Garden Journaling
by Ann Blue, Penny Pines
Chairman
Penny Pines Program:
In 1990 CLTTGC joined other clubs and individuals in
supporting the Penny Pines restoration program, which
had begun in 1942.
A Contribution of $68 towards the cost of planting seedlings
on about 1 acre of national forest land in CA (together
with federal funds), will fund the Forest Service to
do the planting in the Nation Forest nearest you.
The restoration program is on lands burned-over and
brush-covered areas which are potentially productive
timberlands.
Northern Calif. Plantations (as they are called) are
for soil protection, beauty, help prevent floods and
water shortages, furnish feed and habitat for wildlife
and future harvestable timber, as well as other benefits.
Our Club collects money through our roll call at each
meeting. In addition to these funds, individual club
members and others may purchase plantations through our
club as memorials or to honor a birthday, wedding or ‘just
because’.
The National Forest Service provides a sign for each
fire area. Under the name of the Garden Club, there will
be one list of names for memorials and another for those
honored.
Watch your monthly newsletter for additional information.
Penny Pine recipients:
#36 Carol Brabrook
#37 Katherine Lewis
(also listed in the Golden Gates publication)
A Stroll Down ‘Memory
Lane’
with Mary Secord
In 1985 it was brought to my attention that the Hartley
Chapel area was going to need landscaping. An article
in Family Circle magazine was giving prize money to non-professional
groups to submit plans to beautify their community. I
brought this to the meeting and they gave me the go-ahead
to start this project. I drew up plans and sent pictures
of the area along with work schedules of planting and
landscaping. We had to start from zero as the ground
was being prepared for black top. Following rules and
schedules we started sending progress of our plan. We
won $250.00 This gave us a start and with the memorial
garden idea we soon had the funds to put the plan to
work.
Note: Mary was Civic Beautification Chairman. The planting
was done in three phases. Club members took care of the
watering. There was only one well for the whole cemetery.
To conserve water, both native and drought resistant
plants were used. Members of the community donated money
for this memorial garden, also the club held a yard sal
e to raise money.
The ‘garden design’ focuses on low maintenance,
water conservation without sacrificing year round beauty.
Mulches are used around trees and shrubs to reduce weed
growth and water evaporation. A number of large rocks
are randomly placed to provide a natural contrast and
a low redwood split rail fence provides definition.
Garden Thyme
by Claire Grieve, President
Serving as President for a club that is going into its’ 53rd
year – you know there are well established rules,
procedures and standards – so stepping into this
position will create a challenge for me to live up to
those who went before me and will encourage me to add
my personality into the mix.
My theme is “Cultivate Kindness, Share Your Garden”.
Sharing your garden can be sharing plants, sharing your
knowledge, and also sharing your time and friendship.
I am amazed at all the members who are already doing “more
than their share” – no I am not amazed – I
knew this is what our club is made of – people
who enjoy sharing their ideas and knowledge and time.
Thanks to all of you; and please stop by for a cup of
coffee or tea, and there is usually some cookies in the
cookie jar.
See you in the garden,
Claire
Mendo-Lake District ‘buzz’
by Gina-Belle Smith
I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as your 30th
Mendo-Lake District Director. Our theme for this administration
is “The “Buzz” is Grow – Heritage & Heirlooms”.
This theme was chosen because it represents growing in
all areas of our six garden clubs.
My goals for the next two years are to bring our clubs
closer together in order to help each other. We are going
to grow in strength, membership, fresh ideas, leadership
and fellowship. Our district chairmen are an informative
positive team ready to help at all times. I am encouraging
that we incorporate the theme of our CGCI State President,
Robin Pokorski, “Garden Club: A Natural Place to
Grow” and our Pacific Region Director, Jeanette
Pruin, “Reserve Our Gardening Heritage - Cultivate
Heirloom Seeds” and our National Garden Club President,
Barbara May, “Nurture the Earth – Plant Natives”.
I will be looking forward to visiting all six clubs
and attending as many functions as possible. Please join
me our quest for Growth.
