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Te Garden Club of Virginia Journal(USPS 574-520, ISSN 0431-0233) ispublished four times a year for membersby the GCV, 12 East Franklin St.,Richmond, VA 23219. Periodical postagepaid in Richmond, VA. Single issue price,$5.00.

Copy and ad deadlines are:January 15 for the March issueApril 15 for the June issue

July 15 for the September issueOctober 15 for the December issue

Email copy to the Editor and advertisingto the Ad Chairman

President of the Garden Club of Virginia:Kimbrough Nash

JournalEditor:Jeanette McKittrick5111 Cary Street Road

Richmond, VA 23226Phone: (804) 288-2512Email:[email protected]

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ON THE COVER...e pomegranate, Punica granatum,is among the plants listed in 1736 by

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included in omas Jeersons plant list atMonticello. A winter fruit in the northernhemisphere, it is an ancient symbol ofhumanitys most fundamental beliefsand desires, fertility and abundance,resurrection and the hope of eternal life.

IN THIS ISSUE ...

Restoration Story .......................................... 2

Fellows of the Summer ................................. 5

Want to Feed the Birds? ................................6

Daodil Notes ...............................................7

53rd GCV Conservation Forum ...................8

e Mattaponi River Runs Free ....................9

inkSymposium for Christmas .................. 10

73rd Annual Rose Show .........................12-13

Common Wealth Award ............................. 14

Lily Notes .................................................... 15

Ex Libris ...................................................... 16

eyre Back! Stink Bugs Have Returned .... 17

Green Spring Gardens ................................. 19

Club Notes .................................................. 19

Club Notes ..................................................20

Club Notes ..................................................21

Club Notes ..................................................22Contributions ..............................................24

Statement of Ownership .............................. 25

OTHER REFERENCES...Kent-Valentine House

Phone: (804) 643-4137 Fax: (804) 644-7778Email: [email protected]

Historic Garden Week OcePhone: (804) 644-7776 Fax: (804) 644-7778Email:[email protected]


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Restoration Story: A Poets GardenBy Susan Morten

Te Martinsville Garden Club

One spring day in 1983, Jane Baber

White stepped into the remnantsof a garden born and tended by

Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer.What had once been a profusion of bloomamid rooms, allees, arbor and pergola hadgreeted 20th century luminaries: W.E.B.DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr., LangstonHughes, James Weldon Johnson and Marian

Anderson. ey sheltered at the poetsLynchburg home while traveling duringsegregation, a time when hotels werentaccommodating to African-Americans, noteven the intelligentsia.

On that spring day, as honeysucklevines and weeds were choking the survivingroses, peonies, daylilies and English boxwood,a collective journey to restoration began. estory is told in Janes new book, Lessons Learned from a Poets Garden.

Anne Spencers garden spoke to me from the rst moment I saw it, Jane recallsin the book. My life has never been the same since, she told theJournal. Nor,likely, were the lives of members of her club, Hillside Garden Club. ey came fromold Lynchburg, white and auent. It had never occurred to me, nor to the othermembers of the club, that there was an African-American woman on the other side oftown who had been an important poet of the Harlem Renaissance, who was a scholar,a librarian, a political activist, and who had a lovely garden, she writes. We just neverthought about it.

Jane asked for club members help. ey spent much of the next decade diggingin the gardens dirt, supplementing its plantings with their own, and raising more than

$81,000. ese ladies did so much, and, the main thing is, they crossed the racialbarrier, she told theJournal. ey joined ongoing eorts by Anne Spencers family andlocal supporters to preserve the poets house and its garden cottage, built by husbandEdwards hands to be his mates writing sanctuary. Many of her poems celebrate the

wonder of being through the plants and creatures she met daily in her garden. Shenoted their struggles and transcendenceand, thus, mankinds.

Mrs. Spencer was born in Henry County and attended school in Lynchburg.ere she met and married Edward Spencer, later the citys rst parcel postman. Shedied in 1975 at age 93, having achieved national and international notice, includingpublication in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry(1973).

Preservation proponents had succeeded in 1976 in having her 1313 Pierce Streethome declared a Virginia Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register ofHistoric Places. e group included her son, Chauncey Spencer, an aviator cited in theSmithsonian National Air and Space Museum. It was Mr. Spencer who rst showed thegarden to Jane, a landscape designer. He asked if she and her business partner, Mina

Walker Wood, could help.

Anne and Edward Spencer in the gardenwith their granddaughters.


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With the assistance of the Hillside Garden Club and preservation proponents,much of Anne Spencers life has been preserved. Restoration of the garden won supportfrom the Garden Club of Virginia through two Common Wealth Awards (1985and 2009). A 1987 article inAmerican Horticulturistfocused national attention on

the garden and on Anne Spencer, and in 2008, Garden Conservancy representativescongratulated the Anne Spencer Foundation and Hillside in an assessment requested byHillside.

