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the COMMUNITY GARDEN
CLUB of Cohasset,MA
www.CommunityGardenClubOfCohasset.org
Newsletter Editor: Pat Cammett [email protected]
2 0 1 5 N O V E M B E R E D I T I O N
Hard to believe there are only six weeks before our Yuletide House Tour! Linda Fraker and Julie Hess have lined up five very special homes, Arienne Lima and her team have tirelessly sought out advertisements, many hands have worked on the ticket, and designers are going to the depths of their creative minds to transform the houses for theholidays.
Now it is every club member’s responsibility to sign up for hostessing the houses and working at St. Anthony's hall, regardless of other tasks we have filled up to date. We need everyone to make this fundraiser a success and ensure our club's good name.
Enjoy nature's amazing show and Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! Lelia
NOVEMBER Calendar3 Executive Board Meeting: Lightkeepers Cottage, 9:30 a.m.Hostesses: Adams, Roy
4 & 5 Yuletide Craft Workshops: Lightkeepers Cottage, 9:30 a.m., “Decorators’ Projects”
7-8 GCFM: Environmental School, Mass Horticultural Society, Hunnewell Building, 900 Washington St., Elm Bank, Wellesley, MA
9 GCFM: Horticultural Morning: “Growing Gardeners: Children, School & Gardens,” South Church, 41 Central St., Andover 10:00 a.m.
10 Yuletide Craft Workshop: TBA
11 Garden Therapy: Harborview Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., “Tom Turkeys”
16 Junior Gardeners: Deer Hill School Cafeteria, 2:40 - 3:40 p.m., “Cornucopia Thanksgiving Arrangement,” with Kathy Gray
17 Yuletide Craft Workshop: Lightkeepers Cottage, 9:30 a.m., “Magnolia Leaf Wreath” with Judy Dickstein
19 Yuletide Craft Workshop: Lightkeepers Cottage, 9:30 a.m., “Greening the Yuletide Marketplace”
24 Monthly Meeting: Second Congregational Church, 43 Highland Avenue; Coffee: 9:00 a.m.; Meeting: 9:30 a.m. Flower Arrangement: Lee Drew Hostesses: (Food Set-up and Cleanup) Bryant, Byrne, Carlo, Carraher, Carroll, Chamberlain, Chamillard, Chapin, Chapman, Corriveau, Cosentino, Cowan Program: Dana Roberts “The Mechanics of Flower Arranging.” Dana will walk us through conditioning plant material to managing large branches and create beautiful designs while we watch.
Announcements
This beautiful quilt, being donated for our Yuletide House Tour fundraising effort, is being crafted by garden club members Mary Granville, Anne Helbock and Sue Reagan under the guidance of their skilled sewing teacher, Anne Costick, from "So What's New Sewing” in Hingham. It is truly a quilt for all seasons with the warm honey colors perfect for a spring or fall picnic, and the red background a perfect flip for Christmas. 🎄Chances will be sold for one for $5 or three for $10.
Thank you Mary, Anne and Sue for your tremendous effort and generous gift.
2015 CRAFT WORKSHOPSCome one, come all to the following workshops to make things for the house tour and for yourselves. Wednesday, November 4 Decorators’ ProjectsThursday, November 5 Decorators’ ProjectsTuesday, November 10 TBATuesday, November 17 Magnolia Wreath with Judy DicksteinThursday, November 19 Finish projects/green arrangementsTuesday, December 1 Green ArrangementsThursday, December 3 Packaging, pricingWednesday, December 9 Set-up at St. Anthony’s from 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Craft workshops are ongoing and a lot of fun. We are learning while making items for the Yuletide Marketplace. Please come and enjoy the camaraderie. The next workshop is scheduled for Wednesday, October 28th. For this workshop, there are no refreshments planned, but as always, you may bring your own beverage. The plan for this workshop is to continue working with shells to make trees and to start on some angels. Note that even if you don't have the supplies, you can still join us as there are always extra materials unless otherwise stated in the notice for the workshop. Even then, you are welcome to come and chat. Going forward we will be making arrangements with greens from our yards. Please let me know if you have a variety of greens that can be donated for this effort. Unless we notify you otherwise, the workshops will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Lightkeepers.
