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Chapel Hill G
arden Club March —
April 2019 C
LIPPINGS
3 REFLECTIONS Notes from the Editor and President
5 MARCH — APRIL CALENDAR Spring is here!
6 CLUB EVENTS Mug Up for March, Sustainable Gardening; Gardening with Perennials, Beekeeping Field Trip, Spring Picnic and Auction
11 PLANET BOTANIC Host-a-Hive, Breaking News from Monrovia, Plummeting Insect Numbers, Ridding Ourselves of Mosquitoes, Civil Rights for Lake Erie
18 GO OUTSIDE Davidson Horticultural Symposium by Vicki Scott
DEPARTMENTS
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Aquilegia canadensis. ‘Little Lanterns’
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COVER IMAGE Aquilegia canadensis, ‘Columbine’ NATIVE FULL SUN TO PART SHADE BLOOM TIME: April to May WATER: Medium dodsonfarm.wordpress.com
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE PHOTO Aquilegia canadensis, ‘Little Lanterns’ A dwarf Columbine growingcolors.com
ReflectionsEditor’s Note
One of the reasons I enjoy putting together Clippings is that, with each issue, I discover vital information about the world of plants and pollinators. For instance, while creating the Nov-Dec 2017 issue, I learned about the class of bee-killing insecticides called neonicotinoids. I also learned that the giant plant grower, Monrovia, used them.
I found myself confronted with this fact recently when I researched screener plants to block an unsightly view of my neighbor’s dilapidated truck and driveway.
The site is located on the western side of our house where the summer heat is its most intense. I considered Arborvitae ‘De Groot’s Spire,’ but it was nixed by plant expert Anna Berry as being too narrow. She suggested the tried-and-true Arborvitae ‘Green Emerald.’ I took a look at the plant and saw that yes, it was wide and dense and would make a successful screener, but it had an inelegant, amorphous shape — I could see why most photos presented it as sheared. I wanted a screener that didn’t create work for me and was beautiful.
I kept looking. At Southern States/Carrboro, I discovered a new cultivar of Thuja ‘Green Giant,’ called ‘Tiny Tower.’ This conifer was designed to be a shorter version of the massive 60-foot Green Giant — Tiny Tower’s mature height, 20 feet. TT had rubbery, deep emerald and bronze fronds. BEAUTIFUL. I had found my screener.
EXCEPT, emblazoned across its pot was MONROVIA. Argh. I asked a SS staff member if she knew whether or not Monrovia was still using neonicotinoids. She told me that two years ago they were flooded with questions about neonicotinoids. She wasn’t sure, but felt that by now Monrovia had probably responded to consumer concern and had changed its practices. She recommended that I check their website.
Which I promptly did. Sure enough, beginning this year, Monrovia halted the use of neonicotinoids. (See page 11 of this issue.) Let’s hear it for bee advocacy!
The moral of this tale? It pays to stay informed about how to best care for our landscapes and our voices do count. Free of guilt now, I bought three Tiny Towers and not only are they beautiful, they have a invigorating evergreen aroma.
THE COVER IMAGE Aquilegia canadensis, ‘Columbine,’ is a native herbaceous perennial that grows 2-3 feet high and 1-2 feet wide. It freely self-seeds and will naturalize to form large colonies. Its red blossoms are attractive to hummingbirds, and it tolerates rabbits, deer, drought and dry soil.
Fun Fact: Its genus name comes from the Latin word for eagle because the flower’s five spurs resemble an eagle’s talon.
THIS ISSUE Make sure to check out our upcoming Field Trip to a local beekeeper and the Host-a-Hive event on pages 10 and 11. Planet Botanic (pages 11-17), gives you the good, bad and interesting news on insects, as well as some good news concerning Lake Erie. In Go Outside (page 18), club member Vicki Scott takes us on an armchair tour of the annual Davidson Horticultural Symposium.
THANK YOU Thank you Christine Ellestad, Ruth Little, Daphne McLeod, Susie Moffat, Connie Perotti, Vicki Scott and Kathy Swendiman for your contributions to this issue.
