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Andrea Wulf to Speak at the Gardens Antiques at Page 8 the Gardens’ a Success Members Page 2 Annual Celebration Page 8 enhancing life with plants bbgardens.org The JJANUARYANUARY/F/FEBRUARYEBRUARY 20122012 Andrea Wulf to speak at The Gardens Antiques at page 8 The Gardens’ a Success Members page 2 Annual Celebration page 8 New Adult & Family Classes page 7 & 10 FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS 2012 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Henry Ray �����������������������������������������������President Tricia Noble �����������������������������������President-Elect ON THE Scott Walton ���������������������������������������������Treasurer Lou Willie ����������������������������������������������� Secretary Hanson Slaughter �������������������������VP Development COVER Brain Barr ������������������������VP Facilities & Planning Thomas G. Amason, Jr....Immediate Past President Carl Jones ���������������������������������������������������� Officer January Janet Taylor ������������������������������������������������� Officer Camellias Elizabeth Broughton ������������������������������������ Officer At Large: enhancing life with plants Hollies bbgardens.org Cathy Adams Laurie Allen Orchids Richard Arrington The Shane Boatright Maggie Brooke Pansies Gary Burley Barbara Burton Tea Olives Tricia Holbrook Robert Holmes JANUARY Winter Annuals JANUARY/F/FEBRUARYEBRUARY 20122012 Margi Ingram Clarke Gillespy Andrea Wulf Sheryl Kimerling Winter Hazels to speak at The Gardens Mike Malone Antiques at Fred Murray page 8 The Gardens’ Winter Honeysuckles Kathryn Porter Members a Success Hanson Slaughter page 2 Wintersweets Annual Lucy Tutwiler Celebration Mary Williamson page 8 Amanda Fleming, Junior Board President New Adult & Family Classes OUR MIssION February page 7 & 10 Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens promotes public Asian Magnolias knowledge of plants, gardens and the environment; & receives, raises & administers resources for these purposes. Camellias OUR VISION Fringe Flowers The vision of Birmingham Botanical Gardens is to be one Lenten Roses of the nation’s preeminent botanical gardens. Mahonias The Bruno Vegetable Garden STAff Pansies produces nearly two tons of MAIN ...................................................................205.414.3950 vegetables each year for Magic Quinces Fred Spicer ..............................................................EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR City Harvest, a local non-profit Olivia Alison ...............................................DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Winter Annuals Stephanie Banks ................................................... DIRECTOR OF FINANCE agency that coordinates food Elizabeth Drewry ...................................................................... LIBRARIAN distribution to those in need. Ellen Hardy ..................................EDUCATION PROGRAM COORDINATOR Blake Ells ............................................ PUBLIC RELATIONS COORDINATOR In addition, thousands of local Henry Hughes ................................................ DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION school children who come George Jenkins ................................................... DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Jason Kirby ...........................................LIBRARY ASSISTANT & ARCHIVIST to The Gardens’ Discovery Andrew Krebbs ....................DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & MEMBERSHIP Field Trips learn important Savannah Lanier ..........................................DONOR RELATIONS OFFICER Hope Long ���������������������������������������������DIRECTOR OF LIBRARY SERVICES lessons about where their food John Manion ............................CURATOR OF KAUL WILDFLOweR GARdeN Shelly McCarty ........................................SPECIAL EVENTS COORDINATOR comes from. With plantings of Carleen Mitchell ................................................................FINANCE CLERK cotton, soybeans and peanuts, Phyllis Sutton �������������������������������������EDUCATION ACTIVITIES SPECIALIST Taylor Steele ���������������������������������������������������VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR we introduce them to the Rona Walters ........................................................MEMBERSHIP ASSISTANT groundbreaking work of Dr. George Washington Carver. The Garden Dirt is the newsletter of Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens. The Garden Dirt is published six times a year to foster awareness and support events, services, and significant For more information on the programs of Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens. We Bruno Vegetable Garden visit welcome your comments and address corrections. Please contact: Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens www.bbgardens.org/bruno or Editor, Andrew Krebbs Magic City Harvest at 2612 Lane Park Road Birmingham, AL 35223 