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Chippewa Garden Club Newsletter

Native Plants of Ohio

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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. 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

Dear Chippewa Garden Club

Members,

I have chosen Native Plants of Ohio

as our theme for 2018. When I

started my garden in Broadview

Heights, I chose plants which inter-

ested me, unaware that many of

them were native plants.

Native plants are plants which were

in North America before the arrival

of the first Europeans and which

grow in the wild without human in-

tervention. We have good accounts

of these plants because the first sur-

veyors recorded what they found.

These are the parents of our hybrid

plants.

There are 3000 species of plants in

Ohio, 75% of which are native, oc-

curring in Ohio before 1750 or before

there were substantial European

settlements.

Settlers brought seeds of European

weeds and flowers mixed in with

their crop seed. Wildflowers, howev-

er, are any plant which grows in the

wild. They can be native or natural-

ized from European seeds. Not all

wildflowers are native plants.

We want to plant native plants be-

cause they offer food and shelter for

wildlife. They are drought, pest, and

disease resistant. By not using pes-

ticides on native plants, beneficial

insects are not harmed. Native

plants need less fertilizer which ben-

efits water quality.

Next time you are at the nursery,

pick up a few native plants for your

garden.

Respectfully,

Kathleen Habib, 2018 President

January/February 2018

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Dates To Remember

Tuesday, January 9

Board meeting at 6:00 p.m. at

the Brecksville Human Services

Activity Room C

Tuesday, January 23

Membership Meeting at 7:00

p.m. at the Brecksville Human

Services Activity Room A

For those of you who missed the

Annual Meeting at Stancato’s in

December and for those of you

who crave more information,

you’ll be treated with our 2017

Chippewa Garden Club Year

in Review. This is a PowerPoint

presentation highlighting every-

thing we did last year. The

presentation has been put togeth-

er by Kathy Habib, and it will be

narrated by our Historian,

Margaret DeWolf, with any ap-

propriate comments from the au-

dience!

The 2018 Yearbooks will be

handed out, and the Program

Committee will give an overview

of what 2018 will look like on the

fourth Tuesday of each Month

(usually.) Bring your home cal-

endar, and make notes of all the

activities we have planned.

January 27

Orchid Mania opens at the

Cleveland Botanical Gardens

Saturday, February 10

Garden Therapy at Oaks of

Brecksville

The theme is "Posy's, Lace and

Love.”

Tuesday, February 13

Board meeting at 6:30 at the

Broadview Hts. Clubroom.

Tuesday, February 27

Membership meeting at 7:00

p.m. at the Brecksville Human

Services Activity Room A The

program title is “Why Choose Na-

tive Plants?” Did you know that

there’s a native plant nursery

just around the corner, in Rich-

field?

The nursery is called Native

Roots, and it’s owned and run by

two sisters: Sonia Bingham and

Jennifer Johnson. They carefully

hand collect seed from native

plants in the area, grow them,

and sell them.

Let’s listen to their presentation

“Why Choose Native Plants” and

then decide if we want to add a

field trip to their nursery later in

the year.


Annual Corn Roast and

Garden Mart

Chippewa Garden Club Members,

now is the time to sort through

your unwanted Christmas items

and save these and other dona-

tions for our garden mart on

August 19, 2018.

Please price and save garden

pots, other garden items, and

items such as dishes for our gar-

den mart.

Take your donations to Squire

Rich between 11:00 and 12:30

a.m. on August 19, and remember

to keep a list for yourself. We will

give you a form for your income

tax.

Kathy Ziemba

Feed Ohio

GCO president, Deanna Stearns’s

project is FEED OHIO. This wor-

thy project supports people in our

community.

Deanna is challenging each gar-

den club member to donate their

weight in food during the next

two years. Chippewa Garden

Club has chosen the Broadview

Heights food bank, “Lend-A-

Hand” as recipients of any dona-

tions that we may give. In 2017,

Greene Acres Community Garden

donated 450 pounds of food, and

Chippewa members donated 20

pounds of food.



Chippewa Garden Club presented

its annual Holiday fundraiser

program Woodland Inspired

Holiday Trends the evening of

November 14, 2017, at the

Brecksville Community Cen-

ter. The program featured Hud-

son, Ohio, florists Molly Taylor

and Bailey Wilson of Molly Tay-

lor and Company. The speakers

highlighted current designs

styles of the 2017 holiday season

and created floral swags, wreaths

and tablescapes illustrating the

natural woodland theme popular

this holiday season.

Guests enjoyed not only the

speakers’ presentation but re-

freshments and raffle items do-

nated by the Chippewa Club

members and community entre-

preneurs. Funds from the event

will be used for Chippewa Garden

Club’s many community projects

planned for the year of 2018. The

Chippewa Garden Club has been

committed to serving the commu-

nity since the Club’s inception in

1949 by cultivating beauty

through gardening, promoting

the fine art of floral design, aid-

ing in the protection of native

plants and wildlife, encouraging

civic beautification and provid-

ing horticultural educational op-

portunities to the community.

Thanks to all who participated

in making this event a great suc-

cess!

Arranging Raffle Donations Help Yourself to Refreshments

Bailey Wilson Demonstrating an

Arrangement

Poster Review of Chippewa

Garden Club Community Projects

Woodland Inspired Holiday Trends



Glow

On November 20th Chippewa Gar-

den Club volunteers Lynne Ev-

ans, Kathy Habib, Debbie

Schuckert, and Kathy Ziemba

decorated an eight-foot Christmas

tree for Cleveland Botanical Gar-

den’s winter holiday tradition,

Glow. CGC along with fellow af-

filiate garden clubs collectively

transform the Botanical Garden

halls into a winter spectacle of

holiday cheer.