～ Barbara
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Barbara Clare musing.Photo by Daphne McLeod
From Our President
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Jane Lamm in daffodil heaven.Photo by Franklin Lamm
Monday morning for me means starting my week with CHGC member Susie Moffat’s blog. Check it out at https://pbmgarden.blog.
Susie is a talented gardener, floral designer, photographer and writer who each Monday creates a blog featuring flowers from her garden arranged in a vase. A few Mondays ago I was touched by her blog on daffodils. Daffodils are my favorite flower and connect me to home and childhood. The blog was especially poignant because a traffic circle is being put in an intersection that I use daily. Through the construction and all of the digging there is a clump of daffodils outside a fence, beside the road, surviving and welcoming me home. Here is part of Susie’s blog for that day.
～ Jane
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From Susie Moffat:
I grew up inside a small town in the rural south, surrounded by fields of cotton, tobacco, corn and soybeans. Driving away from town with my family to visit relatives on Sundays, riding past these fields, nearly every house I would see for miles and miles at this time of year had a clump or two of dancing yellow daffodils, announcing spring.
As one would expect, time has altered this bucolic landscape. Driving in the countryside nowadays past these old homesites, there is evidence of past lives. With owners having died out, many of these old homesteads now sit abandoned. Heirs perhaps found jobs elsewhere and live too far away to maintain the homes, yet they keep memories alive by holding onto the property. Or perhaps they await better offers from the developers. Regardless, often the land sits idle. Even if the buildings are long gone, almost always there remains a towering oak tree beside where the house once stood, and nearby, a patch of daffodils.
One spring along a familiar stretch of road that my husband and I had travelled for many years, I pointed out to him just such an old homesite. I had never known who once had lived there, but the cheerful daffodils blooming near the old drive were a sight I knew to expect and to watch for.
Viewed from a car window those flowers had greeted me annually for decades, as they must have welcomed home the family that once inhabited the property. I haven’t traveled that road in a while, but that season I was not disappointed.
Intrigued, my husband wrote this poem.
Daffodils
Within this clearing rife with weeds, No homely headstones stand askew, But daffodils in patches tell That here once worked a hand, a heart, And there once stood a house, a home. No headstones set this ground apart, But daffodils in patches tell Of heart and home as sure as bones.
~ DVM, v.G, April 2007
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Field Trip. 10 am Beekeeping in Hillsborough.
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Events Calendar
TUESDAY
2
Club Meeting. 10 am — noon Sustainable Gardening
Board of Directors Meeting. 10 am NCBG
March
April
TUESDAY
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TUESDAY
30Club Meeting. 10 am — noon The Perennial Border
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THURSDAY
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A deer walked into a gift shop in Fort Collins, Colorado. The owner, Lori Jones, gave her some biscuits.
30 minutes later, the deer returned with her whole family.
MUG UP FOR MARCH
FOR OUR MARCH 26 MEETING
Buy some flowers or pick flowers from your garden and fill a mug with Spring color.
Bring your mug to our March Meeting. Betsy will be there to help you place your Mug of Flowers
on one of the round tables. Make sure to include a card with your name.
“Mug Up” is an Irish expression. In Ireland, to be invited to have a “Mug Up” is considered to be the height of good hospitality.
Help fill our meeting space with Spring Joy!
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Club Events
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Sustainable Gardening Tuesday, March 26
10 am — noon North Carolina Botanical Garden
Reeves Auditorium
Featuring Cathy Lindsey
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Cathy will give us ideas on how to create and maintain sustainable gardens in our challenging climate. She will show us how to avoid common problems while creating "easy care" gardens that will contribute to healthier landscapes.
Cathy Lindsey is the owner and principal designer of Lindsey Landscape & Design, Inc, located in the Triangle.
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The Perennial Border Tuesday, April 30
10 am — noon North Carolina Botanical Garden
Reeves Auditorium
Featuring Adrienne Roethling
Adrienne will discuss the concept of the perennial border, which began in England. Gardeners there use permanent plants with interesting color, texture and form in order to eliminate the use of annuals. With this in mind, one can find herbaceous perennials that require little maintenance, offer multiple season appeal and flower for a longer period of time to plant in our gardens.
