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December 2011 DCM GA For up-to-date information go to dcmga.com TABLE OF VOLUME XIII , ISSUE 4 DECEMBER 2011 CONTE NTS FALL GARDEN 1 FESTIVAL Fall Garden Festival LITTLE CHAPEL IN 3 Saturday, October 1, 9:00 a.m.— 3:00 p.m. THE WOODS Gardening for Pleasure and the Planet THE ISRAEL PRAYER IN 4 The seventh Fall Garden Festival, This event is always a feel good event. CORINTH previously called Fall Garden InfoFest, We have been fortunate to have good was held on October 1 on the campus of weather, great speakers, folks who want HERBAL BRANCH 6 Denton Bible Church in Denton. We had a to share their knowledge and guests who lot of new vendors and opportunities for are curious, and friendly...if you are a BOOK REVIEWS 7 learning. The Farm Bureau brought their Master Gardener and believe in our MINUTES 8 trailer, the Antique Tractor Club was mission statement and like a day outside there, you could learn about using your with like minded folks...it just doesn't ASK THE MG 9 pool as a water source for a house get better than this. fire...our speakers spoke all about JMG SPECIALIST 10 Locavore, when to grow it, how to grow In 2012 Dale TRAINING it and where to grow it. Powell has LANDSCAPE 11 decided to DESIGN CLASS We had more continue on GENERAL than 500 folks as Project 12 MEETINGS attend our Manager for event. We had this very PAT STRICKLAND 14 numerous important visitors and event. Gene SUNSHINE 15 GARDENERS vendors who Gumfory at Denton Bible Church is were making looking to get the Antique Car Club to the PRESIDENT’S 16 their second or third visit, and an equal event, our tractor friends will be there, CORNER number who tried this event for the first and many other vendors are AGENT’S time. We spend some of our hard earned returning...you might want to plan to be 17 JUNCTION money to offer this event to the there too. Even if you don't volunteer for WINTERIZE YOUR community at no charge and worked hard the event you will have fun, learn 18 HOUSEPLANTS to make this event special and something and get to visit with folks you worthwhile. Many vendors and visitors let don't get to see every month. It's a lot of THE DiG 20 us know we did a great job and to keep fun...the best tired you will be all year up the good work. long. ~ LINDA WILLIAMS PASS IT ALONG 21 The folks who really made this event hum GARDEN TOUR/ 22 PLANT SALE are Sandy Read (Queen of vendors) and Dale Powell (King of the realm), the MEMBERSHIP 23 RENEWAL support cast, which is vast and much appreciated. Approximately 70 DCMGA 2011 BOARD/ 24 volunteers (and of course a few spouses COMMITTEES and children) were there helping out MEMBER’S SURVEY 25 from beginning to end. RESULTS Kodak Moments The beaufully shaded Lile-Chapel-in-the-Woods Nave Garden at TWU is a space dedicated to the memory of Benny Simpson, co-founder and former president of the Texas Nave Plant Society and life-long Horculturist. The garden and the surrounding area contain nave rock-work borders, benches, and path- ways, as well as ponds, bridges, gazebo, sculpture, fountain, and azalea garden. TWU student workday in the nave garden was on Nov. 11. For the past two years, Master Gardeners have been asked to mentor the stu- dents as they idenfy naves, invasive plants, weeds, trim, and plant new naves. As with other workdays the transformaon, a er being tended by a large group, is amazing. The garden connues to improve with each workday. It's a beauful spot in the middle of campus that many students were unaware existed. The area which is teeming with wildlife is a great local desnaon any me of the year. ~ Jill Peak OFFICIAL SMALL MAMMAL The armadillo, designated as Texas’ official state small mammal by the Legislature in 1995, resembles an anteater. Otherwise known as the nine-banded armadillo, the cat-sized, insect- eang mammal is armored, with a bony, scaly shell. A prolific digger, the armadillo excavates burrows and hunts for grubs and cannot survive in areas where the soil is too hard to dig. The nine-banded armadillo is the only armadillo species found in North America. ‘Who Knew’, Texas Co-op Power, August 2011 This lile crier has been seen in the early morning hours around the neighborhood, digging away, not worried about dogs or 2-legged criers geng too close. You can always tell whose yard she visited the night before by the lile holes dug throughout the lawn. We have