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Weeder's Digest Weeder’s Digest November 2020 In this issue: Hafley Park Blooms ................ 5 Pumpkins .............................. 10 MGCG News .......................... 2 Pumpkin Pots ......................... 6 Spiders and Critters ............... 14 Master Gardener News .......... 3 Chrysanthemums ................... 7 Weed of the month ................. 17 The Weeder’s Digest A publication of Master Gardeners of Central Georgia November 2020 M G C G N e w s Our Holiday Joint meeting Monday December 14th at 10:00 a.m. Please join us for our final Master Gardeners of Central Georgia Joint Meeting of 2020 Our speaker will be Proven Winners representative, Jessie Keith. Jessie is a horticulturist, botanist, garden communicator, and photographer based in Wilmington, Delaware. Her company, Eastern Bluestar Communications, provides services to a variety of green-industry clients, including Proven Winners®, Plants.com, 1800flow- ers.com, and Sun Gro® Horticulture, (supplying web articles and videos for its retail brands (Black Gold®, Fafard®, and Sunshine® Advanced), — Jessie is also a freelance writer and her work has been published in many periodi- cals, such as The American Gardener, Horticulture, Grow! (formerly The Green Scene), The Old House Journal, Wilder Quarterly, Canadian Gardening, and more. Degrees in both horticulture and botany give Jessie a unique perspective into the plant world—offering both practical and scientific perspectives to plants and how they impact us. She specializes in plant identification and taxonomy, which ensures that her plant photos are accurately identified and well represented. Gardening is central to Jessie's home life in Delaware. She maintains diverse gardens at her home and local community garden. These gardens help drive and shape Jessie's work, whether through success or failure. She also enjoys gardening with her daughters, traveling, and experiencing new gardens and in- spiring outdoor spaces. You will receive details and a link to the online meeting via email very soon, and a reminder several days before the event! “See you” there! MGCG Needs you! Webmaster Needed! The volunteer position of MGCG Webmaster logs hours. Upon the departure from our area of current Web- master, MGCG.org needs a replacement! Please Contact Greta Israel at [email protected] Editor Needed! The Weeder’s Digest editor is also a volunteer position which also logs hours. The Weeder’s Digest needs a new editor. The current editor will stay in this position until the end of the year, ending a 30-month “career” as WD editor with the December issue. If you have any writing or editing experience, please contact the editor at 478 960-3548 or Newslet- [email protected] for more information. Thanks! 2 The Weeder’s Digest A publication of Master Gardeners of Central Georgia November 2020 Master Gardener news — A year before Jill Banks even started the Master Gardener course she was assisting the Houston County Master Gardener Team with an MGCG Grant project at NAMI. Jill recently completed her first 50 volunteer hours at vari- ous projects in both Bibb and Houston County; she’s pic- tured at Hafley Park, above.) Tom and Jonanne Beckman have been a Though she’s a Bibb County resident, she is still interested terrific addition to the team of Master Garden- in the work at NAMI, and will be contributing there once the ers in Houston County. virus ban is lifted. Jill will be a great asset for both Bibb and Since beginning the course they have worked Houston County. (A hybrid!) on a variety of projects, including the St. Isi- dore Garden, the Hafley Park Demonstration Thank you, MGCG, for the grant! Garden, and Massee Lane Camellia Gardens. The grant money will They also assisted Jeff Cook with the peach be used for a small rose trials. garden at HOPE Gar- Congratulations to Tom and Jonanne! dens. The roses are still NOVEMBER blooming and we have an arbor and bench. It is still in its infancy, but it is a pretty baby. Both the Camellias— Sasanquas and Japoni- cas—are blooming. It is a little usual to have both blooming together, but nothing has been usual in 2020. Again, thank MGCG! Donna Hunt Your lawn will have stopped growing by now. At HOPE Garden, Robins, AFB 3 The Weeder’s Digest A publication of Master Gardeners of Central Georgia November 2020 Master Gardener news This tree, used on promotional materials to announce the Festival of Trees, is the Bibb County Extension Team’s creation and is now on display at the Museum of Arts and Sciences. “Pollinators” is clearly the theme in this educational and outstandingly creative Christmas tree! Kudos on their beautiful work! This tree was designed and constructed by Becca Gay, Allison Griffin, Dawn Nash, and Jill Peavy. — We couldn't BEE more excited for you to see all of the amazing trees our creators have made for this year's Festival of Trees! The exhibit will be open from November 12 to mid January. See more information about this event at: https://www.masmacon.org/events-calendar/ 4 The