Adrienne is the Director of Curation and Mission delivery at Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden in Kernersville N.C., home of an award-winning perennial border garden.
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Club Events
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SAVE THE DATE
Spring Picnic & Auction Gail Norwood’s Garden
June 11, 2019 10:30am — 1pm
Rain or Shine
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Club Events
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9:30 am: Gather in the NCBG parking lot 10:00 am: Tour begins
Lorraine & Tommy Tuck’s home 5206 Hawes Rd Hillsborough 27278
Please join us for a tour of Tommy Tuck’s bee enterprise at Lorraine and Tommy’s home in Hillsborough. Tommy will give us a tour through his amazing bee enterprise, now in its fifth year. He’ll give us a quick introduction to bee-keeping and show us all of his apiary’s structures.
🐝 How do you develop and protect a hive?
🐝 How do bees decide where to build their hives?
🐝 What do you feed the bees during winter?
🐝 What’s involved — start to finish — in producing honey?
🐝 How do bees contribute to the horticultural cycle?
🐝 What would we do without them?
Lorraine will talk about how their garden has evolved to operate as a resource and support for the apiary. Tommy and Lorraine will give us tips on how to encourage the growth of bee populations.
FIELD TRIP Be with the Bees in Hillsborough
April 11
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Breaking News from Monrovia — It’s Good
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https://www.monrovia.com/about-us/environment/
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…We are concerned about the health of our planet’s environment and take our commitment to stewardship seriously. We believe a healthy pollinator population is important to our environment, and grow thousands of plants to maintain habitats and food sources for pollinators.
We approach the use of any chemicals by balancing three very important goals:
Keeping humans safe
Enhancing the health of our plants
Reducing or eliminating any potential impact to non-harmful organisms, including bees, butterflies, and other pollinators
Our Process Monrovia is committed to growing the healthiest plants and making a positive impact on the environment. We achieve this through growing practices based primarily on natural processes. We are constantly reviewing and refining methods to ensure we’re using the safest and most effective practices that align with nature.
We recycle 95% of our irrigation runoff at each of our four growing locations, which saves 2.5 billion gallons of water per year. We combat weed growth by hand and through organic mulches reducing the amount of herbicides required. We have completely eliminated the use of neonicotinoid pesticides in 2019 using an integrated pest management system [IPM] including beneficial insects and other cultural controls.
Over the years, Monrovia has reduced our overall pesticide use and replaced certain dangerous pesticides as safer alternatives emerge. We utilize an integrated pest management system [IPM] that includes the use of beneficial insects and other cultural controls. We strive to prevent pest infestations at our nurseries through vigilant scouting and are are leaders in the growth of natural, pest-resistant varieties. We currently use pesticides only as needed, or required by state or federal shipping regulations. Anytime we use them, we follow stringent and conservative guidelines, and continue to look for more ways to reduce our pesticide use.
From its website:
ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
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By Damian Carrington, Environmental editor
Sun 10 Feb 2019 13.00 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature
Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’
Above: Scarce copper butterflies. Photograph by Marlene.Finlayson/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy
The world’s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems,” according to the first global scientific review.
More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could vanish within a century.
The planet is at the start of a sixth mass extinction in its history, with huge losses already reported in larger animals that are easier to study. But insects are by far the most varied and abundant animals, outweighing humanity by 17 times. They are “essential” for the proper functioning of all ecosystems, the researchers say, as food for other creatures, pollinators and recyclers of nutrients.
Insect population collapses have recently been reported in Germany and Puerto Rico, but the review strongly indicates the crisis is global. The researchers set out their conclusions in unusually forceful terms for a peer-reviewed scientific paper: “The [insect] trends confirm that the sixth major extinction event is profoundly impacting [on] life forms on our planet.
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“Unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades,” they write. “The repercussions this will have for the planet’s ecosystems are catastrophic to say the least.”
