April 2016 - Community Garden Club of Cohasset

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With the change to daylight savings time, I was awoken to the rhythmic pweet pweet of
a male woodcock courting his lady friend in the front yard. Too dark to spot him, but know I
would find a very long bill capable of rooting out earthworms 2" down and lovely large brown
eyes. The Cornus mas is coming into full yellow-flowered bloom, the early forsythia mimic.
Soon we can all start digging up those perennials and shrubs we want to donate to the
plant sale. These days of warming daytime temperatures we itch to put on our gloves,
sharpen our pruners and trim some trees and shrubs. Beware of pruning “bleeders.”
These are trees like birch, maple and yellowoods that will produce sap that flows out of the
wound. Best to wait till mid summer for those. Snow damage or wind damage can be
cleared away now. I love these still cool days to garden as the biting insects haven't awoken
and I am wearing warm clothes that protect me. It is fun to explore the beds and rediscover
bulbs poking out of the ground that I haven't seen since last year, all while listening to the
male Cardinal serenade nearby.
So shake off the winter and go out and enjoy spring.
Lelia
APRIL Calendar
4 South Shore Spring Meeting
5 Executive Board Meeting: The home of Mary
Eisenhaure, 9:30 a.m., Carol Graham, Patty
Johnson, Arienne Lima and Iku Ishihara and the
Special Events Committee will provide for the
New Members’ Luncheon.
7-8 GCFM: Gardening Studies School, Tower Hill
Botanic Gardens, 11 French Drive, Boylston, MA
11 Junior Gardeners: Deer Hill School Cafeteria,
2:40 - 3:40 p.m. “Books in Bloom” with Cynthia
Chase
the
COMMUNITY
GARDEN CLUB
of Cohasset
12 Horticulture & Design: Field trip to Dana’s
new garden, 176 Water Street, Hanover, 9:30 11:30 a.m., “Spring Garden Prep” - hands-on how
to prepare your garden for spring after the winter
12 GCFM: Design Morning #3, Massachusetts
Horticultural Society, Hunnewell Building, 900
Washington St., Elm Bank, Wellesley, MA
www.CommunityGardenClubOfCohasset.org
13 Garden Therapy: Harborview Center for
Nursing & Rehabilitation, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. “Spring
is in the Air”
19 Craft Workshop: Lightkeepers Cottage, 9:30 a.m., “Stepping Stones” - We will again make concrete stepping
stones to decorate our gardens and walkways.
21 Southeastern District Spring Meeting, Plymouth CC, 9:00 a.m.
26 Monthly Meeting: Second Congregational Church, 43 Highland Avenue; Coffee: 9:00 a.m.; Meeting: 9:30 a.m.
Flower Arrangement: Gretchen Sheets Hostesses: (Food, Set-up, and Clean-up): Mascart, Massa, McCann,
McCarthy, McLaughlin, McLaughlin, Medwid, Moody, Moore, Nicynski, Nowak, O’Brien Program: Emily Rothmans “The History of Weir River Farm and Sustainable Farming” - Learn about a wonderful resource just around the
corner. Weir River Farm is a gem in our suburban surroundings.
Newsletter Editor: Pat Cammett
pcamme@gmail.com
Announcements
Welcome a new member and a returning member. Please revise your yearbook to include their contact
information:
• Donna Beaudry 132 Wheelwright Farm, Cohasset 02025 781-812-8186 beaudryd73@gmail.com
• Rejoining: Gail Saccone 33 May Ave. Braintree 02184 781-424-4356 gvsaccone@comcast.net
Our April craft workshop will be on Tuesday, April 19th, at the
Lightkeepers from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Having suggested that we
change the program to "Fairy Gardens" from the original "Stepping
Stones,” I received some feedback that resulted in returning to the
original plan. So "Stepping Stones" it will be. Please bring an
aluminum cake pan for your form and your choice of items to
decorate your stones, and I will supply the concrete, as well as spray oil
to keep the stone from sticking to the pan. There will be a small charge for the
program, depending on the number of attendees. Please let me know if you are
coming as I will need to buy an adequate amount of material
judyd617@comcast.net or 781-3837058.
Art in Bloom at the Museum of Fine Arts is coming up April 29 thru May 2nd.
Get ready for the
PLANT SALE
Saturday, May 21st from
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 pm
Cohasset Historical Society
More information to come!
Club member Cynthia Chace will once again demonstrate her flower arranging prowess as an exhibitor at
the MFA’s Art In Bloom! On Monday, May 2nd, we will meet at Feng Shui at 9 a.m. and car pool to AIB.
The Elegant Tea times are 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. with an extra cost of $35.00 and you do need make a
reservation. Some people might want to go down to the café to buy their lunch.
There is no lecture, but there will be ongoing flower arranging demonstrations from 12 - 3 p.m. at no
charge. Also, at 11:00 a.m. to noon in Remis Auditorium, senior horticulturist and designer Darrah Cole
will give a visual tour of the Greenway parks and features as seen through the
lens of its organic horticulture program. If you want to join us, please contact Barbara
Canney, barbaracan@me.com or call 781-405-4570.
This year’s Annual Luncheon will be at Hatherly Golf Club in Scituate on
May 24, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. As a special “thank you” for a job well done at
Yuletide, the board has voted to subsidize the cost of tickets for this event.
Cost to members will be $20.00, an $8.00 savings! Tickets will be on sale
in April and May at meetings and workshops. If you prefer, contact
Jeanne Carroll or Carol Graham, and we will get tickets to you.