Jane would go on to restore another historic garden, Lynchburgs Old CityCemetery. She says she wrote about Anne Spencers garden to help other groupsinterested in restoration.

In her book, Jane writes, It is an enormous privilege to be able to work in thesame soil Anne Spencer tended. e book brims with old photographs, garden plans,news clippings and even unpublished poems homage to a woman she never met, butcame to feel she knew so well.

This small garden is half my worldI am nothing to it when all is said,I plant the thorn and kiss the rose,but they will grow when I am dead.

From Anne Spencers poem, Any Wife to a Husband: A Derived Poem.

With thanks to the Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum for permission to use photosand excerpt from Anne Spencers Any Wife to a Husband: A Derived Poem.

Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer in her Lynchburg garden


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Fellows of the SummerBy Sally Guy Brown, Chairman of the GCV Fellowship Committee

Te Garden Club of Alexandria

The Garden Club of Virginia oers two fellowships to graduate students acrossthe country in landscape architecture and historic preservation. Each fall, theGCV Fellowship Committee studies historic landscape properties to select the

projects of documentation. ese fellowships are paid for with monies from HistoricGarden Week. William D. Rieley, landscape architect for the Garden Club of Virginiaand former professor in the graduate school of landscape architecture of the Universityof Virginia, oversees the projects and gives guidance to the young scholars in researchingand documenting the landscapes.

e purpose of the fellowships is to build a comprehensive record of historic

gardens in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Former GCV President Helen Murphyconceived of this program, and it was rst implemented in 1996 under the direction ofthen GCV landscape architect, Rudy J. Favretti.

Today, we have two fellowships. e William D. Rieley Fellowship documentslandscapes and historic properties publicly held. e Rudy J. Favretti Fellowshipdocuments historic properties that are privately owned. Both create important recordsof landscapes that could disappear should they be sold or demolished. Applications aremade online at our website. e committee calls all the graduate schools in the UnitedStates with programs in landscape architecture and historic preservation to alert them tothese paid summer internships. We had 22 applications for the summer of 2011.

is summer, Emily Peterson, a graduate student in landscape architecture at theUniversity of Virginia, was the Rieley Fellow. She documented an Ellen Biddle Shipmangarden at Springsbury in Millwood, Virginia. isonce-private residence is now owned by the CaseyTree Foundation in Washington and used as theCasey Tree Farm.

Emily visited Cornell University, the mainrepository for Shipmans drawings, and uncoveredheretofore unknown photographs and information

on Springsbury.Ashley Allis, a graduate student in Urban and

Environmental Planning, with an undergraduatedegree in landscape architecture, was the FavrettiFellow. She documented the landscape at the old

Western State Hospital in Staunton, now ownedby a private foundation that is turning the oldbuildings into condominiums and a luxury hotel.She uncovered a wealth of historic information

and documentation that will be useful in thefoundations future plans.Both scholars have given us a great legacy

of important information about these historiclandscapes. eir nished documentations can beviewed in the archives at www.gcvfellowship.org.

2011 GCV Fellows Emily Petersonand Ashley Allis with Will Rieley.


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Want to Feed the Birds?First Feed the BugsBy Lea Shuba, GCV Horticulture Chairman

Te Hunting Creek Garden Club

The GCV Horticulture Committee was delighted to host a workshop featur-

ing Doug Tallamy in Richmond on October 18. Dr. Tallamy is a renowned

speaker on the topic of supporting our threatened native insect and bird

populations, and is Professor and Chair of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the

University of Delaware. He is the author ofBringing Nature Home, a book that belongs

in the library of every GCV member.

His message begins with a graphic presentation of the lack of remaining natural

habitat in this country, particularly along the eastern seaboard, which serves as the y-

way for most of our migrating birds and butteries. eir arduous ight requires plenty

of nourishment along the way, and without sucient natural resources, they perish. An

equally important factor is that when birds attempt to nest, our yards lack the native

insect life required to feed their young. e truth is that migrating and young birds

require insects as food, not seeds and berries. Furthermore, the insects they require can

only reproduce on very specic native plants. e result has been that almost a third of

our native bird species is imperiled and, therefore have lost their function as part of the

food chain. He stressed that this lack of biodiversity in our yards is due to more than

overdevelopment; it is also due to the unwise plant choices made for landscaping our

backyards. We are part of a global food chain, and plants are not optional. None of us

can live without them. However, not all plants are equally useful.

