Business Meeting
Mary
Ann Kurtz welcomed all members and four guests and then asked what was blooming
in our gardens. Many have dahlias, cosmos (Marilyn Gurtner brought pictures of
the extra tall cosmos & zinnia she planted from seed), zinnias, helianthus,
hummingbird mint, turtlehead **, and iron weed. Flo Ogden brought in
arrangement materials from the late Joan Menes’ stash. Sharon Walston will
reserve the meeting room for next year, signups for next year’s desserts and
arrangements were passed, dues $15/year can be paid this month or next couple
of months. Claudia asked if Bill could arrange for us to receive the Penn State
Master Gardener newsletter online. Mary Ann has two compost bins she no longer
needs. List of possible programs and
field trips were passed around for us to make our top 10 + 2 trips.
Officers for next year: Mary Ann thanked the
current officers and committees and announced the new officers, many returning.
President-Mary Ann Kurtz, VP-Claudia Hickly, Treasurer-Denny Brown,
Secretary-Flo Ogden; Committees:
Community Service-Helen Dean, Peggy Elizeus, Directory/Yearbook-Chris Kerin,
Historian/Blog-Esther Nagy, Hostess-Sharon Walston, Membership-Linda Brown,
Newsletter-Rose Mary Highman, Online Communicator-Janine Zink, Plant Sale-Mary
Ann Kurtz, Programs-Colleen and Evan Fingal, Publicity-Bev Steiger, Publicity Plant Sale-Mary Ann Kurtz.
Announcements: Thanks to Colleen Fingal
for desserts and Marilyn Gurtner for the arrangement. Save the date for Plant Sale is May 16th, 2015.
Program
Container Gardening: Bill Goff introduced speaker
Susan Marguesen who is a Penn State Master Gardener and describes container
gardening “a passion of mine” with over 50 at her own home. She showed pictures
of planted containers and groupings from small to the large ones holding trees.
Favorite tools are The Garden Color Book by Paul Williams, a color wheel
(see picture), and Garden to Go by Sydney Eddison.
Take home points:
·
Select
containers first, then plants for their “filler, thriller, spiller”
characteristics
·
Think
of container gardening as decorating.
Group the pots for impact.
·
Match
the container styles and plants to compliment their location
·
Larger
pots require less water, but large plants
·
Use
a color wheel for contrasting colors or shades of one color
·
Be
original, plant that old ‘dumpster dive’ find, recycled is good
·
Re-use
container soil? Can do if prior not diseased, but add some fresh soil
·
Use
composted or manure in bottom of pot so that when the plant roots head downward
they get a welcome shot
·
Vegetables
in containers do well, but again pot size is important and later in season,
they need that bottom of pot manure or compost
·
Over-wintering--can
keep many pots outside under a covered table to prevent over-watering, can
bring out if day is mild
·
Garden
in winter with twig dogwood or similar cold hardy plants/shrubs
Next meeting Field Trip: September 23, 2014, Apple
Tasting at Soergels Orchards, 7 p.m. Cost is $5. If you wish to carpool, meet at 6:30 at the
church parking lot, otherwise meet at parking lot at Soergels.
**Turtlehead
native plant http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/chelone_glabra.shtml
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