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12 East Franklin Street Non-Profit The Garden Club of Virginia exists to celebrate the beauty Richmond, VA 23219 U.S. Postage of the land, to conserve the gifts of nature and to challenge www.gcvirginia.org Permit #9 future generations to build on this heritage. Richmond, VA

Albemarle Garden Club • The Garden Club of Alexandria • The Ashland Garden Club

The Augusta Garden Club • The Blue Ridge Garden Club • The Boxwood Garden Club

The Brunswick Garden Club • The Charlottesville Garden Club • Chatham Garden Club

The Garden Club of Danville • Dolley Madison Garden Club • The Garden Club of the Eastern Shore • The Elizabeth River Garden Club • The Garden Club of Fairfax

Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club • The Franklin Garden Club • Gabriella Garden Club

The Garden Study Club • The Garden Club of Gloucester • The Hampton Roads Garden

Club • Harborfront Garden Club • Hillside Garden Club • The Hunting Creek Garden Club

The Huntington Garden Club • The James River Garden Club • Leesburg Garden Club

The Little Garden Club of Winchester • The Lynchburg Garden Club • The Martinsville

Garden Club • The Garden Club of the Middle Peninsula • The Mill Mountain Garden Club

The Nansemond River Garden Club • The Garden Club of Norfolk • The Garden Club of the Northern Neck • The Petersburg Garden Club • The Princess Anne Garden Club

The Rappahannock Valley Garden Club • Rivanna Garden Club • Roanoke Valley Garden Club

The Spotswood Garden Club • Three Chopt Garden Club • The Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton • The Virginia Beach Garden Club • The Garden Club of Warren County

Warrenton Garden Club • The Williamsburg Garden Club • Winchester-Clarke Garden Club Dear Members and Friends,

The Garden Club of Virginia enjoyed a remarkable year during 2012-2013, thanks to you, your fellow club members and the GCV Since 1920, the staff. Each fall the Year in Review offers an opportunity for us to Garden Club of Virginia, celebrate the successes of the past 12 months. has been dedicated to I have often wondered what the the beautification of the beautiful state of Virginia would commonwealth through look like without the tireless historic landscape restoration, efforts of the members of the environmental conservation Garden Club of Virginia. I marvel and horticultural education. at the many accomplishments of your clubs with your work in the We accomplish this work, areas of beautification, conserva- in part, by operating the largest tion, education, horticulture and and oldest statewide house restoration in your communities. Our investments have changed the and garden tour in the nation, landscape of Virginia. Photo courtesy of Roger Foley Historic Garden Week. During the past 12 months, GCV highlights include the celebration 1 Thirty-four hundred members of the 80th Anniversary of Historic Garden Week in Virginia, from 47 garden clubs across the adoption of new restoration projects of restoring Jefferson’s original mountaintop roadway system and view shed at Monticello the state work to make our and restoring the garden at the Edgar Allen Poe Museum in gifts to Virginia possible. Richmond. The 54th Conservation Forum’s focus on Pesticides and Our Health brought together nine highly qualified speakers to Celebrating and preserving share best management practices and alternatives. Horticulture the beauty of our Field Day capped off the year with visits to eight extraordinary commonwealth are at PEARL HOMES and Gardens in Virginia Beach.

the heart of all we do. As we look to the Garden Club of Virginia’s future, we now have a beacon to guide us, the GCV’s Centennial Celebration in 2020. I am so honored to serve as your president, and I thank you for your support. Let us work with renewed vigor to enhance all aspects of the GCV as we begin another year together.

With my sincere appreciation,

Ann Gordon Evans President Executive Director Treasurer’s Report

The Year in Review stops me in my tracks and The Garden Club of Virginia operates on a fiscal year that began on July 1, 2012 and ended on June 30, 2013. The budget for this lets me savor the past year. I see the smiling year was presented by the Treasurer to the Board of Directors for faces of women I have met, have traveled with, its vote and then to the membership at the May Annual Meeting. have planned and strategized with and laughed Our income for the year of approximately $1.9 million exceeded with over the year. I spend a lot of time caught expenses of over $1.5 million for a net income of $364,000, which carries forward to be used in the next fiscal year. in the busy-ness of this fast-paced, multi-layered Our largest source of organization that is never standing still. Does it 4% 0ther $73,490 income each year is seem odd to realize that I am describing the 7% Dues $133,240 9% Donations $167,671 the revenue of Historic Garden Club of Virginia? It was only yesterday 34% Investment $645,215 Garden Week. Once

