2015 July draft newsletter

JULY 2015
GARDEN THYMES
MIDDLEBURY GARDEN CLUB NEWSLETTER
middleburygardenclub.org
SECOND JULY EVENT
LIBRARY FLOWERS
NEXT EVENT
Tuesday, July 14
8:30AM Hannaford car pool
9:00AM tour starts at Suzanne
Albinson’s English
Cottage Garden
129 Nancy Lane, New Haven
11:00AM - Lester Farm/Market
Noon - Lincoln Peak Winery
10:00AM on Tuesday, July 21
We will be touring farm fields and a
vineyard, as well as a beautiful garden.
Each year is different in the Basin Harbor
Club’s gardens. Join Rebecca Lindenmeyr of
Linden L.A.N.D. Group, designer and
installer, for a guided tour of four or five of the
areas on which she works each year.
The carpool will leave the south side of the
Hannaford, Middlebury, parking lot at
9:15AM. Lunch will be at your expense at the
Red Mill restaurant, the renovated saw mill at
the club, where Rebecca will join us. Check
out the menu at https://
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/
31874674/REDMILL-MENULUNCH-2015-1.pdf
Chair: Ashley
Dewey
June - Jane Burton
Thank you!
Bring a bag lunch, beverage,
reusable water bottle, suitable footwear, and
$5 payable only by wine tasting participants.
If you plan to buy produce at the farm you
may want to bring a cooler for the car.
Please see your yearbook for
more details.
Carpool will
leave the
south side
of the
Hannaford,
Middlebury,
parking lot.
CAPSULE CALENDAR
July 14 - Children’s Mini Wreath Wkshop
July 14 - Three stop tour - New Haven
July 21 - Basin Harbor Club Gdns & Lunch
August 18 - Helen Porter Arrangements
August 25 - Honey Dew Homestead Tour
September 9 - Shelburne Farms
Chair: Jane
Burton
Hospitality: Ann LaFiandra
and Anneke Oranje
Sheldon Museum presents
its 2015 tour
The museum, with which our club has a
special relationship, is following up last year’s
very successful Middlebury Garden Tour with
a tour of seven gardens in Lincoln, including
that of our member Christine Fraioli.
For those of you interested in art
there will be artists in every garden,
including Reed Prescott, Joe Bolger,
Mike Mayon, and our own Carol
Calhoun.
WANT TO HELP
WITH SHELDON’S
LINCOLN TOUR?
Find out how:
Jane Burton, 802-388-6876
Shari Johnson, 802 462-3366
Anne Taylor, 802-382-9441
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
‘Solitude’
by Carol
Calhoun
Some of the works of the afternoon
will be available for purchase at the
reception.
Upcoming Children’s
Programs at Ilsley
Leslie Bienvenue is offering two
demonstrations for “tweens” at the Ilsley
library this summer. On Tuesday, July 14,
Leslie will be making a small wreath with
attached flowers. She is in need of flowers
and herbs that will dry naturally. Please
contact Leslie if you are able to provide
some materials. You do not need to attend
the demonstration.
A landscape by Joe Bolger
Later in the summer Leslie will have a flower
arranging demonstration for this same age
group and will again need flowers.
See the full tour brochure here:
http://henrysheldonmuseum.org/wpcontent/uploads/garden-tourbrochure-final.pdf
.
Reach Leslie at 802-345-1539
[email protected].
We had fun arranging
flowers. Where were you?
The cold this last winter was good for
something. Reports are that the population
of the Hemlock
Wooly Adelgid
took a beating in
Vermont. More
about this
disaster for
hemlocks here:
http://
rensselaer.cce.cornell.edu/environment/
invasive-pests/hemlock-woolly-adelgid
Esther Howlett, Leslie Bienvenue,
Barbara Blodgett and Lorraine Abramson
PLEASE ADD THESE NEW
MEMBERS' INFORMATION TO
YOUR YEARBOOK
Ryan Nevius (Barry)
1620 Crestwood Drive,
Columbia, SC 29205-3208,
803 381-8747.