Our theme this year was the

Cleveland Metropark’s 100th year

anniversary celebration. We dec-

orated our tree with handmade

owls, houses representing the na-

ture centers,

birch logs representing the

reservations, burlap bows, plus

the Cleveland Metropark’s 100th

year medallions.

Thanks to our Club’s exquisite

crafters, the results were a

strikingly beautiful sight to be-

hold.

Lynne Evans

CGC’s 2018 Glow tree

Lynne Evans, Kathy Habib, Debbie Schuckert,

and Kathy Ziemba

Annual Meeting

Chippewa Garden Club held its

annual meeting on December 3,

2017, and nineteen members at-

tended the lunch and meeting at

Stancato’s Restaurant.

Margaret DeWolf delivered a

year-end report, highlighting

our 2017 theme and the many

projects and activities which oc-

curred during 2017. Following

Margaret’s excellent report

Kathy Habib presented the Blue

Vase Awarded for Outstanding

Club Member to Kathy Ziemba;

the Kathryn Siebel Silver Bowl

for Designer’s Choice Award to

Lenore Siegman; and the Betty

Zuzan Award Silver Bowl for Pe-

tite Award to Jo Ann Bartsch.

Congratulations to our

winners!

Aggie Goss installed our 2018

officers: Kathy Habib, Presi-

dent,; Jo Ann Bartsch, Vice-

President; Chris Sparano and

Sandy Ladebue, Co-Secretaries;

Laura Springer, Treasurer;

Lynne Evans and Kathy Ziemba,

Co-Finance; and Margaret De-

Wolf, Historian.

Pat Gabriel

Kathy Habib and Jo Ann Bartsch



Garden Therapy

Chippewa Garden Club volun-

teers Lynne Evans, Susan Forest,

Sharon Hemeyer, Sandy Ladebue

and Chris Sparano met at Pleas-

antview Care Center on Decem-

ber 2nd to present the garden ther-

apy program, “Festive Natural

Yuletide Sprigs” to the residents.

The program started with a con-

versation about the blending of

old Norse origins of Yule history

with the eventual traditions asso-

ciated with the Christmas Holi-

day of today. Yule was celebrated

in Germanic countries as a hunt-

ing season after the harvest was

completed around the time of the

Winter Solstice. This was followed

by feasts, storytelling and drink-

ing around a large communal fire.

Other traditions discussed includ-

ed the Yule Log tradition where

tree trunks were pushed into the

hearth as it burned continuously

for the twelve days of Christmas;

the Yule goat bucks that pulled

Thor’s chariot who passed out

gifts to well behaved children dur-

ing Yule; and the Wassail tradi-

tion which originated from the

people of yore gathering in the

orchards to “wake up” the fruit

trees that were thought to be in

hibernation. This tradition even-

tually evolved into a trick -or-

treat for grown- ups begging for

wassail or treats.

After the discussion residents

were guided by CGC volunteers

in creating a Yule sprig from a

tree branch, ribbon, bell and sea-

sonal decoration. It was a festive

group, and many “Merry Christ-

mas” wishes were exchanged at

the end of the program.

A big “Thank you” to the Garden

Therapy volunteers including Su-

san Jurecki, for their hard work

in the craft preparation for this

program and for all of their pro-

gram participation this year.

Each program throughout the

year was absolutely appreciated

by the residents.

Lynne Evans

Garden Therapy

December 2, 2017



Hops

Herb of the Year

Each year the International Herb

Association designates the herb

of the year. The 2018 herb of the

year is Hops (Humulus lupulus).

Hops are herbaceous climbing

perennial vines. The dried hop

flowers are called cones and are

used primarily as a flavoring and

stability agent in the brewing of

beer.

People were drinking beer 8000

years ago, long before the use of

hops. A mixture of spices and

herbs, known as gruit was used

as flavoring. Hops were first

used in brewing by a French

monk about 822 AD in northern

France. By 1150 AD Germany

was using hops as a brewing

agent. When beer brewed with

hops was found to be less prone

to spoilage, brewers switched

from gruit to hops, and the use of

hops was commonplace by the

13th century.

There are many varieties of hops

which grow around the world

and are used in many styles of

beer. Each type of hops provides

different characteristics and fla-

vors to beer. There are two gen-

eral categories of hops: aromatic

and bittering. Both are boiled

with wort which is the sugary

liquid that comes from mashed

malt.

Hops are added at different times

throughout the boil depending on

the intensity of flavor desired.

Hops are responsible for beer’s

bitter flavor.

Hops vines come in either male

or female. Only the female pro-

duces cones. Vines are speedy

growers and can reach 30-40 feet.

They can be used as ornamental

vines and trained on trellises,

fences or arbors. Commercially

grown hop vines are trained up

strings supported by an overhead

structure in fields called hop

fields or hop yards. In 2012 Ger-

many was the number one hops

producer in the world, with the

United States coming in second.

Soil for growing hops should be

rich, loamy, and well-drained,

although hops are known to

grown in clay and sand. They are

heavy feeders, so a side dress

with compost and/or a nitrogen

supplement should be used.

They also need plenty of water.

Vines will reach 15-20 feet before

growing the side shoots that pro-

duce the cones.

After choosing two to three of the

most vigorous shoots, the rest

can be pruned.

Pruning should take place

throughout the growing season.

One vine can produce one to two

pounds of cones. Vines will die

back in winter.

Hops are prone to downy mildew,

which is caused by cool, wet

weather. They can also be at-

tacked by aphids, spider mites

and cucumber beetles. Cutworms

may damage young plants.

Visit Squire Rich herb garden to

see the hops vine growing on the

arbor leading into the garden.

Kathy Habib

Hop Flower

Hop Yard



Editor’s note.

CGC volunteers included

Sandy Spann, Chris Sparano,

Kathy Ziemba, and Margaret

DeWolf.

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