that we were getting used to emails and the internet. 46% Historic Garden Week the related expenses are $885,830 netted out, these funds I have been fond of saying that “this isn’t your grandmother’s garden GCV Income are used to support our club” because women make this organization and their own local $1,905,445 restoration projects around clubs relevant for each generation. Our essence remains and endures the commonwealth. Our other primary sources of funding are membership dues, donations and even though we are emailing, Facebooking and maybe even tweeting. our investment income. Dues have remained stable since the rate We are still celebrating the beauty of the land and conserving the was changed in 2008, and the increase in donation income has helped gifts of nature in this beautiful commonwealth. balance the budget. Development 1% $18,937 The expenses for the Challenging future generations to build on our heritage also Administration / Other 6% $89,764 GCV include maintaining 2 continues. Now it is especially true as we have embarked on a long Kent Valentine House 6% $93,902 3 our headquarters, staff Programs 8% $125,431 range planning process that requires unflinching courage to look at salaries and insurance Historic Garden Week 10% $151,911

ourselves. Generations before us have sported the same courage to and audit costs. We also Staff 20% $302,640 look ahead. What will Virginia be like in 10, 20 or 50 years? How maintain our website and Restoration 49% $758,851 publish our quarterly will our world be different? What do we need to do to meet those GCV Expense Journal. In addition, we $1,541,438 challenges and accomplish our mission? contribute towards our annual fall and spring meetings and three yearly flower shows. We budget My confidence is in the ability of this extraordinary group of smart, to break even on our schools and workshops. strong women to figure it out. We will answer these questions with Our assets of approximately $7.5 million include the Kent-Valentine customary determination ensuring that the beauty of this land will House, our cash accounts, and our investment portfolio. be a source of inspiration. Our Endowment as of the end of June 2013 was valued at roughly $3.9 million, slightly over half of our total assets. Our financial records are audited annually and we received a clean opinion. As a 501(c)(3) organization, our Federal Form 990 is filed each year and is available for public review. The Garden Club of Virginia is in a strong financial position to Lynn McCashin support the wonderful work done by our members. Executive Director The Garden Club of Virginia Respectfully submitted,

Anne G. Baldwin GCV Treasurer Serving the Commonwealth: GCV celebrates its six districts and the activities Club Highlights of its 47 member clubs.

District 1 District 3 District 5 District 2 District 4 District 6 GCV District Map

4 The Boxwood Garden Club, The James River Garden 5 1 Club, Three Chopt Garden Club, and The Tuckahoe 2 Albemarle Garden Club Garden Club of Westhampton Albemarle Garden Club funded a Capital Trees, which began in 2010 with the first Bessie Bocock salary for one school-based coordinator Carter Conservation Award, is a joint project of the Boxwood, James at City Schoolyard Garden, a program River, Three Chopt and Tuckahoe Garden Clubs. Together, they’ve that is creating vegetable gardens at all made Richmond a greener, more beautiful city through the thought- six Charlottesville elementary schools and ful planning and planting of trees and public gardens, mindful of the one middle school. The City Schoolyard city’s extraordinary heritage and location on the banks of the James Garden’s mission is to “cultivate academic River. Projects include the removal of tons of concrete on 14th Street achievement, health, environmental in downtown Richmond, replacing it with engineered bio-filtration stewardship, and community engagement through garden-based, systems and green allees of rain gardens, perennials and trees; the experiential learning” according to their mission statement. greening of Great Shiplock Park, an environmentally-sensitive and CSG maintains organic educational gardens for use in classroom historic site on the Kanawha Canal; and the Jefferson Greenway, instruction, after-school programs and summer camps. a green corridor stretching along 10th Steet from the Capitol to the James River. 2 Dolley Madison Garden Club Dolley Madison Garden Club sponsored two community forums. The first, Bringing Nature Home, attended by more than 500 citizens, featured Dr. Douglas Tallamy, University of Delaware chairman of the department of entomology and wildlife ecology. His topic was the study of insect damage in traditional and native-only landscapes and highlighted research in conservation of bio-diversity and the behavioral ecology of insects. Uranium– What Should We Know? revisited the pros and cons of uranium mining in Orange County. Serving the Commonwealth: GCV celebrates its six districts and the activities 4 The Garden Club of Danville Club Highlights of its 47 member clubs. Members of The Garden Club of Danville continue their involvement in the maintenance of the grounds of the 3 The Hampton Roads Garden Club Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, a relationship Celebrating 80 years, The Hampton Roads Garden Club that dates back to the 1930s when the Club was awarded the launched a $15,000 commitment in March to restore the hillside GCV’s 1939 Massie Medal for their work. The gardens feature and James River entrance landscaping at The Mariner’s Museum in English boxwoods, a fountain and the beautiful Perkinson Newport News. The museum’s 550-acre riverside park is the largest Rose Garden, which was named in 2007 for Sigie Perkinson, privately maintained park in the United States and is open and free to a former Rose Chair of the Garden Club of Virginia. The the public. As installation of HRGC’s design begins September 2013, grounds also feature the 19th-century perimeter picket fence members continue to support the gardens at the Peninsula Fine Arts that GCV helped restore in 2005. Center where they donated the entrance landscaping in 2010.

