McMinnville Garden Club
McMinnville OR 97128
Information: 503 434 4344
Meeting Information
Meeting Day: Third Monday
September through
June
Optional Brown Bag
Lunch
Covenant Church,
Fireside Room, 2155 West 2nd,
Meetings are open
to the public.
President Kim Jongedyk
Vice President Marian Blank
Secretary Judy Eggers
Treasurer Marilyn Coats
I pledge to protect and conserve the
natural resources of the planet Earth, and promise to promote education, so we
may be caretakers to our air, water, forests, land, and wildlife.
Ongoing Projects
Summer Garden Tour
“Garden Clippings” is a monthly publication of the
The Oregon Garden Support
Scholarships for
Horticulture
National Garden Week
Garden of the Month
Blue Star Memorial
Marker
City Beautification
January
17 Meeting
Our January Meeting will be held at the Fresh
Palate Café at the Lawrence Gallery.
Those wishing to carpool should meet at the Bethel Baptist Church
at 10:15. If you arrive late or
go on your own, take Hwy 99W towards Sheridan. The Lawrence Gallery will be on
your right prior to Sheridan. No reservations are necessary this month. We will order off the menu. With our
membership up to 60, we hope to see a big crowd. Guests are welcome!
Shannon Ray from the Gallery is an
artist and gardener as well as the Gallery’s sales manager. She be doing a presentation on Impressionist
painting and displaying some current garden and flora artwork for our enjoyment
Our VP, Marian, will also provide us
with order forms for a presale purchase to support the Yamhill Soil & Water District’s February
10-11-12 sale. We will be able to
pre-order trees, bulbs, bedding plants, ground cover, etc. as we dream and plan
for our spring gardens. The proceeds
from this sale go to the Miller Woods.
We will hear more about this incredible property recently given to the
Yamhill Soil & Water District at our February meeting. If you are unable to attend on the 17th
and would like a presale form, please call 503-472-1216 and a form will be
mailed to you.
Those are lots of great reasons to
join us on the 17th; food, an educational program, and a chance to
order plants as well as great company!
Happy
New Year!
The holidays are almost over and 2005 is
here and soon your new plans and seeds for the garden will be planted and
gardening will start once again. How fun is that! It’s what we live for being a
gardener and watching our fun and hard work show.
I wish you all a Happy New Year, good
health and happy gardening. I look forward to seeing you all at the January 17th
meeting at the Lawrence Gallery.
See you soon,
Kim Jongedyk
(Please
note that Kim’s cell phone number is incorrect in the yearbook. Correction to follow in the addendum.)
Club “Sprouts”
Our Club is growing and has reached 60
members! Our newest members, who joined
in December, are Lelah Selby and Ann Silverthorne both of whom
are interested in backyard habitat and landscape design. We welcome both of them to our active Club.
Thanks to you members for bringing your
friends to Club meetings and encouraging them to join; that’s how we “sprout”
new members and grow the McMinnville Garden Club!
Gaye Stewart,
Membership Chair
Garden
Tour & Vendor Faire– 2005
Now that we’ve turned the corner into
the New Year, we can look forward to our yearly Garden Tour. Sharon Gunter and Judy Eggers and their
committees are working hard to prepare for this year’s event. Be sure you save Sunday,
June 26, 2005, for the Garden Tour and the Garden Faire – two special
activities to support and enjoy! One of
the challenges in the past has been our vendor’s Garden Faire location. Gaye
Stewart reports that letters of invitation and registration forms have been
mailed to some 90 potential vendors. The
Faire committee is working with the Downtown Association and we will be
utilizing the Farmer’s Market area with ample space, high public visibility and
plenty of parking. Garden Tour updates will continue. Be sure to contact Sharon or Judy if you are
interested in helping with this event!
Rozina Morgan is recovering from a
broken hip. Our wishes for a quick and
healthy recovery go to her.
Joan Friese
McMinnville Garden Club met at the home of Mrs. Apperson with eight members present. The program chairman said that the yearly program was not completely arranged – the committee was given more time. Mrs. Apperson announced that Mr. Clary, business manager of Better Flowers would provide a speaker for the next evening meeting October 26, at Ramsey Hall. After an informal discussion on flower gardens, the club adjourned. Balance on hand in treasury was $1.50.
Mr. A.M. Herman from the Seed and Nursery Co., Portland, gave an interesting lecture on bulbs at Ramsey Hall, Wednesday, October 26, to a small but very appreciative audience. He was accompanied by Mr. Fred J. Borsch who answered a few questions about Rock Gardens.
(Lecturers were generally paid $15 at this time.)
Dorothy Mathiesen
CATALOGS
Time for seed
catalogs. I somehow get more every year even though I don't order that
much. It is nice to have some time off from gardening during the cooler
months, especially from watering. However, looking through the catalogs
and seeing the pictures of all the neat plants, I start getting antsy about
planting again especially with all of the new kinds of flowers--zinnias,
cosmos, amaranthus, marigolds, poppies, sunflowers. I would like to get
them all, but don't have enough room. Then there are the different herbs
that I love to try--cinnamon basil, lemon basil, purple basil, cilantro,
hyssop, lavenders, lemon balm, and sages. Don't have enough space for all
of them!
And then there are all the vegetables such as peas, beans artichokes,
asparagus. It is hard to pick and choose!
I check all the catalogs and mark all that I would like to
order and then order less than half. I still have some seeds from last
year. But
I still enjoy looking at all the catalogs and imagining having a more
beautiful garden than last year with everything growing exactly the way
I want. Right!
Marilyn Coats
Horticulture
Backyard Habitat
What
a Wonderful World of Wildlife
Remember to follow these tips to have a
wonderful world of wildlife in your backyard.
1. Grow native plants found in your
area that offer food such as pollen, nectar, acorns, nuts, cones, berries and
other seeds.
2. Provide water for wildlife
with a birdbath, small pond or shallow dish . . . or take care of a natural
spring or stream on or near your habitat.
3. Create protective cover for
wildlife by growing a meadow, a prairie, densely branched shrubs, and when
appropriate, evergreens. Place hollow
logs and rock piles in your yard.
4. Build birdhouses, attach to
metal poles and monitor their use.
5. Watch what you plant in your
garden. Exotic species not native to
your region can become invasive and can be harmful to both people and wildlife.
Cindi Miller
Website
to
Check Out
Winter Garden Tips
http://www.geocities.com/reflectpool/g-wintertips.html
Our next meeting is
at the Covenant Church.
Please also note that the March meeting location
in the booklet is incorrect. We will
meet March 21 at the Red Hills Tasting Room. The address is correct. More information in the February newsletter.
Committee
Chairs
Backyard Habitat Cindi Miller
Garden Tour Sharon Gunter
and Judy Eggers
Historian Dorothy
Mathiesen
Horticulture Marilyn Coats
Hospitality Margaret Roberts
Membership Gaye Stewart
Newsletter/Web Patty Sorensen
Parliamentarian Sally Thompson
Publicity/PR Bonnie
Zachary-Yurk
Scholarship Cindi Miller
Sunshine Joan Friese
Telephone Sandy Bolmer
Yard of Month Bonnie & Shelby Zachary-Yurk
Yearbook Barbara Lofgren
Newsletter
Deadlines
The
deadline for submission of articles for our monthly newsletter is the last day
of the previous month. Please send them
to Patty Sorensen. Thanks!
Do you know of
any prospective Garden Club members? Be
sure to let Gaye Stewart know
their names and addresses. We would love
to send them our newsletter for three months.