While this may seem like a gloomy message, Dr. Tallamy speaks on the subject

with a mixture of scholarly erudition and humorous optimism. One cannot doubt his

facts, but his optimism and scrupulous research point us in the direction of change in

which all of us can participate. His challenge to us as gardeners is to make the plant-

ing choices that support our native wildlife, instead of opting for exotic and potentially

invasive species found in the landscaping trade. Fortunately, many local garden centers

now oer native species, as the demand for them has increased.

Our part is clear. We must contribute to a band of interconnected healthy plant

communities that function in part like our lost native habitat. We do this by recreating

it in our own backyards. So ladies, you may keep your boxwoods and crepe myrtles for

now, but opt for native species in the future. If you need to plant one new tree, make it

an oak. Doug maintains a website at www.bringingnaturehome.net. On it, he includes a

list of appropriate plant choices for our landscapes.


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Daffodil NotesLocation, Location, Location

By Lucy Rhame, GCV Daodil ChairmanFauquier and Loudoun Garden Club, Te Hunting Creek Garden Club

Its that time of year again when what you ordered from all those catalogues last Junestarts to arrive, and eventually youll have to decide where to plant it all. For daodils,think location, location, location.e rst factor to consider: the division of daodil purchased. e Royal

Horticultural Society categorizes daodils into 13 divisions characterized by the shape ofthe corona, the number of orets per stem or the position of petals.

Generally speaking, the majority of daodils prefer well-drained soil with plenty

of light. All blooms need sunshine during the owering season and for the following sixweeks as the leaves absorb the nutrition from the sunlight, ensuring the following yearsbloom.

Still, some divisions need more summer sun than others, which prefer a bit of cover.Some bulbs can tolerate, or might even need, more water; others will rot at the slightestdrop during summer.

Lets consider planting requirements from June to September by division, as dierentdivisions have dierent needs.

Divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4. Find a well-drained site where the bulbs can bake in thesummer. ese divisions like hot sun and dry conditions. Avoid planting under

irrigation systems or in pots. Division 5. ese need the most drainage of all. Sandy soil is preferable, as they will

not tolerate standing in water or being wet during summer. Under a shade tree onthe Eastern Shore or in raised beds in direct sun would suit this group well.

Division 6. ese are the most water-tolerant and may even appreciate wet feetduring springtime. In summer, they prefer a cooler, shadier area to escape intensesun.

Divisions 7, 8 and 9. ese like a bit of shade in summer. A deciduous-shadedhillside that drains well might work perfectly. Take extra care in planning where to

plant division 7 and 9 bulbs, as they do notlike to be moved once established.

Divisions 10 and 11. e bulbocodiums ofdivision 10 are happy wherever a division1 bulb might be planted, as are division 11bulbs.

(It would be impossible to oer tips fordivision 12, as its a catch-all category for daodilsthat do not t into any of the other divisions.

e same applies to division 13, wild daodilsdistinguished solely by their species name.)While these rules are not hard and fast, a bit

of consideration can ensure happy, healthy bulbsfor years to come.

Dafodil in the Snowby Sharee Basinger


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53rd GCV Conservation ForumDraws Crowds, Praise and Generous Support

By Jeanette McKittrickEditor, GCV Journal

Tree Chopt Garden Club

An Associated Press reporter sent this tweet from the GCV Conservation Forumin November: big crowd for Garden Club of Virginia forum on uraniummining at U of Richmond. Impressive program, too. Nearly 250 people,

including a considerable turn-out by the press, came to hear a remarkable range ofspeakers debate the pros and cons of uranium mining in Virginia. e event wasorganized by the GCV Conservation Committee and chaired by Peyton Wells of eTuckahoe Garden Club.

In January, theGeneral Assembly isexpected to consider liftinga 30-year moratoriumon mining uranium, aradioactive metal which isused to fuel nuclear powerplants. e GCV waspraised by one speaker asan organization that could

lend civil discourse toa potentially rancoroussubject.

Kim Nash, GCVpresident, expressed her delight and gratitude to e Robert and Bessie CarterFoundation for its generous grant, underwriting the forum. e quality of publicdiscourse and exchange of information that characterized the day seemed betting thegift that helped make such a thing possible. Since 2008, the family of Bessie BocockCarter carries on her deep commitment to conservation in Virginia.

Hollis Stauber, Peyton Wells, Karen Jones and Kim Nashat 53rd GCV Conservation Forum in Richmond.

Want to know more about whats afoot in the General Assembly?Join us for Garden Club of Virginia Legislative Day 2012

DATE: Monday, January 23, 2012

TIME: Registration 8:30 AM, Program 9:00 AM

WHERE: Richmond Center Stage, 600 East Grace Street,Richmond, VA 23219

WHAT: Learn about the issues coming before the 2012General Assembly.

