October 27, 2015 Grapevine Convention Center 1209 S. Main Street, Grapevine, TX Social 9:30 A.M. Meeting and Program 10:00 A.M.

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1 2011, 2014 THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE October 27, 2015 Grapevine Convention Center 1209 S. Main Street, Grapevine, TX Social 9:30 A.M. Meeting and Program 10:00 A.M. THANK YOU TO OUR HOSTESSES: Chair, Debbie Monahan, Lisa Anderson, Pam Braak, Candy Cawley, Priscilla Keifer, Mary Ledeboer, Carol Lee, Jamie Moser, Cheryl Neumann, Carole Nadeau, Sally Perexempel, Susan Sporl Grapevine Garden Club October Program Regal, awe-inspiring, masters of the skies, woods and prairies how do birds of prey help to balance life in our urban neighborhoods? Elizabeth Bitter, Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge Education Naturalist, will discuss the important roles they play in controlling prey populations and the diseases they may carry. Candace Kyler Programs In this issue page October Program 1 President s Message 2 Calendar of Events 3 October Birthdays 3 New Members 3 Save the Dates! 4 West Texas Street Work Day 4 Butterfly Flutterby 5 Fall Plant Sale 5 Holiday Craft Bazaar 7 Gardeners on the Go: Dallas 7 Holiday Luncheon 8 Tree Farm Work Day 9 Gardeners on the Go: Sept. 30 th 10 Gardens on View 11 GrapeFest Co-Chairs 11 Rose Trial Data Collection 12 District II Fall Convention 12 Fall Plant Sale Flyer 13

2 President s Message Happy Fall! The sun is casting more shade on my yard, and I m beginning to see the annual crepe myrtle leaf drop, unfortunately, heading toward my pool! Fall brings one of our busiest seasons for the Grapevine Garden Club. We have the upcoming New Members Coffee, which I hope those of you who have recently become members plan to attend. There is quite a bit of information available to you at this informal gathering, and you will gain a wonderful insight into our many activities and hopefully find one that you would like to become part of! Coming up very shortly on October 17 th is our Fall Plant Sale coupled with the Butterfly Flutterby both located at the Grapevine Botanical Gardens. We are still in need of volunteers, so please do consider this as a wonderful opportunity to donate your time on this day. Further information about these two events can be found within this October Newsletter. Fall is a great time to plant shrubs and trees, so hopefully you will visit the Fall Plant Sale and find just the perfect item to plant in your yard. On a personal note, I have a major milestone birthday coming up. To celebrate that major milestone, we just planted a Fire Dragon Shantung Maple in our yard. I ve taken the liberty of attaching its picture along with a picture of the two vegetables I purchased at the recent herb and vegetable sale at our September Gardens on View. The vegetables seem to be thriving in this cooler weather. Fire Dragon Shantung Maple Writing of Gardens on View, I would like you to consider volunteering your garden as one of our future Gardens on View. This would be a great opportunity for your fellow Grapevine Garden Club members to see the results of your hard work and walk away with ideas for their personal yard. I hope to see you at the Fall Plant Sale, the Butterfly Flutterby and the upcoming October General Meeting! Sharon Swagerty page 2

3 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Date Event Location October 12 October 13 October 17 New Member Coffee, 10:00 A.M. Work Day: A great excuse to wear Halloween gardening gear! Plant Native Plant Now Sale 9:00 A.M. 1:00 P.M. Butterfly Flutterby 10:00 A.M. 2:00 P.M. Bessie Mitchell House Grapevine Botanical Gardens West Texas Street Grapevine, Texas Grapevine Botanical Gardens Heritage Park Grapevine, Texas October 27 Gardens on View Check your for directions. October 29 Gardeners on the Go: Shopping Trip Canton, Texas November 3 Rose Trial Garden Data Collection West Dove Loop at Shady Brook November 10 Veterans Day Parade Gardeners on the Go: Texas Discovery Gardens October Birthdays Downtown Grapevine Dallas Fair Park Butterfly House Beverly Bravo Doug Evans Lisa Adams Grove Gayle Hall Debbie Hooker Susan Jessup Ginger Jones Mary Ledeboer Tammy Meeker Dick Pafford Nancy Searl Sharon Swagerty Chuck Voelker Barbara Williams Welcome New Members page 3

