Eugene Garden Club. Work Party Tues. April 29 Shelton-McMurphey-Johnson House Planting & more 11 a.m. Lots to do. Elections Coming Up for EGC

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1 Eugene Garden Club News April 2014 Volume 9, Issue 7 Eugene Garden Club Editors: Sherry Cossey, Georgia Zahar & Janet Marcisz 1645 High Street 57 members Eugene, OR President s Corner What a welcome sight. Spring is exploding all around us! A surprising number of plants have actually survived the cold winter, including the weeds, of course. Many of the dahlia tubers I dug and stored have eyed up and are begging to be potted up while waiting to be planted around Mother's Day. Our garden club potting party at Gail's is coming soon, so it's a good time to do some serious looking around the yard. We now have 2 new trees in the early stages of bringing a new and welcome look to our club house. One will have beautiful Fall foliage and one will have blossoms. Many thanks to the "tree team's" efforts to make this happen. The SMJ House property is beginning to come alive, and a few good members are getting down and dirty in these efforts! We had another really fun and profitable NERD Night. Thanks for all the great energy put into that fundraiser again this year. We've learned more about birds in our area this past month and some of us are inspired to attract them to our gardens and even house them as well. EGC is preparing for our District Flower Show which will be held in Cottage Grove this year. This gives us an opportunity to share horticulture, create designs and crafts and learn from others. So many interesting and enjoyable projects to get involved in. Pick something you'd like to explore and join your garden friends in the fun! Don't forget to sign up for the May bus trip and bring a friend. See you April 15th. Happy Planting,.... Camille Noel, President Eugene Garden Club Meeting Tuesday, April 15, :30 a.m. Brown Bag Lunch 12:15 p.m. p Meeting Horticulture Garden Club Boutique 1:00 p.m. Shape Your Bouquet with a Punch! By Scott Sanderland, from Shamrock Flowers HOSTESSES: GREETER: Ruth Fry*, Sharon Wilson, Holly Miller, Collette Charig Shari Hewitt Elections Coming Up for EGC Our EGC Bylaws dictate that a Nominating Committee ( two members from the Board of Directors and one from the membership-at-large ) shall present at our April meeting one or more names for each office, providing also that additional nominations may be made from the floor at this meeting. The election of officers shall be by ballot at the May meeting and installation of officers and trustees will be at the June meeting. (If you wish to nominate someone other than those listed on the slate of officers below, please do ask them first if they would serve if elected.) Thank you Dorothy C., Ann R., and Juanita M. President: Camille Noel Treasurer: Jennifer Rabner Vice-President: Ann Rollins Corresponding Secretary:??? Recording Secretary:??? Trustee: Pat Kramer Work Party Tues. April 29 Shelton-McMurphey-Johnson House Planting & more 11 a.m. Lots to do

2 Plant Nerd Night A Success... Sharon Blade Plant Nerd Night has come and gone; and it was wonderful to have the house packed with a good program and excellent time with garden nursery experts. Dorothy Cruickshank, kept us laughing, and hats off to the five EGC nursery representatives who did a wonderful job and took good care of our guests. They were Camille Noel,, Sharon Wilson, Ann Rollins, Peggy Funkhouser and Marilyn Hunter. Special thanks to Janet Calvert who operated the projector and worked with Dorothy using. the pictures that Shauna Hill provided. People were in stitches! Also, Nerd Night stars were Sherry, Cossey, Shari Hewitt (with boot cast on broken ankle), Bonnie Westfall and Carolyn Boyle, who sold more raffle tickets this year. Ruth Fry and her helpers, Ruth Michaelson, and Catherine Taylor worked their magic at feeding everyone. In the future we will have cookies rather than cupcakes much easier to deal with. Why did it take us so long to figure that one out! Hummmm. Thanks to all who helped set up, carry plants and clean up. You are appreciated a whole big bunch, Nerd Night is successful only because of all of YOU! We hope you all had fun, got great new plants for your garden, and enjoyed the evening. Thank you from the committee Ruth Fry, Sharon Blade, and Dorothy Cruickshank. Oregon Plant Fair 2014 Eugene Garden Club members have been potting up hundreds of plants in preparation for the annual Oregon Plant Fair at Alton Baker Park on Saturday, May 10, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The EGC potting party is 1-3:00 p.m. this Wednesday, April 11, at Gail Karlsen s home. Our Willamette District teams with the Avid Gardeners, another local garden group, to put on the annual sale which provides our community with lower cost plants from our clubs as well as bringing in funds for our the Eugene Garden Club projects building maintenance.. Vendors from up and down the Willamette Valley will have booths, both plants and garden art, with all their newest plants for the public to purchase. And of course we realize a percentage of that. Sign up with Chairman Sharon Wilson to help either on Friday or Saturday at our April meeting on the 15 th. We need a few people to help with set up for the whole area on Friday, some to help vendors load in, and we set up the perimeter fencing. On Saturday we need people to help in the booth with tags and cashiering, being rovers, helping with traffic control, the Fair s holding area, and clean-up (at 2 p.m.) If you have tables (we need many), wagons, carts, or a canopy that we can use, please sign up for that too. Eugene Garden Club To Travel North in May The regular May meeting for EGC is planned to be a bus trip to the Portland area on Tuesday, May 20 th with 3 big highlights: 1. Lan Lu Chinese Gardens in downtown Portland 2. Lunch at the Oregon Culinary Institute 3. Joy Creek Nursery in Scappoose (wonderful display gardens as well as plants to purchase) Bus will load at 7:45 a.m. at the Shopco on Coburg Road and leave at 8:00 a.m. Return time is c.5:00 p.m. We still need 20 more people to SIGN UP for the trip to make it a go. Please invite your friends and family. Everyone who has signed up should send our checks for $41.00 to Sharon Blade, 3199 Marvin Dr., Eugene, She will also collect our money at our April meeting, but will not cash our checks, until we know for sure that we will be able to do this trip. We have set a deadline for a green light or not on May 6 at the Board Meeting! So...don t miss out.. It should be fun; lots to see, and do sit back and enjoy! The Chinese Gardens should be in grand display, the culinary students prepare wonderful lunches and Joy Creek is a must see for every gardener. SIGN UP.