Now let’s get the “Buzz”,
Gina-Belle
Garden Club Affiliates
National Garden Clubs, Inc. (www.gardenclub.org)
National President: Barbara May
Theme: “Nurture the Earth – Plant Natives”
Pacific Region (www.PaicificRegionGardenClubs.org)
Director: Jeanette Pruin JBandRJPruin@comcast.net
Theme: “Preserve Our Gardening Heritage”
California Garden Club, Inc. (www.CaliforniaGardenClubs.org)
President: Robin Pokorski
Theme: “Garden Club: A Natural Place to Grow”
Mendo-Lake District Director: Gina-Belle Smith
(gardenbunny0@yahoo.com)
Theme: “The Buzz is Grow”
Mendo-Lake District Garden Clubs
Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club
Fort Bragg Garden Club
North Lake Garden Club
Potter Valley Garden Club
Ukiah Garden Club
Willits Garden Club
The REAL Dirt submitted by Claire
Take your own stroll to Hartley Cemetery, Memorial Garden
and see if you can identify these plants placed in memory
of former club members.
Main Planting Area: California Lilac (Ceonothus-greseus),
California Poppy (Eschscholzia-California), Indian Hawthorn
(Raphiolelpis-indica), Day Lily (Hemerocallis-lilioasphodelus),
Juniper (Juniperus-conferta), Sweet Gum (Liquidambar-orientalis),
Oleander (Nerium-orleander), Winter Iris (Iris-unguicularis),
Flowering Cherry (Prunus-serrulata), Daffodil (Narcissus-sp.),
Jonquil (Narcissus-jonquilla), Rock Rose (Cistus-purpureus & salavifolius),
Rosemary (Rosmarinus-officinalis).
Mound: Black Hills Spruce (Picea-densata), Mugho Pine
(Pinus-mugo_, Winter Iris (Iris-missouriensis).
South Planter: Birch (Betula-pendul), Day Lily (Hemerocallis
fulya), Lily-of-the-Nile (Agapanthus – “Peter
Pan”), California Fuscia (Zauschneria-California).
West Planter: Bearded Iris (Iris-sp.)
East Planters: Globe Arborvitae (Thuja-globaosa), Tobira
(Pittosporum-tobira).
Butterfly eggs are laid on the underside of the milk
weed plants. When it becomes a caterpillar, it eats the
milk weed. It is a nectar plant. The following information
is about the plants we bought at the Sweet Memories Butterfly
Farm:
The plant with the red flowers:
Asclepias curassavica 'Silky Deep Red'
The plant with the yellow flowers:
Asclepias Curassavica 'Silky Gold'
Bloodflower
Perennial Sub shrub:
Deer resistant.
Native of South America.
Deciduous bedding, container, border and cut flower plant.
Flowering time: summer-fall.
Attracts butterflies, hummingbirds and bees.
Bloom color: golden yellow.
Height: 3-3.5 feet.
Exposure: sun.
Water: moderate.
Plant & Talents Table
Let’s help Doris out – we can help her carry
all those boxes in from the truck, or donate some items
and plants, or purchase the items. All the monies help
our general fund.
Green Thumbs Up
to Chair Helaine Christiansen & committee for planning,
designing, & winning 2nd prize at the Lake County
Fair Exhibit garden. Theme: Passport to Fun - Picnic
in Tuscany.
to Mary Secord for cleaning out the two huge round flower
beds at Library Park by herself.
to Joelle Holford for being awarded CGCI ‘Woman
of the Year’. Congratulations!!!!!
to Doris Ellsworth for purchasing & donating all
those goodies we see on the Plants & Talents Table.
to Jane Graham for starting out the ‘Garden Tour
Season’ with a wonderful trip through her garden
and her neighbor’s rose garden.
to Barbara Swanson added new color with new plants to
compliment the plants already in the four planter boxes at
the library.
to Claire Grieve for creating & typing, Jo Douville
for proofing, & Linda Pyers computer assisting on
the year book.
to Carol Brabrook for planting new color with new
plants to the garden around the sign at the Blue Star
Memorial.
to Barbara Swanson for our excellent WEB site. Check
it out for more pictures and infor of club events. www.clttgc.org
Gift Basket for Opportunity Drawing
Please bring gently used items and unwanted gifts to
donate for our gift basket. Hand crafted items by our
talented members are welcome. Money raised from the drawing
supports the newsletter. (See Jo Douville)
New Members
by Diane Neilson
Folders have been assembled that contain the Bylaws,
Standing Rules, New Membership Orientation sheets, and
the Yearbook.
Membership Chairman, Diane Neilson, will give folders
to each member at the September meeting and to new members
that join during the year. If a member losses a yearbook,
there will be a cost of approximately $3.00 to cover
the cost of printing.
Sunshine News
by Nancy Bailey
Thank you note to Helaine & Fred Christensen for
hosting the End of Season Potluck.
