CIVIC GARDEN CLUB OF SAN CARLOS Sept 2016 Upcoming Dates to Remember *SEE PAGE 2 FOR DETAILS August 26 10:30 am Board Meeting Member of Bay Ocean District California Garden Clubs, Inc.(CGCI) Sept 16 11:00 am Members Meeting Lunch 11:45 am Lunch Served Luncheon will be provided by our Board Members this month. Program 12:45 pm Program Show and Tell Club Members Special Events *SEE PAGE 2 FOR DETAILS Open House* Casa de Flores September 25 Chair: Joanne Daniels Please sign up to participate Wine and Cheese Party* Casa de Flores November 6 Chair: Olga Erlichman October 20 Bay Ocean District Meeting Coffee & socialization at 9:30 am San Mateo Garden Center Inside this issue... President s Message 1 Notices 2 Joyce s Landscape Project 3-5 Flora and Fauna 6 737 Walnut Street San Carlos, California 94070-0954 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear Members, I hope you had a nice summer and are looking forward to our Club Meetings and other activities. Although we did not have member meetings during the months of July and August we have been busy with planning for our upcoming events. Our Open House to create interest in our Club and generate rentals for Casa is scheduled for September 25, our Club will provide the table decorations for the upcoming Bay Ocean District Meeting on October 20, our first fund raiser this year is the Wine and Cheese Tasting event scheduled for November 6. Then, in the spring we will have our annual plant sale, so start saving your plants for this event. In addition, I have been busy scheduling our programs for our member meetings. See our great line up of programs on page 2. Our program for September is Show and Tell. Let Tom know what you are bringing so that we can make sure we have enough tables for display. We plan to have several field trips this year, among the ones suggested are Filoli Gardens in Woodside, Hakone Gardens in Saratoga, the Central Park Japanese Garden in San Mateo, and Gamble Gardens in Palo Alto. We encourage all members to participating in at least one activity each year. Share your ideas, and add to the success of our Club. Interact with other Club members and make new friends. You won t be sorry. Joyce
Congratulations to Members with a September Birthday Dianne McClellan 9/06 Donna Williamson 9/15 Edythe Miller 9/16 Carleigh Fager 9/17 Joyce L. Sanns 9/19 Ronnie Errichson 9/24 Carol Lloyd 9/26 Patricia Snowden 9/28 www.sancarlosgardenclub.org Our New Casa Rental Website Please direct members to our new rental web site: http://www.sancarlosgardenclub.org/ casa-de-flores-rentals/ Officers and Directors for 2016-2017 President: Joyce L. Sanns Vice President: Tom Davids Recording Secretary: Nancy Ruff Corresponding Secretary: Dolores Riviello Treasurer: L. David Waterbury Membership Chair: Joanne Daniels House Chairs: Olga Erlichman Barry Daniels Parliamentarian: Edythe Miller Please support your board by serving on committees. NOTICES ACTIVITIES IN THE PLANNING STAGES REMINDER All members shall sign up to serve lunch. A member may volunteer or be appointed to be the monthly Hospitality Chair. The floral table decorations will be provided by the monthly lunch committee. If a member is unable to serve, the designated fee of $40 shall be paid. Failure to pay the fee will be cause for loss of membership. New Rosters 2016-2017 New rosters will be distributed to members at the reception desk at our September General Meeting. Your name appears on the front cover. April 5-9 San Francisco Flower Show June 10-18 San Mateo County Fair *November 6 Wine and Cheese Party Chair: Olga Erlichman Please signup to help with this event. Poem Try to remember the kind of September When life was slow and oh so mellow Try to remember the kind of September When grass was green and grain so yellow Try to remember the kind of September When you were a young and callow fellow Try to remember and if you remember Then follow follow, oh-oh Try to Remember Lyrics by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt Special Events *DETAILS FROM PAGE 1 Programs for 2016 2017 September 16, 2016 Show and Tell October 21, 2016 Carrie Ewing, Miniature Fairy Gardens November 18, 2016 Bryan Hains, Beginning Bee Keeping: Honeybee Biology and Getting Started December Holiday Luncheon January 20, 2017 Daniel Yansura, Introducing Ferns and Lycophytes into the Garden February 17, 2017 Sheena Sidhu, Native Pollinators in our Gardens March 17, 2017 Rex Castell, Easy Orchid Care for Everyone April 21, 2017 Claire Sebald, Flower Arranging May 19, 2017 Julie Montanari, Landscapes without Lawns June 16, 2017 Installation Luncheon *September 25, 2016 Open House Casa de Flores, 1 p.m. 3 p.m. Chair: Joanne Daniels Please volunteer to help with Exhibits, Demonstrations, refreshments. Cruise to Cuba 7 Nights February 5-12 Fathom s Adonia Contact Edythe Miller for details. A Finders Fee will go to our Club for bookings. SEPTEMBER 2016 CIVIC GARDEN CLUB OF SAN CARLOS page 2
Joyce s Front Yard Leveling the area Removing existing landscape Reinstalling stepping stones & border rocks SEPTEMBER 2016 CIVIC GARDEN CLUB OF SAN CARLOS page 3
Joyce s Front Yard Landscape gravel in place Another street view Street view 2 months later SEPTEMBER 2016 CIVIC GARDEN CLUB OF SAN CARLOS page 4
Joyce s Front Yard A view between the roses The completed project Petunias in full bloom SEPTEMBER 2016 CIVIC GARDEN CLUB OF SAN CARLOS page 5
Flora and Fauna Something new in cooking and salad oil is the latest to hit the market. It is called Enova. It is made from all-natural soy and canola. It is different from other cooking oils as less Enova oil is stored in the body as fat. The great news is that it contains zero grams of trans fat and has lower saturated fat than other cooking and salad oils. It is used in Japan and is their number one oil used in salads and cooking. There is a growing interest in organic farming and the certification of these areas where our produce will be grown. The growers must label their product as USDA Organic. This means grown, packed and distributed by one farm. The California Organic Farm, a Division of Grenmary Enterprises, Inc. in Bakersfield, is only one such company. In organic farming the soils are nurtured by adding organic matter, rotating crops and planting beneficial cover crops. In our usual farming practices the soils are replenished with chemicals and synthetic additives. In the newer crop rotation this involved changing the crops grown in a particular field year by year in a planned sequence. This reduces the need for adding more nitrogen and wards off diseases that some crops are susceptible to and helps to control insects. Organic farming works in harmony to sustain a healthy, fertile and biologically perfect environment. Some of the producers have labels with addresses where one can write and inquire about their growing conditions. One such label has U.S. Number 1 Produce of U.S.A. That has a lovely ring to it, doesn t it? This is the latest by the rose societies to help care for cut blooms. Cut after five P.M. and they will last up to ten times longer than those cut in the morning. This is because the leaf sugars manufactured during the day stay in the leaves at night nourishing the blooms. These sugars quickly travel down the stems to the roots. Also, other flowers are best when cut in the morning, or late evening. There is a new hydrangea on the market and is available in all the local nurseries. It is called Endless Summer. I have an article on it carried by the Minneapolis- St. Paul Star Tribune. Call me if you are interested in details about this hydrangea. They claim it is what the plant world has been waiting for a knockout beauty with a catchy name. Of course, I have room for one more so I just had to have one. Did you know that more mangoes are consumed than any other fruit in the world? I thought it was apples. Interesting. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the next meeting. Claire SEPTEMBER 2016 CIVIC GARDEN CLUB OF SAN CARLOS page 6