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Index Master Gardeners of Clark County PO Box 158, Springfield, Ohio 45501-0158 Volume 28 Number 11 November, 2021 Blades and Blooms CFAES OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION Mark Your Calendar .................... 1 President’s Corner ...................... 2 Pam’s Posies .............................. 2 Rich’s Remarks........................... 3 Birthdays..................................... 3 Committee Reports ................. 4-6 Gatherings about Gardens ......... 7 Backyard News........................... 8 MGV Nominee Bio Infomation .... 9 Mark Your Calendar 1 6:30-7:30 pm MGV Open House @ OSUE Lg Conference Rm 7 FALL BACK Daylight Savings Time Ends 3 9 am-noon SPGA Garden Clean up 8 9 am - Noon EOS Garden workday 10 5:30-6:00 pm Educational Program for CU hours & 6:00 - 8:00 pm General Meeting @ OSUE Lg Conference Rm 11 Veteran’s Day OSUE closed 12 9 am - Noon Committee Chair/Hort Planning Day @ OSUE Lg Conference Rm 18 11 am - 1 pm Education Committee @ SPGA Clubhouse 25 Thanksgiving 26 OSU Extension closed With the final vote from our MGV Zoom attendees, the winner is Sue Ann Dill as Ms. Paula Nater. At our Recognition Celebration, Bee Mask finalist were #4 Mark Finnegan, #3 Sue Ann Dill (Ms. Paula Nater), #2 Lola Walston and #1 Linda Himes.

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Master Gardeners of Clark CountyPO Box 158, Springfield, Ohio 45501-0158 Volume 28 Number 11 November, 2021

Blades and BloomsCFAES OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION

Mark Your Calendar .................... 1President’s Corner ...................... 2Pam’s Posies .............................. 2Rich’s Remarks ........................... 3Birthdays ..................................... 3Committee Reports .................4-6Gatherings about Gardens ......... 7Backyard News ........................... 8MGV Nominee Bio Infomation .... 9

Mark Your Calendar1 6:30-7:30 pm MGV Open House @ OSUE Lg Conference Rm7 FALL BACK Daylight Savings Time Ends3 9 am-noon SPGA Garden Clean up8 9 am - Noon EOS Garden workday10 5:30-6:00 pm Educational Program for CU hours & 6:00 - 8:00 pm General Meeting @ OSUE Lg Conference Rm 11 Veteran’s Day OSUE closed12 9 am - Noon Committee Chair/Hort Planning Day @ OSUE Lg Conference Rm18 11 am - 1 pm Education Committee @ SPGA Clubhouse25 Thanksgiving26 OSU Extension closed

With the final vote from our MGV Zoom

attendees, the winner is Sue Ann Dill as Ms.

Paula Nater.

At our Recognition Celebration, Bee Mask finalist were #4 Mark Finnegan, #3 Sue Ann Dill (Ms. Paula Nater), #2 Lola Walston and #1 Linda Himes.

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Pam’s PosiesPam’s Posies is on hiatus this month. Be back next month!

Some of the decorations from the 2021 Recognition Celebration.All Recognition Celebration pictures by Karen Parsons

PRESIDENT’S CORNERThanksgiving is quickly approaching. Let’s

take time in thanking our fellow Master Gardener Volunteers for love and support during this crazy COVID Year! We are grateful for your generosity of time and talent for 2021.

When you read this, the Recognition Celebration will be in the past. I hope all of you, whether present or by Zoom, had an enjoyable evening with your fellow Master Gardeners! We are so fortunate to have so many talented, compassionate, and kind members who will continue our mission and vision in the coming years! And we have a new class beginning the end of January 2022. Watch out Clark County! We are creating the Best D*** Gardens and Arboretum of Ohio!

As we continue to grow, stay tuned for the new and much needed Policy and Procedures Committee led by George Simon. When the Docent/Tour Guide Committee meet in January, a manual for tour guides will be developed for all of us to be consistent and professional as we place our gardens on display. 2022 will bring many opportunities for more success, but we need to finish our 2021 projects!

Stay tuned for announcements about gardening days before and after the irrigation system and sod placement are completed. The Signage Committee is regrouping to complete the SPGA signs for improved identification of the gardens. New letters are being researched for the Wingert Tossey Pavilion sign. Things are happening behind the scenes, but the unfinished projects need to be completed.In the spirit of Master Gardeners, Connie Mitchell

Veterans Day November 11thBaskets with Thank You cards for Pam Bennett, Dennis Latimer and Rich Pearson.