3 The Huntington Garden Club One of the many community partnerships of The Huntington Garden Club is its 25-year relationship of support to the Virginia Living Museum (VLM) in Newport News to whom it has granted $95,000 since 1989. As recipients of GCV’s Common Wealth Award in 1991 and 2005, HGC has helped establish components of VLM’s campus, including The Backyard Wildlife Habitat, The Virginia Botanical HistoryDistrict 1 Garden,District and most 3 recently,District The 5 Holt Native Plant Conservatory. HGC gifts, made possible by annual District 2 District 4 District 6 wreath sales since 1953, have also helped create the 6 Virginiana Garden at theGCV Newport District News Map Public Library, 7 and a labyrinth at the Abernathy Gardens at Causey’s Mill.

5 Leesburg Garden Club Leesburg Garden Club received GCV’s 3rd Common Wealth Award in 1982 for creating “A Park for All Ages” at Douglass Community Center in Loudoun County. Members returned this year to install a bench, bulb plantings and a stone patio dedicated to longtime LGC member, Margaret Peal, and her husband, Hugh, who grew the 75 pine trees planted as part of the original project thirty-two years ago. LGC members have also awarded scholarship support to a high school senior pursuing a higher degree in horticulture, and sent a camper for 2 weeks to Nature Camp (an annual LGC tradition for nearly 50 years).

Serving the Commonwealth: GCV celebrates its six districts and the activities The Club Highlights of its 47 member clubs. Kent- Valentine Hunting Creek Garden Club Our Elegant, 5 Historic Home Alexandria’s Community Lodgings’ mission is to lift families House from homelessness to self-sufficiency through programs held at the Family Learning Center. Hunting Creek Garden Club, through their Located in the heart of Richmond’s Monroe Ward, the Kent-Valentine Community Projects initiative, has supported them in garden-related House was designed by Isaiah Rogers for Mr. and Mrs. Horace Kent projects, by providing kitchen plants for existing garden beds, which in 1845. Rogers created “a three-bay Italianate dwelling skirted by an are currently being expanded. Club intricate cast-iron veranda.” The house was sold in 1875 to Charles members assisted the children Talbott, and in 1904, the third owners, Mr. and Mrs. Granville enrolled in the program to plant Valentine, significantly remodeled it. In 1971, the GCV bought the and maintain them. Additionally, house for its headquarters. Hunting Creek provided a plan and A complete structural plantings for the front of the renovation of the house Learning Center, emphasizing native was undertaken in 1996-98. plants and the insects they attract. A wing was added, providing handicapped access and other needed amenities. Princess Anne Garden Club 6 The house is furnished The active Princess Anne Garden Club continues to make with 18th- and 19th-century a difference for its community. Through its successful fundraiser, antiques, some of which Party in the Park, members were able to contribute financially to came with the house, some both the First Landing State Park and the Norfolk Botanical Garden given by garden club 8 9 as well as fund a scholarship to Nature Camp. PAGC also had a members and friends. hands-on project at Hope House, a home for adults with disabilities. Raised garden beds, window boxes, rain barrels and walkways were installed and education provided to the residents. Did you know the Kent-Valentine House is available for club meetings and private events?