seen her and her offspring waddling to their home in a metal culvert in a drainage ditch. Great place to live unl we start geng some rain. (send ‘Critter in your Yard’ pictures to Mary at [email protected]) page 3 Gardeners are, by nature, arsts and visionaries. Perhaps you are shaking your head and saying, “No, no, I just like to play in the soil.” Maybe so, but how many adults do you know—other than gardeners—that sll like to play in the soil? Gardeners inhabit the world of imaginaon reserved for the young and the creave. So, whether you want the tle or not, you are, as a gardener, a visionary who sees what could be and is willing to play in the soil as long as necessary to make an imagined landscape come to pass. When my only daughter, Rebekah, was nine years old, we watched the movie adaptaon of Frances Hodgson Burne’s The Secret Garden. At the me, I was too busy raising five children to indulge my desire for gardening. Besides, the soil at our east Denton home was barren, hard, and full of sandstone. Even so, Rebekah and I shared the dream of one day restoring a forgoen landscape to its former glory. It didn’t maer that the garden in the movie existed in an ideal locaon in faraway England. Our imaginaons supplied us with the perfect seng and a beauful end result! As my children grew and I had more me to pursue my love of gardening, I discovered the Master Gardener program. A er compleng the training and required volunteer service to become a cerfied master gardener in 2007, I wondered, “What next?” It wasn’t unl I discovered the Junior Master Gardener program that I found my niche. What beer way for me to effect change than by imparng my love for gardening and the natural world to children? And so, by starng mulple JMG groups in my home church, I found a place where I could serve my community and have a good me playing in the soil at the same me! One of the first projects my JMG group worked on was researching, designing and installing a small, biblical prayer garden outside the church coffee house. We studied references in the Bible to parcular plants, visited the website of a biblical plant preserve in Israel, and found suitable Texas substutes for a variety of plants indigenous to the Holy Land. In our limited garden space, we planted a fig tree, an olive tree, two grape vines, a rose of Sharon hibiscus, several herbs, some salvia, and a rose. Over the next several years, we tended that lile pocket garden and provided a place of beauty for our congregaon. page 4 As is o en the case with growing churches, we ran out of room and had to move. Our church purchased the old Boeing building in Corinth in February of 2011 and began the long process of renovaon. Even though we would not be able to move into the building for several months, there was one space that demanded my immediate aenon: a garden. On the south side of the facility, directly behind a portable cafeteria building, an abandoned, neglected garden waited for someone to love and nurture it back to life. Starng with the research our JMG group had done three years earlier, we began the process of planning a much larger garden. Suddenly, instead of a pocket garden, we had over an acre to develop. Not only that, but the skeletal remains of a once-cared-for garden, complete with mature oak, crepe myrtle, and vitex trees, waited for restoraon. With the help of gardeners and gardeners-in-training within my own church, we began to reclaim the garden in February of 2011. This garden has been the focus of my life for the past nine months. What started as an abandoned, neglected landscape has become a place of life and peace. In spite of record-breaking heat and drought, the garden prospered this summer. We call it the Israel Prayer Garden because it is modeled a er ancient maps of Israel and contains plants and other features representave of Judeo-Chrisan culture in that region. The backbone of the garden are the seven species of Israel listed in the book of Deuteronomy 8:7-10, which says, “For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams, of springs and underground waters flowing out of valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olives for oil and honey. ” It has already been the venue for three weddings and is open every day during daylight hours to anyone who needs a quiet place to walk, eat a simple meal, or meditate.
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