Hunterdon Hills Garden Club

SEPTEMBER
“A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.”
                       William Longgood

Wednesday, September 16 
GARDEN THERAPY – 9:15 AM
Allerton United Methodist Church, 104 Allerton Rd., Annandale.  Please bring greens and shears.

Wednesday, September 16
HHGC BOARD MEETING – 10:45 AM
Whittemore Wildlife Sanctuary, 7 Rockaway Rd., Oldwick

Tuesday, September 22
Victory Garden Symposium at Holly House

Wednesday September 23

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING – 9:30 AM
High Bridge Emergency Squad, Route 513, High Bridge

Business Meeting – 10 AM

Program – 11:00 AM:  “Great Ferns for New Jersey Gardens” – Designer John Mickel from New York State will give us a presentation.
Program coordinator:  Carol Haglund

New Member Luncheon – 12:00 PM
Members please bring a hot or cold lunch dish to share (not a dessert).  If you are bringing guests let the Hospitality Committee know.

Hospitality
Hostesses: Meryl Campbell, Connie Brandenburg, Janet Dunsby

OCTOBER
“Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.” 
                       Elizabeth Lawrence 

Monday 19, Tuesday 20, Thursday 22
Gardening Study School
Holly House

Wednesday 21
GARDEN THERAPY – 9:15 AM
Allerton United Methodist Church, 104 Allerton Rd., Annandale.  Please bring greens and shears.
Wednesday 21
HHGC BOARD MEETING – 10:45 AM
Whittemore Wildlife Sanctuary, 7 Rockaway Rd., Oldwick

Wednesday 28
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING – 9:30 AM
High Bridge Emergency Squad, Route 513, High Bridge

Business Meeting – 10 AM

Program – 11:00 AM:  “Unusual Herbs and a Virtual Visit to Well-Sweep Farm” – Cyrus Hyde, founder of Well-Sweep Herb Farm, will give us an exciting tour of the Wonderful World of Herbs.  The love of herbs has been in Cyrus’s family since one of his ancestors tended to George Washington and his troops with herbs!
Program coordinator:  Peggy Moskway

Flower Design (CP-5): “An Angular Abstract Creative Design“ – A design (FSH 185-186 & 196) using a triad color scheme – 3 hues equidistant on color wheel – one should dominate (FSH pp166-167). Fresh and dried plant material.
Designers: Maryann Aldana, Connie Brandenburg, Meryl Campbell, Kathleen Cotter, Loretta Kayne, Jean Quinn, Susan Thomas
All members are invited to participate.

Hospitality
Hostesses: Maryann Aldana, Betty Claus, Loretta Kayne, Beth Saraceno
 
OCTOBER 30- NOVEMBER 1, 2009
Garden Club of New Jersey (GCNJ)
C.A.R. Conference, Tarrytown, NY

HAPPY HALLOWE’EN!

NOVEMBER
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape–              the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.
                            Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.”
                                                                 Andrew Wyeth

Sunday 1
Daylight Savings Time ends

Wednesday 4
GARDEN THERAPY – 9:15 AM (CP-2)
Allerton United Methodist Church, 104 Allerton Rd., Annandale.  Please bring greens and shears.

Wednesday 4
HHGC BOARD MEETING – 10:45 AM
Whittemore Wildlife Sanctuary, 7 Rockaway Rd., Oldwick

Wednesday 11
Garden Club of New Jersey (GCNJ)
Fall Conference, Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick
District IV will meet at the morning session

Wednesday 18
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING – 9:30 AM
High Bridge Emergency Squad, Route 513, High Bridge

Business Meeting – 10 AM

Program – 11:00 AM:  “Holiday Program” – Susan Oravets, a floral designer with 20 years of experience at Sherrerd’s Florist in Clinton NJ, will make a presentation on seasonal arrangements.
Program Coordinator:  Loretta Kayne

Flower Design (CP-5):  “Color Wheel“– A creative line design (FSH p. 199) done in Direct Compliment (2 hues opposite on color wheel - FSH pp166-167). Fresh and/or dried plant material permitted.  Accessories permitted.
Designers: Courtenay Anderson, Betty Claus, Barbara Ferrone, Muriel Komoski, Barbara Lewis, Judy Migliorini, Jenny Plassche, Beth Saraceno and Kate Slawson
All members are invited to participate.

Hospitality
Hostesses: Kathleen Cotter, Courtenay Anderson and Jenny Plassche

REMINDER: Holiday Luncheon, $35 check due

DECEMBER
“We are nearer to Spring
                          Than we were in September
                                                       In the dark of December.”
                            Oliver Herford, I Heard a Bird Sing

Wednesday 5
Stanton Holly Trail (CY-2)
Daylong Event
www.stantonhollytrail.com

Wednesday 9
GARDEN THERAPY – 9:15 AM (CP-2)
Allerton United Methodist Church, 104 Allerton Rd., Annandale.  Please bring greens and shears.

Wednesday 9
HOLIDAY LUNCHEON – 11:30 AM
Beaver Brook Country Club, Annandale

No Program in December

Gift Exchange – We all love to give and receive gifts, so at our December luncheon we will once again share in a gift exchange.  The challenge will be to find a garden-related gift and keep the cost under $10, and past experience says that we are not only good gardeners and cooks…we are all also excellent shoppers!
 
Wed. Dec. 2, 9 & 16
Drumthwacket is open to the public for
Holiday Tours – Reservations are required

SEASON’S GREETINGS!!!