4 Date Event Location November 24 General Meeting: Craft Bazaar Grapevine Convention Center December 8 Holiday Luncheon Lancaster Theatre Main Street, Grapevine, TX Workshop: January 26, 2016 Great Backyard Bird Count Mitchell House February 23, Workshop: Homeowners Guide to Grapevine Botanical Gardens 2016 Sprinkler Systems March 22, 2016 Workshop: Container Gardens West Texas Street Workday Tuesday, October 13 th, 2015, 9:00 A.M. Our next workday is coming up soon, so if you missed signing up at the September 22 nd General Meeting, don t hesitate to send me an or give me a call I m in the book. It will be a busy morning, and since it is the month of Halloween, come play in the dirt, dressed for the occasion and I do mean Halloween!!!! Quoth the Raven, Nevermore. Edgar Allen Poe We will be weeding the beds after a long hot summer and planting pansies, so bring your weeding tools and trowels. I will provide water to keep us all energized, so grab a bottle to keep you going. Our new committee has been busy, digging up a stump, removing a huge Vitex and a very sick rose bush, so we will be good to go on our work day. Others have been walking the property to see what we need to accomplish that morning. When we have all finished our work, we will head over to Main Street Bakery and drink some coffee and visit. All in all, it will be business as usual, which means lots of fun. So come along and play in the dirt with us! Suzi Guckel Chair, West Texas Street Project Co-chairs: Pat Mingus, Sandy Guthrie, Candy Cawley, Jamie Moser, Doug Herndon and Joe Krimm page 4

5 Celebrate the Monarch at Butterfly Flutterby, Saturday, October 17 th. Everyone is invited to celebrate the migration of the monarch butterfly on its way to Mexico. The 18 th annual Butterfly Flutterby (BFFB) is a free, family friendly event. The Grapevine Botanical Gardens is the perfect place to enjoy the festivities. The event is Saturday, October 17 th from 10:00 A.M. 2:00 P.M. and includes a parade, butterfly exhibits, migration station, interactive games, scavenger hunt, butterfly crafts, and the GGC annual native plant and tree sale! There will be several butterfly releases and the winners of the GGC Kids Art Contest, Journey of the Butterfly", will be announced. GGC sponsors a booth selling bug boxes, butterfly nets, wings and wands for kids of all ages! The expected festival attendance is and is the club s largest volunteer effort. If you have not already done so, please choose a volunteer time that works for you (8:30 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. or 11:30 A.M. to 2:30 P.M.). BFFB promises to be a fun and educational event for GGC members, families, friends, grandparents and the community. Don t miss it! We need your help even if you are only available for a short time! This is a great way to make new garden club friends! Questions? Contact Margaret Meharg or Gloria Land. Margaret Meharg and Gloria Land Butterfly Flutterby Fall Plant Sale Saturday, October 17 th, 9:00 A.M. 1:00 P.M. Grapevine Botanical Gardens The plant sale will be held at the Botanical Gardens at Heritage Park, 411 Ball Street, Grapevine. Featured are butterfly nectar and host plants, native and adapted trees, shrubs, and perennials. Master Gardeners & Citizen Foresters will be available for guidance. Cash, check or charge will be accepted. Proceeds Benefit the GGC Scholarship and Civic Programs. GGC members received a 10% page 5

6 discount. There is still time to volunteer to help. Contact Sally Hart, plant sale volunteer coordinator. Try grasses for landscaping interest. Whether you use them as screens, accents, or focal points, let ornamental grasses play a role in your garden or landscape. Grasses are great to add height, subtle color and texture to your garden design. Many grasses have distinctive seed heads or colored plumage in the fall and can provide highlights during a time when the rest of your garden has given out with the summer heat. Native grasses can provide nutrition to preserve the biodiversity of wildlife at all levels, from insects to Gulf muhly song birds. Several grasses will be offered during the GGC fall plant sale including native species. Choose from among Weeping Anthericum Lily Grass, Blue grama Blonde Ambition, Blue Lyme Blue Dune, Little bluestem, Gulf muhly pink and white cloud varieties, Sideoats grama and Indian grass. Trees add beauty to their surroundings. Beyond aesthetics, trees perform important functions of absorbing air pollutants and releasing oxygen. They reduce storm water runoff and erosion; provide shade, screening and wildlife habitat. They are well worth the investment in dollars and time to get established and will provide years of benefits. Some of the trees being offered at the plant sale are: Mexican Plum, Ann Christmas Jewel Holly Magnolia, Burr Oak, Sawtooth Oak, Overcup Oak, Jefferson Elm, Christmas Jewel Holly, Greenleaf Holly, Brown Turkey Fig, Black Gum, and American Hornbeam. This is just a sample of the varieties of tree that will be available at the sale. The complete plant sale availability list will be distributed via the week of the sale. Chuck Voelker Plant Sale page 6