DECORATORS: Please note that we have designated November 4 and 5 (Wednesday and Thursday) as days when you are invited to use the Lightkeepers with your teams to make decorations for your houses. Please let me know if you want to use the space and time. Also, you are welcome to use the space on any of the craft dates for your specific needs.Judy Dickstein [email protected], 781-383-7058
Please make the following changes to your yearbook:• Peggy Chapman’s new address and email: 100 Pond Street, #18, [email protected]• Marcia Diekmann’s new email address: [email protected]• Terese D’Urso’s new email address: [email protected]• Christina Vater’s new address: 15 Jerusalem Road Drive• Mary Larson’s new address: 20 Hobart Lane• Nancy Auensen and Eileen Packard have resigned from the club.• In the list of officers Maureen Adam’s phone number should read 536-4957. It is correct in the list
of members.• Add new member: Whit Leffel, 152 Forest Avenue, Cohasset, 781-307-1142, husband John
[email protected]. Welcome Whit!
Yuletide ~ The House Tour Thursday, 10 December, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Tickets may be purchased now through October 31 for you, your family and friends for $25 each. After that date,
tickets will be available for $40. Tickets purchased on the day of the tour will be $45. To purchase tickets prior to 10 December, please contact Maureen Adams @ 781-536-4957 or [email protected]. The ticket books will
not be available until the November general meeting but they can be preordered. Bring your check at that time. If you cannot attend the November meeting, please send your check to Maureen at P.O.Box 183, Marshfield Hills,
MA 02051, and your tickets will be at the ticket table the day of the tour.
Beautiful shell trees made during a recent workshop
Starfish ornaments painted by Jeanne Boutross and Barbara Canney for the
Yuletide Marketplace
Junior Gardeners Arienne Lima led this fun workshop for the kids using all natural
ingredients
BUSIER THAN BEES
Members of our club are gluing, phoning, collecting, buying, writing, thinking YULETIDE! There have been craft meetings at Lightkeepers. The products are outstanding. Barbie Bowman is a master at finding natural, sun bleached, whitest of white mussel shells. Our members are turning these into interesting Christmas decorations. Both white and natural colored shells are becoming trees and wreaths. Adrienne Lima has led craft sessions which have seen sweet owls and other natural decorations anyone would love to hang on a Christmas tree, to use in place of a bow on a gift, or to use in a million other ways in a home. Believe me, these items will remind you of being in the highest quality gift shop. The club has many talented workers. They would warmly welcome you and your help. If you have a question, please phone Judy Dickstein at 781-383-7058 or email [email protected]. If not able to join in the fun, you will enjoy looking, working and shopping at Yuletide’s Marketplace.
On December 10th, at Saint Anthony’s, you will also be able to admire the large, handmade quilt, and appreciate a gift of love to our club, from the hands of Mary Granville, Anne Helbock, and Sue Reagan. The quilt is a cottage design. Its solid colors are red, two shades of blue, white, honey, tan, plus a check and two floral patterns of mixed colors. It is fabulous! This will be a magnificent prize to the winner of our Yuletide raffle.
As you can understand, our club members are working towards our biggest biennial fundraiser in many, many ways. Like bees they know that to fill the hive and have it last all winter, everyone must contribute. Fortunately we do have people like Adrienne Lima, working on crafts just now, who has sold thousands of dollars worth of advertisements over the summer and has also helped to create Yuletide’s ticket-book.
Please do not wait to be asked. Offer your services to Linda Fraker or Julie Hess if you do not know what you can do, or to Carol Graham for hospitality, Jan Todd for publicity, or Maureen Adams for ticket sales. There is a need for hostesses, set-up, clean-up, etc., etc., etc. Let’s fill our hive with the sweetest honey to sustain our club over the next two years.