The first floor accommodates 120 guests for standup receptions or parties and can seat 60. The spacious Virginia Beach Garden Club 6 third floor is perfect for meetings and workshops. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Brock Environmental Please contact London Ray at 804-644-7776 or Center at Pleasure House Point – a LEED Platinum certified email at [email protected] building – has been enhanced with a rain garden from the generosity of the Virginia Beach Garden Club. Their Fall Flower Festival, now in its third decade, has raised money for this and many other projects; including Mary’s Garden At Sentara Hospital, planting daffodils along With the Hotel Jefferson in the Atlantic Avenue, and replacing live background, an arborist works oaks, wildflower and woodlands to take down a diseased magnolia gardens at the Aquarium. Their at the Kent-Valentine House. involved participation with these projects and others fulfills the club’s motto: Conservation, passion and responsibility. Photo courtesy of Lynn McCashin Photo courtesy of Lynn Left: Elise Leake (Three Chopt GC), member of the GCV Conservation Conservation For 93 years, Committee with one of her table arrangements for the Forum. the Garden Club of Virginia has directed public Below: Chamie Valentine (James River GC), Chairman attention to statewide conservation issues by of the Conservation Forum establishing Conservation as its first standing committee. Today, GCV continues to focus attention on conservation issues through educational leadership initiatives and legislative involvement, developing position statements on climate change, land use, and uranium mining.

During the January 2013 session of the Virginia General Assembly, GCV supported the following legislative positions in Virginia: continue the The 54th Annual GCV Conservation Forum moratorium on uranium mining, support the Pesticides and Our Health: Best Management Practices and Alternatives was the topic of the annual forum sponsored by introduction of a fee on plastic bags, oppose the Conservation Committee. The first panel of experts described weakening of billboard placement controls, Virginia’s pioneering efforts in pest management and pesticide safety, taught the safest and most effective ways to use approved pesticides, and support the preservation of the view shed and shared perspectives on integrating chemical and non-chemical 10 11 along the historic practices to reduce toxic exposure. The second panel explained the relationships among chemical applications, endocrine disruptors, Lower James River. and cancer. The third panel addressed organics and biodiversity in gardening practices. The final speaker, Dr. Douglas Tallamy, illustrated how biodiversity reduces the need for pesticides.

Conservation Workshop The topic of the Conservation Workshop opened with “Uranium Mining: Is it Worth the Risk?” presented by May Fox, Director of Government Relations at Eckert Seamans. Lisa Guthrie, Executive Director, and Jeff Painter, Program Director, Virginia League of Conservation Voters. They gave a briefing of Virginia conservation issues and updates. The workshop highlighted Richmond’s Capital Trees and Northern Neck’s Cat Point Creek Watershed projects.

Above: Jeanette McKittrick (Three Chopt GC), Chairman of the Capital Trees Steering Committee, discusses the Richmond 4-club effort to restore Richmond’s urban canopy. Below: Conservation Workshop participants (from left) Sarah Bridenhagen (Albemarle GC), Conservation Workshop Chairman; Jeff Painter, Program Director, and Lisa Guthrie, Executive Director, VA League of Conservation Voters; Anne Beals (Rappahannock Valley GC), GCV Conservation Chairman and Ann Gordon Evans (Huntington GC), GCV President. Meeting Highlights Legislative Day At Legislative Day, Blue Ridge Garden Club members (center photo) Barbara Walsh, Sallie Sebrell, and Ann Waller met with Del. Ben Cline (House District 24) to oppose the proposed General Assembly bill to lift a ban on uranium mining, arguably the most important environmental policy question in a generation and Annual Fund “Top 10” Presidents of clubs with the highest Annual Fund the topic of the GCV’s 54th Annual participation recognized at the Board of Governors include (from left) Ingrid Lindsay Conservation Forum. Subsequently the (Warrenton GC); Teggie Smith--Alternate (Hunting Creek GC); Lyn Hutchens (Huntington GC); Bev Morrison (GC of Warren County); Sandy Hart (Nansemond Senate sponsor withdrew the bill. River GC); Jackie Lane (Petersburg GC); Tricia McDaniel (Rappahannock Valley GC); Linda Macdonald (Ashland GC); Pamela Hudson—Alternate (Dolley Madison GC); Above: Karin and Anne Beals Betsy Murphy (Harborfront GC); and Lit Dodd (GC of the Eastern Shore). (Rappahannock Valley GC) attend Legislative Day. Bottom: Members of the GCV Conservation Committee, Sarah Bridenhagen (Albemarle GC), Katherine Morris (Rivanna GC), Wendy Vaughn (Princess Anne GC), and Elizabeth Christeller (GC of Middle Peninsula), attend Legislative Day.

