September-October 2011

N E W S L E T T E R O F T H E C H A P E L H I L L G A R D E N C L U B

CLIPPINGS

Gather to re-new friend-

ships

Invite friends and neighbors as prospective

members

Stroll tables for opportu-nities to get involved in the club and in the com-

munity

Bring a flower for the tradi-

tional friendship bouquet

Pick up

your year-book

Enjoy deli-cious re-

freshments

Our Fall Coffee

Marks the Beginning of

The Chapel Hill Garden Club’s

80th Year

September 27th

10:00 AM

Reeves Auditorium

North Carolina

Botanical Garden

80

Chapel Hill Garden Club October General Meeting

North Carolina Botanical Garden Education Center Tuesday, October 25, 2011 9:30 am Meet and Greet coffee time

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Table Top Floral Designs from Simple to Sublime Presenter Kenn Stevens is a demonstrator and judge throughout the United States, Central and South America, Europe, several Asian countries, and the South Pacific. kennstep@gmail.com If you appreciate floral design, this is one program you will NOT want to miss -bring a friend who might be interested in joining our club and bring your checkbook as we will be auctioning off six or seven arrange-ments! Our presenter, Kenn Stevens, is an internationally recognized designer and floral judge who integrates his knowledge of interior design with a background in theater and an understanding of garden flowers and plants. He is as at home before a group of garden club members as he is before 4,000 people in Paris, four hundred in San Francisco, or a sea of faces in Osaka, Japan. During past years, Kenn served as the Founder President of International Design Symposium, Ltd., organ-ized a series of classes for the American Horticultural Society as well as a certificated course for The Arnold Arbo-retum of Harvard University, has conducted seminars in all styles of flower arrangement at botanic gardens in the united States, design presentations at Colonial Williamsburg, and has made several visits yearly, to teach in flower arrangement academies in Korea and Japan. He is an honorary life member of The Garden Club of Bermuda, The Nantucket Garden Club, The Garden Club of Argentina, a Life Member of National Garden Clubs, has served as a delegate to the World Association of Flower Arrangers, and has participated in the Ikebana of the Ikenobo Kadokai School in Japan. He presently serves as Editor of Concepts, a newsletter about designs published by the Assembly of Flower Arrangers, USA. If you are interested in seeing Kenn demonstrate a specific style of floral arrangement, please contact Christine Ellestad 929-3013 and she will pass along your request. He will be arriving from Charlotte around 8:30am so he can prepare his table and attend our Meet and Greet. If you are willing to help him unload his flowers and set up his table, please contact Christine Ellestad gogirl@nc.rr.com. Kenn will also be joining us for lunch after the meeting- so plan to attend lunch after the meeting and you will have an added opportunity to spend time with this talented man.

International Floral Designer Kenn Stevens

Anna Berry Picnic Hostess is Presented with a Famous Book

Picnic Food is Ever the Best

mailto:kennstep@gmail.com�mailto:gogirl@nc.rr.com�

Autumn 2011-Starting a New Year A reflection

Stepheny F. Houghtlin, 2010-12 President

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PAST PRESIDENT’S TEA

September 20th 2011 at 3:00 PM

at the beautiful home of

Becky Berrey 53527 Bickett

Governors Club

Executive Board & Past Presidents

Please: RSVP to sfhoughtlin@aol.com

School started the day after Labor Day when I was growing up in Evanston, IL. Getting ready for a new school year meant shopping for shoes and new fall clothes. Mother, who didn’t drive, and I would walk to Mar-shall Fields in downtown Evanston, where these things were available. You would think this excursion, for a girl, would be the highlight of ‘getting ready.’ But Chandler Book Store on Sherman Avenue is what I remember most. Chandler’s had wooden floors that creaked, endless shelves of pencils, pens, and notebooks, all requiring time to choose the right ones. There was nothing like a new assignment book, blank three ring notebook paper and bind-ers in favorite colors. Beginning on the book floor at Chandler’s, to this day, I have had a life long passion for books, reading and writing, and selecting the right pen to go along with the perfect blank book. I would hazard a guess, that many of you share similar back-to- school-memories. The Chapel Hill Garden club will embark on her 80th year (1931-2011) on September 27th at 10:00AM at the Fall Coffee held in Reeves Auditorium. There is still time to get your new shoes! AND invite a friend to join us for this kick-off gathering. I wonder what you will remember about the year ahead. Will it be one of the pro-grams like Ken Stevens – Table Top Floral Design - or Bryce Lane talking about small shrubs, or perhaps Tony Avent, in all his glory? Maybe your highlight will be the Floral Design Workshops that Betsy Nininger is offering. Of course, Garden Tour year (2012) is the BEST; everyone gets involved and feels proud of the splendid work that makes the tour successful. I’m the kind of person who likes to have her cake and eat it too…or… if one is good, two is better. The CHGC is made for people like that. As we begin our 80th year, come and enjoy the many possibilities you’ll have to be active member. We will continue holding on to the best of our traditions, while pruning away what no longer speaks to today’s involved and talented membership.

