Spring 2011 © Style

CHESAPEAKE PRICELESS Volume XIII • Issue 4 • Spring 2011 © Style www.chesapeakestyle.com 2 Spring 2011 Fast Times on the Rivers CHESAPEAKE Style The mission of Chesapeake Style Letters to the editor are welcome. Spring is my favorite time of the year. As we welcome is to serve and celebrate the The editor reserves the right to Spring, and come out of our winter hibernation, so do we Chesapeake Bay Region and its edit all submissions for clarity, welcome the next generation of 2011 Chesapeake Style! people, past, present and future. lousy spelling or any other In my yard, a bit later than many, the forsythia promises to be in full reason that strikes her fancy. flower the day this issue begins distribution. Like many in our area, my Editor, Publisher daffodils and jonquils are up, and there are a handful of blooms. Right Janet Abbott Fast Chesapeake Style is a free circulation outside my front door, one of my favorites, hellebores, both white and pink magazine published eight times a are up. They will remain in bloom well into May. A delight to my eyes! Writers & Photographers year by Chesapeake Bay Marketing. The Daphne Odora is about ready to open the tiny buds and spread the Betty Bridgeman, Kathey Brodtman, To have it delivered for one year, sweet fragrance all around the front entrance of my home! Everyone who Joseph T. Buxton, Emily Pritchard please send your name, mailing stops by hears me ask, “Can you smell the Daphne Odora in the air?” Cary, Ellen Dugan, Shafiya Eve, address and a check or money Last fall we were approached by a printer... “Come and see how RuthE Forrest, Susan Grandpre, Bill order, for $24 for postage and we can print your magazine and make it better,” he sang. Not ones Graves, Mary Duley Guy, Michelle handling, to the address below. to be easily lulled into change, we examined our options and made Harbour, Gwen Keane, Spike Knuth, the leap. Changing printers is a challenging task...there are different Colleen Morgan, DVM, Tara Ann CHESAPEAKE Style parameters which have to be met, every single graphic needs to comply. Neville, Chelly Scala, Paula Shipman, P. O. Box 802 Ads must be re sized, as you may note this issue is slightly wider and Kelsey S. Smith, Marie Stone, Sally Warsaw, VA 22572 a smidgen shorter, enough to resize up and down and side by side. and Hal White, Diana Wise 804-333-0628 With help and patience of all, the changes were accomplished. [email protected] Readers may also note additional changes: many of our writers and Teen Style Writers, Photographers www.chesapeakestyle.com ad reps have new email addresses published. This option has been Christal Byrd, Hope Barrett, Kate made available to our independent contractors, many of whom opted Beattie, Brionna Bennett, Ryan P. The opinions expressed in in. If you like what we write, or have ideas or suggestions, feel free to Joyner, Ellery Sadler, Georgia Walker Chesapeake Style are those contact them—the email address appears at the end of the articles. of contributing writers and Every business wants and needs a “brand”, something recognizable. Ad Sales, Distribution do not necessarily reflect the Our logo with the heron and Stylish Style appear on our front covers. Betty Bridgeman, Susan opinion of Chesapeake Style or We felt it time to update our logo and add to it. We approached one Christopher, Bud Disney, Bill its advertisers. Reproduction in of our advertisers, Creative DeSIGNS, to discuss adding our logo Graves, Michelle Harbour, whole or in part of any material to my red HHR. My comment was. “I want it to scream Chesapeake Kathleen Kehoe, Marie Stone in this publication without Style.” Sandra and Shannon came up with a wonderfully creative permission is strictly prohibited. idea, which is now a reality. Folks can’t miss our StyleMobile! Proofreader © 2007-2011 All rights reserved Our sales reps also have new business cards which reflect the Marie Stone Chesapeake Bay Marketing. changes. As this issue is being delivered, businesses where Chesapeake Style is delivered, will be offered a sign, “We have Style”, to match. Ad Composition, Graphics, Layout We hope you have as much fun with our brand new look as we Ellen Dugan, Janet Abbott are having! Now I must be polite and courteous when driving! Fast, Michelle Harbour Watch for the StyleMobile and Find Chesapeake Style at businesses which display this sign. Ask for one! About the cover Camellias in the Snow, and Reticulata species. We think this photo by Kathey Brodtman is “Professor Charles Sargent” and is a Several years ago, I took this photo camellia japonica with the Anemone of my neighbor’s camellia during the form of pedals. Camellias are late winter. Since then, I have fallen named