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RICH’S REMARKS2021 In Brief Review

Wow! Here it is the end of October and what a year we have seen! This is always my time of the year and season to take a brief pause, take a breath, and critically review progress to date. With the lessons of the previous season to guide us, we made great strides in building SPGA and the MGV program, in spite of it all.

As you recall, a dedicated group of 30+ MGVs committed to several (more than 10) Zoom meetings to develop a functional design for the Springfield Foundation Feature Garden, stuck with it to the point of compiling plant lists, locating as many plants as possible in a land of nursery stock shortages, to planting those designed garden spaces. We have subsequently refined and reviewed the completed part of that project and added some finishing additional touches to really make it “POP”. We had the FFA students from Southeastern High School arrive on a weekend and make quick work of moving the piles of gravel into those beds and then complete the mulching of the remaining areas. Now there is truly a “river runs through it”! I am currently working with a local firm to install irrigation and as luck would have it to, hopefully, install the planned sod yet this season. And while this project was evolving and emerging, we had so much else going on! Knowing that I am omitting many (in deference to time, space, and paper), let me mention some of the high points.

Our Spring Plant Sale was a great success with the public very nearly buying everything in sight. Remember the fun of moving the benches from the greenhouse and then moving them around “a few” times at the barn site? And who can forget the moving the plants around to protect from frost and then to water? This was indeed a new approach to the sale, and it was a great success!

The Field Trials had some added dimension this season that involved travel to Columbus to help with a sister project and to pick up “a few” more plants for the SPGA trials. Wasn’t that great fun?!? A caravan of green, rolling west along I 70 after an exercise in space efficient plant packing, and then more fun unloading at the barn! What a good thing we sold all of those Plant Sale plants to make room for the next deluge!

Construction continued on our walks until the just right moment when progress was completed to the just right stopping point before our big summer event,

Rich’s Remarks cont. on pg.10

New 2020 MGVs, please send in the date of your birthday so that you will be included in our monthly birthday celebration. Please email to [email protected].

2nd Rita Lane5th Nancy Best14th Kim Bachman15th Sue Ann Dill19th Susan Smith22nd Donna Meister23rd Deb Dean23rd Hank Nagano 24th Sherri Mohler25th Carlene Grassle25th Ann Haines 25th Jean Rickards26th Barbara Hartings26th Paul Mohler

Southeastern High School FFA students shoveling gravel to put in the SFFG beds.

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Committee Reports

LANDSCAPE wITH NATuRE Monarch StationThe Landscape With Nature Garden is NOW OFFICIAL!!!!!!!!!(DRUM ROLL PLEASE)

Landscape with Nature is Now an Official Monarch Waystation.

We are pleased, proud and excited about planning and planting SPGA’s New Butterfly Garden next Spring! A day of the week will be chosen for our committee to meet for planning,planting, weeding, watering for the monarch, bird, tree, and shrub gardens for all pollinators.

During the Farm Science review, Denise Ellsworth, who was speaking

at Gwynne, stated that the gardens will be receiving more plants next year for research projects.

What an exciting time to be helping with our committee!All are welcome!Tom Davidson , Donna Meister, Jani Malowney

LANDSCAPE wITH NATuRE COMMITTEE Annual Report

The Landscape with Nature committee was initiated this year. It grew out of an offer of free pollinator plants from OSUE/CFAES Department of Entomology for a “Cultivar and Straight Species trial garden project.” One plot was planted with 23 straight species and the other plot with 25 mostly cultivars. Observation of pollinator preference of one plot over the other is possible. In addition to the 47 plants from OSUE some surplus plants were received for planting elsewhere if desired.

Master Gardeners of Clark Co. (MGCC) formed a committee with 4 co-chairs and 25 volunteers with an interest in the project. Additional leftover plants from the MGV spring plant sale, a stand of pollinator plants available for relocation at Snyder Park and plants offered by MGVs resulted in a considerable inventory of available plant varieties.

Co-chairs Donna Meister, Jani Malowney, Susan Miller and Tom Davidson began planning via phone, text, in-person meetings and site surveys. A start-up budget of $1000 was requested and approved by MGCC trustees. On April 30 2021 a joint meeting of volunteers, OSUE staff and Co-Chairs considered a co-chair proposal for planting 4 gardens and a Pollinator committee name change to Landscape with Nature (LWN). The name change and 3 of the 4 gardens were approved for startup on a non-interference basis with in-progress MGCC work on feature gardens and SPGA Jubilee preparations.

