Garden
Clippings May 2008
McMinnville Garden Club Vol. 7 No. 9
May19,
2008
May Mystery -
Don’t you like to be surprised?
The
program scheduled for the month of May is a mystery speaker.
Hillside Retirement Community “Activity Room” at
the Manor
Social time: 9:30 a.m. - Business Meeting: 10:00
a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Program: 11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Raffle & Wrap-up 12:00 – 12:15 p.m.
Dessert, coffee and tea will be provided by hostesses:
Evelyn
Mundinger, Karen Robertson, Rosie Greene, Donna Sterling and Margaret Roberts.
The President’s
Corner
Dear Gardening Friends,
I love our Garden Club! It is filled with wonderful people with many life experiences, which they bring to the group. Skills in many areas abound and are freely shared. Interest groups are now defined and in full swing. If any one of you missed the initial signups, you’re welcome to join a meeting by signing up or calling the group convener. Many topics of interest are being presented and enjoyed by participants. Some of these groups may wish to continue on through the summer even though the Garden Club typically doesn’t meet during July and August.
Eighteen
Club members braved the cool morning Monday, April 28th to begin the
annual “Bag Ladies on 3rd Street” cleanup. The weather warmed and we worked hard to
complete the task by noon and were rewarded by a delicious lunch provided by
Peter, owner of the Brew Pub. Two blocks
remain so we’ll continue next Monday, May 5th, 9 a.m. Meet at Galloway and Third Streets with
gloves, rake, clippers, broom, etc. and we’ll finish the job, probably in an
hour.
The May Club meeting will be an important one for several reasons. 1) We’ll be voting on next year’s officers and; 2) We’ll be receiving our Garden Tour tickets to sell to our family, friends and other plant lovers. You won’t want to miss!
Enjoy your gardens…between rain showers! Love,
Gaye Stewart, Club President
May Field Trip, May 28th
Gail
Austin’s Perennial Garden &
Barbara
Blossom - Ashmun’s Garden
Car pool from Bethel
Baptist Church: 9:30 a.m. SHARP
We will enjoy a garden tour of two
beautiful and different gardens in Beaverton. Gail Austin’s perennial garden
has recently been down sized to a normal city lot. It is the official American
Hemerocallis Society Display Garden (Daylilies) Clematis, roses, Japanese
Maples and many more prized perennials can be viewed in this garden. We’ll
lunch in between gardens and then view Barbara Blossom Ashmun’s three quarters
of an acre garden. Barbara is a noted author of several garden books and a
regular columnist for the Portland Tribune. She has lovingly nurtured and
tended this garden for twenty years. This a one trip not to be missed.
June 16th
Meeting Lunch Reservations
We will enjoy a catered lunch for our June 16th Officer’s Installation. Cost is $15. The menu will be available at the May meeting. Reservations need to be to our treasurer, Marilyn Coats by June 1st. Don’t miss this fun year-end event!
Motion from
April Meeting
Ruth Miller, made a Motion that the incoming executive broad review the By Laws and Standing Rules; including the requirement for a second signature for checks written over the amount of $200.00 and report their recommendations; The Motion was seconded by another member; the President placed the Motion before the club and requested that members discuss the Motion; the President restated the Motion and the Motion was then put to a vote by members; the Motion passed without opposition.
Bag Ladies, April
28th
BEFORE AFTER
May Yard of
the Month
3960 NE
Riverside Loop. McMinnville, Oregon
Directions:
Starting at 3rd street, turn left onto NE Johnson Street. It turns into NE
Lafayette Ave. Turn right onto NE Riverside Dr. Drive about
1.2 miles and turn right onto NE Riverside Loop. (You will feel like you are in
the country with the pasture of sheep)
Check it out at: http://mcminnvillegardenclub.org/yardMay2008.htm
Websites to Check Out:
National Gardening Association’s NW Regional Report:
Controlling Slugs: http://www.thegardenhelper.com/slugs.html
Interest Groups Info
The Garden Art breakout interest group will
meet on Wednesday, May 7th
from 9:30-12 at Rosemary Vertgret’s home to create a hypertufa project. Carpools will leave the Bethel Baptist parking
lot at 9:10 AM.. The cost of this
project is $3 per container. Participant will need to wear old clothes, bring heavy
rubber gloves, a mold to put the hypertufa in, and a cardboard box like the
ones we get at nurseries to take home our projects.
