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THE COMPOSTDear Ladies of the Club, !It is such a pleasure that the bulbs are peaking out after a long chill and the robins are very busy. Maybe spring is finally here. !It is spring for GCC with our April and May meetings on the horizon. In April, Susan Bercheck will treat us to a talk on hydrangeas at Burton Court. Susan will have wonderful ideas for all of our gardens. In May, we will gather at Holden for a workshop on digital photography techniques with Sandy Bergsten, a boxed lunch and an opportunity to take pictures with Sandy providing tips and pointers. The workshop will inspire us for a fun on-going photography project our Photography Committee is planning, more on this to follow. !Several years ago, our club had the opportunity to tour the Ohio Heritage Garden at the Governor’s Residence in Bexley, Ohio. We also supported the Garden through our Charitable Fund for a number of years. In early June, Guy Denny, honorary GCA member, and Hope Taft will offer a special tour of the Garden for members of Zone X and their families. More information is in this edition of the Compost. The tour sounds like a very special opportunity. !Dale Naylor and Margaret Wilson are busy planning the Zone Meeting we will host in June, 2015. Lisa McConnell is chairman of the Zone flower show that will be part of the meeting. As I have said before, this is a wonderful opportunity for us to showcase our city and our club, and enjoy working together! !A small group of our members have been working with a graphic designer to develop a logo for GCC. The first set of proofs are back and they are terrific. We have some work of ahead of us but we should have a logo to present to the Club very soon. !In May, Paula Coleman and I will represent GCC at the GCA Annual Meeting in New Orleans. I am very lucky that my first trip to the Big Easy has been planned by GCA! I look forward to sharing knowledge, impressions and photos after the meeting. !Many thanks to Lorna Meirke and her helpers Paula Coleman and Melanie Biche for a fabulous Jean Frazier workshop in January! Our horizontal line arrangements were amazing and a welcome sight in all of our homes. Thank you also to Mary-Scott Cebul for arranging a very thoughtful presentation on fracturing given by Rich Cochran. Rich shared his concerns about safety for our environment and his impressive vision of the benefits fracking could provide our region. !I hope to see many of you at our upcoming meetings. Brooke
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Ohio Heritage Garden Tour ! Mark your calendar and save the date for a special tour of the
Ohio Heritage Garden at the Governor’s Residence in Bexley, Ohio! !!Our Zone X GCA Honorary Member, Guy Denny [email protected] and Hope Taft [email protected], former Ohio first lady and member of the Garden Club of Dayton have scheduled an exclusive tour of the garden for our Zone X members and their families for !
Tuesday, June 3rd at 1:30 pm. !Anyone planning to attend needs to contact Guy or Hope ahead of time so they can enter names on a list of attendees as required by the State Highway Patrol. Participants will also need a photo ID on the day of the tour to be able to access the grounds. !Click on the link for more information about this unique garden and please be sure to share this invitation with your members. www.governorsresidence.ohio.gov
The BIG DIG is Here!! !In 1960 the Garden Club of Cleveland founded the Woods Garden on a two and a half acre site considered the finest beach ridge plant community in greater Cleveland. Since then, the Club has continued to help the Museum meet annual maintenance costs and help with the salvaging and replanting of "wild collected" plant material. The majority of our "finds" are flourishing to the delight of about 65,000 visitors a year! !Come work along side Jim Bissell, Curator of Botany of CMNH, and other knowledgeable staff. Learn about Black Cohosh, Cut-Leaf Toothwort and Two-Leaf Toothwort and their connection to the survival of critical pollinators. Be a part of one of the GCC's longest running projects! Dress for the weather and bring gloves and trowels! ! !
Wednesday, April 23rd 9:30am to forage: at Newbury Sand and Gravel on the east side of Route 44 about a half mile south of Route 87 1:00pm to plant: at Cleveland Museum of Natural History
! RSVP to Cindy Hollister
[email protected] or 216-952-0662 cell
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Calling All Photographers…
Beginner to Expert! !Ladies, !Now that spring is upon us, grab your cameras and head out to the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve to catch the returning birds or first signs of spring in a photo. We hope to capture the "Nature Preserve through the Seasons" and exhibit the photos next year at our Annual Meeting. !Matted photos, 8"x10" - no judging! Just lots of participation that showcases the seasons at the Nature Preserve on the shore of Lake Erie! !