de Lacy Gray Memorial Medal for Conservation The 2013 recipient of the de Lacy Gray 12 13 medal is Nancy Dickerson of The Princess GCV Directors-at-Large (from left) Jean Gilpin, District 5 (Winchester-Clarke GC); Elizabeth Johnson, District 1 (Petersburg GC); Candy Carden, District 3 (GC of the Anne Garden Club. Chair of the First Northern Neck); Catherine Madden, District 2 (Lynchburg GC); Denise Revercomb, Landing State Park Exhibit Project, Nancy District 4 (Roanoke Valley GC); and Linda Consolvo, District 6 (Nansemond River is a member of Chesapeake Bay Foundation GC).(District 4) and Linda Consolvo, Nansemond River (District 6). and Lynnhaven River Now. She helped arrange a native plant symposium for her club in 2012, spearheaded a successful campaign to save live oak trees along Shore Drive in Virginia Beach, and co-chaired the GCV’s 2013 Horticulture Field Day.

The Elizabeth Cabell Dugdale Award for Conservation For their efforts to reduce pollution in the Lynnhaven River since 2003, the GCV’s 2012 Elizabeth Cabell Dugdale Award for Conservation was awarded to Lynnhaven River Now, a committed Above left: The Charlottesville Garden Club’s group of more than 5,000 local citizens 2013 Annual Meeting Chairmen (from left) Trish Burton, Elizabeth Neff and Renee Grisham. fostering public and private partner- Above right: At the Board of Governors Meeting, ships to identify and reduce sources of hosted by the Nansemond River Garden Club, river contamination; reduce run-off; Mike Boone received a standing ovation restore lost habitats, such as oyster following his presentation describing Lipton Anne Beals (Rappahannock reefs and salt marshes, that protect the Tea’s zero land-fill factory. Valley GC), GCV Conservation river and its wildlife; and educate and Left: Jane Shaubach and Sandy Hart at the Committee Chairman, and engage the community. Board of Governors Meeting Karen Forget, Executive Director of Lynnhaven River Now. Horticulture Field Day The Horticulture Committee began in 1923 as the New Eight homes in Virginia Beach featuring Horticulture Plants Committee, reforming as best practices for protecting the water- the Horticulture Committee in shed of the Lynnhaven River were open 1931. The use of plant material for Horticulture Field Day in early June. continues as its focus as it The Lynnhaven River Now designation touches on all aspects of the of PEARL HOME recognizes those GCV mission. With outreach people making environmentally sound through displays, articles in choices in their homes and gardens. the Journal, a workshop and Beginning with the cypress swamps and Horticulture Field Day; it stays native woodlands at First Landing State active in enriching our members’ Park Trail Center, GCV members were plant knowledge. treated to stunning landscape designs and horticultural diversity. Four homes were open on each day of the two-day Horticulture Workshop, event, with gracious homeowners present October 15, 2012 to welcome those attending, provide plant lists and identifications as well as refreshment. 2013 Growing and exhibiting horticulture hosts were: Meg and Bill Campbell, Donna and is a passion for many members, and Rae Eure, Martha and Bob Goodman, Beth and the specimens brought to the GCV Zeb Holt, Mac and Steve Houfek, Helen Junkin Flower shows provide the means to and Bernie Nichols, Julie and Ed MacKinlay, share this knowledge with the public. Lynda and Steve Strickler. Julia Clevett, a master Horticulture judge, helped everyone sharpen their 14 skills by sharing her extensive Top: Visitors in the MacKinlay garden. 15 knowledge and experience. Center: GCV Development Chairman, Julie MacKinlay (Virginia Beach GC), opened her PEARL HOME and garden Horticulture Displays for Horticulture Field Day 2013. Board of Governors Meeting, Below: Garden Club of the Northern Neck October 9-11, 2012; members Mary Louisa Pollard (left) and The Nansemond River Garden Club Jane Wells enjoying the Campbell garden.

Flowers often appear good enough to eat, and our member clubs displayed the best 2013 Horticulture Award of Merit ones, with safety tips and recipes provided. The recipes were collected after the meeting, Given since 1960, the Horticulture Award of Merit is presented to and a stunning GCV Edible Flowers individual members whose passion in horticulture has brought them Cookbook is now available to all on the both personal achievement and recognition from their clubs and Horticulture page of our website. communities for sharing their interest. Ten members were honored with awards at May’s Annual Meeting in Charlottesville.