The analysis, published in the journal Biological Conservation, says intensive agriculture is the main driver of the declines, particularly the heavy use of pesticides. Urbanization and climate change are also significant factors.
“If insect species losses cannot be halted, this will have catastrophic consequences for both the planet’s ecosystems and for the survival of mankind,” said Francisco Sánchez-Bayo, at the University of Sydney, Australia, who wrote the review with Kris Wyckhuys at the China Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing.
The 2.5% rate of annual loss over the last 25-30 years is “shocking,” Sánchez-Bayo told the Guardian: “It is very rapid. In 10 years you will have a quarter less, in 50 years only half left and in 100 years you will have none.”
One of the biggest impacts of insect loss is on the many birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish that eat insects. “If this food source is taken away, all these animals starve to death,” he said. Such cascading effects have already been seen in Puerto Rico, where a recent study revealed a 98% fall in ground insects over 35 years.
The new analysis selected the 73 best studies done to date to assess the insect decline. Butterflies and moths are among the worst hit. For example, the number of widespread butterfly species fell by 58% on farmed land in England between 2000 and 2009. The UK has suffered the biggest recorded insect [population decline] overall, though that is probably a result of being more intensely studied than most places.
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INSECTS CONT.
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A tractor sprays pesticide onto a field of potato plants near Aschersleben, Germany, in August 2017.
Bees have also been seriously affected, with only half of the bumblebee species found in Oklahoma in the US in 1949 being present in 2013. The number of honeybee colonies in the US was 6 million in 1947, but 3.5 million have been lost since.
There are more than 350,000 species of beetle and many are thought to have declined, especially dung beetles. But there are also big gaps in knowledge, with very little known about many flies, ants, aphids, shield bugs and crickets. Experts say there is no reason to think they are faring any better than the studied species.
A small number of adaptable species are increasing in number, but not nearly enough to outweigh the big losses. “There are always some species that take advantage of the vacuum left by the extinction of other species,” said Sanchez-Bayo. In the US, the common eastern bumblebee is increasing due to its tolerance of pesticides.
Most of the studies analyzed were done in western Europe and the US, with a few ranging from Australia to China and Brazil to South Africa, but very few exist elsewhere.
“The main cause of the decline is agricultural intensification,” Sánchez-Bayo said. “That means the elimination of all trees and shrubs that normally surround the fields, so there are plain, bare fields that are treated with synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.” He said the demise of insects appears to have started at the dawn of the 20th century, accelerated during the 1950s and 1960s and reached “alarming proportions” over the last two decades.
He thinks new classes of insecticides introduced in the last 20 years, including neonicotinoids and
fipronil, have been particularly damaging as they are used routinely and persist in the environment: “They sterilize the soil, killing all the grubs.” This has effects even in nature reserves nearby; the 75% insect losses recorded in Germany were in protected areas.
The world must change the way it produces food, Sánchez-Bayo said, noting that organic farms had more insects and that occasional pesticide use in the past did not cause the level of decline seen in recent decades. “Industrial-scale, intensive agriculture is the one that is killing the ecosystems,” he said.
In the tropics, where industrial agriculture is often not yet present, the rising temperatures due to climate change are thought to be a significant factor in the decline. The species there have adapted to very stable conditions and have little ability to change, as seen in Puerto Rico.
Sánchez-Bayo said the unusually strong language used in the review was not alarmist. “We wanted to really wake people up” and the reviewers and editor agreed, he said. “When you consider 80% of biomass of insects has disappeared in 25-30 years, it is a big concern.”
Other scientists agree that it is becoming clear that insect losses are now a serious global problem. “The evidence all points in the same direction,” said Prof Dave Goulson at the University of Sussex in the UK. “It should be of huge concern to all of us, for insects are at the heart of every food web, they pollinate the large majority of plant species, keep the soil healthy, recycle nutrients, control pests, and much more. Love them or loathe them, we humans cannot survive without insects.”
