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The Green Thumb Vol.18 Issue #1 a Newsletter of Extension Horticultural Activities and Events for York – Poquoson Extension Volunteers Merrilyn Dodson Editor York – Poquoson Office 100 County Drive PO Box 532 Yorktown, Virginia 23690-0532 757/890-4940 E-mail: [email protected] www.yorkcounty.gov/vce http://offices.ext.vt.edu/york January 2017 The Green Thumb Vol.18 Issue #1 A Newsletter of Extension Horticultural Activities and Events Merrilyn Dodson For York – Poquoson Extension Volunteers Editor Future Calendar Events February 3 Pruning Clinics – True Value in Grafton, Taylor Do-It Center in Poquoson, & Ken Matthews – dates TBD February 17 – 20 Great Backyard Bird Count (www.BirdCount.org) March 4 Twenty-third Annual Horticultural Extravaganza at Poquoson HS March 14 – March 30 Healthy Virginia Lawn Spring visits (join the team, contact Pete Peterman) March 24 8 am – 4 pm 6th Annual Shenandoah Valley Plant Symposium, A Gardener’s Palette (http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event;jsessionid=30DA91FCB2ECF055BE9DA46A7013CDE5.worker_registrant?llr=nzdak9dab&oeidk=a07ed9 gywu8a2512d6b)) April 4 Evening MG monthly meeting at St. Luke’s UMC May 6 8 am – noon MG Spring Plant Sale at York Learning Garden July 8 MG Pot-Luck Picnic Luncheon at Poquoson Learning Garden August 21 – September 7 Healthy Virginia Lawn Fall visits Master Gardener Mission Statement Our mission, as trained volunteers in partnership with the York – Poquoson, Virginia Cooperative Extension Agent, is to provide horticultural educational opportunities to the public through research-based horticultural programs and activities to enhance our environment, lives and community. For additions/corrections to the Calendar of Events contact Merrilyn Dodson (872-0824, [email protected]) or Yvonne Hurst (890-4940, [email protected]). The deadline for news for The Green Thumb is ALWAYS the 15th of the month. Contact Information: York – Poquoson MGs. If you have changes to your email, phone #, or address, please notify Yvonne Hurst. We want to keep all communication channels open. Virginia Cooperative Extension programs and employment are open to all, regardless of age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. An equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia State University, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating. Edwin J. Jones, Director, Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg; M. Ray McKinnie, Interim Administrator, 1890 Extension Program, Virginia State University, Petersburg. If you are a person with a disability and desire assistance or accommodation, please notify Megan Tierney York-Poquoson Extension Agent at 757 890-4940 during business hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. TDD number is (800) 828-1120. GREETINGS FROM Megan Ground Water Recharge Coming to Virginia Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) is working towards a new process to recharge our local aquifer. The Potomac aquifer is our hidden source for underground drinking water and is used by industries to create products like soda, beer, paper, and many other products in our region. The aquifer system is the deepest in Virginia and spans across the majority of the Atlantic Coastal Plain from Georgia to New Jersey. With the amount of withdrawals increasing with population and demand from industries, we are now facing a water dilemma. The pressurized aquifers buoyancy actually helps keep our coastal land above sea level. Recently the amount of discharge, or use, has increased so much that precipitation in the form of rain is not able to infiltrate or soak back down into the aquifer to recharge it and maintain stasis. This has been scientifically connected to the land subsidence (sinking) in Norfolk and other areas of our coast. The lack of pressure from the fresh water has also allowed the pressure of the brackish water from the bay to filter into shallow wells causing drinking water issues for many well users. What would happen if we stopped using this water resource today? Unfortunately, the aquifer is so deep and has so much clay and bedrock surrounding it that it would still take thousands of years to return to its original form. This factor is a larger issue than even sea level rise in increasing local flooding. This not only threatens people living in our area but also the longevity of keeping the military bases and other businesses that maintain the economy in our area. Hampton Roads has been named the second most vulnerable area to recurrent flooding only to be overshadowed by New Orleans. HRSD has come up with an innovative solution that they are going to pilot named Sustainable Water Initiative for Tomorrow (SWIFT). The program has the goal of taking highly treated wastewater that would have been discharged into our local waterways and adding another