[email protected]
Jennifer Vyhnak (Jim)
8 Mountain St.
Bristol, VT 05443
802-453-6411
[email protected]
Jennifer is particularly
interested in the
Thanks go to Pat Morrow for stepping in with her garage owing to poor weather, to
Sheldon Museum
chairperson Nancy Wood, and to hospitality providers Carol Calhoun and Patti
Garden project and the
Marrinan.Thank you also to our teacher and creative guide, Lynne Boie, who encouraged
annual plant sale.
and praised us all.
Pat Durfee and Jane Burton
Pat Morrow and Carol Calhoun
Annual Meeting Photos
Anne Collins & Ashely Dewey
after their installation as First
Vice Presidents - Programs
(beginning Jan. 2016).
Nancy Merolle, Lorrie
Muller & Elaine Mitcham.
An honorary life
membership
was awarded to
Klara Calitri.
Pat Durfee with outgoing State
President Rita Langlais.
Jane Burton presents Fran Putnam
with a State Life Membership.
Barbara Blodgett & Kate Tilton
received a “Beautification Award”
for their work as chairs of the Ilsley
Library Holiday Decoration
Committee.
Lorraine Abramson &
Anne Taylor each received
“Above the Call of Duty”
awards from Pat Morrow.
Krissa Bolton & Lesley Bienvenue
Thank you to our meeting chairs, Peggy Cox and Ellen Giblin,
and to those who provided flower arrangements for our tables:
Ellen, Peggy, Shari Johnson, Barbara Blodgett, Leslie
Bienvenue and Nancy Merolle.
Jean Winter, Gale Burns & Lynne Boie
Planning Ahead
My garden next winter will look even
more like a mouse graveyard for it is my
intention (ha) to mark the plants that
should be divided next spring. Look
outside and see how much larger than
last year are your perennials and plan
ahead for our plant sale next May. If I dip
the tips of the division markers in red
paint, perhaps they will add a cheery
touch over the winter!
MILKWEED VITAL
FOR MONARCHS
Houseplants sold well this year. Take
cuttings for beauties by next spring.
Remember how late spring came? Dig in
fall and bury the pots in piles of leaves.
Older members,
friends and
neighbors may
need help with
divisions. Let’s
make teams to
assist with this
task.
[email protected];
802-382-9441
To those receiving the newsletter in
the mail: If you would like the
information found in the online links,
please call
Anne, 802-382-9441.
Asclepias syriaca
(Common Milkweed)
plays a major role in
the lifecycle of the
Monarch butterfly, but
spreads quickly
underground by
rhizomes. This way
a colony of
milkweed will
quickly crowd out
other plants. Try
using an in-ground
fabric pot to limit
root growth thus
taming the
unchecked spread
of this plant in
your pollinator
garden.
Watch out for Wild Parsnip,
aka Poison Parsnip(Pastinaca sativa)
Wild parsnip is starting to bloom on
roadsides. It actually is our root vegetable,
parsnip that escaped cultivation. The
poison comes from a
phytotoxic chemical in
the plant sap which
reacts with UV
sunlight, and causes
mild to in quite severe
burns. One must
come in contact with the sap in the sun in
order to get the burn. When dealing with
parsnip choose cloudy or even rainy days.
Cut down too early this plant will form
many smaller flowers and therefore more
seeds than if left untouched. The best time
to mow is right after flowering, but before
seed sets. It thrives on roadsides and
other poor growing locations because the
rosettes of this biennial are poor
competitors in the first year, and cannot
keep up with a healthy stand of vegetation,
such as grass. The best control method is
to grow better
plants to choke
out the parsnip.
Seeds of
parsnip are
viable in the
soil for up to
four years, so
vigilance is
required. A little herbicide does wonders, if
you are so inclined. (Excerpted and rewritten
from Tim Parson’s blog. Thank you Shari
Johnson.)