for the cultivator, originator in love with these stunning flowers. or in honor of a person or place. In winter it is hard to find bright They grow best in zones seven Become a fan of colors in the outdoor garden, but through ten in part shade and Chesapeake Style Magazine the camellia that blooms in January like slightly acid soil. Mulch will bring pleasure to any garden. them with pine needles and oak on Facebook. Watch for There are more than 3,000 registered leaves which helps to keep the updated information, send camellias in the Japonica species. soil moist and slightly acidic. Chesapeake Style Magazine us your ideas, photos. Other camellias are in the Sasanqua Spring 2011 3 Spike’s Wildlife Almanac~Ring-Necked Duck part to its resemblance to its crown, which gives its dark, Their primary breeding range has the bluebill or scaup, and purple-glossed head a crested, puffy traditionally been in the sedge- the fact that—unlike most appearance. The white hash mark meadow marshes and bogs of the other diving ducks—it is the best field mark on the water. parklands of Canada. They usually shows a preference for The hen is brownish with pale- nest low over the water in wet, swampy-edged marsh brown cheeks, a whitish chin, and boggy places bordering the edges sloughs and ponds a white eye ring. While similar of marshes, ponds and sloughs. rather than the broad, in some ways to the scaup and Ringnecks are nervous, alert open water that most redhead hens, its size and eye ring ducks, swimming buoyantly and diving ducks inhabit. distinguishes it from the redhead hen quickly, and they are able to get Here it is frequently and the lack of a definite white face airborne more easily than most found in the company distinguishes it from the hen scaup. diving ducks. While they feed of hooded mergansers, Ringnecks average 16 to 18 mainly in shallow water, they are wood ducks, and coots, inches in length. In flight, the good divers and can go as deep as as they feed along the white hash marks on the drake 40 feet for food. About 80 percent By Spike Knuth shallow margins of wooded sloughs. are not as noticeable, but the gray of their diet is vegetable matter. ts Latin name is Nyroca Virginia’s swampy tidal rivers and speculum, black upper-parts and Ringnecks return beginning in colloris, which means, tree-lined reservoirs provide ideal white under parts are good field early October. While some of the “collared duck,” giving habitat for the ringneck. They fly marks. Females are best recognized largest flocks winter in Tennessee rise to its name, ring- in small groups of up to a dozen by their accompanying mates, and south to Louisiana, the majority necked duck. Actually its birds with swift, direct flight. both sexes can be distinguished winter in the Atlantic Flyway neck collar is not as distinctive as I The ringneck appears mainly from scaup and redheads in flight or in Mexico, with its wintering its ringed bill and it is more often black with a dark head, black by lack of white speculums. range extending as far as northern called “ringbill” because of it. Other back and black chest and rump. In late-February or early-March, South America. The swamps common names in different parts It has gray sides with white hash the ringneck leaves Virginia, and and tidal rivers of southeastern of the country include blackjack, marks just behind its breast. It heads for points north. By early Virginia south to Florida host good blackhead, and marsh bluebill. has longer than usual feathers on May it is on its breeding grounds. numbers of wintering ringnecks. The name marsh bluebill is due in Gardening in Style~Garden Plans are Growing By Kathey Brodtman is a great website with step-by-step Northern Neck, a seminar that will nother cold windy instructions for pruning. http:// focus on the importance of using winter is coming grumpygardener.southernliving. native plants. www.nnmg.org to a close. As you com/grumpy_gardener/2009/02/ Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh begin your spring what-concerns-p.html offers a list of Top 10 Sustainable clean up, do you Start thinking about what to plant Plants, selected for their non- knowA that the leaves piled in in your yard. You can’t go wrong invasive habits, as well as their corners of your yard can provide a with native plants. The Virginia resistance to disease and insects. valuable garden resource? If you Native Plant Society and your local Once established, they require have a mulching mower, chipper, extension office can help with lists of minimal watering and fertilization grinder or a leaf shredder, you can native plants. Think of attracting bees and are low maintenance.

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