Visit your legislators. Become an informed citizen.Checkwww.gcvirginia.orgfor more information


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e Mattaponi River Runs FreeBy Marilyn South

Te Garden Club of the Middle Peninsula

Ahighlight of the 2011 Conservation Forum was the announcement of the recipi-ent of the Elizabeth Cabell Dugdale Award, the Alliance to Save the Mattaponi.Delegate Albert C. Pollard, one of the founding members of this grassroots

group of citizens, political representatives and non-prot organizations, accepted theaward on behalf of the group, which also included such noteworthy organizations asthe Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Southern Environmental Center. irteenyears after its inception, the alliance was successful, and the building of the reservoir wasstopped. More than 1,500 acres of a diverse upland/wetland ecosystem, a great blue her-on rookery, two federally listed endangered plant species (the sensitive joint vetch and

the small whorled pogonia), and a edgling shad shery were saved. In addition, NativeAmericans in the region were saved from the loss of numerous archeological sites, andthe rivers basic ecology, such as the waters salinity, was protected. e Garden Club ofthe Middle Peninsula recognized the alliances invaluable contribution to preserving theriver and its environs, and nominated it for this important award.

Alliance members proved that hard work and grassroots support do make a dier-ence. People signed petitions, wrote letters to ocials, attended hearings, marched inparades, bought T-shirts, and displayed bumper stickers and yard signs. e alliancemembers learned to get the facts straight, tap knowledgeable resources and speak up.e Mattaponi River runs free today because of the many hundreds of involved alliance

members, Delegate Pollard, and concerned citizens who chose to make a dierence.


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Te Garden Club of Virginia appreciates responsible advertising and reserves the rightto accept or reject submitted advertisements. Inclusion in theJournal is not to be

construed as an endorsement by the Garden Club of the advertised goods or services.

inkSymposium for ChristmasBy Clarkie Eppes, GCV Symposium Committee 2012

Hillside Garden Club

Are you dicult toshop for? Do youknow someone

who is? en we have theperfect holiday gift for you.Here is an opportunity toenrich your knowledge ofgardening and landscapedesign, to be captivated

by expert lecturers andpresentations, and to meetwith friends from all overVirginia. ink GCVSymposium as a holidaygift.

e GCV Symposium2012 features guest speakersfrom around the country andfrom across the pond. Featured speaker Mathew Dickinson is hailed as one of theforemost wedding and party designers in the U.K. He heads up a list of noted guestspeakers, all experts in their elds of design, horticulture and event planning, several of

whom have been commissioned by U.S. presidents and British royalty. Our speakerswill delight, entertain and educate guests in the art of ower and garden design, ediblegardening and native plants, and entertaining style. You will not want to miss thisthree-day event on February 27, 28 and 29 at e Homestead.

Special events have been planned for guests arriving on Monday, February 27. eGarth Newel Center will hold a concert with afternoon tea prepared by Master ChefRandy Wyche. Or perhaps you have an item you would like to have appraised by KenFarmer of public television fame? Mr. Farmer will be available to discuss and appraiseyour family heirloom. (Only small items, please.) And, for exercise enthusiasts, yogaclasses are scheduled each day of the Symposium -- so dont forget to pack your gear.

Shopaholics will be thrilled with the selection and variety of boutiques that willset up shop at e Homestead exclusively for our three-day event. Gardening items,designer clothing, unique jewelry, home accessories and art will delight and temptshoppers. In addition, e Homestead will oer 10% o purchases, spa, and activitiesat the hotel for Symposium participants only.

Look for your GCV Symposium brochure in the mail, complete the registrationform, and return it by the deadline. Bring a friend, daughter or daughter-in-law.Husbands, too, are graciously welcome. So sign up now as space for special events islimited.

Additional information on the Symposium may be found on the GCV website,www. gcvirginia.org.

Te Homestead in Hot Springs is the site o theGCV Symposium 2012


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ake the Leap o imeless rendsFebruary 27-29, 2012

e HomesteadGuest Speakers Seminars Special Events Vendors

ree-Day Registration: $250 (includes all lectures, two lunches, Monday nightcocktails and buet dinner, and Tuesday night cocktails and banquet)

One-Day Registration: $125 (includes lunch)

Special Events: Additional fee

Room Rate: $165 per night for single occupancy, plus tax.An additional $82.50 will be charged for each additional adult, plus tax. Suites available upon request.