Community Service Updates and Opportunities Vicki Scott & Sue Tiedeman

  As the Garden Club year begins, we continue with vigor & enthusiasm to support five service programs to better our planet. In its eleventh year, SEEDS is our junior garden club with third grade students at McDougle Elementary School. We meet with the children five times a year to weed, water & nurture the raised beds. The Stratford, an as-sisted living facility begins its fifth year and Char Thomann has agreed to continue the leadership of this project. New plants will be added in the Fall to their front entrance, together with compost and mulch. Phoenix Place is a neighborhood of 50 homes being built by Habitat for Humanity. Under the leadership of Peggy Pratt, homeowners will be presented garden tools for their gardens. Club members will also offer advice on how to be successful garden-ers. We are happy to welcome new members, Linda Rodriguez and Nina Comiskey. They have graciously accepted the leadership for our Downtown Planter and are proposing that we adopt two more planters! They are full of en-thusiasm and energy to beautify our town! Freedom House, a recovery center in Chapel Hill, is our newest project. In this past year their entrance sign has been enhanced by both perennials and annuals. It gives a happy face to this facility. We hope that members will find one or more of our projects to their liking. Your help and participation is always appreciated and needed.

The Seeds Salad Ladies Rear Left to right: Sue Tiedeman, Debbie DiSabatino, Heidi Sawyer- Clark, Anne Mont-gomery, Madeline Cains. Front Row: Elaine Norwood, Vicki Scott, Dar-lene Pomroy

Seeds S

alad Day

2011

Eager Seeds Salad Eaters

The Stratford

Freedom House

Downtown Planter and tenders Kay Gunter & Darlene Pomroy

Spring Garden Tour Sneak Peek By Nina Forsyth, OCMG

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We finished out our 2010-11 fiscal year (July 2010 thru June 2011) very well with expenses coming in under budget by $460.00. Our revenue exceeded

our expectations with gaining $1,740 from the pic-nic auction, $642 from the sharing table and $666 net profit from the symposium. Thus the club finished the year with a surplus of $7,519.00.

Therefore, adding this amount to our previous bank balance our opening balance for the fiscal year 2011-2012 is $17,919.71. In addition, the Garden Tour checking account

holds $100.00; and a CD for $7,500 (for garden tour use only) will mature in November.

A Note from our Tireless Treasurer Darlene Pomroy

Visitors to the gardens of the 2012 Chapel Hill Spring Garden Tour are in for a treat. They will be surprised and delighted by the mix of gardens: smaller in-town designs and more spa-cious landscaped properties. We will take a look at a few plants or features from each tour garden, noting some which stood out during last April’s preview visits. We will begin a series of plant profiles and the gardens they inhabit with the charming in-town garden of Gail McKinley and Bill Poteat at 438 W. Cameron St. Their enclosed parterre garden on the west side of the house has white plants as a theme.

Within this space visitors will find Mazusreptans ‘Alba’ growing as a carpet with its small 2-lipped flowers dot-ting the dainty ground cover. This plant tolerates full sun or partial shade; Mazus prefers consistent moisture and afternoon shade in Chapel Hill (and the South!).

Look for the white bleeding heart, Dicentraspectabilis ‘Alba’ – always a favorite for the shaded spring gar-den. The deeply cut foliage will delay dormancy given adequate moisture, prolonging its feathery form into early summer.

Visitors shouldn’t miss a pair of Fothergillagardenii, dwarf native shrubs (2’-4’) that display fragrant white bottle-brush-like flowers as well as brilliant fall color. They are virtually trouble free and are much underused. Fother-gilla major, (8’-10’) is also a welcome addition to the garden landscape.

Photo Anne Wood Humphries Look for more plant profiles in the next newsletter.

Save the Date 2012

Chapel Hill Spring Garden

Tour April 14th & 15th

for Tour Number 9

Find us on the web at: www.chapelhillgardenclub.net

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Four Fabulous Floral Opportunities –Four Design Study Workshops

Attention all members of The Chapel Hill Garden Club; something very new and fun is coming your way. Betsy Nininger, our Flower Design Chairman is bringing us her experience of ten years of teaching flower arranging, along with her two time national award winning manual entitled, How To Organize and Teach a Beginning Course in Traditional and Creative Flower Design. She is offering us one course consisting of four study workshops: two workshops for Traditional Design and two workshops for Creative Design. We will not only learn how to construct four design types but we will learn to look at designs through the eyes of a flower show judge, The course is meant to inspire you to appreciate flower shows and to enhance your own arranging at home. The Elements and Principles of Design will be the focus of the study section of each workshop. We will learn just how they are applied or not applied to illustrated designs and the importance of each one to the over all pleasing look of an arrangement. The Traditional designs that we will construct will be the Table Oval and the Hogarth Curve. The Creative designs will be the Modern Mass and the Parallel. The cost for the course is $120 dollars. This may be payable in one payment or two equal payments. The workshops will be held at The UNC Botanical Garden on the second Tuesday of the following months, November, January, March and either May or June. Class begins at 9:30AM. You may “sub-let “your spot at the design table at any time if you find you are unable to attend a given workshop. You will receive all the necessary information from Betsy at the time you sign up. This series will be a fun and relaxed learning experience, with a chance to take lovely designs home, all made by you!

Space will be limited to 15 so reserve WITH your check soon.

Make check payable to Chapel Hill Garden Club with a note, workshops

Send to: Darlene Pomroy, 1104, FearringtonPost, Pittsboro,NC 27312

Please RESERVE with Betsy Nininger by e-mail: bwnininger@yahoo.com or phone - 919-929-5956

Remember, check to Darlene, Reservation with Betsy.

All Eyes on the Auctioneer

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Will that Fascinator

go airborne?

Proven Winner

Picnic Auction Memories

Bitty has a delicious secret

Winner

The Wrangler & the Bee Keeper

Nina is under there!

Chapel Hill Garden Club’s Own Dynamic Duo Encouraging Members to do Community Service

President Stepheny and Hospitality Chair Debbie DiSabatino

Fabulous Auction Items

The Chapel Hill Garden Club

P.O. Box 10054

Chapel Hill, NC 27515

Gus St. John, Editor

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