THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE

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1 Member of National Garden Clubs, Inc., South Central Region, Texas Garden Clubs, Inc., District II, and Garden Club Council of Ft. Worth 2011, 2014, 2015 THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE February 2019 Favorite Plants for North Texas Monarch You've heard about migrating Monarchs and that Texas is a crucial link in their annual success, but what do they really need from us? Come learn as Carol Clark, Conservation Specialist with Monarch Watch and longtime member of the Native Plant Society of Texas, shares how Monarchs choose specific plants for their caterpillars to dine on, and which plants they choose most often in North Texas. Adult Monarchs need nectar from flowers, so we'll also have an in depth look at the best Monarch nectar plants for North Texas gardens. There will be a free plant list available. Small spaces can make a big difference for small creatures! Dinah Chancellor In this issue Page President s Message 2 Debbie Boyle receives award 2, 4 Caladium bulbs 3, Gardeners on the Go 5 Flowercade 6 Scholarship News 7 Redbud Tree Program 8 Workshops and Special Events 8 GGC Plant Sale Information and Flyer 9-10 Texas Garden Clubs Annual Convention 13 District II Spring Convention 14 Grapevine Convention Center 1209 S. Main Street Grapevine, Texas Next meeting: February 26, 2019 Social 9:30 a.m. Meeting and Program 10:00 a.m. February

2 President s Message Although it is unpleasantly cold outside, signs of Spring are everywhere in our area. During these next few weeks of Winter, as we prepare our gardens for this year s new growth, we also have many garden club activities to keep us busy. We have two Conventions coming up in the next few months. The District II Spring Convention is March 13 th in Colleyville at the Colleyville Center. The Texas Garden Club s 91 st Spring Convention will be held in El Paso on April 1st-4th. Please refer to the registration forms found in this newsletter for more information about these two conventions. Our thanks to Karen Rice for her work in coordinating the Night Flight Owls Nocturnal Habits presentation by the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center. Over 100 people enjoyed this event at the Grapevine Library on January 26 th. And a special thank you to Karen for her presentation on the Monarch migration to Mexico at the January 22nd GGC general meeting. If you missed the program, the video is now posted on our website. At our February meeting, you ll see several sign-up tables for volunteering and participating in upcoming local trips, Flowercade and the Spring luncheon. Hope to see you this Tuesday, the 12 th, at West Texas Street. Candace Kyler Please print out copies of the Plant Sale flyer on page 10 and pass along to your family, friends and neighbors. (Black and white copies are fine!) Refer to page 9 for important plant sale information. Also Are you on Facebook? If so, please like the Grapevine Garden Club s page and share club information, such as our upcoming plant sale and scholarship deadline. Thanks! Grapevine Garden Club member Debbie Boyle receives Grapevine Parks and Rec Helping Hands Award. (See article on Page Four.) February

3 Save the Dates Date Event Location March 1 April 13th and 14th April 25th and 26th GGC Scholarship Application Deadline Flowercade Redbud Tree Program Fort Worth Botanical Garden Various local elementary schools June 2nd to 8th National Garden Club Week (See page 5 for GGC event) Please refer to GGC s website for full calendar of club events. Caladium Bulbs It s time to order Caladium Bulbs for spring planting and summer color. Bulbs are #1 size and healthy. The cost is $0.65 per bulb, (exception is $1.10 per bulb for Miss Muffett and Florida Red Ruffles). The minimum order is 10 bulbs. Complete the order form near the end of this newsletter, include payment, and mail to the Grapevine Garden Club, P.O. Box 811, Grapevine, TX no later than February 11. Bulbs will be available for pick-up the latter part of March/first of April. Contact Karen Pafford, (Yearbook page 61) for additional information. Save The Date: Spring Luncheon It s A GARDEN Party May 21, 2019, at 10:30 a.m. Trawick Pavilion, Lake Grapevine February

4 Debbie Boyle Receives Grapevine Parks and Rec Helping Hand Award Grapevine Garden Club Member Debbie Boyle was recognized as the very talented and extremely dependable lead of the new GO Wild Propagation Team at a recent volunteer appreciation brunch. The Propagation Team works at the greenhouse in the Botanical Gardens and grows native Texas plants for habitat restoration efforts at Grapevine Parks and school outdoor learning centers. Debbie began volunteering with the Propagation Team in early 2018 and quickly stepped up to lead the group. The volunteer group is made up of Grapevine Garden Club members and Tarrant County Master Gardeners. Debbie coordinates with Betsy Marsh, Environmental Education Coordinator, communicates with the volunteers, collects data and checks plants weekly or more often to make sure they are growing and thriving. There were some hiccups encountered in the beginning and she made sure that everyone learned from these challenges and developed new plans and procedures to improve the propagation work and strengthen the team. And the team has been busy! In 2018 they propagated 3,000 native Texas plants! Many hundreds have already been planted at habitat restoration sites at Grapevine Middle School and Meadowmere Park and the rest will be planted this year at sites throughout Grapevine. Some of the GO Wild Propagation team From left: Betsy Marsh, Suzi Guckel, Donna Bufton, Debbie Boyle, Mary Lou Brieger, Coral Gates, Pam Braak and Wanda Stutsmann February