7 Holiday Craft Bazaar It's time for the annual GGC Crafty Corner Holiday Bazaar to be held before and after the November 24 th General Meeting. Do you have a crafting hobby? Do you bead, paint, bake, or sew? Would you like to sell items or simply donate a crafted good (or goods)? GGC encourages members who would like to sell or donate their handcrafted item(s) for the Holiday Bazaar to get crafting! It will be a perfect time to do a little gift shopping and get that special item before the holiday rush. If you would like to sell your items, a $7 donation is requested to participate. If you would like to donate or sell items, please contact Sally Hart. Sally Hart Ways and Means/Other Gardeners on the Go - Dallas Exploring the Texas Discovery Gardens with Entomologist John Watts Tuesday, November 10 th 9:10 A.M. 1:30 P.M. Tour fee $5 per person Tour limited to 30 attendees Having heard horticulturist Roger Sanderson speak at the September meeting, we are now ready to explore and learn more about butterflies at the Texas Discovery Gardens located in Dallas historic Fair Park. Entomologist, John Watts, will present a program, The Beneficial Garden, so that we can learn how insects keep our garden healthy and how to attract them. According to Watts, insects and wildlife are the best indicators of garden health! He will then take us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the two-story Rosine Smith Sammons Butterfly House and Insectarium transporting us into a tropical rainforest, complete with hundreds of free-flying butterflies. page 7

8 John Watts was born and reared in north Florida where he developed an early interest in insects and began studying them at six years of age. He received a masters degree in entomology from the University of Florida where he specialized in insect husbandry. It was also in college that he began a lifelong interest in the biology and systematics of leaf beetles. With over 20 years of experience in the live butterfly and arthropod exhibit business and an inordinate fondness for nature in general, he gladly shares his wealth of knowledge at Texas Discovery Gardens. Susan Boelens, Joan Kowalski, Sandy Kancavicus, Gloria Land, Chris George, 2009 Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly... The Grapevine Garden Club Holiday Luncheon will be held Tuesday, December 8 th at the Lancaster Theatre, 300 South Main Street, Grapevine, Texas. Social time is 10:30 A.M. followed by the luncheon at 11:00. The cost is $ Luncheon this year will be Stuffed Chicken Breast, baked and stuffed with ricotta cheese and spinach and topped with a sundried Following the program and tour, you can enjoy your brown-bag lunch indoors in the Canopy Room or at picnic tables located in the surrounding gardens. The Texas Discovery Gardens is a 7.5 acre organic botanic garden featuring native and adapted plants selected for their benefits in providing habitat for native wildlife, including bugs, butterflies and birds. The gardens are maintained using sustainable methods that conserve water and help to protect the environment. You may register for tours with Joetta King by home phone, or at the general meeting. Driving directions and tour information will be ed to tour attendees about a week before the tour date. If you register for a tour and fail to receive the tour information, please contact Joetta. If you do not use , you must provide a self-addressed, stamped, size 10 envelope at the general meeting. page 8

9 tomato sauce, served with snow peas and smashed sweet potato, bread and butter, house salad and iced tea. Dessert will be blueberry cobbler. Check, cash or credit card for $23.00 will be accepted at the October and November meetings. The final day for reservations is November 24 (our general meeting date). No reservations will be accepted at the door. Entertainment will be provided by the Colleyville Heritage High School's Jazz Choir, Ovation, under the direction of Thomas Rinn arranged for us by our Program Chair, Candice Kyler. As always, cash and check donations for GRACE (Grapevine Relief and Community Exchange) will be accepted at the door. Hope you will be able to join us for this festive meal!...fa, La, La, La, La, La,,La, La,La!!!!!!!! Joan Kowalski Holiday Luncheon Chair Tree Farm Work Day, September 21, 2015 Catriona Noble, Karen Rice, Ella Barber Chuck Voelker, Sally Hart page 9

10 Gardeners on the Go: Nature Hike and Tour of Residential Wildscape Gardens with Indian Trail Chapter of Master Naturalists Ross Gardens Elizabeth Jewett, Ginger Jones, Barb Munn, Ann Fuller, guide and Carolyn Ross Mockingbird Nature Center Charlie Grindstaff Tour Guide with Insect Hotel September 30, 2015 Midlothian, Oak Leaf and Waxahachie Rayfield Gardens Deborah Rayfield, Ginger Jones, Elizabeth Jewett, Evelyn Urbanosky page 10

11 Gardens on View Pat Mingus, Ginger Jones Herb and Vegetable Sale Mayor Bill Tate, 2016 GrapeFest Co-Chairs, GGC Members René and Bruce Herndon, 2015 GrapeFest Co-Chairs, GGC Members Laurie and Doug Evans More GGC connections: 2014 GrapeFest Co-Chairs, GGC Members Paula and Shane Wilbanks page 11

12 ROSE TRIAL MONTHLY DATA COLLECTION COME JOIN US!! Tuesday, November 3 rd 9:00 A.M. (new start time for winter) Dove Loop and Shadybrook (or next to Cross Timbers Winery) 805 Main Street, Grapevine Contact: Pam Braak or Lisa Grove District II Fall Convention Sarah Erickson, District II Director, Linda Krimm, Suzi Guckel Joetta King Joe Krimm, Chuck Voelkel Greg and Pam Braak Evelyn Urbanosky and Miriam Ward page 12

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