Questions? Please contact Beth Furlong
[email protected] 440-247-7444
Photograph by Claudia Fulton, Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve, February 2014
Winter on the Erie Shore
Needlepointers Needed! !Our flower show at the 2015 Zone meeting will include both Botanical and Needle Arts. An opportunity to indulge in another form of botanical creativity! !We will offer two needlepoint classes, one a brick doorstop and the other an inset for a small tray. These classes are open only to members of Garden Club of Cleveland and Shaker Lakes Garden Club. Due to the amount of time involved, information about these classes is available now, and the classes will be filled as soon as possible. !Members of Shaker Lakes have expressed a lot of interest in participating. We would like to have an equal number of GCC members join in the fun! Please contact us as soon as possible if you are interested. !Lisa McConnell Brooke Garratt 440.552.4045 440.463.8988 [email protected] [email protected]
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Bewildering Botany! Unidentified Backyard Plants !!
Do you have a perplexing plant in your yard? Compost readers to the rescue! If you are stumped by an unknown plant, submit a photo along with a brief description of the plant and its habitat so
GCC Ladies can help. Be sure to include your contact information so that our knowledgeable members can help you decide whether to tend to it, pull it, or eat it! !!Plant Info: “This is the first bloomer in my yard. A very small amount was here when I moved in and it has spread over the years. It lasts a couple of weeks. All the foliage is gone by summer.” !!Member Info: Brooke Garratt, Chagrins Falls [email protected] 440-463-8988
Gardenista An Online Resource !
Gardenista is a sourcebook and guide for cultivated living. Helmed by former New York Times columnist Michelle Slatalla, Gardenista features inspiration, garden visits, and tips and advice for all things related to outdoor living, from patios and peonies, to tables and terraces. It is chock full of lovely photos and insightful tips. Check it out:
www.gardenista.com
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Hiking with GCC! This long winter has been more easily endured by those who have found delight in snowy outdoor activities. Your Garden Club of Cleveland hiking group has found themselves buoyed by time spent outdoors this winter. !Four brave souls, properly attired for the wind and cold, enjoyed the new Acacia Reservation on a sub-zero day in February. In March, with snow still on the ground, five women explored the trails in the Chapin Reservation. Although the day was a dark, windy, 40 degrees, the clouds were high enough to allow a view the Cleveland skyline - 20 miles away! !On April 7th there was a threat of rain, but finally, no snow as we walked! The photo shows our group at Mill Creek Falls in the Garfield Reservation. We spied a few common Ohio birds, deer, but no wildflowers, yet. !The final hike this spring will be Friday, May 30th, at the Holden Arboretum. We will tackle a rugged two mile trail - the Pierson Creek loop for a glimpse of the native ephemerals that should be at their peak. The native wildflowers were spectacular last year. It is my hope that this will be a fabulous time to be in this hidden ravine. !It is always great to have women join us for the first time. Perhaps you might be ready to join us on May 30th? Please let me know your plans so that I might keep you updated on the details of our hike. !Paula Coleman [email protected]
News from Holden !With almost 60,000 spring bulbs planted last fall along the Norweb Allée, we are all looking forward to spring and to the advent of another gardening year! Please visit holdenarb.org for April 25-27th Arbor Day activities, along with upcoming classes and hikes. Holden Plant Sale is scheduled for May 16, 17, and 18. The sale will feature more than 40 vendors featuring woody plants, perennials, annuals, herbs, container plants, garden accessories and wood crafts, plus Holden nursery propagated wildflower varieties and homemade jellies and jams.
Hikers at Mill Creek Falls at Garfield Reservation Cynthia Hollister (with Angus), Margot Baldwin, Nancy Harvey &
Paula Coleman
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Drink Up, Ladies!
Your Empties Are Needed… !!In anticipation of the multitude of fabulous hort entries for our 2015 Zone X Flower Show here in Cleveland, we’re appealing to all of you for empty bottles (no, not wine bottles, that’s for after the Show).
We need green glass water bottles (labels soaked off, please!); Perrier, in 750ml and 330ml sizes, and/or San Pellegrino, in 750ml and 500ml sizes. Those are basically the tall (not monster) and medium sized bottles.
If you have any friends who are regular Perrier or San Pellegrino drinkers, please have them save their empties for you. As well, if you eat out and order one of these bottled waters (glass only, please), feel no shame in tossing those empties into your purse and bring them home to add to your collection.
At last inventory count, we have approximately some bottles. By our precise calculations we need gazillions of bottles. Please bring your cache to each meeting over the next year and they will be gratefully collected from you. If you have collected cases full, they can also be dropped off on my front porch in Gates Mills (1410 Chagrin River Rd). If it’s easier to have your collected bottles picked up, please contact me (440) 773-0207 or [email protected].
There is also a chance I might keep individual records of collected amounts and become downright vicious at the meetings, pointing a soil-grimed finger (it is spring, after all) at those who dare to attend, glassless.
