Member Michigan Garden Clubs, Inc.
April 2007
President –Dianne Szabla www.farmingtongardenclub.com Editor – Jan Dolan 248.626.6322 “Live With Beauty” 248.473.8545
April 2007
IS SPRING REALLY HERE? It looks like it this week! The weather is mild; crocus, Lenten rose, and miniature iris are blooming; daffodil, tulip, and hyacinth foliage is 3-4 inches tall. The grass is greener. Soon it will be time for spring clean up.
We were happy to
welcome new member, Barb Dermody, at the March meeting. Please add her to
your directory: Barbara Dermody,
Barb, a widow, is a
former English teacher, bookstore owner, and traveler who now spends much of her time with her four
grandchildren. I know she will be an enthusiastic addition to our club.
As always, George
Papadelis gave an entertaining, informative talk at our March meeting. We
are going to have a field trip to Telly's to see the plants he told us about
and more. Meet in the parking lot of the Spicer House
on Monday, April 19, at 10:00 a.m. to car pool.
Gardens Galore and
Omega Tours is sponsoring a garden tour June 2-3 called "The Magnificent
Gardens in
Betti Pool has
kindly offered to store the boxes discovered in the attic of the Longacre House
and to head a committee to design a display for the Festival of the Arts using
some of the vintage photos in those boxes.
Betti is also
designing a brochure about our club to give to prospective members. Thank
you, Betti!
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11:45 at the Spicer House in
Anne Cline, Past President of the Iris
Club of
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Hostess committee: Lenore
Detizio, Chair; Joyce Green; Joan Hinkle
The following poem
was contributed by Elaine Haskell:
I never see a
garden but I
see Should come the
hyacinths' white purity,
A miracle performed
before my
eyes.
The scent of lilac plumes, too sweet to bear,
How strange, how very
strange that it should
be: The
valley lilies' upturned bells set free
That from the dark
reluctant soil should
rise
To shed their rapture on the springtime air.
The heady fragrances,
the colored light
And always underneath the broken sod
Of poppies, far too
frail for hands to
hold; There moves the miracle-working hands of God.
That lifting upward from
the earth's dark
night
--Grace Noll Crowell
Should come the jonquils, spilling liquid gold!
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District One Meeting – May
14 - Sign up at our meeting
State Convention – June
4-6 – Grand Rapids Crown Plaza Hotel – details at meeting
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“Zoo-rific” District One flower show held March 9 –
11 at Ford Field was a great success Thanks to all who assisted with and
entered the show. Kay Blakeney
won a blue, red and yellow ribbon for her entries in evergreens Austrian Pine,
and Picea purgens and flowering branch – cornelian cherry – dogwood Austrian
Pine. Ann Whitworth received a
red ribbon for her dracaena sanderiana and an honorable mention for her
euphorbia trigona. Betti Pool received a second (red ribbon) for her
coleus Kong and Rita Roberts took home a blue ribbon for her African
violet “Chicago”. Chris Britts
won the blue ribbon and Award of Merit for her cacti/succulent dish
garden, honorable mention for a scented geranium and a third place ribbon for a
succulent. Jan Dolan earned a red ribbon for forced tulips and a yellow
ribbon for an artistic design. Many
thanks to Chris and Al Britts and Michelle Spillane who assisted in taking the
entries to Ford Field and to Eleanor DiGirolamo for helping Jan to retrieve all
the entries Sunday evening.
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