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Grateful appreciation extended to Mary Wynn and Charles McDaniel

e complete list of winners and additional


Gardens Within the Garden

Artistic Awards

Sponsored by The Har

Inter Club Class 40AEcho Arrangement

e Mill Mountain GardenClub - Quad Blue

e Elizabeth BradleyKincheloe Stull Award

Best Arrangementby a Novice

Jennifer Kellye Garden Club

of Alexandria

Inter Club Class 40DFramed Spatial

Leesburg Garden Club

Class 45 - Designers Choice(Blue), e Virginia Brown Guild

Perpetual Award & e FlowerShows Chairmans Cup

Matilda Bradshaw,e Mill Mountain Garden Club

The 73rd Annual

Inter Club Class 40BCreative Line Mass (Blue)e Rappahannock Valley

Garden Club

Inter Club Class 40CCreative Abstract (Blue)

e Petersburg Garden Club


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and Hilldrup Transfer & Storage for support of the GCV Flower Shows.

photographs can be viewed at www.gcvirginia.org.


NUMBER OF HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITORS: 93

NUMBER OF ARRANGEMENTS: 66

NUMBER OF HORTICULTURAL STEMS: 393October 5-6, 2011

arborfront Garden Club

Queen Marilyn MonroeBernice Walker

Dolley Madison Garden Club

King Randy ScottMr. & Mrs. Howard Jones

Horticulture Awards

Rose Show, 2011

Best Hybrid Tea SprayGemini

Emily V. Barbeee Garden Club of Gloucester

Best FloribundaEuropeana Section 1, Class 3

Kathy Watson

e Tuckahoe Garden Club

Best Polyantha Spraye Fairy

Joyce Moormane Lynchburg Garden Club


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Common WealthAward

By Betsy Worthington, Common WealthAward Chairman

Te Lynchburg Garden Club

The Common Wealth Award,

established in 1979, provides a

grant or grants to support and

promote the projects of GCV member

clubs in the areas of conservation,

beautication, horticulture, preservationand/or education.

e 2011 Common Wealth Award

was presented at the Board of Governors

Meeting in October to Rivanna Garden

Club for its project at Hatton Ferry, the

last pole-operated ferry in America, on the

James River near Scottsville. e award

check in the amount of $10,500 will beused to assist in replacing the information

kiosk, to install substantial picnic tables

and trash receptacles, and to provide

new landscaping. e club has identied

plantings it will install both for beauty and

erosion mitigation at the waters edge, on

higher banks, and near the parking lot.

e deadline for applications forthe 2012 Common Wealth Award is

March 1, 2012. e application form and

information on how to submit a proposal

can be found on the GCV website under

Awards. e Common Wealth Award

Committee looks forward to receiving

many applications from the GCV member

clubs.

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[email protected]

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e Editorial Board welcomessubmissions and reservesthe right to edit them.


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Believe it or not, you can propagate thegenus lilium by scale, and its easy.

e rst order of business is toidentify the scale. A true lily bulb is similarto a garlic knob, and those cloves arecalled scales. To get scales to produce mini

bulbletsbaby liliestake three steps:

Place the scale in a plastic baggie with some damp peat moss (about one-quarterof a sandwich baggie). Label the baggie. Usually, when I plant bulbs for next year,I pull a couple of scales o a bulb. It wont hurt the plant. If your bulbs are alreadyin the ground, get some more bulbs at the store.

Place the baggie in a dark spot for a couple of months. Under the sofa is whereI rst misplaced my baggies of lily scales.

ree to four months later, youll notice some mini-bulblets growing on the scale.

Bulblets are usually white, ranging in size from a pimple to a pea. Not all scalesproduce bulblets, though; sometimes, not a trace of the scale or bulblet can befound in the baggie. Some possible explanations: the peat moss was too wet orcontained some contaminants. Maybe the scale was simply not cooperating.If you put up a variety of scales, however, you will be sure of some success.

I leave the scales and bulblets in the baggies in indirect sunlight, until they sproutsmall leaves.

Next step: buy a roasted chicken. e plastic container makes the best greenhouse.After eating your chicken and cleaning out the plastic container, add damp potting mix.

Place the scale with the tiny bulblets still attached onto the dirt. You can bury it a little,although its not necessary. Eventually, the scale will disappear, as the bulblets grow andcreate a root system.

With the lid on, place your greenhouse on a window sill until the leaves touch thetop. e two small vents in the plastic chicken roasters top seem just right for ventilation.My recommendation is to buy a chicken for each variety of lily bulblet; in that way, youcan keep the lilies straight, plus you wont have to worry about the dinner menu for a

while.When the baby lilies are ready to transplant, place them in plastic pots and bury

the pots. Leave the rims above soil, though, so you will know where to nd them thefollowing spring. Be sure to label them.Eventually, the bulbs will outgrow the small pots and need their own garden spaces.

It can take two to three years before you will have a strong enough stem to show.e GCV Lily Show has a special perpetual silver trophy for growing lilies from

seed, scale or bulbils. It is called the Violet Niles Walker Memorial Trophy.

Lily scales with bulblets

By Mary Queitzsch ZocchiGCV Lily CommitteeDolley Madison Garden Club

Lily NotesWhich Comes First the Chicken or the Bulb?