Jan Todd
LAUGHS and CRAFTS at LIGHTKEEPERS
Fall Splendor at the Lightkeepers Cottage garden
Photo by Barbara Canney
Joan Carlo’s Hypertufa pot from the October workshop by Arienne Lima
Critters from natural ingredients - October
workshop by Arienne Lima
The Garden Club of Nagoya Activity Report of October 2015
Our October general meeting was a field trip to Kamikochi,a remote mountainous, highland valley featuring vast virgin forests of birch and larch trees at an elevation of 5,000 feet above sea level and right in the midst of the so-called Japan Alps, located about one hundred miles north of Nagoya. It has been preserved in its natural state within Chubu Sangaku (Central Mountainous) National Park. It is designated as one of Japan’s National Cultural Assets on the list of Special Natural Monuments and Special Places of Scenic Beauty. It is sometimes referred to as the “Japanese Yosemite Valley,” although it is considerably smaller than its California counterpart.
Our chartered bus travelled ninety five miles along the Tokai Hokuriku Motorway through rolling hills up to Takayama, a pretty mountain city nicknamed “Little Kyoto.” Up until three thousand feet a.s.l., the highway was partially studded with yellow or red colored leaves of maple and oak trees, showing that they had just started to change into their autumnal hues. Over the next 35 miles to our destination, the road became an undivided mountain road where brocaded colors already started to be yellow or buff on birch and larch trees. Our destination was Kamikochi Imperial Hotel, open from mid-April through mid-November. The hotel was built on the shore of Taisho Pond formed by volcanic activity from Mt. Yake when in 1915 a mud avalanche blocked the Azusa River. The view of withered trees in the pond in the morning haze creates an erie atmosphere. The river received its name “Taisho” because it was formed during the Taisho period in the 19th century.
Because of the relatively flat topography of the Kamikochi Valley, marshes and ponds are a common feature, and waters are mainly from melted snow runoff. The Tokusawa area at the far northern end of the valley once served as a grazing area for horses and cattle until 1934 when the area was completely integrated into the park.
In front of the hotel we were enchanted with a beautiful panoramic view of the surroundings which looked like a picture scroll with blue sky high above, snowcapped mountain peaks, flashing golden color of the larch trees, and fresh verdure of coniferous forest at the foot of the mountain. The reflections of Mt. Hotaka, the third highest peak in Japan at 14,060 feet above sea level, and Mt.Yake beautifully appeared on the surface of pond against clear sky. Taisho Pond is one of the most popular scenic points in Kamikochi.
After a short stroll we had lunch at the pretty chalet type hotel restaurant.
Kamikochi is a high mountain valley approximately 11miles in length surrounded by mountains higher than ten thousand feet. It is bordered on its northern end by Mount Hotaka, and on its southern end by Mount Yake of an active volcano. The River Azusa flows the length of the valley, filling Taisho Pond at the base of Mt. Yake.
Kamikochi was logged extensively until the mid-19th Century. Rev. Walter Weston, a British Anglican missionary, interested in recreational mountaineering, is credited by his writing and lobbying of the government of Japan, with preserving the Kamikochi area. Each year in June, the Weston Festival is celebrated at Kamikochi in recognition of his contribution to the conservation of the Northern Japan Alps.
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In 1909, a regulation for the preservation of mountain plants was enforced. Since then, Japanese Rock Ptarmigan, Antelope and Char were designated as Precious Natural Animals, and capture of these animals was banned by the regulations.
Regulations:Don’t Feed & Disturb!Do not disturb or feed birds, insect, fish or other wild animals.Don’t Harm!Do not harm or damage wild flowers and plants.Don’t Dump!Carry all your garbage home with your splendid memories.
As the entire Kamikochi Valley is protected as part of the National Park program, road access is only granted to shuttle buses, taxis, and forestry and maintenance vehicles. Private vehicles have been restricted from entering the park beyond a certain point for both traffic management and environmental reasons since 1994. Private cars are required to park at designated parking places from where shuttle buses or taxis transport visitors directly to the centrally located park visitor center.
The “Kamikochi Preservation Society” was established by the local community in 1965. They have been preserving and maintaining the virgin nature of Kamikochi through volunteer activities. The natural beauty of Kamikochi completely depends on tourists’ manners and their activities.
Takako Kohri Recording Secretary