www.magiccityharvest.org. 205.414.3959 or [email protected] www.bbgardens.org Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens practices a policy of equal opportunity and equal access to services for all persons regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, orientation or sex. Birmingham Botanical Gardens is a facility of Birmingham Park and Recreation Board. The deadline for the March/April issue is January 15. Daphne genkwa, Blount Plaza W Dear Friends: Membership Plant blindness is the inability to see or notice the plants in one's own environment. Obviously, Tax ELCOME plants are more than mere backdrop for the Information activities of animals, but apparently as animals Your membership, less the fair market ourselves, we are keyed into the mobility of other value of the benefits you receive, is animals. It seems that plants live too slowly to deductible for income tax purposes. You jump out and command our attention. However, Save can waive your benefits and receive full in late winter and early spring, plant life moves tax-deductibility. Please indicate this on at a pace that even the most inattentive person your membership form. Under Internal notices. Who doesn’t realize leaves are re- Revenue Services guidelines, the tax- appearing? To me, it’s about looking closely. th e deductibility of the membership levels So I tend to think about details at this time of year are as follows: as our growing season begins. The Latin phrase D a te tempus fugit translates loosely as “time’s a wastin’.” 47th Annual It’s a quote from Virgil, in context, “…time flees Member Celebration irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners 5:30 p.m. of our love of detail.” I am such a prisoner, and January 19 am duly warned to not forget the big picture. Consider that we live in the midst of one of the most extraordinary processes in nature, the Birmingham emergence from dormancy of countless millions Camellia Show of living plants which yearly jump-start their life February 11-12 cycle. The picture doesn’t get much bigger than that – you can measure the south-to-north wave of greening with satellite imagery. But you can 13th Annual also watch it in your own garden, up close and Spencer Lecture personal (but you need to look and you need to 6:30 p.m. Members lined up for the Members-only Sale at the be timely or you’ll miss it). March 8 Spring Plant Sale In the coming months, we will be unveiling Student $25 our new Strategic Plan, facilitated by Clarus Consulting Group, and conceived to go hand- Sakura Cherry Young Professional $40/$55 in-glove with our new Master Plan. Both are Blossom Festival Individual $45 big-picture oriented, as they ought to be, but March 17 Family $60 they cannot be achieved without addressing the Magnolia $100 details, which are the myriad things we do every day. With the broad strokes in place to align the Spring Plant Sale Oak $225 day-to-day, we think we’ve got big and small Preview Party & Ambassador $475 properly balanced. Please let us know how you Member Sale President’s Circle $875 think we’re doing. April 12 Garden Sustainer Club, Patron $2,375 See you in The Junior Board Spring Visit www.bbgardens.org/benefits to Gardens, Plant Sale Event learn more about your benefits. Your April 13 thank you letter that included your membership card at the time you joined or renewed is considered your tax Spring Plant Sale receipt. If you need a replacement letter Fred April 13-15 please contact Rona Walters, membership assistant, at 205.414.3950 or [email protected]. 1 Birmingham Botanical Gardens held its annual Sterne Agee First Look Party on October 6. More than 400 people attended the exclusive, black- tie affair which featured an Asian- EVELOPMENT inspired menu provided by Kathy G. Will and Sarah Mason and the John Williams Band provided the evening's D soundtrack at the private Men's Committee party and in the Rushton Garden, respectively. Attendees were allowed an opportunity to shop over 20 dealers from around the country who participated in the weekend's sixth annual Antiques at The Gardens. Visit www.bbgardens.org/antiques to view more photos from the event. First Look Party Dogwood Dunn French Foundation Welch Hornsby & Welch, Inc. Sterne Agee Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Mrs. Claire H. Fairley Mr. & Mrs. Lex Williamson Burr & Forman LLP First Commercial Bank Orchid Ms. Barbara L. Burton Mr. & Mrs. Beau Grenier Gardenia Mr. Joseph Blount Mrs. Fay B. Ireland Clarissa Harms Judy & Hal Abroms Ms. Kay Blount Katie & Jim Lasker Highway Equipment Co., Inc John & Kittie Buchanan Camellia Medical Properties Trust, Inc. Jemison Investment Company Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Carruthers Jr. The W. Houston Blount Family Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Jackson Noble III Advised Fund Mrs. Mary Carolyn Gibbs Cleveland Mr. & Mrs. Jon Kimerling Protective Life Corporation L. Paul Kassouf & Company PC Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Coleman The Thomas E. Jernigan Foundation
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