Weeder’s Digest A publication of Master Gardeners of Central Georgia November 2020 Blooms in Hafley Park Camellia sasanqua. One of Rosa 'Meijocos' Pink Drift® rose new rock garden several donated by Jay Neff weed-free “Pass along” garden new daylily garden Bee on swamp daisy Canna x generalis Helianthus angustifolius (swamp daisy) Camellia Sasanqua All photos: Christine Kelly Camellia Sasanqua 5 The Weeder’s Digest A publication of Master Gardeners of Central Georgia November 2020 November blooms Pumpkin Pots! Give your front steps or patio a beautiful and timely fall theme by repurposing a couple pumpkins. Turn them into pumpkin planters! Pumpkins make the perfect container for annuals during the fall and winter months. They are hardy enough to endure into the cold winter months, and if you pair them with cold hardy pansies or violas your creation will be beautiful for an entire season. To make a pumpkin planter, carve the top off a pumpkin and remove the pulp. Turn it upside down and carve two — openings for drainage purposes. Fill the hollowed-out pumpkin with good potting soil, and then add some of the most colorful fall flowers. Mums, pansies, and flowering kale ar- ranged around a central stand of purple fountain grass can be truly gorgeous in one of these plant- ers. Use three different sizes for a gorgeous trio! Source, Source, Source Sources didn’t mention this, but... I’d be placing mine in a flower bed or another appropriate spot on the ground. Reason being, it’s going to rot eventual- ly, and why not take advantage of the fertilizing properties in the ground instead of coping with leak- age all over your stonework or decking? Ed. 6 The Weeder’s Digest A publication of Master Gardeners of Central Georgia November 2020 CHRYSANTHEMUMS! Chrysanthemums, also called mums or chrysanths, are flowering plants of the genus Chrysanthemum in the family Asteraceae. They are native to East Asia and northeastern Europe. Most species originate from East Asia and the center of diversity is in China. Countless horticultural varieties and cultivars exist. In some countries of Europe (e.g., France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Croatia), incurve chry- santhemums symbolize death and are used only for funerals or on graves, while other types carry no such symbolism; similarly, in China, Japan, and Korea of East Asia, white chrysanthemums symbolize adversity, lamentation, and/or grief. In some other countries, they represent honesty. In the United States, the flower is usually regarded as positive and cheerful, with New Orleans as a notable exception. (November 1st is All Saints Day, a day traditionally set aside in New Orleans to honor the deceased family members. Tombs are cleaned weeks before and flowers, particularly huge chrysanthemums fill the vases on the tombs.) In the Victorian language of flowers, the chrysanthemum had several meanings. The Chinese chrysanthe- mum meant cheerfulness, whereas the red chrysanthemum stood for "I Love", while the yellow chrysanthe- mum symbolized slighted love. The chrysanthemum is also the flower of November. Insecticidal uses Pyrethrum (Chrysanthemum) is economically important as a natural source of insecticide. The flowers are pulverized, and the active components, called pyrethrins, are extracted and sold in the form of a suspension in water or oil, or as a powder. Pyrethrins attack the nervous systems of all insects, and inhib- — it female mosquitoes from biting. In sublethal doses, they have an insect-repellent effect. Pyrethrins are harmful to fish, but are far less toxic to mammals and birds than many synthetic insecticides. They are not persistent, being biodegradable, and also decompose easily on exposure to light. Pyrethroids such as per- methrin are synthetic insecticides based on natural pyrethrum. Despite this, chrysanthemum leaves are still a major host for destructive pests, such as leafminer flies. Chrysanthemum blooms appears as a single flower is actually hundreds of flowers called florets. Two kinds of florets are present in a single bloom, disk florets and ray florets. For example, in the daisy-type chrysanthe- mum (class 7) each type of floret is easy to see – the outer parts are ray florets and the center or eye is com- posed of disk florets. The bloom forms are defined by the way in which the ray and disk florets are arranged. Chrysanthemum blooms are composed of many individual flowers (florets), each one capable of producing a seed. The disk florets are in the center of the bloom head, and the ray florets are on the perimeter. The ray florets are considered imperfect flowers, as they only possess the female reproductive organs, while the disk florets are considered perfect flowers, as they possess both male and female reproductive organs. The zinnia on the left, and the daisy on the right are also members of the family Asteraceae, and it is easier to see the ray flowers and the disk flowers they are composed of than those of the typical chrysanthemum, except for class 7.
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