Annual Meeting, Katherine Beale, Margaret Bradford French, May 6-8, 2013; Harborfront Garden Club The Virginia Beach Garden Club The Charlottesville Garden Club Cecilia C. Brown, Mercer Wellford O’Hara, Using the March GCV Journal article The Garden Club of Gloucester The Garden Club of the on companion planting as a guide, the Molly Brown, Northern Neck club horticulture chairs were asked to The Blue Ridge Garden Club Dianne Pfizenmayer, display two appropriate choices, with Romayne Byrum, The Augusta Garden Club an explanation of what advantages The Elizabeth River Garden Club Joyce Rice, these two plantings give to each other. Beth Holt, Roanoke Valley Garden Club The Princess Anne Garden Club Katherine Clark Wray, The Petersburg Garden Club The 71st Annual Lily Show, “Lilies of the Valley” was a June 18-20, 2013 delightful theme for the 2013 Lily The Spotswood Garden Club Show in Harrisonburg, sponsored by The Spotswood Garden Flower Club. 328 gorgeous stems were entered by 66 individuals Shows in the Horticulture Division. Anne Vanderwarker of The Charlottesville and Dolley Madison Garden Clubs The 74th Annual Rose Show, The “world was a rose” at Lewis won the Ann Carter Walker October 3-4, 2012 Ginter Botanical Gardens during Somerville award for her most The Boxwood Garden Club the 74th Annual Rose Show, hosted creative artistic design (top by The Boxwood Garden Club in left), an exhibition table. The Richmond. Interpreting rose-themed quotations from famed authors was Ashland Garden Club took inspirational. The Virginia Beach Garden Club won the Quad Blue with home the Quad Blue for their a stunning underwater design. Defying drought, 277 stems were entered, parallel design interpreting and Frances Jones of Williamsburg earned a place in the court of honor. stalactites and stalagmites (bottom left).

Above right: Sandy Hodge and Joyce Overby (Spotswood GC), Co-Chairmen of the 2013 GCV Lily Show Lower right: Catherine Gilliam (Albemarle and Blue Ridge GCs) and Barbara Holland (Garden Study Club)

GCV Flower Arranging School, Tasha Tobin, a nationally 16 September 18, 2012 renowned floral designer, was 17

Above: Horticulture entries at a whirlwind demonstrating the 74th Annual Rose Show. many arrangements featured Below left: Blanche Toms in the upcoming GCV Rose (James River Garden Club) and Daffodil Show schedules. prepares an arrangement A capacity audience enjoyed in the artistic workroom. her program at a new venue — Below right: Joyce Moorman the Jepson Center at the (Lynchburg GC) and GCV President, Ann Gordon Evans University of Richmond. (Huntington GC). Above: Tasha’s French-braided The 79th Annual Daffodil Show, As Spring arrived, the hope “fence” made of March 27-29, 2013 was to celebrate Springtime liriope and bind wire. The Garden Club of Gloucester along the Mobjack Bay. Left: Participants appreciate the A late season snow may have tussie mussie. blanketed the state, but the abundance of specimens and the beauty of Right: Lyn Hutchens, the arrangements brought the show alive with the promise of a new President, The season on the river. A creative mass arrangement by Dolley Madison Huntington Garden Club Garden Club won the Inter Club award, and the talented host club of Gloucester The Annabel Josephs Inter Club Artistic Award entered the winning test collection. This coveted award is so tightly contested that it resulted, this year, A family passion for daffodils! Bill Pannill’s in a tie between The Martinsville and Dolley Madison Garden Clubs. nieces (from left) Blair and Coates Clark, The fact that it was Annabel’s birthday and that her daughters were A.C. and Lucy Wilson (both of Martinsville GC), there for the presentation at the Annual Meeting made it an even and David and Janie Vaughan (Hillside GC). more remarkable event. 2013 marked the 80th Anniversary of Historic Garden Week. When April 20 arrived, the sun shone, the flowers bloomed, the visitors bought tickets, the press was unprecedented, and Historic Garden Week raised more money than ever before for the restoration and preservation of Virginia’s public historic gardens. The Governor issued a Proclamation and nearly Photo courtesy of Kathy W. Knollmann Photo courtesy of Kathy W. 30,000 people attended “America’s Largest Open House.” It was a significant year in many ways. 18 19 The layout of the guidebook was done in-house for the first time. We created a custom label with VERITAS Winery, our first branding effort and a hint at things to come. The HGW website continued to improve, adding itineraries and Special Activities. A new brochure was the tangible manifestation of a consistent and proactive partnering with restoration sites. These efforts were designed to educate the public about the purpose of this venerable statewide event.

