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Earth Founders Fund Talking with Shirley Meneice THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA Winter 2016 12503 - GCA Winter 2016_Layout 1 11/18/15 11:17 AM Page 1 GCA Bulletin Winter 2016 The purpose of The Garden Club of America is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, to share the advantages of association by means of educational meetings, conferences, correspondence Dig deeper... and publications, and to restore, be ENCHANTED. be DELIGHTED. be INSPIRED. improve, and protect the quality of BANK TO BEND WITH LADY CAROLYN ELWES the environment through educational Saturday, March 12, 2016 programs and action in the fields Join featured speaker Lady Carolyn Elwes of Colesbourne Park, England’s greatest snowdrop garden, for her lecture, of conservation and civic improvement. “Snowdrops at Colesbourne, Gloucestershire.” Enjoy an afternoon workshop on the bulbs of Winterthur’s renowned March Bank, a sale of rare and unusual snowdrops and other Submissions and Advertising plants, and tours of the Winterthur Garden. Lecture: $10 per Member. $20 per nonmember. Registration encouraged. The Bulletin welcomes letters, articles with photographs, story ideas, and original artwork from members of GCA clubs. WHAT’S IN BLOOM? Email: [email protected] for more information or visit the Spring is the perfect time to stroll Henry Francis du Pont’s Bulletin Committee page in the members area of the GCA masterful 60-acre garden and enjoy a succession of website: www.gcamerica.org for the submission form. showstopping blooms. Spring festivals celebrate the March Bank, Sundial Garden, Azalea Woods, and Peony Garden. Submission deadlines are February 15 (Spring), May 15 Narrated tram tours available. To discover what’s in bloom, (Summer), August 15 (Fall). visit gardenblog.winterthur.org. ‡† Interested in advertising? Email [email protected] or call (917) 854-1637. DAFFODIL DAY • Saturday, April 16, 2016 The Garden Club of America is a 501(c)(3) organization. The Discover the beauty of the daffodil and enjoy Winterthur’s amazing daffodil display! ‡† GCA Bulletin is published four times a year for club members by The Garden Club of America, 14 East 60th Street, New York, AZALEAS AND BLUEBELLS • Saturday, May 7, 2016 NY 10022. Enjoy the spectacle of thousands of azalea blossoms and acres of wildflowers! ‡† On the Cover Lower Antelope Canyon, located near Page, AZ. Photo by Debbie PEONIES AND PRIMROSES • Sunday, May 15, 2016 Laverell, The Garden Workers, Zove V. Called Hazdistazí by Winterthur’s peonies and Quarry Garden primroses will be in the Navajo (meaning “spiral rock arches”), these sandstone slot full bloom as we celebrate this spectacular spring display in the canyons were formed by erosion. Winterthur Garden. ‡† “Light from above bouncing off the canyon walls below the ‡Included with admission †Members free earth’s surface creates the magnificent colors.” For a complete list of programs, call 800.448.3883 or visit winterthur.org. Photograph ©John Grimshaw/Colesbourne Gardens LLP Winterthur is nestled in Delaware’s beautiful Brandywine Valley on Route 52, midway between New York City and Washington, D.C. Features winter 2016 The Science Garden Sharing the 28 of Soil 32 Cemeteries 44 Earth What exactly is soil? By Madeline Mayhood A Focus on the Wildlife By Lorraine Alexander Including: Kokosing Nature in Yellowstone Preserve By Karen Arsenault Winterville Mounds 2 | From the President 15 | GCA Scholar 49 | Pollinators in In Every Issue Julia Schock Winter 5 | From the Bulletin What’s the Buzz about? Chairman 16 | GCA Profile 12 | Suzanne Perry Shirley Meneice 20 | 6 | 2016–17 Marie Thomas 37 | Nominating Slate 19 | 2015 Horticulture Lulu Lubbers Conference 58 | Club Milestones 10 | Destination From Mountains to Minneapolis/St. Paul 62 | NewsWorthy Sound 50 | GCA Judging 71 | Bulletin Board 22 | 2016 Founders Committee Fund Finalists Smiling Faces 72 | Book Reviews 38 | Earth: Clubs 52 | GCA Program 73 | In Memoriam Taking Action Committee 75 | Repeat Bloomers P4P Fundraising Ideas 76 | Dig Deeper 40 | Pollinator Quiz 55 | Zone Meetings Parting Shot How Much Do You 61 | Gems at the GCA Know? Kathleen Kellogg 47 | Our GCA History Meserve 13 | GCA Scholarships From Crypts to Liz Putnam & Pollinators Sally Brown The Bulletin :: Winter 2016 1 2 The Bulletin :: Winter 2016 From President Anne Copenhaver Executive Board If You Like Tomatoes… Cycles. As gardeners, we recognize that GCA Executive Board cycles are central to our lives, whether those 2015-16 cycles are governed by nature’s seasons or by Anne Copenhaver, GCA President The Garden Club of America’s July 1- Twin City Garden Club, Zone VII June 30 calendar. With January’s arrival, we Dede Petri, First Vice President are at the midpoint of our organization’s Georgetown Garden Club, Zone VI year. Committees are leading, meetings are ongoing, publications are being sent to Diana Boyce, Vice President