Reservations must be made with
Kathleen Bennett by May 3rd.
The
Plants breakout interest group will
enjoy learning more about clematis, penstemon and a surprise plant after
our May meeting. Plan on staying for
this one!
Garden
Tour/Faire, June 22, 2008
Something Old and Something New
SPRING has finally arrived (at least today it’s Spring)! Our printing order is almost complete so we are on our way to a FABULOUS Summer Garden Faire. We decided not to send out postcards this year because of the HUGH expense, but we did have flyers at the Daffodil Festival and the Master Gardeners Sale. If anyone wants flyers for an event, let us know and we’ll get more printed for you.
We have been meeting before each regular meeting with individual chairs and will continue to do so until the event. We hope to have one more general committee meeting before the Garden Tour, probably around the first of June.
Lists for all the volunteer positions that need to be filled will be passed around at the May meeting. Please bring your calendar along and add your name anywhere you can!
Kim will be passing out four ticket booklets to each garden club member. It is expected that each member will sell at least four tickets OR you can buy the tickets (a bargain at $10.00) and give them away as gifts. If you give them away you get a great tax write-off... REMEMBER, this is our one money making activity of the year and it supports all of our community gardening projects. Let’s amaze our community with hundreds of attendees to this signature garden tour and faire!
By the end of the May, the posters should be up so garden lovers can mark their calendars to save the date! We also will be promoting the event at the Farmer’s Market which starts Thursday, May 29th. Drop by the market and pick up additional tickets, flyers, posters, etc. Keep checking the website for additional information.
http://mcminnvillegardenclub.org/gardentour2008/2008Gardens.htm
Sprouts
Visitors at our March meeting were Bill and
Judy Cochran; Cathy and Gus Carstensen; Dawn King; all of MAC. Cindy
Smith, Marian Kuch and Janet Lewis from the St. Paul Garden Club. In
April Judy Wilkerson visited us.
New Sprouts are: Maria Mcritchie,
Adrienne Schouten, Dawn King. WELCOME!
Club History Dorothy Mathieson
May, 1935
Meeting was called to order by President Mrs. Cora Robison in the Mardis Garden. 27 answered roll call. Mrs. Major reports notices in local paper of Garden Club meeting. Mrs. Pearson reports her territory for this year is from Rex Hill to Whiteson in regard to billboards.
Membership Committee reported that some of the captains were not present, so final count could not be made; however two losing sides will entertain two winning sides sometime in the near future. Mrs. Tibbetts invited group to beach home at Delake-this to be considered and left to losing captains.
Three new members paid dues of 50 cents each. Two visitors were introduced – Mrs. Demerick from Dayton and Mrs. Wagner from McMinnville.
Under correspondence: Letter from Pearl Cooke in regards to Boy and Girl “Beautification Project.” Also a letter from the Portland Rose Festival. Motion was made and seconded not to enter exhibit at Carnival this year.
Mrs. Tibbetts was appointed chairman to assist Fireman with the Annual Blossom Dance. She told of work, prizes and a general good time.
Motion made and carried to assist with flowers and 200 rosebuds for the Grange Convention held here June 10-15.
Lois Noble gave an interesting talk on trees; information gathered while girl scouting. Speakers for afternoon were unable to come to this meeting.
Reports of State Convention held at Medford this year were made by Mrs. Pearson, Mrs. Chenowith, Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Hartzell.
Mrs. Lee Waugaman paid dues of fifty cents
making a otal of $2.00 for dues.
After numbers were
drawn for chrysanthemum plants, furnished by Marie Travis, the meeting
adjourned. Cora
Robison, Pres. Marie Hartzell, Sec.
June 12, Day of Tour Garden Greeters
Meeting
This is a bring your own brown bag lunch, Drinks and dessert are
provided.
Directions to Kathleen
Bennett’s son's farm for lunch in the Orchard:
From MAC take Highway 18 to
Dayton Exit. This is Wallace Road. Go through town and follow Wallace Rd to the
first left after the 4mile marker. This is Greenacre Rd. Follow Greenacre Rd as it turns to the right
and go to the little white house you can see from the turn.
The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are
always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look
forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
Vita
Sacville-West
McMinnville Garden Club, Organized in
1926,
PO Box 386, McMinnville OR 97128,
http://mcminnvillegardenclub.org
Information: 503-434-4344