Clockwise from top: 1) Members’ floral arrangements are a hallmark of Historic Garden Week. Maria Tufts (Warrenton GC) adding a final lily. 2) Janice Whitehead (Boxwood GC) brightening an entryway. 3) A sumptuous table setting on Richmond’s Laburnum Park tour. 4) Tulips bloomed statewide throughout the week! 5) Berryman Mansion on the Smithfield tour. 6) Fairfax members on tour day. 7) Refreshments served beneath a wisteria walk in Winchester. Poplar Forest, Lynchburg

Restoration GCV’s involvement in historic landscape restoration began in Fredericksburg in 1929 when members raised support to restore the garden and grounds at Kenmore. Fast forward to 2013 and GCV’s restoration projects dot the map of Virginia, with recent projects located in each of GCV’s six state districts. Members have underwritten

48 major restorations by operating Historic Garden Week, Our work with Poplar Forest continues. Above left: Paper now hosting 30,000 tour visitors every April. The best The paper mulberries located where Jefferson’s mulberries planted were planted originally, are strong, healthy last year at part of the story is that net event proceeds are invested young trees. Research on his ornamental Poplar Forest. in restoring and maintaining important public sites in clumps and ovals not only informs us about Above right: Jack Poplar Forest’s landscape, but Jefferson’s Gary, Director of Virginia communities. approach to the clumps and ovals at Monticello Archeology and Landscapes, Poplar as well. Archaeological work on the carriage Forest, shared his turnaround at the front of the house will allow team’s findings with 20 us to base the restoration of that area on a clear the Restoration 21 Monticello, Charlottesville record of Jefferson’s design and intended use. Committee.

Poe Museum, Richmond

The Old Stone House on East Main Street, one of Richmond’s oldest Seventy-five years after the Garden Club undertook the West Lawn structures, has housed the Poe Museum since 1922. The plan of project at Monticello, we are beginning the restoration of Jefferson’s the garden put in place at that time remains essentially the same. kitchen road, the ultimate piece of his circulation system on the Working with the Museum’s board and staff, the GCV hopes to mountaintop. This project is the culmination of research that has rejuvenate the gardens surrounding the house, including the been underway by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation for the last Enchanted Garden, so named because of Poe’s tribute to Helen, 40 years. Visitors to Jefferson’s kitchen will soon walk the same his muse, in which he described the upturned faces of a thousand route he did. Mulberry Row will also be realigned to Jefferson’s roses in an enchanted garden. The gardens will include plants plan including an extension of the row of Mulberry trees. Poe mentioned in his writing such as roses, lilies, tulips and bluebells. Research Fellowships In an ongoing effort to build a comprehensive record of historic gardens in Virginia, the GCV offers two summer fellowships for qualifying graduate-level students from across the country, for the purpose of documentation and research. Fellows work with professional landscape designer Will Rieley of Rieley and Associates in Charlottesville, and have documented 21 sites since the program began in 1996.

Matthew Traucht The William D. Rieley is Megan Turner is The Rudy J. Favretti Fellowship recipient for Fellowship recipient for Summer 2013. Summer 2013. The Favretti Fellowship supports documentation He is interpreting an historic agricultural of historic gardens and landscapes that are privately held. site in rural Southern Virginia, the Reynolds Homestead in Critz, birthplace and boyhood Megan (left) is researching the home of R. J. Reynolds, founder of the landscape of Carter Hall in R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. The Millwood, Virginia, a plantation 717-acre plantation was deeded to Virginia house built in 1797 by Col. Tech in 1969, and is now home to their Nathaniel Burwell. Landscape Continuing Education Center and Forest elements include a formal Resources Research school. The Rieley four-level terraced garden, Fellowship was created for the purpose a wide-bordered walkway and of documenting historic gardens and circular pool. The site is now 22 landscapes that are not privately owned. headquarters to Project HOPE. 23

