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2017 SAPS Board of Directors
President: Earl Hockin 423-817-5473 [email protected]
Vice President: Jane Mullins 423-212-0173 [email protected]
Secretary: Jolly Hill 423-246-7246 [email protected] Treasurer: Joy Moore 423-348-6572 [email protected] Program Chair:
Nina Hedrick 423-239-9604 [email protected] Editor–The Wheelbarrow Pat Westington 423-743-0977 [email protected] Tomato Fest Chairman: Dennis Marshall 423-288-3675 [email protected] Website Manager: Carol McCreary 423-817-5668 [email protected] Membership Chairman:
Charlene Thomas 423-483-4665 [email protected]
Discount Vendors: Eva Johnson
483-1453 [email protected]
Members-at-Large: Hugh Conlon
423-282-9215 [email protected]
Joy Stewart 423 573-2376 [email protected] Margaret Seymour 423-534-1191 [email protected] Dave Rogers
423 502-2459 [email protected]
SAPS Plant and Seed Swap and Silent Auction Saturday, October 14
11:00am - 1:30pm Appalachian Fairgrounds, Building 1
Join us for one of our favorite events of the year. Bring your plants (herbs, perennials, trees or shrubs and house plants), seeds, and even garden art, books, containers, gardening maga-zines and catalogs, etc. to swap. You can expect to find some hard to find natives and heirlooms not normally offered in the nursery trade along with tried and true favorites.
Got a rare or extra special plant to share? Bring it for the Silent Auction. The Silent Auction offers a chance to bid (in $1 increments) on some rarer plants and new introductions plus other special garden themed items. Proceeds from the auction help us bring in special speakers.
Make some new gardening friends and reconnect with old ones at our delicious Pot-Luck Luncheon. Please bring a dish to share along with a serving utensil. SAPS will supply paper ware, utensils and drinks.
Luncheon/Swap Set -Up -11:00 AM, Pot-Luck Luncheon -11:30 AM, Seed/Plant Swap and Silent Auction -12:30-1:30 PM
Meeting host: Earl Hockin 423- 817-5473
October SAPS Meeting
www.saps.us
Southern Appalachian Plant Society October 2017
8th Annual Chestnut Restoration Celebration in Meadowview, VA Come see us grow!
The 8th Annual Chestnut Restoration Celebration will be held on Saturday, October 14, 2017, 1:00-5:00PM at the Glenn C. Price Research Laboratory in Meadowview, Vir-ginia. “The Celebration provides a rare opportunity to see the expansion of resources at the Research Farm where blight resistant trees are being developed for restoration of the American chestnut to our forests” said Stan Tucker, president of SWVA Restoration Branch.
Learn about restoration efforts while taking a hayride through the orchard or listening to talks on genomics selec-tion methods. Sample fresh-roasted chestnuts and foods made with chestnuts, taste freshly pressed apple cider, and try locally brewed chestnut beer. Enjoy live music with a
variety of activities for kids. Restoration Chestnuts 1.0 seedlings will be raffled and
handcrafted chestnut walking sticks will be available.
Free admission, rain or shine, come see us grow!
For more information email [email protected] or call (276) 944-4631.
Address: Glenn C. Price Research Farm, 29010 Haw-thorne Drive, Meadowview, VA 24361
Contact:
Dick Olson, Volunteer
Southwest Virginia Restoration Branch
The American Chestnut Foundation
Past Plant Swaps
Directions to the Fairgrounds
1) From I-26, Take the TN-75 / SUNCREST DR / BOBBY HICKS HWY exit- EXIT 13- toward GRAY
2) Turn RIGHT onto TN-75 / SUNCREST DR. Continue to follow TN-75
3) Turn LEFT onto OLD GRAY STATION RD
4) Turn LEFT onto GRAY STATION RD
5) Turn RIGHT onto CHAPEL ST
6) Turn LEFT onto LAKEVIEW ST
Across the President’s desk
Upcoming Events:
Native Plants for Tennessee https://tynnativeplants.wordpress.com/
As fall begins, I am delighted to see that a number of nurseries in the area are now selling transplants of cabbage, collards, broccoli, kale, Brussel sprouts, kohlrabi, and lettuce varieties for fall planting. Though it is easy for most to be excited about planting in spring for early spring and summer vegetables, there is a tendency at this time of the year to for-get that in our climate it is very easy to enjoy 3 season gar-dening. In fact by choosing the right varieties of vegetables and using protection such as row covers it is possible to gar-den all year long and harvest fresh vegetables from your gar-den or containers every month of the year. I personally have found Olympia, Tyee and Giant Winter spinach varie-ties do very well here from fall through the winter to spring. Bright Lights and Verde de Taglio Swiss chard to do well over winter if protected by row cover. Arugula holds up well and if knocked back by frost bounces back quickly.