Thank you note to Claire Grieve.
Thank you note to Gina– Belle Smith.
Congratulations note to Joelle Holford.
Get Well to Jay Swanson
Get Well card to Mary Secord.
Get Well card to Linda Pyers
Sympathy card—Ann Blue
September Calendar
4 Lake Kabatin Arrangers—11am
11 Garden Therapy—10:30am Clearlake
18 Club Meeting—Hostess: J Dye, S Gardner-Neumann,
D Neilson.
20 Garden Therapy—10:30am Lucerne
26 Penny Pines Field Trip. Thur –8-10am Youth Garden,
Kelseyville
Youth Garden Club
CLTTGC is now sponsoring Kelseyville Elementary School
Garden Club which is lead by Helen Finch. Gina-Belle
submitted forms to CGCI to register this youth group.
Andrea helped the group start a Butterfly Garden and
she goes every Thursday at 8-10 am. Members are encouraged
to support out Youth Chairman and our Youth Garden Club.
Field Trip - Sweet Memories
Butterfly Farm
by Claire Grieve
The July 28 field trip to the Sweet Memories Butterfly
Farm in Potter Valley was a fun and educational day for
21 members and guests. We were welcomed by Dee Dee Nunn
and her husband, and invited to sit in the shade on a
beautiful lawn area while Dee Dee shared their experiences
of creating their butterfly farm. What a labor of love
this adventure was for them and their daughter and business
partner, Lena Palva.
This is a working farm, they do not spray, the butterflies,
caterpillars, chrysalis all die of natural causes or
old age. Their main goal is to educate people on how
they can make a big difference and increase the butterfly
population by planting a butterfly garden in their backyard.
Butterflies usually make their homes where they are released
as long as you have nectar and host plants.
We walked thru many garden areas of plants and shrubs
divided by charming fences and displays, green houses,
cottages, a nursery building, a gift shop, and even a
koi pond with blooming water lilies. The display garden
areas were labeled with different types of plants. Dee
Dee explained and showed various stages of the development
of the butterflies in each of the greenhouses and buildings – what
a process. The finale was the large building with the
Monarchs and Painted Ladies butterflies flying all around
us, what an experience and photo opportunity.
Monarch caterpillars eat Milk Weed, it is a nectar plant.
Dee Dee’s favorite plants and shrubs to attract
butterflies is Zinnia, “Jupiter’s Beard” or “Red
Valerian” (Centranthus ruber) and Butterfly Bush
(Buddleia).
We were each given a container of 3 caterpillars to
take home and watch their cycle – it takes about
a month to develop into a beautiful butterfly. After
the tour we enjoyed our bag lunches while discussing
and asking more questions about the butterflies. I would
recommend this tour for anyone interested in butterflies,
plants or who just loves learning about nature and the
cycle of life.
For more information: www.sweetmemoriesbutterflyfarm.com
or Email: sweetmbf@yahoo.com
Christmas Wreaths
Christmas Wreaths will be limited to 200 this year.
So, make sure your long time customers get their orders
and money in first thing. Order forms (envelopes) will
be available at our September meeting. The deadline for
returning the form is November 6th (same day the Lake
Kabatin Redbud Arrangers meet).
Jan Kespohl is the one to see.
This newsletter is about you.
Please sent in articles about the field trip you attended
with the club or the committee you are chairing, pictures,
poems, announcements, etc.
Please share your garden with us. Send a picture of
yourself in your garden along with other pictures and
a few words telling us the highlights.
Time dated material need to reach the editor before
the last day of the month.
IN THE BEGINNING . . .
by Gerry Shaul
...a beautiful and meaningful relationship evolved between
the living and the elements, well organized but without
a highly structured appearance. Orderly but random blend
of each element provide simultaneous feelings of separation
from and belonging to the whole. We are blessed as Californians
to witness an outstanding example of how the diverse
yet inter-related elements compliment each other. California
with its “Rain” forests, snow packs, fog,
deserts, streams, lakes, bogs, mountains, serpentine
and volcanic soils, rocky crevices and ledges provided
a home for indigenes trees, shrubs, perennials, vines,
succulents, grasses and non-flowering plants that comprise
over 5000 species belonging to over 1100 genera. Many
of these native plants are being challenged by exotics
brought in by European settlers. You and I have a responsibility
to protect our native landscapes from further intrusion
by alien plants. Avoid planting aggressive aliens that
may escape cultivation. Regardless of gardening preference,
it’s the responsibility of every caring person
to keep California beautiful by preserving its regional
native landscapes and thus living in harmony with our
natural beauty.
Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis
Garden Club
The club meets at 12:30 pm on the 3rd Tuesday of the
month. Scott’s Valley Women’s Club House,
2298 Hendricks Road Lakeport, CA 95453
Newsletter Chairperson
/ Editor
Linda Pyers
Phone: 707-262-5899
E-mail: His_lamb@mchsi.com
Deadline for articles is the last day of each month.
Cultivate Kindness, Share Your
Garden.
Forget Me Nots
Garden Therapy: Sep 11-Clearlake, Sep 20-Lucerne / 10:30am.
CLTTGC Meeting: Sep 18 / 1pm
11:30am Picture viewing of Butterfly Garden Tour
12noon–New Member Orientation Chaired by Pam Held.
1pm - Theme: Gallery of Events & Activities, Present
Fair Exhibit & winners, Garden Therapy: Sep 11-Clearlake,
Sep 20-Lucerne / 10:30am.
CLTTGC Meeting: Sep 18 / 1pm
11:30am Picture viewing of Butterfly Garden Tour
12noon–New Member Orientation Chaired by Pam Held.
1pm - Theme: Gallery of Events & Activities, Present
Fair Exhibit & winners, Club State Awards
Remember to bring a flower for roll call.
Gift Basket Drawing: Chaired by: Jo Douville.
Please bring donations for our gift basket.
Plants & Talents Table: Hosted by Doris Ellsworth.
Please bring items & plants to sell.
Sunflower Contest: ends Sep meeting.
Bring your best sunflower. Prizes for the tallest & largest
diameter flower.
Field Trip Sign Up: Sep 26, Penny Pines Field Trip
Deer Valley Campground, Upper Lake
Carpool, US Forest Ranger will speak,
Bring bag lunch & drink. More information will be
available at Sep meeting.
Youth Garden Club: Thursdays / 8-10am.
Lake Kabatin Redbud Arrangers: Oct 2 /11am
Theme—Crescent Design.
Awards Workshop Sign Up: Oct 3 / 9:30am-12noon
Chaired by: Jo Shaul & Mary Secord
Mendo Lake Credit Union, 963-11th Street, Lakeport
Talk with chairman as to what supplies to bring.
Field Trip Sign Up: Oct 17, Hydro-Pacific Tour / 10am
Organized by Sharon Thorne
Hydroponic & Garden Supply
351 C Hasting Avenue, Ukiah
Free tour with owner Jim Shaw
Carpool-meet at 9:00am at Sentry Market (corner of Hwy
20 & Nice-Lucerne Cutoff) CLTTGC has been invited
to join North Lake Garden Club on this field trip.
Hollyhock Contest: ends Oct meeting.
Christmas Wreath: Nov 6, order deadline. (see Jan Kespohl)
Club State Awards
Remember to bring a flower for roll call.
Gift Basket Drawing: Chaired by: Jo Douville.
Please bring donations for our gift basket.
Plants & Talents Table: Hosted by Doris Ellsworth.
Please bring items & plants to sell.
Sunflower Contest: ends Sep meeting.
Bring your best sunflower. Prizes for the tallest & largest
diameter flower.
Field Trip Sign Up: Sep 26, Penny Pines Field Trip
Deer Valley Campground, Upper Lake
Carpool, US Forest Ranger will speak,
Bring bag lunch & drink. More information will be
available at Sep meeting.
Youth Garden Club: Thursdays / 8-10am.
Lake Ka-Ba-Tin Redbud Arrangers: Oct 2 /11am
Theme—Crescent Design.
Awards Workshop Sign Up: Oct 3 / 9:30am-12noon
Chaired by: Jo Shaul & Mary Secord
Mendo Lake Credit Union, 963-11th Street, Lakeport
Talk with chairman as to what supplies to bring.
Field Trip Sign Up: Oct 17, Hydro-Pacific Tour / 10am
Organized by Sharon Thorne
Hydroponic & Garden Supply
351 C Hasting Avenue, Ukiah
Free tour with owner Jim Shaw
Carpool-meet at 9:00am at Sentry Market (corner of Hwy
20 & Nice-Lucerne Cutoff) CLTTGC has been invited
to join North Lake Garden Club on this field trip.
Hollyhock Contest: ends Oct meeting.
Christmas Wreath: Nov 6, order deadline. (see Jan Kespohl) |