press, budgets are being submitted, policies St. George’s Garden Club, Zone VI are being referenced, the Executive Board Debbie Edwards, Vice President is studying and acting, Headquarters is GC of New Haven, Zone II approaching renovation, the Twin Cities are Laura Haley, Vice President anticipating our arrival...and we have put The Little GC of Rye, Zone III GCA President Anne Copenhaver our gardens to bed for the winter, earth on our hands. Mary Kent, Vice President Earth, the theme determined by the Bulletin Committee for this Winter issue. May I Plainfield Garden Club, Zone IV share a paragraph from an article that appeared in our neighborhood magazine last spring, Phyllis Lee, Vice President written by a local ten-year-old boy? The GC of Honolulu, Zone XII Imagine this: If everyone started making their own little, green, clean, effective, SaSa Panarese, Vice President renewable, and efficient garden, then where do you think this community would Milton Garden Club, Zone I be? If you like tomatoes and I like potatoes, we could have fries and ketchup, if Lloyd Brown, Corresponding Secretary we share and trade our produce. Maybe there would be less sickness, for all we The Weeders, Zone V know. Maybe there would be less hunger around the world. Debby Melnyk, Recording Secretary From a different perspective, Wendell Berry brings into focus the despoiling of the Late Bloomers GC, Zone VIII earth. In an op-ed by Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry published in the New York Times, Hilary Salatich, Treasurer January 4, 2009, the issues cited then included soil loss, industrialization of agriculture, Indianapolis GC, Zone X unsustainable food supply, toxic pollution. And the issues now? Who amongst you recall Katie Downes, Director Serving the powerful poem Berry wrote and read when he accepted the Cynthia Pratt Laughlin on the Executive Board Medal in 2008? (The poem is reprinted on page 76.) GC of Englewood, Zone IV Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall—these are the Bulletin editions we eagerly await. Like you, I turn the pages with wonder at the accomplishments reflected, and with awe at the Jennifer Barnette, Chief Operating Officer challenges presented. Earth. I think of the National Park System, of nature conservancies, of the 1700 land trusts across the country. I have renewed hope and commitment that we can make important things happen in the fertile environment provided by The Garden Club of America. As my little ten-year-old neighbor wrote: “If we all do it, we can do it.” My warm January wish for each of you embodies traditional New Year’s optimism: “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring!”—Lilly Pulitzer The Bulletin :: Winter 2016 200 LEXINGTON AVENUE [At 32nd street] • fourth fLOOR, suite 416 • NEW YORK, NY 10016 TO ORDER CALL 212/839-0500 • fAx 212/839-0501 • www.PENNOYERNEWMAN.COM Get Up Close with an Early Morning Tour • Private guided tour of the exhibits before the show opens • One day shoppers delight card and a free gift bag • Access to the PHS Members Lounge $105 per person Pre-registration is required For information or reservations contact Johanna Schoeller at 215.988.8897 or [email protected] theflowershow.com The Bulletin :: Winter 2016 From the Editor Ann Price Davis Bulletin Committee Last week (early December) I raced outside when I Bulletin Committee 2015–16 heard a distant squawking. Looking up, way up, I spied Ann Price Davis, Chairman a herd of sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) on their way Glenview Garden Club, Zone VII south—Louisville happens to be on a major flyway. Louise Wells, Vice Chairman Today, however, I was driven from home entirely by Twin City GC, Zone VII the cacophony of mowers, blowers, and those huge leaf vacuums. If any cranes happened to be flying Amy Dilatush, Advertising Manager overhead, I would never have known. So when I think Nantucket GC, Zone I about Earth, this issue’s theme, I vacillate between two Penelope Ross, Copy Editor extremes—awe and vexation. Fairfield GC, Zone II I hope this edition of the Bulletin elicits a more moderate reaction. Lorraine Alexander’s soil article zone representatives: Eliza and Emmy Bird with me brought to mind a recipe for making the perfect Ruthie Barker, compost (you know: no meat left-overs or greasy Fox Hill GC, Zone I anything, not too many grass cuttings or pine needles, etc.—everything in moderation). Laura Case, Graphic Design We follow our own recipe in putting the magazine together: the must-haves, input from New Canaan GC, Zone II committees, regular contributors, club reports of all stripes—even the “small news,”—then our own take on the theme. Lorraine Alexander, Editor-at-large, Soil was a given. Burials came about after a chance conversation with Julie Johnson, Millbrook GC, Zone III Little GC of Columbus (Zone X), an involved alumna of Kenyon College who told me Pamela Hirsch, GC of Morristown, about the Kokosing Nature Preserve.