Garden Club of Virginia Restoration Projects Smith’s Fort Plantation, Surry Wilton, Richmond Adam Thoroughgood House, Kenmore, Fredericksburg St. John’s Mews, Richmond Woodlawn, Alexandria * Virginia Beach Kent-Valentine House, Richmond State Arboretum of Virginia, Woodrow Wilson * Blandy Experimental Farm, Boyce Presidential Library, Staunton Bacon’s Castle, Surry Ker Place, Onancock Stratford Hall, Stratford Yeardley House, Jamestown Belle Grove, Middletown Lee Hall, Newport News Sweet Briar College, Amherst * Belmont, Fredericksburg Mary Washington House, No Longer Under Contract Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg Fredericksburg University of Virginia, * Charlottesville Winchester Burwell-Morgan Mill, Millwood Mary Washington Monument, Leesburg Fredericksburg Washington and Lee Millwood Centre Hill Mansion, Petersburg University, Lexington 81 66 Alexandria Christ Church–Lancaster, Irvington Maymont, Richmond Monticello, Charlottesville • Current GCV Projects Danville Museum of 95 Fine Arts and History, Danville Montpelier, Montpelier Station 29 17 Past GCV Projects Executive Mansion Moses Myers House, Norfolk Capitol Square, Richmond Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon Fredericksburg Fincastle Presbyterian Church, Fincastle Oatlands, Leesburg Staunton Grace Arents Garden, Richmond Poe Museum, Richmond • Charlottesville 81 Stratford Green Spring Gardens, Alexandria Lexington Monticello Point of Honor, Lynchburg 64 95 17 Gunston Hall, Mason Neck 64 Poplar Forest, Lynchburg • 29 Historic Henry County * Prestwould Plantation, Clarksville Richmond Poe Museum Courthouse, Martinsville • * Scotchtown, Beaverdam 64 Historic Portsmouth Poplar Lynchburg * 460 Forest Williamsburg Courthouse, Portsmouth Petersburg 17 Roanoke 460 Historic Smithfield,Blacksburg 81 220 Surry Historic St. Luke’s Church, Smithfield* 13 460 Henry County 85 64 Hollins University, Courthouse 95 Roanoke 29 Norfolk Martinsville John Handley High School, Winchester 58 58 58 Danville GCV Awards

The 2013 Annabel Josephs Inter Club Artistic Award The Trophy is shared by Dolley Madison Garden Club, President, DeLane Porter (left) and The Martinsville Garden Club, President, Sue Rosser.

Common Wealth Award The Common Wealth Award was established Members of The in May 1979 to provide annual grants to the Lynchburg Garden Club celebrate news community projects of the Garden Club of of Lynchburg’s 2012 Virginia’s member clubs. The projects must Common Wealth be in the areas of conservation, beautification, Award. From left, GCV Honorary Members horticulture, preservation or education. The Catherine Madden, 2012 Common Wealth Award was presented Director-at-Large, District 2; Betsy to The Lynchburg Garden Club for its project Worthington, at The Miller-Claytor House Garden, a historic GCV Corresponding home and garden located in Riverside Park. Secretary; May May The award will be used to restore the gardens Gay, Lynchburg GC President; and Charles Gillette designed in 1936 and to install 24 Mina Wood, Past 25 safety railings near the patio. GCV President

Massie Medal for Distinguished Achievement

Susan Cunningham Thompson Nancy Ross Hugo has shared her talents in horticulture and flower For her many contributions to design with members of the GCV for thirty years. She is a garden horticulture, conservation and writer, lecturer, landscape consultant, and a former member of the garden restoration in Virginia, Ashland Garden Club. She has written several books including Susan Cunningham Thompson Remarkable Trees of Virginia as well as being a significant of The Tuckahoe Garden Club contributor to the recently published The Flora of Virginia. of Westhampton received GCV’s oldest and most prestigious award, Frank Robinson has been a the Massie Medal for Distinguished friend and consultant to the Achievement, at May’s Annual GCV since 1992, and has helped Meeting in Charlottesville. facilitate flower shows and A gifted horticulturist, avid educational programs for our conservationist and educator, Susan (left) with Kathy Watson, members. He is the President and Sue has served with distinction as President, The Tuckahoe Garden CEO of Lewis Ginter Botanical a member of the GCV Restoration Club of Westhampton. Garden in Richmond, which Committee. In presenting the award, expanded dramatically under his Missy Buckingham of The Boxwood Garden Club heralded Sue as leadership. He holds degrees in “a steward of the land, a guardian of history and a generous spirit. . . horticulture, Japanese language her knowledge and enthusiasm for garden restoration is unsurpassed.” and psychology. Sue has opened her home, Tuckahoe, to Historic Garden Week visitors for nearly 30 years. Healing Garden $250-499 Honor Roll of Donors Appomattox Mrs. John H. Emma Read July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013 Insurance and Ariail, Jr. Oppenhimer * Financial Services The Garden Club of Virginia is honored to acknowledge Sheila Eddy Baker * Mrs. Chiswell Babcock Auto Service D. L. Perkins * the generosity of our members and friends. Anne G. 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