Thank you very, very much! Because otherwise we will all have to be drinking a ton of these bubbly waters right before the show and be embarrassingly gassy in front of all our guests. Not a pretty thought, ladies….
~ Susan Holmes Bercheck
Membership Status Updates !Any member who wishes to make a change in her membership status needs to send notification to the committee by May 1, 2014. A request to go to non-resident, to resign, or to go from active to affiliate must be made in writing by this date. To become an affiliate member, one must have been an active member for ten years. An affiliate can still be a member of the GCC Board, but not an officer of the club. It is important to note that after May 1st, one is obligated for the 2014-2015 dues appropriate to the status that one now enjoys. Please send your requests to the committee in care of Mimi Sposito, 1027 Chagrin River Road, Gates Mills, OH 44040 or email your request to Mimi at [email protected]. You may call her with any questions at 440-423-3259.
~Mimi Sposito, Membership Committee Chair
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Fracking Policy, Politics, & Possibilities 2014 Conservation Meeting Recap !
Western Reserve Land Conservancy’s CEO Rich Cochran delivered a thought-provoking and engaging talk to all who attended our Conservation Meeting in February. The talk focused on conservation challenges and possibilities associated with hydraulic fracturing in Ohio. Rich shared that the Land Conservancy's strategy is to invest its existing strengths in eastern Ohio, such that the essential natural resources of the region are preserved concurrent with the oil and gas development. He said the key is to identify and preserve resources such as prime agricultural soils, working forests, wildlife lands, and surface water assets such as reservoirs, rivers and lakes. The Land Conservancy also sees an opportunity to revitalize historic cities in eastern Ohio (such as East Liverpool, Canton, and Cambridge) while oil and gas revenues are growing, which will spur wealth creation and job growth. !GCC members & guests who participated in the meeting asked Rich to share some trusted resources, where we can learn more about this dynamic issue. He shared the following: !
https://www.sustainableshale.org/about/ !http://www.edf.org/climate/what-is-fracking !
Last, Rich was asked to provide more information about political leaders who are especially engaged in this issue and messaging we might use with them. He shared: !
Officials Federal: Rob Portman, Sherrod Brown, David Joyce, Tim Ryan, and Bill Johnson. State: Frank LaRose, John Kasich, and John Eklund !
Suggested Messaging: Federal: Please support efforts to create a pilot project in Ohio that would improve communities for the long-term, while oil and gas development is robust. An example of such a plan is Uncommon Ground for the Common Good, which is a plan the Land Conservancy promotes. State: He recommends the same messaging for Ohio officials. In addition, we might add a request that half of the severance tax should be invested in the future of the counties of eastern Ohio, in order to preserve their enduring economic assets such as farms and forests, and to revitalize their historic cities.
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Flower Arranging Workshops
Join us at Lorna Mierke's home for our last two workshops of the spring: !Wednesday, April 16 at 1:00pm
send your check to Lorna by April 11 if you are interested in attending !Wednesday, May 21 at 1:00pm
send your check to Lorna by May 12 if you are interested in attending !The fee for each workshop is $30. Your check is your reservation! !
Lorna Mierke 1940 Denton Drive
Cleveland Heights, OH 44106 !For the April 16 workshop, Lorna will provide containers (containers for May 21 TBD). Don't forget your clippers! Questions? Call Lorna at 216-421-6295. We hope to see you at one or both! ~ Melanie Biche
Jean Frazier Workshop at CBG January 2014 Photos by Sally Brown
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Mark Your Calendars!!!
Upcoming GCC Events !
Horticulture Meeting Heavenly Hydrangeas
April 15 at 9:30 a.m. Susan Bercheck
Burton Court, 1491 Chagrin River Road, Gates Mills !Photography Meeting
Photo 101 May 20 at 10:00 am speaker, followed by luncheon
Sandy Bergsten Holden Arboretum, Reinberger Room, 9500 Sperry Road, Willoughby
*Following lunch: an optional tour through the Norweb Allee leading to the Paine Rhododendron Discovery Garden and opportunities to try new photo techniques. !
The GCC Annual Meeting June 16 at 11:30 am luncheon and meeting
The Home of Kathy O’Neill Glengaragh, 38155 S. Woodland Road, Hunting Valley !!!!!!!
Other Upcoming Events Wednesday, April 23rd
The Big Dig with Cleveland Museum of Natural History
rsvp to Cindy Hollister ~
Tuesday, June 3rd at 1:30pm Ohio Heritage Garden Tour
rsvp to Guy Denny or Hope Taft ~
Weekend, April 25-27th Arbor Day activities Holden Arboretum
~ May 16 - 18th
Holden Plant Sale Holden Arboretum !!
August 20th, article submission deadline for Late Summer Compost
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