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Newsletter of theChapel Hill Garden ClubJanuary — February 2014
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January — February 2014
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DEPARTMENTS
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3 Reflections
5 Club Events
8 Club News
11 NCBG News
4 Jan/Feb Events Calendar
DEPARTMENTS
12 Planet Botanic
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Reflections
My wish list for 2014 —Submissions! Submissions!
For these columns:Go Outside (any lovely garden experiences you’d like to share) and for Planet Botanic (cool plant info—articles, books, videos, etc,...).
Cover & Inside cover photos:Forsythia x intermedia
Photos by Barbara Clare
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From our President
As I ponder the beginning of this new year and all
the pregnant opportunities that lie ahead of our
club, I would like to share this quote with you as
food for thought.
~ Christine
Rebel ThriverFor a seed to achieve its greatest
expression it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and
everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete
destruction.
~ Cynthia Occelli
Editor’s NoteTHANK YOU
Jan Dean, Christine Ellestad, Karen Lazarus, Daphne McLeod, Betsy Nininger and Vicki Scott for your submissions.
~ Barbara Clare
Contact Info
Floral Design: Betsy Nininger: [email protected] 919.929.5956
All Floral Design classes will be held at NCBG Classroom 2 (C107).
Members are welcome to visit & observe floral design sessions, but please email Betsy before you go.
Seedbed: Karen Lazarus: [email protected] 919.240.7171
January
8 Seedbed Program: Crazy About Mushrooms, Anna McHugh. 10am — noon
14 Floral Design I. 1pm — 3pm
28 General Meeting: Plant Rescues, Jeff & Cheryl Prather. 9:30am — noon
Events Calendar
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February
TBA Seedbed Program: Stone Walls & Walkways, Dick Henry. 10am
25 General Meeting: China: Mother of Gardens, Mark Weathington. 9:30am — noon
January — February 2014
Holy moly, that’sFAB Floral Design!
Floral Design 1 WondersBetsy Nininger
Club EventsJanuary — February 2014
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Again this month we will have an online sign-up for Seedbed. There are plenty of spaces left.
MUSHROOM PROGRAMWednesday, January 8th, 2014
NC Botanical GardensFor Rm #, check entry sign.
10am — NOON
Our speaker, mushroom expert Anna McHugh, will reveal Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Mushrooms.
Anna is preparing small growing kits for us to take home to grow our own mushrooms. There is a $5.00 fee for the kit.
I have an excellent recipe for mushroom stew and will bring the recipe and a sample for those who would like to try this dish.
Please send me your name and phone number if you would like to attend.
Karen [email protected]
The Seedbed
Thank YouKatherine Livas and Debbie West
for offering us such a delightful
Christmas Tea!
Hilda Patterson beside the marvelous evergreen table arrangement she & Daphne McLeod designed.
Club Events
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Tuesday, January 289:30 am — noon
FeaturingJeff & Cheryl Prather
The Prathers will discuss the native plant rescue activities of the North Carolina Native Plant Society. They will share lessons learned over the past 15 years — how sites are selected, which plants are rescued and why.
PLANT RESCUES:INS & OUTS, DO’S & DON’TS
The plants are free, you meet the nicest people,
you learn from fellow diggers, you give a part of our natural heritage
another chance, and it's FUN.
January — February 2014
Trillium pusillum, “Carolina least Trillium”
Calapogon multiflorus, “Many-flowered grass-pink”
Cool Things About
Plant Rescues
Club Events
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Mr. Weathington, Assistant Director and Curator of Collections at the JC Raulston Arboretum, will discuss the successes and failures in collecting plants during his most recent trip to China.
CHINA: MOTHER OF GARDENS
Tuesday, February 259:30 am — noon
FeaturingMark Weathington
Mark’s Essential Tool →His own invention — a tool to reach into trees
or down a ravine to snag that have-to-have plant
just out of reach.
Welcome to our New Members !
Club News
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Maria Beal1169 Fearrington Post (14 Caldwell)Pittsboro, NC 27312Home: 919.533.6782 Cell: [email protected]
Susan Hausmann135 Glen Ridge DriveChapel Hill, NC 27516Home: [email protected]
Carol Hierman271 Carolina Meadows VillaChapel Hill, NC 27517Home: [email protected]
Beth Hurd10427 MoreheadChapel Hill, NC 27517Home: 919.903.8110 Cell: 440.539.2083 (call cell first & leave message)[email protected]
Marianne McAuley1378 Fearrington Post (1378 Bradford Place)Pittsboro, NC 27312Home: 919.533.6388 Cell: [email protected]
Sheila Peluso39504 Glenn GladeChapel Hill, NC 27517Home: [email protected]
We have a Web Master!