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Ex LibrisA Review ofDesigning by ypes

By Molly H. Sammler, GCV Library CommitteeTe Petersburg Garden Club

Whether you are struggling over a competitive oral design in a categorythat is completely new to you or just looking for that perfect arrangementto place in the foyer, Designing by ypesis both a thorough and beautiful

resource. It was recently published by National Garden Clubs (NGC), Inc., andedited by Harriet H. Osborne, with advise from Jena Ohlmann and coordination byDeen Day Sanders and Tony Todesco. is elaborate reference guide was producedto fulll what the NGC Flower Schools Committee saw as a need for more extensive

clarication of the newer NGC design types.More than 45 design types are detailed throughout the book. Each design type is

illustrated by brilliant and vibrant full-color photographs by renowned photographerTerry Miles. e arrangements photographed were the work of 31 oral designers who

were assigned a specic oral design type. e designers were asked to create two ormore designs of a particular design type in order to help emphasize that there is no onesingle interpretation. ey also were asked to stress diversity, the eect of backgroundcolor, and the staging in a design type. In all, there are more than 190 photographs inthe book, and, as noted in the NGC presidents message of appreciation, A picture is

worth a thousand words....Along with each design type photographed, there is a detailed and instructivebreakdown of the arrangements components. e arrangements are judged on threequalities: conformance, artistic concept and distinction. e breakdown is again bothinstructive and interesting, especially if you are trying to create that new design typecategory.

Designing by ypesdoes achieve its goals to provide clarity and enjoyment. It alsofurther stimulates creativity and interest in the more recent oral design types. eGCV was fortunate to have this book donated as reference for our library, and it isstrongly recommended to arrangement enthusiasts.


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eyre Back!Stink Bugs Have Returned

By Clarkie EppesHillside Garden Club

My husband and I live in Bedford County in an old log cabin, and share our

house with a plethora of stinky stink bugs. e pests have found our dark,

warm house to be hotel-central. We are infested, as many of you are. e

summer brought some relief because the bugs preferred the out-of-doors, but with

cooler weather approaching, the pests are coming back in. So we have done a bit of

research to see what works.

We suggest that you try to do what you can to keep the stink bugs outside.

Remove window air conditioners, seal cracks around doors and windows, and keep yourdoors and windows closed. You do not want the bugs coming into your house to nest.

We tried spraying the outside of our cabin with a stink bug retardant/killer, which

worked briey. Sunlight breaks down the chemicals eectiveness, and you have to

reapply every few weeks.

We found a website on how to make stink bug traps and made our rst traps

last spring just before our winter visitors departed for the warm, sunny outdoors. We

are testing them again this fall. e traps are simple to make and a lot cheaper than

the store-bought contraptions that

work on a similar premise. ereis a clever Youubevideo that gives

you step-by-step instructions. All

you need is an old soda jug, tape

and an LED light. For instructions,

go to: www.youtube.com/

watch?v=VwUuHhWYvDA.

Stink bugs like the eastern

exposure, and you will nd most of

them on windows and curtains atthat end of the house. Locate your

traps there. Turn on the LED light

in the trap at night. During the day

the bugs are attracted to the natural

sunlight of your windows.

We hope some of these

suggestions will help you. We will

report back on the success of our

homemade traps, and we encourageother GCV members to report on

what works for you.


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Green Spring GardensBy Kim urpin Davis, Conservation Chair

Te Hunting Creek Garden Club

Green Spring Gardens is a lovely park located in Northern Virginia dedicatedto the preservation and interpretation of the areas horticultural, historical andnatural resources. e 28-acre property is centered on a renovated 18th-century

manor home, and consists of a horticultural center, gardens, forested paths and ponds.It includes a garden area originally designed by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, thedesigner of Dumbarton Oaks. e only Farrand garden in the state of Virginia, it wasrecently announced that it would be a GCV restoration project.

Hunting Creek Garden Club donated $2,000 to Green Spring two years ago toassist with native plantings for the park. Recently, club members were treated to a

wonderful tour by Gardens Director Mary Olien to see rsthand how our funds werebeing utilized.

Our tour began on the forested path where we stopped at a beautiful gurglingstream that is part of the parks stream bank stabilization project to minimize erosion.e stream is fed by underground springs and is liberally populated with naturalcobblestones. We then passed through a remnant magnolia bog, a designated wetlandthat protects lands within 100 feet of moving water. As we entered the pond areas,Mary pointed out an imbricated (tiled) rock wall employed to maintain structure inthe streambed farther upstream. Gabion baskets, sturdy wire mesh that secures largerocks lining the stream, help prevent erosion and stabilize the stream bank.

