Professional Documents
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Journal
VOL LXI, NO. 2, JUNE 2016
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I recently read a quote by an author who, after extensive travel, stated that
he needed to let his soul catch up with his body. I chuckled, thinking that the same
can be said for Garden Club of Virginia members after a spring filled with working
in our gardens and volunteering for Historic Garden Week. We are fast approaching summer mode, a time to downshift and relax. Why not find a quiet corner in
the garden in which youve worked so hard and settle-in with a good book? Peruse
Flower Arranging, A Complete Guide for Beginners, the book reviewed in this
issue; arrange some flowers and reap the benefits of your labors!
Thank you for reading the Journal. We welcome your articles.
Write to us at journal@gcvirginia.org.
Submission guidelines may be found on the GCV website.
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ON THE COVER...
This exquisite dahlia was rendered in
watercolor by Marcia Long of The
Williamsburg Garden Club. Learn how to
grow them in this months article on these
beautiful Mexican natives.
IN THIS ISSUE ...
Massie Medal Award ........................... 2
deLacy Gray Award .............................. 3
Why I Give to GCV ............................. 3
Dahlias ................................................ 4
2016 Horticulture Award of Merit ....... 6
Ex Libris ...............................................7
Common Wealth Award ............................ 8
Lily Show ........................................... 10
Capital Trees ...................................... 11
82nd Annual Daffodil Show .............. 12
The Oasis Dilemma ............................. 14
Board of Directors .............................. 17
Reflections on India ............................ 18
Seriously Seeking Judges ....................... 19
Save the Date ...................................... 19
Dedication of the Kitchen Road Project ... 20
Lily Notes .......................................... 21
Cedar Hill Cemetery Project .............. 22
Contributions ..................................... 23
OTHER REFERENCES...
Kent-Valentine House
Phone: (804) 643-4137 Fax: (804) 644-7778
Email: director@gcvirginia.org
Historic Garden Week Office
Phone: (804) 644-7776 Fax: (804) 644-7778
Email: historicgardenweek@verizon.net
www.VAGardenWeek.org
Postmaster, please send address changes to:
Garden Club of Virginia
12 East Franklin Street
Richmond, VA 23219
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Bebe has served the Garden Club of Virginia in many roles. Most notably, she
oversaw the restoration of the Kent-Valentine House kitchen. She also served as
the Kent-Valentine House Manager and Chairman of the GCV Human Resources
Committee. In the Ashland Garden Club, Bebe has held many offices: President, First
Vice-President, Second Vice President, Nominating Chairman, Historic Garden Week
Co-Chairman, Board of Governors Meeting Chairman and many more. Bebe has
served both the Ashland Garden Club and the Garden Club of Virginia with energy
and commitment, and exhibits unusual dedication in her work.
As her friends in member clubs stated well, we had the privilege to work with
Bebe. While her work is quiet and behind the scenes, she sets a standard of excellence
and graciousness that is the essence of GCV. We are proud of her and she is a most
deserving recipient of the 2016 Massie Medal Award for Distinguished Achievement.
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ollis Scott Stauber received the 2016 deLacy Gray Award for Conservation
at the Annual Meeting in Alexandria, May 10, 2016. As a conservation
leader, Hollis helped organize a citywide pilot recycling project in Danville
and developed a brochure detailing ecofriendly insecticides and cleaning products. She
chaired her club's Conservation Forum on the Health of the Dan River, After the Spill:
Our Future. Hollis chaired the state level Conservation Workshop, Conservation in
Virginia: What is Working?
Hollis is the Conservation Chairman for the Garden Club of Danville and served
on the Garden Club of Virginia Conservation Committee. We congratulate Hollis
for the good work she has done to educate our commonwealth on conservation issues.
We are proud to award Hollis the 2016 deLacy Gray Medal for Conservation.
I have loved everything about the Garden Club of Virginia, even the travel.I have
been crossing the state with great regularity for the past 20 years.
Horticulture, landscape design and historic garden restoration are right up my alley.
Where else could I pursue these interests with wonderful, smart, attractive people, all
working toward a common goal?