5 Asheville, North Carolina Gardeners on the Go For those that have signed up for the Asheville, NC, trip April 30 - May 5, final payment is due March 1. However, Jacqueline Weilmuenster will gladly accept your check or credit card at February's general meeting. There are just a couple of spots left so it s not too late to sign up. Enjoy springtime in the mountains as we explore Biltmore Estate, Asheville s beautiful gardens, the eclectic vibe of the city of Asheville and beyond. See the GGC website for details or contact Cheryl Neumann (See registration form on the website for contact information.) Build your own Terrarium Workshop Tuesday, March 19. Carpool meetup will be at the Grapevine Botanical Gardens at 9:15am. Class is at the Shades of Green Nursery in Frisco from 10 to 12. Join us for a carpool trip to Shades of Green Nursery in Frisco to tour the nursery and attend a workshop where we will be building our own terrariums. The cost is $40 and includes a 9 inch round glass container, plants, and all soils and toppings plus special terrarium tools for you to use and take home after the class. We also are planning to stop for lunch after the workshop in downtown Frisco at a local restaurant, the Heritage Table. This outing is limited to 20 participants. Kathryn Armstrong and Liz Lovett, Co-Chairs National Garden Week Please save the date! June 6,2019 it is during National Garden Week and we will be celebrating with a Gardener s on the go trip. We are in the midst of making plans but will be traveling to Celina, Texas, for the day. To visit a Daylily business, of course buy his pretty Daylilies, have lunch, and then take a tour of the Eden Hill vineyard/winery. It s early but we will have more information for sign up, payment, etc. at the March and April meetings. For now, please save the date!! Thank you, Debbie Monahan and Carole Nadeau, Co-chairs Gardens On View Would you like to share your garden/yard with our club? Sharing and touring each other's garden is a wonderful way to share, connect and learn from each other. Look for the clipboard being passed around at the February & March meetings with sign up opportunities for September & October (2019) and March & April (2020). You may also contact Tina Bruns (See yearbook for contact information.) Thank you. February

6 Save the Date: Prep Day at Joan Stewart s green house - April 12th, 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon Flowercade 2019 Ft. Worth Botanical Garden April 13-14, 2019 Food For Thought Saturday, April 13th, 9:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. and Sunday, April 14th, 9:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m Botanic Garden Boulevard Fort Worth, TX Open and free to the public! Submit your flowers/plants, designs, and then come and enjoy the flower show! 4 Divisions: Horticulture We will meet at Joan Stewart s greenhouse to prepare our specimens on April 12, 2019, from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon. Design Please let me know asap if you are submitting an entry so space can be reserved for you. Table Artistry Set a table for one, four or banquet table. Educational Exhibits Enter your own thoughts. Look around your home and garden. Use your imagination. The only way to lose is not to enter. February

7 Scholarship News Please pass on the following information about our scholarship to a child of yours, a grandchild of yours or a neighbor attending a GCISD school or lives in Grapevine, Texas. We will be awarding one or more $3000 scholarships in the Spring. The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage the study of Horticulture, Floriculture, Landscape Design, Conservation, Forestry, Botany, Agronomy, Plant Pathology, Environment Management, City Planning or other related subjects. Scholarships may be awarded to any of the following enrolled with a declared major in horticulture related subjects: A graduating Senior residing in the city limits of Grapevine or in the Grapevine- Colleyville School District. A graduating Senior who is the child or grandchild of a Grapevine Garden Club member. A scholarship recipient from the previous year. A college student with a permanent residence in Grapevine or within the Grapevine -Colleyville Independent School District. Deadline for accepting scholarship applications is changed to March 1st. This allows the committee time to review the applications and present them to the Board Members in April. The awarded applicants and their parents are then invited to attend our May Spring Luncheon to be presented to and congratulated by our membership. The scholarship committee is looking forward to receiving many applications to review who are pursuing a horticulture related study. If you know of anyone that fits these descriptions please refer them to our website grapevinegardenclub.org for more information and an application. Joan Kowalski Scholarship Chair February