Hunting Creek Garden Clubs donation was instrumental in stabilizing the island

in the large pond with plantings and to purchase and plant trees around the pond. epond area is fed by three springs and adorned with many beautiful lotus plants. eponds are home to frogs, geese, blue herons, three kinds of turtles, dragonies, insectsand birds.

Like the many visitors who tour Green Spring annually, we enjoyed the stunninghorticultural specimens and this island of beauty. We urge you to visit, too.

Santas helpers decorate theCharlottesville Amtrak station.

Club NotesAlbemarle, Charlottesville and Rivanna Garden Clubs

The Presidents Project annuallybrings together the Albemarle,Charlottesville and Rivanna Garden

Clubs to decorate the local Amtrak stationfor the Christmas holidays. On theMonday after anksgiving, the three clubpresidents and helpers arrive at the stationbearing beautiful holiday greens and redbows. e station master brings out ourstored tree, lights and ornaments. In a fewhours, these clubs transform the stationinto a festive and welcoming venue forpassengers, friends and family. Since 2003,responsibilities have rotated yearly one president takes charge, one president handlespublicity, and the third brings the greens and bows. All aboard! Katya Spicuzza


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t X X X T U S B O H F T D P N

Richmond, Virginia

Stranges has a passion for plants and

we have been growing local beauty in

Virginia for over 75 years. Locally owned

and operated means fresher flowers and

healthier plants for your home or to share

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Club NotesTe Garden Club of Alexandria

Looking good and doing good whatcould be better? When e Garden Clubof Alexandria needed to raise funds for

civic projects four years ago, we decided to tieone on, literally. One of our clever memberscame up with the idea of designing a necktie

with a gardening theme. Our fundraisingtie was so successful that we have sold out ofthem, and this fall were introducing the secondin our series of neckties. is one has both agardeninganda Virginia theme.

Now, garden club husbands, fathersand sons across the commonwealth willbe recognizable when sporting our latestcreation. e spring green arrows of HistoricGarden Week form the background, whilethe foreground is a repeating pattern of apergola and an American dogwood tree, ourstate ower. e fundraiser has been a fun andrewarding endeavor, and we think Will Rieleyis the perfect model! Mimi Conger Will Rieley sports Alexandrias new tie.


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A N N O U N C I N G

Lessons Learned

from a

Poets Garden

a beautiful and practical guide

to restoring an historic garden,

as told through photos, notes,and friendships.

Price $45, Plus $2.25 Va. tax, $5 shiPPingPerbookcheckPayableto anne sPencer book

to: Jane baber White, 1616 langhorne road, lynchburg, Va. 24503

Hardcover 192 pages LavisHLy iLLustrated witH more tHan 300 pHotograpHs

ClubNotesTalking Turkey: Revitalizing Feathered Icons

Te Spotswood Garden Club

Turkeys can continue to welcome visitors to Harrisonburg and RockinghamCounty, thanks to e Spotswood Garden Club.

Statues of the birds have performed that civic function for more than halfa century, the result of an eort to show, subtly, that it is possible to promote an area

without billboards.e year was 1951, when e Spotswood Garden Club, under the direction of

Mrs. George D. Conrad, chairman of the Road Beautication Committee, initiateda project with that purpose: a contest in schools asking students for ideas to publicizeHarrisonburg and Rockingham County.

A sixth-grader at Lucy Simms School, Gerald Harris, won the contest bycapitalizing on Rockingham Countys prowess at the time as one of the nations topturkey producers. He submitted a drawing that depicted a statue of a turkey, along witha sign welcoming visitors to the Turkey Capital.

With projects to raise funds and with the help of local poultry businesses, theSpotswood club was able to purchase three 400-pound bronze turkeys. e turkeys

would stand on blue limestone bases, which would be placed at main entrances to thearea. e statues were erected in 1955.

All projects require maintenance. In the past, local poultry companies and

businesses funded much of the upkeep. Help also came from a local couple, who tookit as their personal project to care for the statues, applying a special protective wax.Occasional foundation maintenance also is needed.

Last year found e Spotswood Garden Club again caring for its own majorproject. Weathering had caused extensive damage to the statues foundations. After a

wide-ranging search, the club found just the right stonemason and matching stone.e revitalized, iconic turkey statues serve as a welcome reminder of club members

successful eorts 56 years ago. Glenna Graves


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ClubNotesLeesburg Garden Club

Members of the LeesburgGarden Club felt that the

club needed to be more

visible in our community and to make

people aware of the positive impact we

have. Two committees were formed. A

Ways & Means Committee was created

to generate funds and a Community

Outreach Committee was created to nd

ways to disseminate those funds in the

community.

e Ways & Means Committee held

silent auctions during our annual club

picnic and an annual plant sale open to

the public. Both events have been very

popular. With the funds generated bythese activities, the Leesburg Garden Club

has been able to award a $500 scholarship

in 2006 and $1000 scholarships to

Loudoun County graduating seniors who

met our criteria for the last four years. e

club has given these scholarships with the

guidance of the Community Outreach

Committee working with the GuidanceDepartment of Loudoun County Public

Schools. e club has used funds raised

also to make donations to various historic

properties in Loudoun County.