OSUE staff (Dennis Latimer) provided rototilling, compost and wood chip additives to the beds and Tom Miller purchased and delivered top soil for additional supplement. The three approved beds included a 36’ square area for the two trial beds and water puddle plus one 12’x42’ bed for honeybee friendly plants (Bee Haven) and one 12’X42’ bed for a

Butterfly Garden (currently a holding bed).Volunteers initiated planting the trial gardens May

25 and the Bee Haven on June 15. Initial watering

New Monarch Waystation Sign for Landscape with Nature Garden.

vICTORY GARDEN COMMITTEEAnother successful season has come to a close.

Terry Fredrich recently mowed the garden so there isn’t much we can do until next April. We donated over 8200 pounds of vegetables to the Second Harvest and next year we may expand the number of food banks. So thanks to everyone who worked in the garden. You all did a great job.

Edith Newell Perley, Drew Titone, Ed Wozniak

Monarch Waystation Certificate will be on display at the Clark County Extension Office.

LwN Committee report cont. on pg.5

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“Like us, Master Gardener posts, on Facebook so all your Facebook friends can spread the wonderful and beautiful things happening at SPGA.”Thanks!

NOMINATION COMMITTEENovember is our election month to vote in our

new 2022 Master Gardener Board of Trustees. We want to give a huge thank you to everyone who is volunteering this year to be on the ballot. Their new term will start January 1st. This year we have such a wonderful and outstanding group that will continue to keep our leadership strong and make 2022 an exciting year!

The Nomination Committee will be emailing out your ballot prior to the General Meeting. At this time, it looks like we will be meeting in-person and we will collect ballots at the meeting or you may mail yours back to the Nomination Committee. We hope to announce our new Board Members that night.

This is our amazing group of Master Gardeners that are on the ballot. Each has provided a brief bio in this newsletter so that you can learn more about them. Our ballot will be:

President Elect:• Judy FinneganSecretary

• Linda AsebrookMember At Large

• Kim Bachman• Christi Lockhart• Karen Titone• Jerri Taylor• Judy WesselTreasurer

• George Simon & Teresa Magill

Thank all of our candidates for volunteering to serve our organization for 2022!! They are already all WINNERS to us!!

The Nomination Committee, Marilyn Hinderer, Terry Reid, Rita Lane

via 125’ of hose for several months was conducted by committee chairs. A 3-day cycle of water checking was implemented. Hoses, wand and moisture meter were purchased and were thankfully stored by permission in the Early Ohio Settler’s Garden shed when not in use.

The gardens flourish and pollinators are abundant. At the August SPGA Jubilee and Walk-in-the Park event on August 19, 2021 the public expressed high appreciation for our landscape additions to SPGA. In conclusion, the LWN committee is proud that less than $500 was spent for initiation of the LWN projects and it was accomplished in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Donna Meister, Jani Maloney, Tom Davidson (LWN Co-Chairs)

Pearl Crecent butterfly on Purple Coneflower.

LwN Committee report cont. from pg.4

I wish to thank you all for the prayers, cards, notes of encouragement, flowers, phone calls, e-mails, offers of help in transportation, food, yard clean-up. I am so blessed by your friendships and love I have on several occasions been brought to tears. I am planning to be back next year. You know I love to garden and dig potatoes and pick tomatoes.

To bring you to date, I have angiosarcoma. I had a mastectomy, am now going to chemo at the James once a week for 3 weeks, off a week for the next 5 months. I feel good, no pain, just tire easily.

It has been an honor to be a part of such a wonderful, caring organization that does so much good in our community. And I thank you all .

Love, Natheta Mercer

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Southeastern High School FFA students at the SPGA Springfield Foundation Feature Garden.

SOCIAL COMMITTEEThe MGV November 10, 2021 General Meeting will

be held at the Clark County OSU Extension office, 3130 E. Main St., Springfield, Ohio 45503. There is an educational program (1/2 hr. CEU) starting at 5:30 pm and the General Meeting will begin at 6:00 pm. Please plan on attending this meeting so you can make your vote count at our annual election of officers, get the update on each committee plans and details, and it’s a fun way to get to see the incredible people in our organization! We will not have refreshments yet at this meeting, please feel free to bring your own drink and snack if you like. Hopefully, we will begin refreshments at the next General Meeting in January 2022.

Social Committee: Jan O’Neill & Terry Reid

HOLIDAY SwAG PROjECT/ CANCER CENTER

In early December for the past 13 years, MGVs have created Holiday themed door decorations for patients at the Springfield Regional Cancer Center. Once again to protect the health of the cancer patients we will need to work off site prior to distribution which will be Thursday, December 9th.