New member, Louise Law, has agreed to be
our club’s new web master. Louise has an IBM background and excellent computer skills.
If you have info to post on our website, please contact Louise at:
919.967.8416 919.225.7315
Davidson Horticultural Symposium
Club News
Tuesday, March 4Davidson College
Davidson, NC
Painting by Robin Wilgus.
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Join us as we discover rare plants that take your breath away, stalwart natives that will become the mainstays of your garden, and heritage plants that must not be forgotten.
Once again you will learn from the experts, so that you walk away from the day eager for the first signs of spring and inspired to add new plants and new dimensions to your garden.
For info, email:[email protected]
Or by mail:Davidson Horticultural SymposiumPost Office Box 1145Davidson, NC 28036
To register, download:
Registration Form
Celebrating 30 years —
It’s All About the Plants
Community Service Calling.
Check in with us.
Vicki Scott: 919.932.7691 [email protected]
Sue Tiedeman: 919.933.4464 [email protected]
We like to share the “glow” we feel when a passerby downtown thanks us for adding beauty to the street or a client or employee at
Stratford or Freedom House thanks us for showing we care.
You could enjoy this feeling too if you volunteer next time
the call is out.
Club News
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Hello, My name is Akiva Fox, and I’m the new Digital Content Editor at Chapelboro.com.
My primary mission is to find and cultivate new writers for the site, writers with strong voices and community ties. We cover all aspects of life in Orange County, and we’ve been lacking articles about gardening, especially considering how central that subject is in this area.
We are looking for profiles of local experts, to event previews, to tips and guides. We need a compelling and entertaining writer more than we need an absolute authority, and we are looking for someone who can write semi-regularly (every 2—3 weeks).
Though we don’t pay, we do offer an influential local platform and connection to the community.
Please call 919.240.6039 Or email: [email protected]
Looking for Garden Writers
CORRECTION
Our total gifts to the NCBG from our Tours is not $170,000+, but rather $142,000.
NCBG NewsWonder Garden Update
On Friday, November 22nd, Landscape Architect Jesse Turner unveiled the NCBG Wonder Garden Concept Design. Jan Dean, Christine Ellestad, Barbara Clare and Linda Arnold joined Nancy Easterling and staff, along with Peter White and members of the Horticulture Department, to see his presentation of the latest drawings and photos for this exciting project.
Plans for the Children’s Wonder Garden actually began some 13 years ago after the NCBG held a series of planning workshops. From many hours of collaboration have come a set of objectives that include creating a hands-on interactive garden that stresses the importance of nature to children. Family oriented activities will be offered and partnerships with other children-centered groups will be encouraged. The completed Wonder Garden will rival anything in North Carolina for natural science educational programming for children.
What happens next?
The Concept Design goes under final revision and this version is presented to the UNC Building and Grounds Committee. The Botanical Garden Foundation will underwrite the cost of the construction drawings which are planned to go out for bid in March 2014. Once these costs are known, the specific fundraising/grant requests will begin in earnest.
Chapel Hill Garden Club’s support of the Wonder Garden is very much appreciated by the NCBG staff and Foundation!
By Jan Dean
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So what’s proposed for that .7 acre plot?
Close your eyes and envision a Welcome Circle, Pollinator Garden complete with a secret path, Nursery Garden, Polliwog Pond, Digging Place, Forts, Log Garden, Rain Garden, Children’s Vegetable Garden, Canopy Deck with ramps, and a giant Native Honey Bee Sculpture with a Rolling Hill to name a few! Much of the garden will be wheel chair accessible and great care was taken to work around existing trees and cisterns.
Planet BotanicA Winter Bouquet, Locally GrownBy Samantha Stark
New York Times, December 27, 2013
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Amazing Nature
http://truthseekerdaily.com/2013/11/someone-recorded-crickets-then-slowed-down-the-track-and-it-sounds-like-humans-singing/#.UpKYBkw6ywo.facebook
Check out this recording of chirping crickets —slowed down. Sounds like a human chorus!
Florist Jennie Love — great name for a florist who creates wedding bouquets!
See Jennie at work by copying this link into your browser. After a 15-second Acura commercial, you’ll see a short video about Jennie. Sorry, I could not figure out how to get rid of the commercial.
http://nyti.ms/Kaf9ed
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Planet Botanic
Dave Dierig, research leader at the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, stands among the ceiling-high shelves that hold the 600,000 seed packets in this cold storage vault.