3 Rockin 50 s In the Garden Willamette District has an NGC Standard Flower show scheduled for Friday-Saturday, April Committee members will set up on Sunday the 24 th, and entries will be accepted Friday morning, 7:00-9:30 a.m., followed by judging. Come and bring your friends Friday afternoon and Saturday. If you don t already have a flower show schedule, be sure to get one from Chairman, Sherry Cossey, at our meeting next week. If you have questions about Horticulture, please call Phoebe Staples, , or about Design classes call Juanita Manley, The show features class titles and staging centered around music of the 50 s. At our meeting next week, we will spend a little time on how to select and display horticulture. Almost ANYTHING that you have grown is acceptable in one class or another including potted plants, trees, shrubs, flowers, etc. Designs are a little different whereas you need to try to come up with a floral arrangement that meets the qualifications of the class you are entering. Design classes include Traditional Mass, small Angular, Creative Line, Traditional Line Mass, All-foliage, Design in a Shoe, Design using Water; Functional Table for 2, Capsule Table, and Exhibition Table, Type 2. Entries in the Design Division are made in advance by contacting Camille Noel, by April 18 at or cbnoel2@comcast.net. Horticulture Entries do not have to be made in advance, but you may want to pickup some entry cards at our club meeting so they can be prepared in advance to save last minute scurrying. Remember a big purpose for Flower Shows is education, both for the public and for members. They also stimulate interest in horticulture and floral design, provide an outlet for creative expression, and convey to the community objectives of NGC. Hey Good Lookin Purple People Eater Hot Diggity Chantilly Lace Great Balls of Fire Earth Angel Rock Around the Clock Wake Up Little Suzie Crazy Love is a Many Splendored Thing Little Darlin Blue Suede Shoes Standin on the Corner April Love POT UP PLANTS FOR SALE New member Gail Karlsen will host a Potting Party at her home this Friday, April 11, 1-3:00 p.m., 2439 E. Irwin Way, in the Bethel area, in preparation for the sale where you can come and either bring plants to pot up or just come to help pot up other people s plants. Good looking plants attract the most attention and sell first! Come in appropriate clothes, gloves, garden shoes, and bring your favorite potting tools and any of those wonderful adoptable plants from your garden. Or just come and help. It is wonderful if you have your plants' common and botanical names as well as preferred growing conditions to mark on the white tags (use #2 pencil.) Tags are available ahead of time at the garden club meeting as well as at the potting party. It s a great idea to have a picture of the plant when it is at its peak to help buyers know what they are purchasing. Use seed catalogs or go online to find color photos. Customers like to know what color the flowers are going to be too. For members who pot their own plants at home, we will have a supply there of potting soil, pots, and blank tags that you can pick up. Please bring buckets for the soil. Flower Arranging Class The next Flower Arranging Class will be held this Thursday, April 17, 9:30 noon. The design to be studied will be any one from the Rockin 50s in the Garden flower show schedule. Members are also asked to bring a sample of horticulture to practice entrance procedures. Go for the Flower Show, Stay for the Day Publicity Chairman for the flower show, Colette Kimball, published this list of places to see while in Cottage Grove for the Flower show: All-America City Square: garden maintained by CGGC at 7 th & Main Village Green Resort Gardens: 725 Row River Road Page 3 Heather Garden: 1515 Village Drive, near Village Green Territorial Seed Company Store: nursery & seeds, 20 Palmer Ave. Bookmine: sells plants primarily from Log House Plants Shady Oaks: locally grown hanging baskets and more, Hwy 99 South Covered Bridge Tour: 6 covered bridges within 10 miles of downtown