treatment layer to purify it back to drinking water standard and then re-injecting it into the aquifer through wells. The water will have to be refined to match existing pH levels in the aquifer system. This process will help target the three major issues by reducing the rate of land subsidence, creating a sustainable source for groundwater recharge, and to protect our groundwater from contamination by salt water intrusion. Megan Tierney, VCE, ANR Agent Environmental Horticulture, [email protected] Additional information: http://swiftva.com/swift-press-release/ Virginia Land-Grant Universities – Invent the Future 2 Master Gardener Coordinator’s Corner This is my last entry in the Master Gardener Coordinator’s Corner for the York/Poquoson Master Gardeners. As my last official duty for the year I have sent the request for next year’s meeting dates to St. Luke’s United Methodist Church. I will also put the meeting dates on the VMS calendar. The York/Poquoson Master Gardener meeting requested dates are as follows (normally the second Tuesday of each month): January 10 February 14♥ March 14 April 4 (6:30 – 8:30 pm) May 9 June 13 Saturday July 8 (11:00 am – 1:00 pm a picnic at the Poquoson Learning Garden) September 12 October 10 November 14 December 5 (6:30 – 8:30 pm) Most meetings will continue to be the second Tuesday of the month at 9:30 a.m., though three meetings will be in the evening or on the weekend as noted. This is so our new interns who were in the virtual class and may still work can attend some of the meetings. Bethany Beck will officially take over as the York/Poquoson Master Gardener Coordinator in January and I know that you will provide her with any assistance needed, just as you all gave me your help and guidance this past year. Thank you again for all you have done for me and the Master Gardeners. If you have not filled out your Annual Recertification and Interest Commitment Form, signed it in two places, and returned it to the Extension Office, please do so right away. This is required so the office can finalize the 2017 Roster and Committee Member listing. Hope you had a wonderful holiday season! I will see you at meetings and at events, and around the gardens when I am not in Florida. Laura Marlowe, York/Poquoson Master Gardener Coordinator, https://virginia.volunteersystem.org/, [email protected], 757 876-7074 What Might Flowers Be Made Of? It is winter and this is my last column before I take over the Coordinator’s column. It is cold outside and we don’t see many flowers outside this time of year. However, if you find yourself in Boston this month, make a stop at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. In 1886 Professor George Lincoln Goodale was appointed the first Director of Harvard’s Botanical Museum. Harvard at that time was fast becoming the world center for teaching and researching in Science. Harvard had a collection of botanical specimens that dated back to 1842. Private collectors traveling the world were collecting plant specimens and sending them to scholars at Universities in the United States. Harvard hired Asa Gray to receive, describe, and catalogue the specimens. Harvard’s botanical specimen collection has more than five million samples today. Goodale was given a series of empty rooms and asked to create a museum for teaching Botany. He was looking for a way to display physical specimens to help him teach botany. The dried pressed specimens that were in Harvard’s collection were two dimensional, fragile, and did not represent the colors properly. They were the only examples available at the time. Goodale took a tour through Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology to get some ideas and he discovered a series of glass invertebrates there that had been created by a family of glass artists in Dresden Germany, Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, who were making glass sea creatures for museums. The Blaschka family had been glass makers for several centuries making glass eyes, laboratory equipment, and costume jewelry. In 1860, Leopold took a trip to the United States. His ship was becalmed on the way for two weeks and he spent the time observing the invertebrate sea life that he could see from the ship. When he returned home, he began making these sea creatures and flowers as a hobby. The Director of the Virginia Land-Grant Universities – Invent the Future 3 Dresden Natural History Museum saw them by chance and convinced him to begin making the invertebrates for sale to museums. This was a very successful business over the next twenty years. There is a collection of their invertebrates at the Corning Museum. Goodale was so impressed with how lifelike the invertebrates were that he went to Dresden and convinced Leopold and his son Rudolph to make the botanical specimens he needed exclusively for Harvard.
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