I give annually to GCV so it can continue to put on fabulous programs, workshops,
and symposia. And I give of my time and talent because the rewards I receive are the
wonderful friends made during my many years of involvement with GCV.
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JUNE 2016
THE
BIZARRE
BAZAAR
Mark Your Calendars!
The 23rd
Spring
Market
Friday, April 1st, 10-7
Saturday, April 2nd, 10-7
Sunday, April 3rd, 10-5
&
The 41st
CHRISTMAS
COLLECTION
Thursday,
Friday,
Saturday,
Sunday,
December 1st,
December 2nd
December 3rd
December 4th,
10-7
10-7
10-7
10-5
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ight recipients of the Horticulture Award of Merit were announced in May at the
Garden Club of Virginia Annual Meeting in Alexandria. Established in 1960,
the award recognizes individual members of GCV who have achieved significant
accomplishments in horticulture, both personally and in the community at large.
Nancy Dickerson, The Princess Anne Garden Club
An accomplished rosarian and native plant enthusiast, Nancy has worked
extensively with the coastal Virginia native plant landscape at the First Landing State
Park Trail Center. She has created a PowerPoint on the native plant garden for the Trail
Center that she shares with garden clubs, local civic organizations and at workshops for
native plant lovers.
Tamara Gibson, The Spotswood Garden Club
Tamara has shared her knowledge of horticulture and landscape design with her
club and community through many projects including creating the landscape design
and installation of a new city roundabout, presenting programs to community groups,
and organizing the clean-up and restoration of a historic pre-Civil War cemetery.
Janet Hickman, Hillside Garden Club
Janet, a passionate gardener, grower and propagator of daffodils, is the GCV
Daffodil Chairman. Through her PowerPoint programs she shares her knowledge
of daffodils with other GCV clubs and her community. Janet organized club and
community volunteers in the care and maintenance of the Anne Spencer Garden,
a Virginia Historic Landmark, in which her research allowed period daffodils to be
replanted and labeled.
Missy Janes, Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club
Carrying on the horticultural knowledge and tradition of her mother, Polly
Rowley, Missy shares her talents with her club and as a leader in her community. In
addition to tending to her extensive gardens, she has participated in organizing and
planning public seminars on native habitats and landscaping.
Helen Junkin, The Princess Anne Garden Club
Helen has shared with her garden club and community her expertise and
knowledge of how our horticultural environment relates to other species with which
we share the planet. Her Pearl Home uses sustainable gardening practices to protect the
Lynnhaven River waterways.
Linda Patton, The Elizabeth River Garden Club
Linda has a special interest in daylilies; her garden will be featured in the 2017
National Tour for the American Hemerocallis Society. She has taught classes on the
propagation and care of daylilies, and conducted workshops on plant selection for the
perennial garden. To the delight of the residents, Linda created and maintained a raised
vegetable garden and a butterfly garden at a nursing home in Suffolk.
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Ex Libris
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Presents
THE SEVENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL
Lily Show
Lions and tigers
and bears
oh my
Foxcroft School
22407 Foxhound Lane
Middleburg, VA 20117
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
2:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Thursday, June 16, 2016
9:45 am to 1:00 pm
Hosted by
Fauquier and Loudoun
Garden Club
Affiliated with
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apital Trees, a Richmond non-profit organization that took root with the Garden
Club of Virginias first Bessie Bocock
Carter Conservation Award in 2010, was praised
by Governor Terry McAuliffe in his Earth Day
speech at the Capitol in April. The speech, originally to be presented on location at Capital Trees
Low Line project but displaced by rain, cited the
organization for its work in urban greening, environmental restoration and storm water mitigation.
At a separate event attended by Capital
Trees patrons and state and city leaders, including
Secretary of Natural Resources Molly Ward, First
Lady of the Commonwealth Dorothy McAuliffe Jeanette McKittrick/Dorothy McAuliffe
presented the organization with Virginia Treasure designation for three of its projects,
the 14th Street Initiative, Great Shiplock Park and the Low Line. In turn, Capital Trees
presented Secretary Ward and Mrs. McAuliffe with botanical art by James River Garden
Club member Anne Blackwell Thompson.
