Garden
Clippings
McMinnville Garden Club
503-434-4344
|
|
November
Calendar |
Thank you to Evelyn Mundinger
for arranging to pick up the bags of daffodils that were sold to club
members. Many appreciative members
picked up the bulbs at the end of the meeting and no doubt the bulbs are
delighted and happy to be “adopted” into a new home in McMinnville. It was wonderful to see Jan
Hudson attend the meeting even though she is still recovering from her
recent surgery. Lucky her - she was
the winner of the raffle drawing! Beryl
Member
News!
|
|
Closing activities 12 - 12:15 Meeting/Program:
Anne Silverthorne Please bring to the meetings
any catalogs, magazines for gardening
The Arts and Crafts interest group
is planning to create Wreaths. at
|
|
|
|
President’s
Message
Thyme
after Thyme
Cathy Burdett
My backyard is beginning to have a rich tapestry carpet of gold, brown and crimson leaves that any artist would appreciate. Already “crisp, cooler Fall” days are here however I want my purple, blue and yellow flowers to remain for a few more months (of course they will not listen to me). My garden’s summer landscape has been dramatically altered to falling leaves, drooping flowers and changing textures of plants as they are preparing for their dormant season.
However the McMinnville Garden Club members
are not dormant but lively, colorful and vibrant. What fun we all had at Monday’s meeting
listening to Mike Darcy a longtime ambassador for gardening in the state of
This is the season of Thanksgiving and I am very thankful to be a part of this club. Our club’s members have a rich history of service to our community.
*Please save your inkjet, laser printer cartridges and
“old” cell phones and bring them to meetings.
The Pioneer District will forward them to the “Making a Difference
Campaign” which is a national garden club project. Maybe your friends or neighbors have some of
these items and were just going to put them in the garbage; well, this is a way
to recycle them.
CELEBRITIES
IN OUR CLUB!
|
Our own Cathy
Burdett received the honor of being named the OSU Master Gardener of the
Year for 2008. This Award is presented each year at the The Oregon Master
Gardener™ Association is a statewide non-profit organization whose purpose is
to enhance and support the OSU Master Gardener™ program (OMGA). Nominations
for the Master Gardener of the Year are received from across the state, so
there is fierce competition for this award. Cathy Burdett was chosen for her
many contributions to the Yamhill and statewide Master Gardener associations,
including her two year stint as the editor of the OSU Extension Master
Gardeners newsletter, her skills as a mentor for new trainees, her
contributions of displays for Mini-College, her amazing number of volunteer
hours, her membership in several other gardening organizations, her
participation in the award winning Bee Dance skit and her service to the OMGA
organization in several different capacities |
|
Congratulations Cathy – we are SO proud
of you!!
Early bird hard
2008 Diamond
Pioneer Award
The Diamond Pioneer Career Achievement Registry was started in 1983
to recognize men and women who have contributed a great deal to the development
of
This year,
The award winners were honored at a luncheon at OSU CH2M Hill
Alumni Center on October 8th.
2008 Mini
Backyard Habitats Marilyn Coats
SPIDERS -
Most of us will agree
that spiders are not our favorite insects.
I read that there are actually indoor spiders and outdoor spiders. Surprisingly, we don’t do them any favors when
we put the indoor spiders outside.
However, my indoor spiders don’t usually make it to the outside!!!
When outside, I try to leave them alone, as long
as they don’t touch me. They are very
beneficial to our garden as they are excellent insect predators, even more
efficient than birds. Most are eaten by
other spiders.
Garden spiders hatch in the spring. They shed their skin 4-6 times in a few
months before maturing and laying eggs, and then die in the fall. Through early summer they lie low, trying to
keep from being eaten. By early August
the survivors are large enough to start spinning silken webs.
The spider web is made from a liquid protein
inside the spider’s body that hardens to polymer when exposed to air. Webs made by some spiders are stronger than
steel.
Garden spiders are orb-web builders. They put their abdomen to the night air and
emit webbing into the wind until it attaches to an item. They strengthen this strand several times and
then begin building a framework of sticky silk.
Once the framework is in place, they begin spiral construction, keeping
in touch with the previous strand by a leg and thus maintaining the nearly
perfect concentric measure.
Most of the large-abdomen garden spiders you see
in webs in autumn probably are females.
Males are a bit smaller and tend to roam.
So when you see the spiders in your garden, remember they are very beneficial. Just take a stick and move them over to the other side of where you are working.
Pioneer District Luncheon
The Pioneer
District of Garden Clubs held their fall luncheon “A Parade of Autumn Colors”
on
McMinnville Garden Club members who attended:
Mildred Reppeto Dawn King
Evelyn Mundinger Cathy Burdett Anita Ragsdale
Elsie Carpenter Gaye Stewart Kim Jongedyk
Ann Silverthorne
New Club Motions
Members discussed the current requirement to have two signatures on checking account checks over $200.00. Mary Jo made a Motion to require two signatures on checks over $400.00 on both the club's savings and checking accounts; it was seconded by Ann. Patty placed the Motion before the club for further discussion; she restated the Motion and put the Motion to a vote; the Motion passed without opposition.
We
are still LOOKING!!
The McMinnville
Garden Club needs a publicity and public relations committee leadership chair
for the upcoming year. The duties include providing information on club
events and meetings to the local newspaper and other locations on a timely
basis. If you can help please contact Cathy, at cathyburdett@msn.com.
Internet Links
Pioneer District
Newsletter
http://gardencentral.org/oregon/pioneerdistrictnewsletter/
State web site
http://oregongardenclubs.org/default.htm
Thanksgiving Centerpiece Ideas http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=thanksgiving+flowers&um=1&ie=UTF-8&s
a=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title
Celebrate Thanksgiving in Style
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_occasions_thanksgiving
Garden Tips for
November http://www.thegardenhelper.com/calendar/november.html