When unapproved genetically modified wheat was found growing in Oregon earlier this year, it didn't take long for accusations to start flying. A flurry of initial finger-pointing cast potential blame on a federal seed vault in Fort Collins, Colo., which housed the same strain of wheat, developed by Monsanto Corp., for about seven years up until late 2011.
The facility has been cleared of wrongdoing since then. A U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesman says all of Monsanto's 1,500 pounds of wheat seeds held at the vault were incinerated a year and a half ago at the corporation's request. But the investigation raises the question of how secure these seed vaults actually are.
Officially, the Fort Collins facility is called the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation. It's a nondescript, beige building just off the quad at Colorado State University.
There are no high, barbed-wired fences. No barking Dobermans. No armed guards. Just a friendly welcome video playing in the lobby and a warm-natured receptionist behind a desk, who hands you a clipboard with a sign-in sheet.
But that doesn't mean the center is lax on security. From the outside it may not look like a bastion of the American agriculture industry. Inside, it holds one of the world's largest collections of seeds, genetic material for livestock, microbes and endangered plants under highly sophisticated lock and key.
Upstairs in the facility's main cold storage vault, ceiling-high shelves hold seemingly endless rows of white pouches. In this room, there are 600,000 seed packets, which puts the total number of seeds in the billions. The temperature is kept at a level similar to a home freezer, at low humidity to arrest seed degradation and keep them viable longer.
Colorado Vault is Fort Knox for the World’s SeedsBy Luke RunyonNPR Morning Edition, August 13, 2013
"They're all bar-coded so we know exactly where everything is," said Dave Dierig, research leader at the center and one of six people in the building with access to the vaults. Another security measure is the labeling system. Looking at a seed pouch, there's nothing that tells you what kind of seeds you're holding, just a bar code. You need access to a secure database to find out what's inside.
To the right of the large, gray metal vault doors, a TV screen shows a live stream of the seed vault. It serves as another reminder of the building's emphasis on security. In this place, you're always on camera.
Other seed vaults throughout the world store their back-up collections here because of the facility's reputation not just for the promise of security but also the ability to preserve the viability of seeds for longer periods of time. Private companies such as Monsanto and Dupont can also store their seeds in the federally owned building.
"It would really be a rare case where we would keep another company's seed. There'd have to be some kind of extenuating circumstances, for them to say, 'We need you to keep this seed,' " Dierig said.
Even though it is rare, privately owned, genetically modified seed does make it into storage. That's how all eyes fell on the vault's doors when news broke in June about Monsanto's glyphosate-resistant wheat, commonly called Roundup Ready, found growing in small volunteer patches in a field in Oregon.
Dierig said he's unable to comment on the Oregon case as the USDA is still investigating the exact source of the errant wheat plants.
With the investigation turning in other directions, this beige building in Colorado can return to business as usual: securely storing the world's seeds.
Executive Officers
Christine EllestadPresident [email protected] 919.929.3013
Gil RobertsFirst Vice President [email protected] Ardith PughSecond Vice President [email protected]
Betty JeanRecording Secretary [email protected]
Kay IrishCorresponding Secretary [email protected]
Maggie GaudetTreasurer [email protected] Darlene PomroyParliamentarian [email protected]
Nancy Adams Council/District Representative [email protected]
Committee Chairs
Elena McKay Awards Gill Roberts Brent & Becky’s Bulbs
Char ThomannChapel Hill Spring Garden Tour
Jan DeanCommunity Relations
Vicki Scott/Sue Tiedeman Community Service
Gloria HomerEducation
Vicki HofmannField Trips
Betsy Nininger Floral Design Jane LammForget Me Not
Penny ThompsonHistorian
Jinny MarinoHorticulture
Anna Berry/Debbie DiSabatinoHeidi Sawyer-Clark/Katherine Livas/Sarah Laish Hospitality
Debbie DiSabatino Membership
Barbara Clare Newsletter/Yearbook
Ty Elliott Nominating Committee
Daphne McLeodPhotography Karen Lazarus Seedbed
Louise LawWebsite
Photo Credits
Jayme BednarBarbara ClareGrace HoodDaphne McLeodDavid McAdooBetsy NiningerVicki ScottSamantha StarkBobby WardMark Weathington
cricketmetrolic.comdreamstime.comncbg.unc.edu
The Chapel Hill Garden ClubPO Box 10054Chapel Hill, NC 27515
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Left Photo: Past President’s Tea, Seated: Linda Curcio, Stepheny Houghtlin, Vicki Scott, Bitty Holton.Standing, L to R: Ty Elliott, Carol Candler, Darlene Pomroy, Heidi Sawyer-Clark Right Photo, L to R: Debbie DiSabatino, Jane Lamm & Karen Lazarus.
Vicki & Daphne’s Snaps