We anticipate being able to gather as a group to assemble the swags this year. However, plans are still being made to locate a site and work out the final logistics. A facility large enough to layout all our supplies, accommodate the construction of the swags safely, and provide space for bagging and boxing the finished projects is being sought. If you have any potential leads on an area which is minimal cost or free of charge, please let us know.

We’ve tentatively set Monday, November 29, for the final greenery cutting date. Watch your email for further details and location information.

All names have been erased from the committee due to the vMS transition, so if you would like to serve you will need to call, text or email wendy May.

As Ann Hembree, psycho-social director at the SRCC reflects, “We’ve experienced smiles, and we’ve experienced tears. What these swags provide is truly beyond measure.”

A sincere thank you is extended to all who have participated in the past. Also, thank you to all who have donated supplies which have our supply tubs overflowing. We have plenty of pinecones and dried okra, however, pods, dried flowers, and other natural elements can be brought on assembly day.Co-Chairs Sue Ann Dill [email protected] (937) 605-5523 Wendy May [email protected] (937) 561-1191

Deb Brugger with Holiday Swag for Cancer Center.

Southeastern High School FFA students helping lay the gravel river in the SPGA Springfield Foundation Feature Garden.

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Gatherings about Gardens The Obsessed Gardener…Are You One? By Chris Woods, Excerpted from The Weeder’s Reader

It’s hard for me to say exactly when gardening stopped being just a healthy pastime and became an all-consuming passion. One day I’m fertilizing a few tomato plants, and the next thing I know, an eighteen-wheeler is unloading 50 yards of compost for a 3,000-square-foot cutting garden.

How can you tell if you’re a normal, healthy gardener or have crossed the line into dangerous territory? Easy, take this quiz!

Normal Gardener Obsessed GardenerYou won’t leave town when your tulips are in bloom. …or your daffodils, your lilacs, your wisteria, your roses, your hydrangea…

You have a charge account at the local garden center Your spouse buys all your Christmas presents there. center.

You invest in fine gardening tools. You keep spare tools in your car for gardening emergencies.

You have a compost heap. You take its temperature every day.

You can’t believe you ordered so many bulbs this Fall. It wasn’t enough.

You know the Latin names for your plants. You use them in conversations…with the plants.

You love to grow and cook your own vegetables. Cook? Who has time to cook?

You are proud of your baby carrots. You carry pictures of them in your wallet.

You can crush a Japanese beetle in your bare You love the sound it makes when you do. fingertips.

You have dirt under your fingernails. What fingernails?

You know the pH of your soil. All your friends know the pH of your soil.

You’ve had a soil test. You studied for it.

You buy composted cow manure to top dress your You buy a cow. garden.

You teach your children the wonders of gardening. Children? Who has time to have children?

You love gardening more than anything. “And what’s wrong with that?!”

No shade, No shine, No butterflies, No bees,No fruits, No flowers, No leaves, No birds--

November!~~Thomas Hood~~

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” ~~Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘Til next time, Judy Finnegan

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fresh, beautiful blooms so late in the season, with so little effort on my part. During the summer those white Cleome grew with red Zinnia. The Zinnias

came from seed I got at Rural King. They had a fantastic selection of Zinnia this year! The Cleome themselves actually came up from seeds that dropped from last year. When winter conditions are right, Cleome will grow from seed the following year. What a lovely surprise.

Remember last year’s fiasco, my attempt at a wildflower meadow? One of the gifts that experience gave me is the lovely Sulpher Cosmos. My picture shows you a golden Sulpher Cosmos, but I also have them in gold with a warm red blush. I collected these seeds from last year. This year they have bloomed cheerily throughout my yard, and have been loved by butterflies and bees, even at this late date. They, too, are seed droppers.

Have you ever grown Hyacinth Beans? They definitely are not seed droppers, and I am really on the fence about them this year. You see them in my third and

final picture. For the last two years I have grown them on a cattle panel structure. They have grown 10 feet tall with purplish-green leaves. Everytime I look at them I think of Jack and the Beanstalk. The leaves alone are quite pretty, but their purple flowers and purple seed pods are down right gorgeous. But for the last two years, mine haven’t started blooming until October first! Last year, the blooms did not last long. This warm fall, I’ve had them blooming for weeks. Should I look at them as fall bloomers and keep growing them? Or should I get rid of them and try something new? I will spend the winter dreaming, planning, deciding.Happy Gardening! Susan Miller

Backyard NewsIt’s October 20th at the end of a perfect Ohio day,

72 degrees, sunny, no humidity. It’s the Ohio day we Ohioans dream of all year long. Perfect.

