We should be back home around

3-4 p.m., depending on whether

we stop at a garden center or two

on the way home. Call Jo Ann

Bartsch for more information.

Otto Schoepfle began this garden

in 1924 on land originally owned

by his grandparents. He often

referred to his project as “the gar-

den that grew”. Something most

of us can identify with! In 1969

he donated the garden to the Lo-

rain County Metro Parks and re-

mained living in the house until

his death in 1992. There are four

distinct gardens on the 70-acre

property:

The Formal Garden with a

wide central path bordered by

hedges and topiaries

The Shade Garden that in-

cludes ferns, hostas, and astilbes

with shade provided by a canopy

of pines

The Natural Woodland that

encompasses nearly 50 acres

along with wildflowers and wild-

life

The Children’s Garden which

is the newest addition (2007)

and includes a restored carousel

If we’ve succeeded in whetting

your appetite for this field trip,

please be sure to sign up at the

Plant Exchange in May, or let Jo

Ann Bartsch know if you intend

to join us.

Friday, June 29—Sunday,

July 1

Brecksville Home Days

Each year Chippewa Garden

Club has a booth at this civic

event.

Garden Therapy

Chippewa Garden Club volun-

teers presented the Garden Ther-

apy program, “ Planting Fresh

Spring Flowers” to the residents

of The Oaks of Brecksville on

April 21, 2018. CGC volunteers

Sandy Ladebue, Beverly Sirey

and Lynne Evans assisted partici-

pants in planting combination

planters consisting of pansies,

ivy, mint, Palm Neanthebella and

Arboricola.

The basic design rules were used

implementing the “Thriller, Filler

and Spiller” guidelines for combi-

nation planters.

The pots were generously donated

by our own Aggie Goss. Thank

you Aggie. The group was guided

in experiencing the olfactory

and tactile components of garden-

ing and social interaction was fa-

cilitated.

Thanks to our wonderful CGC

volunteers. Anyone wishing to

join the garden therapy crew for

our next program on June 9th, call

Lynne Evans. We will create

summer floral designs with

“Summer's Good Lookers”.

Lynne Evans

Lynne Evans and Residents of

The Oaks of Brecksville



Deer and the Plants They

Do and Do Not Eat

Jeff Ardor's presentation at our

April Membership Meeting can

easily be summed up in one sim-

ple phrase:

“KNOW YOUR ENEMY”

And isn’t it sad that we now have

to consider the white-tailed deer

our enemy? While it’s interesting

to understand the physiology and

the behavior of this animal, the

very clear message was that we

humans who are obsessed with

suburban development are actu-

ally responsible for the problem.

The data Jeff presented on the

population densities of the deer

over time was extremely interest-

ing. The dramatic drop in the

early 1900s was caused by our

agricultural spread, and the

dramatic increase in the 1950s

was a result of other land man-

agement practices (i.e., suburban

sprawl) that created the ideal

edge habitat to support a thriving

deer population.

And we’ve successfully eliminat-

ed any predators (save ourselves)

that might be capable of popula-

tion control.

So we are dealing with a vora-

cious herbivore with a ruminant

digestive system (multiple stom-

achs, cud chewers)

that seasonally changes to adjust

to the available food source and

consumes seven pounds or so of it

every day. In addition, adulthood

and reproduction capacity are

reached quickly and effectively,

resulting in population doubling

every three years. Did we men-

tion that the animals are capable

of an eight foot vertical jump and

are messy eaters (they bite and

tear food because they have no

upper incisors?)

This problem extends well be-

yond our yards, but our landscap-

ing choices and habits are usual-

ly made on a plot basis.

Jeff mentioned that the only

100% effective control measure is

a nine foot fence. Without that,

we need to resort to judicious

planting and repellants.

Jeff has provided a handout,

which will be emailed to all mem-

bers, of plant categories with ref-

erence to deer taste levels, in-

cluding both summer and winter

seasons. (Remember, the physio-

logical changes to the deer’s

stomachs based on summer vs.

winter!).

Why not take a good look at the

handout, and report back to Jeff

your deer-destroying experiences.

Do you agree with his categories?

Jeff did remind us that a deer

could be hungry enough to eat

anything – except daffodils,

which are poisonous.

If you’re at your wit’s end with

deer damage, you might want to

try Jeff’s company, En Garde, to

see if his all-natural spray (and

spraying techniques) can reduce,

or maybe even solve your prob-

lem.

Jo Ann Bartsch

Jeff Ardo



Trillium grandiflorum

In 1987, The Ohio State Assem-

bly voted the white trillium, Tril-

lium grandiflorum, as Ohio’s offi-

cial wildflower. The white tril-

lium is also known as wake rob-

in, snow trillium or great white

trillium. This spring beauty

grows in all of Ohio’s 88 counties

and is native to much of the east-

ern United States.

Trilliums are most common in

rich, well-drained soil. They pre-

fer maple or beech deciduous for-

ests, where they often live up to

25 years. The flower has 3 petals,

opening from late spring to early

summer. It grows from an under-

ground stem called a rhizome

and produces a single flower on

top of a whorl of 3 leaves called

bracts. Trillium grandiflorum

flowers are odorless and large

compared to other varieties of

trilliums. Blooms start off as

white and slowly turn pink as

they age.