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Matt Shardlow, at the conservation charity Buglife, said: “It is gravely sobering to see this collation of evidence that demonstrates the pitiful state of the world’s insect populations. It is increasingly obvious that the planet’s ecology is breaking and there is a need for an intense and global effort to halt and reverse these dreadful trends.” In his opinion, the review slightly overemphasizes the role of pesticides and underplays global warming, though other unstudied factors such as light pollution might prove to be significant.
Prof Paul Ehrlich, at Stanford University in the US, has seen insects vanish first-hand, through his work on checkerspot butterflies on Stanford’s Jasper Ridge reserve. He first studied them in 1960 but they had all gone by 2000, largely due to climate change.
Ehrlich praised the review, saying: “It is extraordinary to have gone through all those studies and analyzed them as well as they have.” He said the particularly large declines in aquatic insects were striking. “But they don’t mention that it is human overpopulation and overconsumption that is driving all the things [eradicating insects], including climate change,” he said.
Sánchez-Bayo said he had recently witnessed an insect crash himself. A recent family holiday involved a 400-mile (700km) drive across rural Australia, but he had not once had to clean the windscreen, he said. “Years ago you had to do this constantly.”
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INSECTS CONT.
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Scientists are Testing a Way to Exterminate Mosquitoes for Good
By Avery Thompson
February 20, 2019
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/
animals/a26433441/scientists-are-testing-a-way-to-
exterminate-mosquitoes-for-good/
quickanddirtytips.com
Mosquitoes are arguably the most annoying creatures on the planet, and on top of that they spread horrible diseases like malaria, zika, and lyme. Could we simply eliminate mosquitoes from the world? Should we?
Those are the questions that a group of Italian scientists are hoping to answer. These scientists have build a tightly-controlled lab to test whether a new genetic technique for eliminating mosquitoes will work, and whether such a technique would even be a good idea.
If there’s one thing scientists have learned about ecosystems over the past few centuries, it’s that they’re extremely sensitive to change and something as drastic as killing off an entire species could have wide-ranging and unpredictable ripple effects.
Even beyond that, the method that the scientists are using also has some unknowns. The researchers plan to genetically modify mosquitoes using the new CRISPR gene-editing technology, infusing a handful
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of mosquito larvae with targeted genetic mutations. When these mutations are passed on to female mosquitoes — the ones that actually bite people and spread diseases — the mutation damages their reproductive organs and prevents them from drawing blood.
The end result, if the genetic modifications work as intended, is that an entire generation of mosquitoes won’t be able to feed or breed. The genetic mutations will spread throughout the population and quickly cause the entire species to go extinct. With the high-risk nature of this experiment, scientists are understandably cautious. A group of
researchers have built a high-security lab where these genetic modifications will be tested in isolation. At the end of this test, we should know whether these genetic modifications are a viable way to exterminate mosquitoes.
But this still doesn’t answer the question of whether exterminating mosquitoes is the right thing to do. Unfortunately, we can only get an answer to that by testing it in the wild somewhere. If we really want mosquitoes gone, we have to take a big risk and hope we don’t somehow make the problem worse.
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MOSQUITOES CONT.
‘First-of-its-Kind’ Law Will Protect Lake Erie from Pollution by Granting it Civil Rights By Good News Network
March 5, 2019
Five years ago, millions of Americans found themselves in the middle of a water crisis that was caused by chemical pollution in Lake Erie. The runoff resulted in a toxic algae bloom that led Ohio legislators to warn state residents against drinking tap water for several days.
Last week, however, the people of Toledo successfully voted in favor of legislation that will protect the lake from similar chemical disasters in the future by granting it the same rights as person.
Despite facing an opposition campaign that was well-funded by agricultural and industrial interest groups, Toledo citizens enacted the Lake Erie Bill of Rights with a 61% majority.
The law recognizes the rights of the lake and its watershed, and empowers citizens — as part of that larger ecosystem who have “the right to a healthy environment” — to stand up for the lake and take legal action when those rights are violated.
“It was definitely a long, hard struggle to get to this day, but all the hard work and countless volunteer hours by everyone in our local community group has paid off,” stated Crystal Jankowski, a Toledoan for Safe Water organizer. “We started this more than two years ago and had to overcome election board decisions and protests in court just to get on the ballot.”