Husband Tom and I spent the day planting trees and shrubs in the wetland we are restoring. At the end of the day, we walked around the yard looking at our various beds, so late in the season. Most of the perennials are done for the year. We still have some black eyed Susan’s and the occassional aster. Even the Golden Rod is fading. At times like this I say to myself “thank God for annuals!”

Annuals are terrific plants at any time, but they really shine early in the summer when the perennials aren’t quite ready to bloom and late in the fall when everything has called it a season. I grow a few annuals that like to drop seeds. Mostly, I weed these out of my beds, but in late August and early September I start leaving a few, in case we have a long warm fall, like this year.

In early September I noticed some new Cleome or Spider flowers, growing in the Mish Mash bed. I left them, not expecting much, but now in late October they are beautiful! In my picture you see a white Cleome against a background of Summer Jewel Red Salvia. Both are new blooms from dropped seeds. I love having these

Sulpher Cosmos.

White Cleome

Hyancinth Beans.

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MGV Nominee Bio InformationPresident ElectJudy FinneganClass year: 2018Master Gardener Volunteers are a community of which I am honored to be a member; a community of people passionate about gardening and nature; a community of volunteers whose power is harnessed creating beauty and sustenance for others; a community that is multi-faceted with members who contribute with their individual talents and gifts, knowledge and strength; a community who is leaving a legacy for Clark County for generations to follow.I became a Master Gardener, Class of 2018 and been involved in; #discover SPGA, Blades and Blooms contributor, Community Service (Altrusa Spelling Bee, Donor Recognition Dinner), Early Ohio Settlers Garden—Co-Chair, Fundraising Co-Chair (special project Carruth sculptures), Holiday Swags, SPGA and Sign subcommittee I am Springfield-born-and-raised, graduated from Clark State and Wittenberg University, and served as the Human Resources Manager of Woeber Mustard before retiring in January 2019. I learned the art of growing flowers from my grandmother, who gardened into her nineties, and the value of vegetable gardening and preserving from my mother. My husband Mark, Master Gardener class of 2020 (who has a pickup!) and I are high school sweethearts and have two sons and four grandchildren.Again, I am honored to be a part of the outstanding organization that is Master Gardeners of Clark County and to contribute to the future of the important, challenging, inspiring and beautiful Snyder Park Gardens and Arboretum.

SecretaryLinda AsebrookClass year: 2008 Ever/or currently serving on Board of Trustees: Served on the Board 2016 and 2017 as Secretary and 2019 and 2020. Committees you have served on: Publicity /Marketing– for the last few years I have been involved in creating the bookmarks for our events, Utzinger Memorial Garden – In 2008 – 2009, Garden Fling, Recognition Celebration, Garden Jubilee, Fundraising since 2017.

Member at LargeKim Bachman Class year: 2020Hi, I am Kim Bachman. I am married to Greg. We have two grown children (and two grandchildren who live close by in Dayton). I was a dietitian at both hospitals in Springfield as well as a nursing home for 40 years before I retired in May 2020.I was in the Master Gardener class of 2020, the year we wish we could, but can’t, forget. The year didn’t hold back on plants growing at SPGA, and I was happy to grow new friends in the gardens, including Early Ohio Settlers (which I became a co-chair this year), Garden of Eatin’, field trials, perennials, and Springfield Fountain Feature Garden. As the garden expands, there are always new challenges. The MGVs are a wonderful group of people, and there are many who are willing and happy to step up and get things done. I have enjoyed getting my hands dirty with the MGVs, and would be honored to serve on the board as a member at large.

Christi LockhartClass year: 2020Ever or currently serving on Board of Trustees: NoCommittees you have served on: Perennial Com-mittee; SFFG committee, Education Cmte; SPGA Jubilee Committee

Jerri TaylorClass year: 2020I am retired and have been married for 43 years. I have 2 sons, 3 grandsons and 1 granddaughter. I have lived for 35 years in Clark County in an old farmhouse on 10 acres that we spent most of our adult lives restoring. Most of my working career was spent in medical office management, HR, and employment recruiting. I currently belong to a women’s philanthropic sorority where I currently and have held positions at chapter, regional and national levels. I am a graduate of the Clark County Leadership program. I volunteered as a Junior Achievement instructor for approximately 12 years. I currently serve as the Chair for The Clark County Board of Zoning Appeals and before that served on the Rural Zoning Commission for approximately 12 years. I have always had a passion for flower gardening and