Trilliums are slow growing, tak-

ing more than 3 years to reach

flowering size. Seeds take 2 years

to germinate. Seeds are typically

scatted by ants and white-tailed

deer, in their defecation. They

are a favored food of deer, which

can damage the population.

Due to the popularity of trilliums

as a garden plant, there are con-

cerns that commercial growers

are collecting them from the wild

rather than propagating them.

Transportation is difficult and

often leads to the death of the

plant.

Kathy Habib

GCO Spring District

Meeting

On April 24, 7 members of Chip-

pewa Garden Club attended the

Garden Club of Ohio Spring Dis-

trict meeting at St. Michael’s.

Jeff Griss, of Lowes’s Nursery in

Chagrin Falls, presented the

horticulture program on “Edible

Landscaping.” Jeff presented an

educational and humorous pro-

gram on how to include edible

plants in pots and among our

ornamental landscape. The de-

sign program by Jill Duffin gave

ideas of flower designs to be used

around the home from store-

bought flowers.

Kathy Habib

Trillium

grandiflorum

GCO Meeting

Kathy Ziemba, Debbie Schuckert, and Noreen Butano



Kathy Habib is Chippewa

Garden Club’s fifty-seventh presi-

dent and one of three presidents

who have served more than two

years. Kathy joined CGC after

reading an article about an orchid

presentation at the club’s Janu-

ary 2003 meeting. She had been

looking for activities in anticipa-

tion of her retirement and joined

that night.

Kathy has filled so many posi-

tions since then that I won’t list

them all. She’s held four execu-

tive board positions, written

many educational articles for our

newsletter, helped on many club

projects, and served as horticul-

tural chairperson for our Flower

Shows. In her spare time, she

produces the Yearbook and co-

produces our club website.

She became a Master Gardener

after her retirement and was

chair of the demonstration gar-

den for the Cuyahoga County Ex-

tension office for five years. Add

power point programs and educa-

tional talks to her post-

retirement resume.

Kathy enjoys encouraging garden

club members to learn about new

plants and trying them in their

own gardens. She likes shopping

for new plants and then planting

them, but she hates weeding and

watering. Her garden philosophy

is experimenting with new plants

to see how they grow. She claims

to have killed more plants than

most of us will ever own because

she likes unusual and unique

plants.

“Gardening—Cheaper Than

Therapy” is her favorite garden

quote and hangs in her green-

house.

When Kathy and her husband

were house hunting for the home

they now own, she pointed

out the exact spot where her

greenhouse would go. After they

moved in in October, she roto-

tilled the perimeter of the back-

yard in anticipation of spring

planting as well as sinking the

pots of plants she brought from

their previous home. They built

the greenhouse the following

year, and she fills it with succu-

lents which she likes for their

“weirdness” quality.

She also has two light carts in

her basement which she uses

mostly for starting seeds.

Even though she’s won awards

for her petite designs at our flow-

er shows, she’s not interested in

floral design. She used her lead-

ed glass skills to create a doll-

house greenhouse which is a rep-

lica of her own greenhouse.

Kathy’s advice to new members is

to work on various club projects

to get to know the club members.

Her advice to all CGC members is

to share new ideas which can be

the hardest part of any project.

Pat Gabriel

Getting To Know You

Kathy Habib



Arbor Day 2018

The history of Arbor Day is the

story of Julius Sterling Morton

who was born on April 22, 1832.

April 22 is the day that would

one day be officially honored as

Arbor Day.

J. Sterling’s father was a mer-

chant in New York State when

the family relocated to Detroit in

1834.

J. Sterling developed an interest

in writing and publishing while

working in his grandfather’s

newspaper office.

After their marriage in 1854, J.

Sterling and his wife left Detroit

for Nebraska where J. Sterling

had a job on the territory’s first

newspaper. He soon became edi-

tor of the paper.

The couple began planting shade

trees, shrubs and flowers to beau-

tify their 160-acre property, and

in 1872, he introduced a resolu-

tion to the State Board of Agricul-

ture to have a one time event cel-

ebrating trees and call it Arbor

Day. Arbor Day was an incredible

success. Over 1 million trees were

planted that first Arbor Day.

Nebraska’s governor held another

Arbor Day celebration the follow-

ing year.

The next year it became a legal

holiday in Nebraska, but the date

was changed to April 22, to honor

the birthday of the man who had

started it all, J. Sterling Morton.

Most states began recognizing

Arbor Day, and the schools

picked up the tradition in 1882.

In 1970, President Nixon moved

the national observance of Arbor

Day to the last Friday in April.

Some states observe their own

Arbor Day when it is the best

time to plant trees in their area.

Each year, CGC celebrates Arbor

Day with third graders in the

Brecksville-Broadview Hts.

school system. This year we dis-

tributed fir seedlings to students

at Assumption Academy (April

25), Chippewa Elementary (April

26), Hilton Elementary (April 27),

and Highland Elementary (April

27.)

Garden club members gave the

students a talk on the history of

Arbor Day and why it is im-

portant to our ecosystem to plant

and maintain trees.

Thanks to all CGC members who

participated.

Kathy Habib

Assumption Academy Students

Selecting and Bagging a Tree Seedling

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