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Congratulations to the spring Master Gardener class graduates! We're pleased to provide you with complimentary mem-bership in the LMGA for the remainder of 2016 – and we hope you will join the Association in 2017 and beyond. The LMGA has lots of projects that you can get involved in to get your 40 hours of voluntary ser-vice. Check out our web-site, Lowcountrymga.org, for descriptions and contact information. If you have any questions about the LMGA or its activities, don't hesitate to contact me, your Area Coordinator, or any of the other Board mem-bers. We're delighted to wel-come Lois Harper to the LMGA Board as Recording Secretary. Lois received her MG training and certifi-cate in Hampton County,
but is now living in Bluffton. We're glad she wanted to get involved with the LMGA and fill the Board vacancy. We've had a very busy spring. Our April 7 event at the Heywood House in Bluffton was well-attended. MG's had the opportunity not only to tour the gardens maintained by Alice Fraser and her team of volunteers,
President’s Corner
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Inside this issue:
Singapore Botanic
Gardens
2
New MG Grads! 4
Waddell Maricul-
ture Buffer Garden
5
St. Helena Library 6
Old Town Planters
in Bluffton
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dra Educate's hard work in lining up a terrific group of speakers, many of whom are our own members. This spring Sandra and other MGs installed a butterfly garden at the St. Helena's library for visitors to enjoy. Area Coordinator Sheila Drouin reports that two more Habitat homes will be ready for landscaping later in the year, and she is ex-ploring some new projects ideas. Stay tuned for more information from Sheila on these. And, of course, I can't for-get our Rent-a-Master Gar-dener teams who have to date completed over 50 visits throughout the County. MG Interns are welcome on the teams – it's a great learning opportunity. The Board, Planning Com-mittee and instructors are all very excited about our June 24 training on plant propagation. As of this writing, we've almost reached our maximum en-rollment. Many of those registered are from our Association, so you'll have a chance to reunite with fel-low MG classmates and meet other LMGA members. — Bette Warfield
but also this historic home. Area Coordinator Marilyn Shaw and her crew did a spring refreshing of the planters in Old Town Bluff-ton and a clean-up of the buffer garden at the Waddell Mariculture Cen-ter. And, thanks to MG Chris Wave, we now have a table at the Thursday after-noon Farmers Market in Bluffton. She's there from 1:30 to 6:00 and is happy to have MGs come by and give her a hand. On Hilton Head, Area Co-ordinator Marilyn Rego and her volunteers installed landscaping at two Habitat for Humanity homes. More homes will be completed and ready for landscaping later this year, so there will be more opportunities to participate in this very worthwhile project. Two of our recent MG graduates, Fred and Donna Manske, have hit the ground running
and are spearheading a new project to maintain the camellia garden (131 shrubs!) at the Coastal Dis-covery Museum at Honey Horn. They'll be looking for volunteers for quarterly workdays. North of the Broad, our Lunch & Learn series contin-ues to draw standing-room-only crowds, thanks to San-
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During a recent trip to Singapore to visit my daughter, we made sever-al trips to the National Botanic Gardens. This is a 156 year-old tropical garden near the main shopping area of the city. It is open from 5 am to midnight every day of the year and has over 10,000 species of flora. About 4.5 million people visit the gardens each year. The Garden was listed as an UNESCO World Heritage
Site in 2014.
Within the Botanic Gar-dens is the National Or-chid Garden which is the main attraction in this large site. The Orchid Gardens is a pioneer in the cultivation of hybrid orchids, and has over 1,000 orchid species and 2,000 hybrids. This com-plements the fact that Sin-gapore is a major export-
er of cut orchids.
Also within the Botanic Gardens is a Ginger Gar-den, a small Rainforest, and a Children’s Garden. There are 3 lakes on the property and also many free concerts on weekends performed at the Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage on Symphony Lake. Notable performers in-clude the Singapore Sym-
A Visit to the Singapore Botanic Gardens
phony Orchestra and Sin-gapore Chinese Orches-tra. There is a lovely res-taurant in the Ginger Garden that is open for
lunch and dinner.
If you ever get the chance to go to Singapore (a spectacular city with gor-geous horticulture plant-ings everywhere), be sure to visit the Botanic Gar-
dens.
-- Janet Rivers
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Welcome New MG Classes of 2016!
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Salix Class
(Beaufort)
Veronica Anderson
Janet Benway
Victoria Bergesen
Malinda Blackshaw
Mary Ann Capria
Christine Collins
Julia Craib
Barbara Eagle
Josette Grimsley
Wendy Hilty
Belinda Jones
Donna Kaputa
Henrietta King
Char Kovach
Marie J. LeRoy
Sharon MacBride
Trish O’Neill
Esther Quisenberry
David Riedmayer
John Roberts
Mary Somerville
Marti Webster
Peggy Willenberg
Sue E. Wilts
Taxodium Class (Hilton Head)
Bill Anderson
Ed Begley
Luigi Canonni
Patsy Cartwright
Sandy Crovo
Terri Doyle
Elizabeth Evans
Donna Gaal
Paul J. Grazioli
John W. Haddock
Mimi Harmon
Terri Johnson
Mary Kelly
Jim Lyons
Donna Manske
Fred Manske
Marie McClune
Lorraine Miller
Nancy Mitchell
Theresa Pleimling
Sharon Ryan
Sherry Seymour
Ben Smith
Jim Uchno
Murry Yanker
Did you know?