4 INS & OUTS OF THE EUGENE GARDEN CLUB... Members Gail Karlsen new member 2439 E. Irwin Way Eugene, OR , Sidewalk Trees After months of dealing with the City of Eugene, Friends of Trees, and EGC members, the Committee of Sharon Wilson, Dorothy Cruickshank, Ann Rollins, Juanita Manley, and Sister Janet Marcisz, had a Tree Planting Party Saturday morning, April 5. Friends of Trees under the direction of Jeff Chandler did the actual planting after the City had removed the trees, our Trustees, Ruth Fry, chairman, arranged for our old sidewalk to be removed and then redone after the City came out and ground all the tree roots and the 2 stumps. It looks great now! The north tree is a Tupelo or Nyssa sylvatica which will have great fall color and the south tree is a Flowering Ash or Fraxinus ormes which will have white flowers. THE WILD TURKEY (Meleagris gallopavo) The egg of is white, buff, brown, or buff. Page 4 The wild turkey breeds in open deciduous forests, along forest edges in the clearing. They nest on the ground. Apparent sharing of the nest by several females has been recorded. The nest is a shallow hole, sparsely lined with nearby vegetation or dead leaves. Inside diameter is 12 inches. Breeding season begins mid-march. There are usually 8-12 eggs, sometimes up to 20. Incubation is by female alone for 28 days. the wild turkey yellowish or marked with purplish-brown Young are tended by female alone. They feed themselves and are brooded and guarded by the adult. The wings grow rapidly and young can fly into trees in 2 weeks. Broods remain together until winter. Georgia Zahar, Birds and Wildlife Chairman TREES by Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree. (Read by Dorothy Cruickshank at tree planting party.) Pacific Region Convention Eugene 2015 Committee Meeting Hilton Hotel, 11 a.m. Tues., April 22 Photographs below -- Left: Ann Rollins, Juanita Manley, crew lead Jeff Chandler & crew; Middle: Marilyn Hunter, Jean Damon, Sharon Wilson, Dorothy Cruickshank, Juanita Manley & crew; Right: Crew plants the Flowering Ash with the Tupelo in the foreground.

5 Page 5 April May June July What s Happening 1 EGC Board Meeting, 1:00 p.m. 3 LC Dahlia Society s Tuber Auction, Celeste Campbell Center, 7 p.m. 11 Potting Party at Gail Karlsen s, 1-3:00 p.m. 15 EGC Regular Meeting 17 Flower Arranging Class, 9:30 a.m. 22 Pacific Region Convention 2015 mtg. Hilton Hotel, 11 a.m. 24 Set up for Flower Show 2 p.m Rockin 50 s in the Garden, Willamette District Flower Show in Cottage Grove 26 Master Gardener s Spring Garden Fair 29 SMJ Work Party 11 a.m. 6 EGC Board Meeting, 1:00 p.m. 9 Set-up for Oregon Plant Fair Alton Baker Park 10 Oregon Plant Fair Alton Baker Park, Lane County Dahlia Society, Parking Lot Sale at Key Bank on River Road, 9 4, Ðahlias Are Key 18 Mt. Pisgah Arboretum Wildflower Festival 20 EGC Bus Trip, 8:00 a.m., to Portland area 3 EGC Board Meeting, 1:00 p.m. 17 EGC Regular Meeting, Potluck at Sharon Wilson s Home OSFGC State Convention, Wilsonville 3 Pacific Region Convention, Coeur d Alene, ID 11 Willamette District Picnic, Junction City G.C Lane County Fair Eugene Garden Club clubhouse with new entry ramp, railing, brand new sidewalk, new entry area lighting, and 2 new little sidewalk trees as of 4/5/14.

6 Eugene Garden Club Sherry Cossey Willowdale Eugene, OR In the Garden in April Plant broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, chard, Chives, endive, leeks, peas, radishes, rhubarb, rutabagas, spinach, and turnips. Fertilizer lawn, bait for slugs and clean up hiding places. Do NOT cut foliage of spring-flowering bulbs. Prune spring-blooming shrubs and trees AFTER blossoms fade. Amend soil with organic material in preparation for spring planting. Plant gladioli, alyssum, phlox, marigolds, and other hardy transplants. Fertilize roses with 1 T. fish oil (5-1-1) to gallon water per each Rose bush by 22 nd of the month.