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Lewis Ginter Maymont: A World of Saturday, September 17, 2016 Gardens in one Estate 8:30 AM Arrive and register at either Lewis Ginter or Maymont with Peggy Singlemann, 9:00 AM Director of Horticulture Talk and Tour On-site www.maymont.org 11:30 AM End of site one tour, depart promptly for second site, lunch on your own 12:45 PM Arrival and registration at Lewis Ginter or Maymont Lewis Ginter: 1:00 PM Getting to Great, Talk and Tour of site two Growing the Garden, 3:30 PM with Grace Chapman El- End site two tour, free to enjoy the garden ton, Director of Horticul- To register: ture http://www.vmga.net/nexteducevent.php www.lewisginter.org Payment is through PayPal, $30 for VMGA members & VCE staff, $40 for non-VMGA. Inside This Issue 2 Butterfly Gardening with Little People, Monticello 5 Wasps and Hornets 3 EOV Garden 6 Wasps and Hornets cont. 4 Weyanoke Sanctuary, Snead interview, Learning Tree 6 NBG, Fruit Tree Pruning 7 Meeting News Enclosure: NMGV CALENDAR Norfolk Office: 830 Southampton Ave. Suite 2069 , Norfolk, VA 23510-1001 office 757.683.2816 fax 757.683.2300 The Germinator AUG 2016 BUTTERFLY GARDENING WITH LITTLE PEOPLE First Presbyterian Preschool reached out to Norfolk Master Gardeners in June with a request for a gardening program for their (very young) students. Mary Ann Nadler and Mildred West, both members of the Class of 2016, put on their “thinking caps and listening ears,” and headed over to discuss the possibilities with Preschool administrators. With a week-long focus on learning about Bugs coming up, all agreed to create three (very short) lessons about gardening for butterflies, geared for children in each age group of 3, 4, and 5 year olds. As luck would have it, Mary Ann had an out-of- town commitment on the big day. But working with Mildred behind the scenes, she organized a terrific presentation – even making fabulous felt puppets to show the children the Lifecycle of the Monarch Butterfly. BTW, the puppet show is a must- see for viewing at a MG membership meeting sometime soon! Cathee Giagnacovo and Kate Melhuish helped Mildred at the Preschool, with one Master Gardener per age group as the chil- dren rotated through the activities. Our agent Andrea Tomlin also came along to lend a hand as needed, especially with those 3-year-olds! And Mary Ann isn’t completely off the hook. She has plans for a return visit to the Preschool later this month to add the finishing touch: caterpillars…just in case the butterflies haven’t found the new plants yet. First Presbyterian Church is beautifully laid out around an enclosed garden dedicated to a late parishioner. Working here, Kate helped the older kids to plant milkweed and nectar flowers. In the same space, the youngest children took (very messy) turns to create puddling dishes for the butterflies to come. Cathee read a story about monarchs called Gotta Go! Gotta Go! to each group of eager learners about all things butterfly! The children then traced the monarch migration pattern to Mexico and back again, reinforcing the lesson. Mildred may have learned as much as the children did about butterflies! She certainly had as much fun as they did. She led the children in making colorful headbands and decorating them with butterfly and flower stickers. Photos by Andrea Tomlin, who also did her share up front with ALL the children’s activities. Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello Head to Charlottesville and the beautiful Monticello this September 9 - 11, and celebrate the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. Known not only as an American Founding Father and the third president, Jefferson was also a devoted gardener, plant breeder and a supporter of sustainable agriculture. Attendees will get to tour the Monticello gardens and learn more about the life of Thomas Jefferson. Friday and Sunday are class based and Saturday is the 2016 Heritage Harvest Festival. This is a family-oriented event with classes and activities for everyone. Go to www.HeritageHarvestFestival.com for the schedule, map and other details. 2 The Germinator AUG 2016 Veggies Galore at EOV Garden! Our East Oceanview Garden is going great. Gill gave an entomology lesson to the 14 students who came out to harvest on Tuesday, July 19. Students were able to take produce home to their families after they enjoyed their garden activities. Donna Both top photos are submitted by Karen Brent. Left is Juanita Snead with Agent Tomlin and Right is Agent Tomlin with Gill Gillespie. Photos below were submitted by Donna of the gar- den, class and the day’s harvest. 