The United States law is a first-of-its-kind initiative to acknowledge the rights of an entire specific ecosystem…
“We’ve been using the same laws for decades to try and protect Lake Erie. They’re clearly not working,” explained activist Markie Miller with the Toledoans for Safe Water.
“Beginning today, with this historic vote, the people of Toledo and our allies are ushering in a new era of environmental rights by securing the rights of the Great Lake Erie.”
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Above: Centerpiece at the refreshments table at the Davidson Horticultural Symposium.
On a cold, wintry Monday, Sue and I headed to Davidson College to attend the 35th Davidson Horticultural Symposium. We have both attended several of these in past years, but this particular one proved to have special charm.
We arrived in the late afternoon to stay in the Carnegie Guest House overnight so as to be fresh and rested for the next day’s activities, which began early with Registration, coffee and refreshments at 7:45 AM. The Carnegie Guest House is an eight-room bed &
breakfast style guest house with uniquely decorated rooms and large public areas for relaxing. Undoubtedly staying here was the best choice for us, as it was located just a block from the Symposium. It could not have been more charming. We will definitely plan to stay there again.
This year’s theme was “Innovative Approaches to Gardening.” There were four speakers: Thomas L. Woltz, Claudia West, Tradd Cotter and Brie Arthur. Two lectured in the morning and two in the afternoon — each with their own individual style.
A Trip to the Davidson Horticultural Symposium 2019 Photos and Text by Vicki Scott
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Above: Luncheon dessert complete with edible pansy that Vicki ate!
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SYMPOSIUM CONT.
Above L - R: Sue Tiedeman and Vicki Scott at the Davidson Horticultural Symposium. (This photo was taken by an unknown Symposium attendee.) Carnegie Guest House at Davidson College.
450 garden enthusiasts attended the Symposium. There were many tempting plants and plant books for sale and several breaks with an abundance of refreshments. A lovely luncheon was held at Vail Commons, the Davidson College dining room.
Each year, the Davidson Garden Club, consisting of only 40 members, arranges the Symposium, and it’s a sold-out event each year. An amazing feat!
Luck was with us as both Sue and I won door prizes! We headed home full of wonderful gardening ideas and many fond memories.
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Camellia japonicas at Camellia Forest Nursery. L - R: ‘Cama Glitters,’ ’Margie,’ ‘Early April.’ Photos by Daphne McLeod
Executive Officers
PRESIDENT Jane [email protected]
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Darlene Pomroy
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Maggie Conger SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Connie Perotti
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Chris Williamson
RECORDING SECRETARY Mary Arnold CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Bonnie Olbrich
TREASURER Joan O’Brien PARLIAMENTARIAN Anne Montgomery
DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE Debbie DiSabatino
Committee Chairs
ARCHIVES/HISTORIAN
Amanda Watlington
AWARDS Becky Mitchell COMMUNITY SERVICE
Sarah Kingan
FIELD TRIPS
Melissa Mahaney
FLORAL DESIGN
Betsy Nininger
HORTICULTURE Chris Williamson HOSPITALITY
GENERAL MEETINGS: Susan DeBartolo HOLIDAY TEA: Jane Lamm SPRING PICNIC: Daphne Little
MEMBERSHIP
Debbie West
NEWSLETTER
Barbara Clare
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Mary Arnold
PHOTOGRAPHY
Daphne McLeod
SOCIAL MEDIA
FACEBOOK: Daphne McLeod INSTAGRAM: Bev Carr TWITTER: Ethan Trimmer WEBSITE: Louise Law
TECHNOLOGY
Amanda Watlington
YEARBOOK Susie Moffat
YOUNG ADULTS
Chris Williamson
YOUTH Amy Strunk
2020 TOUR CHAIR
Gill Roberts
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Mug Up 2018. Left and Right: Two Mug Up enthusiasts, Kathy Swendiman and Ruth Little dressed to match their flowers. Center: Libby Wilke and Susie Moffat delighted by the Mug Up arrangements. Photos by Daphne McLeod