The Rent-a-Master-
Gardener program has do-
nated $17,000.00 so far, to
Clemson for a horticultural
scholarship. Last year
alone, we did over 100
visits. This is our only fund
raising program.
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Waddell Mariculture Buffer Garden
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Save the Date!
On Friday, June 24, the
LMGA will be hosting a train-
ing day for MGs from around
SC. This will be an advanced
MG training course on plant
propagation. It will be a full
day of classes held at USCB's
Hilton Head Gateway campus
(on Rte. 278 in Bluffton).
More information will follow,
but you'll want to pencil this
in on your calendars.
Master Gardener volun-
teers gathered in April to
put the buffer garden in
order for the summer. We
pruned, moved over-
crowded plants, weeded
and worked on the irriga-
tion. Although we added
some mulch, we have more
on order which we will
need to be spread as soon
as it comes in. Watch for
an email.
In the picture are: Pat
Cooke, Jim Nangle, Les
Canter, Dawna Bartell,
Craig Collinson, Sally Dan-
iel, Jane Marquat, Hattie
Monson, Myrna Horn,
Laura Lee Rose and Mari-
lyn Shaw.
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St. Helena Library
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The volunteers, from left to right:
Robbie Robertson, Marti Web-
ster, Sandra Educate, Alice Mas-
sey, John Roberts, Joe Allard.
The Lowcountry Master Garden-
ers Association received permis-
sion to design and plant a Court-
yard Garden for Butterflies and
Hummingbirds at the St. Helena
Library. Their first chore was to
build two trellises, painted to
match the exterior window trim at
the library. Two birdhouses were
mounted on the posts of the trel-
lises. A bird bath was donated
by Maria Benac, the Director of
the St. Helena Library.
In addition to purchasing many
plants, the Master Gardener vol-
unteers scoured their own gar-
dens for appropriate plants. All
were selected to provide food
and shelter to encourage visits by
butterflies and hummingbirds.
Honeysuckle, Salvia, Cuphea, and
Butterfly Weed are prominent in
the garden. Concrete pavers
were painted with leaf and frond
stencils, and arranged in a path
to the birdbath.
The garden is visible through the
glass wall in front of the seating
area in the Library. The library
staff enjoys the garden daily,
and visitors can relax and ob-
serve the garden as it changes
though the seasons. It takes a
while for plants to mature to their
fullest display, so plenty of room
was left for everything to reach
its full size.
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rank, vegetative growth. Plants need to be divided at least every other year.
Amerindians used root tea for diarrhea (in chil-dren); plant tea for worms, stomachaches.
Not deer resistant– is an-ything, really?
www.wildflower.org
Our native Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium.) Although the plant is small and has grass-like leaves, the flowers have all the fea-tures of the Iris family.
This short-lived perennial will de-cline if allowed to dry out. It likes a sunny spot. Heavy mulch causes crown rot and rich, or-ganic soils encourage
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Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass
Photo by Darah
Latourelle
The Master Gardeners dedicated the garden to Carl Linneaus, the botanist who was known as the father of modern taxonomy. Master Gardeners will continue to maintain the garden. This fall, they plan to add many
bulbs to the garden for a spring display of color.
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Officers
Bluffton Marilyn Shaw mbshaw5@gmail.com
843-686-6020
Beaufort Sheila Drouin sheiladrouin@islc.net
843-770-0359
Newsletter Jennifer Staton treefrogfen@gmail.com
843-812-6405
Board President Bette Warfield betwarfield@gmail.com
843-987-0170
Vice President Betty Heath-Camp heathb@vt.edu
843-757-3482
Communications Secretary Sandra Educate silkroad@embarqmail.com
843-524-1916
Recording Secretary Lois Harper loisharper86@gmail.com
803-943-6323
Treasurer Susan Harden yoteus@embarqmail.com
843-470-5141
Past President Janet Rivers rivs67@gmail.com
843-815-2458
Board Members at Large Joe Allard burnbeforereading@earthlink.net
843-271-7297 Bill Moss billmosshhi@gmail.com
843-422-1728
Jenny Kingery tthyme@hargray.com 513-515-8798
Area Project Coordinators:
Hilton Head Marilyn Rego marilynrego@aol.com
843-686-3301
Beaufort County Extension Service
P.O. Box 189
102 Industrial Village Rd. Suite 101
Beaufort, SC 29906
CES Advisor
Laura Lee Rose - lrose@clemson.edu
or by phone:
(843) 255-6060 ext. 117
Master Gardener Hotline:
(843) 255-6060 ext. 124
Fax: (843) 255-6065
Lowcountry Master Gardener Association
www.lowcountrymga.org
Laura Lee Rose
Beaufort County
Horticulture
Extension Agent
Master Gardeners changed out the plants in the concrete pots
along May River Rd. in Old Town Bluffton in April. We have
a commitment to the Town to do this in the spring and fall.
Old Town Planters in Bluffton
Eileen McHenry and
Kathryn Rustad
Stephen Rupprecht
and Jenny Kingery
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