3 The Germinator AUG 2016 Weynoke in Full Bloom The Cardinal Flowers are beginning to bloom at Weyanoke, and the flower beds next to the Elizabeth River Trail are giving riders and walkers something beautiful to enjoy. Donna WAVY Interviews Juanita Snead By Blanch Wise Juanita Snead was interviewed Tuesday morning August 9th at the East Ocean View Recreation Center by anchor Tom Schaad of WAVY TV 10. The topics included the commu- nity work she and her husband helped pioneer; many in which she continues to be involved. The EOV children's Garden is also featured with the children in the garden. Learning Tree Training Reminder! August 31st 9a.m.-3 p.m. Don’t forget to bring your bag lunch and come to 300 Shea Drive Chesapeake, VA 4 The Germinator AUG 2016 Unlikely Allies By Andrew Weidman as printed in Grit Magazine September/October 2016, Vol. 134, Issue 5 Many people treat their gardens and backyards like a battlefield, waging war on anything they consider pests. Diseases, weeds, animals and insects all find themselves in the crosshairs. Until recently, the standard tactic was a “nuke ‘em all” approach of chemi- cal warfare, especially where insets are concerned. Times and attitudes are changing, as gardeners have come to realize dead bugs aren’t necessarily the only good bugs. New strategies include insect-friendly practices like crop rotation companion plants, buffer zones, and beneficial insect releases. But one insect ally still can’t get a fair break, thanks to a mostly undeserved reputation for having a bad temper. As a friend of mine noted, no one has ever been described as “happy-go-lucky as a hornet.” For that matter, this may be the only time you’ll ever read the phrase “perky as a paper wasp.” For the most part, people need not fear these underappreciated beneficial insects. That is, assuming you don’t have an allergy to their venom, and as long as you’re not throwing rocks at their nest. Venom allergies can be life threatening, so those allergic get a pass on “live and let live” for nests in bad locations. But unless the nest is near a high-traffic area, there’s no reason to mess with it. Wasps and hornets don’t go out of their way to pick a fight, regardless of popular opinion. They will however, defend their nest vigorously if thy feel it is threatened. That being said, you’re fine as long as you stay away. How far is far enough? For paper wasps that means no closer than 4 or 5 feet from the nest, and 10 to 15 feet for a hornet’s nest. Yellow jackets will get excited if you step on their nest entrance or approach it with a lawnmower. Wasps and hornets belong in the order Hymenoptera, along with bees and ants. It’s a big group, with some 150,000 species known worldwide.. Most gardeners recognize and value the efforts of solitary parasite wasps, such as braconid wasps, feeding on tomato hornworm caterpillars. Most tomato growers at one point or another have seen a hornworm, covered by and being eaten by pupating larva of braconid wasps, a cocoon resembling a grain of rice. However, this article is concerned not with solitary wasps, but colonial wasps, particularly members of two genera: Polistes (paper wasps) and Dolichovespula (hornets). A little trivia about Dolichovespula: They aren’t true hornets; they’re aerial nesting yellow jackets. There is only one true hornet in North America, an introduced species that looks like a giant yellow jacket. Some things are just never simple. Hornets and paper wasps build their nests out of a grey papery material consisting of chewed, pulped wood fiber and saliva. Paper wasps build a single layer of cells resembling honeycomb in a sheltered location. Favorite spots include roof overhangs, abandoned birdhouses, and inside swing-set pipe frames. Hornets build multilevel nests enclosed in a paper shell in heavy brush or tree branch- es, often high in the air. Their nests can reach the size of a football or even bigger. Ground-building yellow jackets will commandeer abandoned mouse burrows or similar cavities for their galleries. I know what you’re thinking: Why on earth would I want wasps hanging around in the first place? Probably the first thing you may think of is pollination, and it’s true, wasps will occasionally visit flowers, gathering nectar for a quick pick-me-up. That being said, wasps and hornets don’t do much pollinating. The real value to having them in the garden is their predatory nature. They hunt down and consume impressive numbers of insect prey and their eggs, especially pest caterpillars such as cabbageworms, tomato horn- worms, tent caterpillars, and corn earworms. Adults will feed it to their brood. Tyler B. Corey, author of “Modeling the Impact of an Exotic Invasive on Community Structure,” estimates that a paper wasp colony can consume up to 1,000 caterpillars in a season, de- pending on the size of the colony.
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