We are pleased to have helped

graduating high school seniors as they

embark on college educations that will,

with luck, one day put them on the

leading edge of protection and development

of Virginias natural beauties.

Jean Brown

434-297-3881

[email protected]

www.madisonspencer.com

306 East Main strEEt

CharlottEsvillE

va 22902

Forthewayyoulive


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C O N T R I B U T I O N SReport Period from 7/01/11 through 9/30/11

Annual FundProvides essential ongoing support necessary to maintain GCV operations.

Donor

Anne BaldwinMrs. Grace BattleCharlotte S. BenjaminMrs. Ronald W. BevansMrs. Alex G. Brown IIIMissy BuckinghamDeedy BumgardnerSharon Byrd

Jeanette CadwallenderMeg ClementLinda Linens Consolvo

Anne Geddy CrossAnn Gordon Evans

Lynn GasJean GilpinAgnes Gant HarrisonAnn HarryMary K. Hubard TrustsMrs. Charles K. Hutchens IIIKaren O. JonesCarolyn Kahn

Donna P. LawhonBarbara B. LutonJulie W. MacKinlayCatherine MaddenNancy McWane

Barbara B. MerchantBetty M. MichelsonNina MustardKathleen O. PearsonLea C. ShubaIsabella Williams SmithDianne Nea Spence

Joan Sprinkle

Mrs. Norman E. TadlockJane B. WhiteCatherine C. Whitham

Donor In Honor ofe Mill Mountain Garden Club

to the GCV Flower Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cyndi FletcherKimbrough K. Nash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeanette Cadwallender

Ann Gordon EvansNina Mustard

Dianne Spence

Donor In Memory ofCabell Goolsby West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Judith Burnett Halsey

Sarah HarrisonCommon Wealth Award Fund

Provides monies to individual clubs for local civic beautication eorts.Donor In Memory ofMargaret W. Wood Mrs. John R. Morris, Jr.

Garden Club of Virginia Endowment

Supports the ongoing preservation of the historic Kent-Valentine House,headquarters of the Garden Club of Virginia and Historic Garden Week.Donore Brunswick Garden Clube Spotswood Garden Club

Donor In Honor ofe Brunswick Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandy Harte Garden Study Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lucy WilsonKathryn Q. Wae. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Bemiss

Suzanne Wright

Donor In Memory ofe Hampton Roads Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nancy Griere Huntington Garden Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katherine Porter Reade Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Judith Burnett HalseyMrs. Phillip G. Arnest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Polly Tayloe

Jeanette Cadwallender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frances DawsonMr. and Mrs. Richard E. Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. John R. Morris, Jr.Mary Hart Darden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller


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DECEMBER2011 WWW.GCVIRGINIA.ORG 25

Statement of Ownershipeownership,managementandcirculationoftheGardenClubofVirginiasJournal,

publishedfourtimesayearinRichmond,Virginia,isherebystatedintherstissuepub-lishedaftertherstofOctober2011.

enameandaddressofthepublisheris:GardenClubofVirginia,Kent-ValentineHouse,12EastFranklinStreet,Richmond,Virginia23219.enameandaddressoftheeditoris:JeanetteMcKittrick,5111CaryStreetRoad,Richmond,Virginia23226.eowneris:GardenClubofVirginia,Kent-ValentineHouse,12EastFranklinStreet,Rich-mond,Virginia23219.erearenobondholders,mortgages,orsecurityholders.

epurpose,function,andnon-protstatusofthisorganizationandtheexemptstatusforFederalIncomeTaxpurposeshavenotchangedduringthepreceding12months.

etotalnumberofcopiespublishednearestthelingdateis3,400.eaver-agenumberofcopiespublishedinthepreceding12monthsis3,400.erearenosalesthroughdealers,etc.Paidsubscriptionsaverage3,291;thenumbernearestthelingdateis3,270.Othermailedcopiesaverage0.Freedistributionaverages35.eaveragenumberofcopiesnotdistributedfortheprecedingyearis74.eaveragenumberofcopiesnotdistributednearestthelingdateis90.

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atthephasedpostalratespresentlyauthorizedonform3526forUSPS#574-520(ISSN0431-0233).IcertifythatthestatementsmadeherearecorrectandcompleteaslistedintheStatementofOwnership,ManagementandCirculation.

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