The Capital Trees team has created something truly beautiful, said Mrs. McAuliffe. Not only have they enhanced the scenic landscapes of Richmond and the historic
banks of the James River, but they have also restored ecological balance through their
storm water management and land erosion efforts for future generations. This group has
built partnerships across our community to ensure that our neighbors and visitors can
enjoy the natural beauty of Richmond as they live, work and play.
Capital Trees began with Three Chopt Garden Clubs renovation of an unsightly
but highly-visible median in Richmonds West End. Inspired by a presentation at the
2009 GCV Conservation Forum by Richmonds then-Director of Community Planning Rachel Flynn, garden club members raised their sights and the 14th Street Initiative began, with a coalition among the four Richmond GCV clubs. Combining their
resources, the clubs worked together as a committee for several years until the organization incorporated and was granted independent non-profit organization status last year.
The Virginia Treasures program highlights Virginias natural, cultural and recreational assets while conserving land and water resources across the commonwealth.
Capital Trees project at Great Shiplock Park, environmentally-sensitive landscaping of
the park at the trailhead of the Virginia Capital Trail and adjacent to historic Chapel
Island, was a finalist for the GCVs 2014 Common Wealth Award.
The 14th Street Initiative removed tons of impervious material from a concretechoked artery sloping toward the James, replacing it with swamp white oaks and ginkgoes in bio-filtration cells, continuous planting beds and rain gardens.
The Low Line is the on-going reclamation and restoration of 5.5 derelict acres on
the historic James River and Kanawha Canal, running along the Virginia Capital Trail
and a CSX railroad trestle in Shockoe Bottom, a neighborhood that dates to the 1700s
and the site of Richmonds industrial origins, slave-trading history, and the landing of
Lincoln in 1865.
For more information, visit www.capitaltrees.org.
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Artistic Awards
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Horticulture Awards
Ceci Brown,
The Garden Club
of Gloucester
Winner of the Elizabeth
Clopton Brown Member
Sweepstakes Trophy,
The Anne Duvall Miller
Massie Perpetual Trophy,
GCV Open Sweepstakes
and the ADS Silver
Ribbon, with Jeanette
Cadwallender, President.
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the original,
it shows.
Plant Foods Potting Mixes Controls
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THE
LAURIE HOLLADAY
Thank you for another fabulous
Historic Garden Week
25,769 people visited
30 tours in 2016
SHOP
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Of Every
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Cut-flower Seeds
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Equipment
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Arranging Supplies
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Books and DVDs
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See you at the
Bizarre Bazaar
Christmas and Spring!
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Board of Directors
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other India called, and 29 Garden Club of Virginia members, family and friends
answered. Under the leadership of our local guide, Karni Singh, we began to
understand the many layers and facets of this fascinating, complex country.
We came to see gardens and we did! We visited gardens on palace grounds,
encircling mausoleums, at hotels, in forts, on islands and, a highlight, at the Presidents
House in New Delhi, which are open to the public only in February and March.
We rode elephants, rickshaws and tuk-tuks (motorized rickshaws). We dined at
the world-renowned Spice Route Restaurant in New Delhi and in a private home in
Jaipur. We took boat rides on Udaipurs beautiful Lake Pichola, and toured palaces,
forts, mosques and temples. We drank local chai in the rural town of Barr where a freeroaming cow ate our paper cups. We met local people, and as our guide Karni said,
Local experiences and interaction with people will keep India in your heart. Youll
forget most of the monument stories, but youll remember the people.
On our last day when we were saying farewell, Karni taught us the Hindi word
alvadar, which means until we meet again. India is in our hearts.
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Lily Notes
Show Time
If you have a business that needs to be seen, or if you know of one, the Journal is always
looking for appropriate advertisers to brighten our pages.
Please contact Anne Beals at oakleyfrm@gmail.com with your ideas.
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CONTRIBUTIONS
Annual Fund
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Donor
The Blue Ridge Garden Club
Donor
In Honor of
The Garden Club of Fairfax ............................................................... Diane Wilkinson
Sarah Chiffriller ................................................................. Jeanette Rowe Cadwallender
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Restoration
Sponsorship
Annual Fund
Donor
In Honor of
Anne Beals ....................................................................... Jeanette Rowe Cadwallender
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