8 Workshops and Special Events for the Winter Please join us for the upcoming informative workshops and community events. Contact Karen Rice (see yearbook for contact information) to sign-up for these activities. February 26, 2019 (Tuesday) Basics of Floral Design workshop after the General meeting 1-2 p.m. Rachel Clark & Marty Swindell. Location - REC Center March 27, 2019 (Wednesday) Container Garden workshop 10 a.m. 12 p.m. Materials fee required. BYO pot. Location to be announced. Karen Rice & Ginger Jones The GGC Redbud Tree Program If you love trees, enjoy reading to children, and want to impact future gardeners, here is a great opportunity for you! On Thursday, April 25th and Friday, April 26th, volunteers from our garden club will go to third grade classrooms in four elementary schools. We will discuss the importance of trees, the differences among trees, what a tree needs to grow, and the proper way to plant one. The book The Very Busy Tree will be read to the class and then left in the class library. After demonstrating how to plant a tree, redbud saplings will be left with the classroom teacher to distribute to each child to take home at the end of the day. Presenters may have a partner, if desired, and will be given lesson plans. To prepare for this event, we will be meeting at the greenhouse in the Grapevine Botanical Gardens on Wednesday, April 24th at 1:00 p.m. to have a bagging party. We will bag each sapling, attach planting and information sheets, and box them up for each classroom. Please sign up to be a presenter and/or a bagger. Sign-up sheets will be at the February general meeting. Miriam Ward & Evelyn Urbanosky February

9 Plant Sale To all our members who have already dug plants in their yards, have turned in their vintage pots, and have collected and donated gently used garden books, we love you! Our digging committee has started their busy schedule and has been pleased to report some popular pass along plants that will be offered for sale on April 13th. If you are overwhelmed by the amount of plants that you would like to donate, and cannot tackle digging on your own, please give Elizabeth Jewett a call to get on their schedule. Many thanks to our coordinators, Elizabeth Jewett and Greg Braak. If you are digging your own plants, please remember to use gallon size plastic pots (except for herbs and small succulents). Please remember to line the bottoms of the pots with newspaper, and don t forget to add the plant name and color on the label since many will not be blooming at the time of the sale. Please remember to let Paula know which plants you are digging. We will ask you for a plant update in March to record how many plants have actually made it. Catriona and her team have been busy collecting and pricing pots and books already donated. The last day to turn in those items will be at our February meeting. We are in dire need of pot display tables for the sale and if you have any racks or wooden ladders that can be used that day, please take a picture and to Catriona! BYOS Bring your own Spade day has been scheduled at 10 a.m. at the Grapevine Greenhouse on Thursday, February 21st. Our purchasing team has been busy scouting the wholesale nurseries for plant specimens and on that day, we will be up-potting purchased nursery stock, planting hanging baskets and designing specialty pots. We hope to recruit about 20 members for this activity. If you are free that day, we would love to have you join us! Please sign up on our website. Plan to lunch with us afterward, location TBD. Plant Sale Yard Signs- If you are willing to display a sign in your front yard, please let Suzie Agnew know. If you would like to purchase a yard sign to keep and display every year, they can be purchased for $10, fee to be collected at the February Meeting. Cecilia and Annemarie February

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12 GGC Members 2019 Caladium Bulb Order Form It s time to order Caladium Bulbs for spring planting and summer color. Bulbs are #1 size and healthy. The cost will be $0.65 per bulb, (exception is $1.10 per bulb for Miss Muffett and Florida Red Ruffles). Minimum order 10 bulbs. Please make your check out to GGC. Contact Karen Pafford, (Yearbook page 61) for additional information. Turn in this completed order form with payment attached no later than February 11, 2019, or mail to Grapevine Garden Club, P.O. Box 811, Grapevine, TX Bulbs will be available for pick-up the latter part of March/first of April. NAME PHONE: Total # of $0.65 each Total # of bulbs at $1.10 each Check enclosed made out to Grapevine Garden Club $ SELECTION (10 bulbs minimum, each variety selected). Red Flash (Dark red central veins with pink spots and dark green margins, partial sun, tall, bushy, upright) Carolyn Whorton (Medium toned pink blotches with red veins and green mottling, sun, tall, large leaves, upright and strong) Florida Cardinal (Bright red center with medium green margin, sun, medium height, bushy with medium size leaves) Florida Red Ruffles (Shiny red leaves, with green borders; short, compact; full leaves, shade to full sun) Rosebud (Frosty medium rose center with dark rose veins, upright, medium and full sun) White Queen (Creamy white with green netted veins and dark red central veins, tolerates sun, tall with medium number of leaves) Aaron (Large white center with vein veins and narrow green margin, Tall with few leaves, good in sun) Miss Muffett (Chartreuse with varying red and white veins with red spots, compact and low growing/bushy, semi-shade) Quantity Quantity Quantity Quantity ($1.10 each) Quantity Quantity Quantity Quantity ($1.10 each) February

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