I hope that you have some fall flowering perennials in your garden. Our Japanese Anemone are filling our eyes with their pink and white petals and I anticipate we will con-tinue to enjoy them throughout October. Of course Autumn Joy Sedum brightens the garden in fall as does our Coreopsis which we prune in early summer after they have flowered so that they come back for fall display. Others include Toad Lily, Perennial Sunflowers, Russian Sage, and Helenium.
I hope you are putting aside some plants that need split-ting, collecting seeds, gathering gardening magazines, con-tainers etc. for the Plant Swap October 14th.
If you are thinking of planting Spring Flowering Bulbs this fall be sure to order bulbs from Brent and Becky’s Bulbs and 25% of the sale will be donated to Southern Appalachian Plant Society
It’s simple:
1.Go to www.bloominbucks.com
2.Select Southern Appalachian Plant Society from the organization drop down list
3. Purchase any item on their website
4.Brent and Becky’s Bulbs will send a percentage of your sale to SAPS.
September 20, 2017-January 7, 2018:
Wicked Plants. NC Arboretum, Asheville. Walk through the halls of a ramshackle manor and experience the dangerous world of Wicked Plants. Inspired by author Amy Stewart’s best-selling book, “Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother and other Botanical Atrocities,” Wicked Plants offers a fun, safe and educational way to explore some of nature’s most toxic flora. Two- and three-dimensional interactives fill a Victorian-era home, where visitors travel from room to room and learn about various poisonous plants that may be lurking in their homes and backyards. http://www.ncarboretum.org/exhibits-events/rent-a-traveling-exhibit/wicked-plants-exhibit/
October 7-8
Smoky Mountain Orchid Society’s 2017 Orchid Show & Sale. 9:00am-5:00pm (Sat.): Orchid Sale open to public; 11:00am-5:00pm(Sat.): Orchid Show open to public; 12:00- 4:00pm (Sun.): Orchid Sale & Show open to public. Stanley’s Greenhouse, 3029 Davenport Road, Knox-ville, TN. Information: http://knoxgarden.org/calendar/2017-orchid-show-sale/
October 14
SAPS Annual Plant and Seed Swap and Silent Auction. 11am to 2pm. Appalachian Fairgrounds.
October 14
8th Annual Chestnut Restoration Celebration. 1pm – 5pm, Glenn C. Price Research laboratory, 29010 Hawthorne Drive, Meadowview, VA.
October 14-15
Annual Carolina Bonsai Expo North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville. Juried exhibits by bonsai enthusiasts from a seven-state region, a renowned bonsai marketplace, free demon-strations and more. The premier annual bonsai event of the
Southeast. 828-665-2492. http://www.ncarboretum.org/event/carolina-bonsai-expo-2017/2017-10-14/
October 15
Fig Tree Dedication in honor of Phil Ramey. 3pm. Exchange Place Demonstration Vegetable Garden.
November 2
Herb Saplings Meeting. 7 pm at Exchange Place. Herbal Beverages with Susan Scheer and Christy Shivell
November 4 Winter Tree ID with Jason Rodrigue, a forester and silvicul-turist with the U.S. Forest Service. 1-4 pm. Asheville Botan-ical Garden. Learn how to identify trees in the winter by bark, twig arrangement and growth type. Participants must pre-register and pre-pay: 828-252-5190. $12 members, $17 non-members. http://ashevillebotanicalgardens.org/wordpress_3/events-classes/adult-classes/
November 2017 through August 2018 The Appalachian R C &D Field School is a Beginning Farmer Training Program for new and beginning farmers interested in starting or expanding small and mid-scale oper-ations in Northeast TN and Southwest VA. The Field School is a monthly series of workshops (including classroom and on-farm sessions) that provides a comprehensive overview of small-scale farming options in our mountains and valleys, taught by 20+ farmers and agricultural professionals. Fee for Single Track (produce OR livestock) $75, Dual Track $100. For a detailed description and calendar of workshops see: www.arcd.org/field-school. For more info 423-979-2581 or email [email protected].
November 16
SAPS Meeting. At Wit's End: A Collectors Story with Troy Marsden, plantsman, garden designer, author and host of “Volunteer Gardener.” 7 pm at Johnson City Power Board.
Tall Ironweed Vernonia gigantea (V. altissima)
Full to part sun, moderately wet to medium moisture level, rich soil preferred but not fussy, moderately acid pH. 5-10 feet height, blooms late summer into fall, magenta purple flowers, will freely self-sow. Native Region: Statewide. Very adaptable plant with conspic-uous flowers. Plants rival golden-rod for attention in the fall. Can be cut back up until July 4 to produce a shorter but still blooming plant. It can be weedy or invasive. Readily self-hybridizes
with other Vernonia species which can make plant hard to identify in the field. Common name refers to the toughness of the stem. Attracts butterflies, bees and birds.
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