The menu includes cheese, crackers and iced tea, Caesar salad, your choice
of baked stuffed sole with rice and asparagus or chicken parmesan with linguini and
garlic bread, key lime pie, and coffee or tea. A cash bar will be available. We hope
many members will attend this last event of the season!
Conservation
Submitted by Laura Horky
Submit Your Public Comment on the State Pollinator Protection Plan
The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) is seeking public comment on the state Pollinator
Protection Plan. A link to the draft of the state plan is below. The plan is intended to be the framework for the
Commonwealth’s program to protect pollinators, including honey bees, as required by the Federal Government. The
Eight County Beekeepers of Massachusetts have submitted a plan and are not in support of the MDAR Proposed
plan draft. A link to the Beekeepers Protection Plan is provided below. Comments can be sent to the following
email address: Kim.Skyrm@state.ma.us with the subject line "Pollinator Plan Comments" and in the body of the mail
you can express your support for the Eight County Beekeepers Protection Plan. The deadline to submit comments
is April 30, 2016.
The following listening session is provided for those
who wish to provide public comments in person on the
Pollinator Protection Plan draft:
Wednesday - March 23 - MDAR Office - 101 University
Dr., Amherst, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Eight County Beekeepers Protection Plan
http://pollinatorstewardship.org/wp-content/
uploads/2015/09/Beekeepers-Pollinator-ProtectionPlan-Framework-FINAL-MA.pdf
MDAR Proposed draft plan
http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/agr/farmproducts/
docs/mdar-pollinator-plan-final-draft.pdf
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
A link to an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London
submitted by Jan Todd
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/painting-modern-garden-monet-matisse
When the weather is gray and rainy, find here
medicine for the soul. This exhibition, “Painting the
Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse,” is currently at
London’s Royal Academy of the Arts. Find the
enclosed web site, scroll down the page and you
will find videos to introduce the show, to take you to
the home and gardens of Max Liebermann and
Emil Nolde. There are articles which will
encourage you to think about contemporary art and
the garden: Le Jarden Hospitalier in Lille, a flying
garden in Dusseldorf, just to mention a couple.
Read the comments and see the art selected by six
of the world’s most celebrated garden designers as
each explores a favorite artist who painted
gardens. The show includes ten artists and 120
paintings. Have a relaxed look, and enjoy all of this
beauty - spring is around the corner!
Spring Planting Guide
There are 7 plant zones in the U.S. (3-10).
Cohasset and surrounding towns are in planting
zone 6. Zones with lower numbers are colder. One
can plant species that are hardy in zones 3-6, but
not 7-10 as these species need warmer growing
conditions and/or a longer growing season.
Here are some pictures from this month's
Garden Therapy - "Shamrocks & Leprechauns.”
A grand time was had by all constructing these
lovely arrangements, along with some rousing
renditions of traditional Irish tunes (including two
very lively versions of McNamara's Band)! We
are also pleased with our small ecological
footprint for the afternoon, as you can see by the
picture of Sue Reagan holding the total amount
of trash generated!
Air conditioning & refridgeration
(commercial & residential)
New England Flower and Garden Show 2016
Monochrome mass arrangement
by Cynthia Chase for which she
won a blue ribbon
Fuller Craft Museum Field Trip
Jeanne Boutross, Laura Horky,
Deb Jenks, Marie Sullivan, Tania
McCann and Barbara Canney
enjoyed a field trip to the Fuller Craft
Museum in Brockton in February.
This museum is a treasure trove of
permanent collections, exhibitions,
demonstrations, workshops, and
special events.
The media include wood, metal, glass, ceramics and fiber. We viewed
the permanent collections with a guide, then the special exhibits that
last for a month or so.
The next exhibit was Toothpick World: From Sliver to Skyline.
Using a toolkit of just toothpicks and Elmer’s Glue, New York’s Stan
Munro uses his ingenuity to construct precise 1:164 scale reproductions
of architectural masterworks and world-renowned structures including
iconic buildings such as the Empire State Building and the White House,
while also incorporating internationally celebrated structures such as the
Taj Mahal, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Eiffel Tower.
Barbara Canney
Creation by Tania McCann
for the Ikebana exhibit
The Garden Club of Nagoya
Activity Report of March 2016
Our March general meeting was a field trip to Sato Tsubakien
(Camellia Garden) in Inazawa City, a western suburb of Nagoya. Since
1948 the Sato family has been engaged in cultivation of Camellia
japonica (Japanese camellia). They have successfully produced new
species while developing their own varieties.
There are thousands of cultivars of this genus having many colors
and forms of flowers. In the wild it is found in mainland China, Taiwan,
South Korea and southern Japan. The specific epithet japonica was
given to the species by Carl Linnaeus, Swedish Botanist in 1753, because Engelbert Kampfer, a German doctor,
was the first to give a description of the plant while he was stationed in Japan.
Besides their main business of cultivation, marketing, sales and landscaping, they have been successfully
developing new species such as Senbazuru (thousand cranes), Hatsune (first song of nightingale) and Jinnya no
tsubaki, (manor house camellia). They also have an on-line business called where they sell Camellia honey,
Camellia oil, and even Camelia tea. To provide and meet all the needs for their business, they own about three
acres of land accommodating more than fifty-thousand camellia trees.
They have gained a good reputation and frequently exhibit in major cities including Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya,
etc. In 1987 they were honored with royal visits to their exhibition by the prince and princess of Japan. In honor of
the royals’ visit they developed two new species of camellia named “Senbazuru” and “Hatsune”.
Takako Kohri
Recording Secretary
CGCC
221 Massachusetts Avenue
#1018
Boston, MA 02115