MGv Nominee Bio Information cont. on pg.10

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SPGA Jubilee. Available work crew scheduling and timing was on our side and Select Services did a great job with a quick “finish” grade and site clean-up. SPGA Jubilee was a long awaited and well attended event that showed the public the product of a dedicated and committed MGV volunteer force unlike no other. It also was the stage for the presentation and dedication of Snyder Park Gardens and Arboretum and the Wingert Tossey Pavilion; amazing gifts to our Springfield and Clark County community.This has truly been a year of the demonstration of the success of applied volunteer activities: Community Volunteer Day, FFA Student Volunteer Day, and MGV “always ready to do something” days! Yes, there have been challenges and they were successfully addressed and worked through or toward. YOU ALL, MGV Clark County, have stepped up, stepped forward, and met the challenges head on. I am and remain so amazed, excited, pleased, and proud of all your continuing accomplishments. Thank you for letting me be part of this amazing Team! ---Rich---

Coming up:1. Open House(s) to introduce interested candidates

to our MGV program and recruit for the 2022 MGV Intern class:• When: Wednesday, November 1, 2021• Time: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

2. “Final” General Garden Workday: Wednesday, November 3 (weather permitting)

3. VMS is now fading into history but the frontier of Salesforce/Hands on Connect is at hand and ready to be embraced and exploited for our future needs and success, stay tuned for training details.

have many gardens in my yard and have held several weddings and many events at my home. I currently serve as incoming Perennial Committee Chair. I worked on the SFFG selection committee and assisted at SPGA Jubilee this year.

Karen TitoneClass year: 2016Ever or currently serving on Board of Trustees: No previous service on the Board of TrusteesCommittees you have served on: Co-Chair Garden and Plant Sell-A-Bration; previously volunteered on the Garden Fling Committee including presenter for an educational session; Field Trials/Greenhouse, Field Trial Adopt-A-Bed; Mentor for new classes, Turf and Holiday Swag Project. And I have volunteer work hours with SPGA, Perennial, Fair Entrance Garden, Fair Flower Show, SPGA Jubilee and Victory Garden

Judy WesselClass year: 2000I have a passion for learning about gardening and sharing this knowledge with others. This passion began to blossom in 2000 when I became a Clark County Master Gardener. Since then, until now, I have worked with OSU Extension personnel and Master Gardener Volunteers in many capacities. Until 2020, my major focus had been developing community and demonstration gardens with the Utzinger Gardens at Farm Science Review a primary focus. More recently my focus is the perennial gardens at Snyder Park, serving on the design and perennial committees for the feature gardens. During the past twenty years I have answered many gardening questions from the public; conducted numerous clinics, workshops, and have presented several educational programs on various gardening topics for clientele of all ages from youth through seniors. During these past years I have also been involved in numerous continuing educational programs. From my many years of volunteer experience as a Clark County Master Gardener, I would like to now have the opportunity to participate in a leadership role in this great organization.

Rich’s Remarks cont. from pg.3 MGv Nominee Bio Information cont. from pg.9

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Pictures from SPGA gardens and Recognition Celebration

Dennis Latimer hammering in the edging for the gravel river in one of the SFFG beds.

Happy MGVs enjoying the camaraderie of the 2021 Recognition Celebration.

Gloria Sparks and her sister Ginny Pendleton in very fetching hats and masks.

Pictures on this page are from Rich Pearson (SFFG garden) and Karen Parsons (Recognition Celebration).

Past President Donna Myers and current President Connie Mitchell looking lovely in their (possibly?) color coordinated masks and apparel.

MGV Peggy Shank aka Candy Corn with her “bee-font” hair and “corney” mask.

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The Master Gardener “Blades & Blooms” is a publication of the Ohio State University Extension, Clark County, 3130 East Main Street, Springfield, Ohio, 45505, 937.398.7600. The Master Gardener Advisor is Pam Bennett. http://clark.osu.edu/program-areas/master-gardener-volunteers/blades-blooms-newslettersCFAES provides research and related educational programs to clientele on a nondiscriminatory basis. For more informa-tion, visit cfaesdiversity.osu.edu. For an accessible format of this publication, visit cfaes.osu.edu/accessibility.

Rich Pearson, Pam Bennett and Dennis Latimer receiving their baskets of cards from MGv members.

Don’t forget our November 3rd

Garden Clean Up at SPGA

9:00 to NOON