2010
JANUARY
“Just because you’ve only got houseplants doesn’t mean you don’t have the gardening spirit. I look upon myself as an indoor gardener.”
Sarah Moss Wolfe

Wednesday 20
GARDEN THERAPY – 9:15 AM (CP-2)
Allerton United Methodist Church, 104 Allerton Rd., Annandale.  Please bring greens and shears.

Wednesday 20
HHGC BOARD MEETING – 10:45 AM
Whittemore Wildlife Sanctuary, 7 Rockaway Rd., Oldwick

Wednesday 27
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING – 9:30 AM
High Bridge Emergency Squad, Route 513, High Bridge

Business Meeting – 10 AM

Program – 11:00 AM:  “Back to Nature (a Landscape company in Tewksbury)” – How environmental concerns have impacted the landscaping industry.
Program Coordinator:  Susan Thomas

Hospitality
Hostesses: Joyce Lindabery, Cathy Boyer, Joan Fairchild and Barbara Ferrone

Happy New Year!!!

Three “green” New Year’s Resolutions
For 2010

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FEBRUARY
“Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
                 There are Spring violets under the snow.”
                         R.H. Newell

Wednesday 17
GARDEN THERAPY – 9:15 AM (CP-2)
Allerton United Methodist Church, 104 Allerton Rd., Annandale.  Please bring greens and shears.

Wednesday 17
HHGC BOARD MEETING – 10:45 AM
Whittemore Wildlife Sanctuary, 7 Rockaway Rd., Oldwick

Thursday-Sunday 18-21
New Jersey Flower & Garden Show
New Jersey Convention Center, Edison

Wednesday 24
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING – 9:30 AM
High Bridge Emergency Squad, Route 513, High Bridge

Business Meeting – 10 AM
Election of 3rd member to nominating committee

Program – 11:00 AM:  “Under Glass” – Ann Stanley, Master Gardener, will demonstrate how to make and care for terrariums.
Program coordinator:  Jenny Plassche

Hospitality
Host/hostesses: Susie Delaney, Michele Liana, Pat O’Brien and Maureen Sammis

Sunday-Sunday February 28- March 07
Philadelphia Flower Show – “Passport to the World”
Pennsylvania Convention Center
www.theflowershow.com

HUNTERDON HILLS GARDEN CLUB Dues - due in March
$35 Regular
$45 Associate

MARCH
“Today is the day when daffodils bloom
               which children pick to fill the room.
                                Today is the day when grasses green,
                                        when leaves burst forth for Spring to be seen.”
                                   Robert McCracken, Spring

Sunday 14
Daylight Savings Time begins

Wednesday 17
GARDEN THERAPY – 9:15 AM (CP-2)
Allerton United Methodist Church, 104 Allerton Rd., Annandale.  Please bring greens and shears.

Wednesday 17
HHGC BOARD MEETING – 10:45 AM
Whittemore Wildlife Sanctuary, 7 Rockaway Rd., Oldwick

Wednesday 24
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING – 9:30 AM
High Bridge Emergency Squad, Route 513, High Bridge
Reminder: Sign up for Mystery Tour & Pansy Festival

Business Meeting – 10 AM

Program – 11:00 AM:  “Perennials in Garden Design” – Connie Callus, a member of the Master Gardener Speaker’s Bureau, will discuss the planting and care of perennials.
Program Coordinator: Kathleen Cotter

Flower Design (CP-5): “Hint of Spring“ – A Creative Illuminary Design (FSH pp.202-203) using a Split Compliment color scheme (one key hue combined with the hues that lie on both sides of the key hue’s direct compliment on the Color Wheel – FSH p167). Fresh and/or dried plant material. Accessory permitted.
Designers: Cathy Boyer, Susie Delaney. Janet Dunsby, Helen Hoag, Delores Lawrence, Michele Liana, Peggy Moskway, Maureen Sammis and Betsey Thompson
All members are invited to participate.

Hospitality
Hostesses: Jo Quinton, John Moskway, Peggy Moskway, Jean Quinn, Kate Slawson

Club Dues are due!!!

REMINDER: Sign up for Pansy Festival & Garden Tour help

APRIL
“Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil,
            getting dirty without feeling guilty and generally taking the time to
                                soak up a little peace and serenity.”
                                                   Lindley Karstens, noproblemgarden.com

Wednesday 14
Garden Club of NJ District IV meeting 9:30 A.M.
Frelinghuysen Arboretum
Friends of Frelinghuysen Arboretum Home Page
www.arboretumfriends.org
 
Wednesday 21
GARDEN THERAPY – 9:15 AM (CP-2)
Allerton United Methodist Church, 104 Allerton Rd., Annandale.  Please bring greens and shears.

Wednesday 21
HHGC BOARD MEETING – 10:45 AM
Whittemore Wildlife Sanctuary, 7 Rockaway Rd., Oldwick

Wednesday 28
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING – 9:30 AM
High Bridge Emergency Squad, Route 513, High Bridge

Business Meeting – 10 AM

Earth Day – Rethink, Reuse, Recycle your old garden products.  Member exchange of garden-related products after meeting, plus Spring Cleanup of High Bridge Emergency Squad Garden (CP-1) – 11:00 AM

Hospitality
Hostesses: Barbara Lewis, Dolores Lawrence, Martha Wrede
Friday 30
Arbor Day –save some paper today & plant a tree!!!
 
REMINDER: Sign up for next year’s committees! 

MAY
“In order to live off a garden,
                you practically have to live in it."
                                     Frank McKinney Hubbard

Saturday 1
Clinton Pansy Festival
Door and window decorating contest (CP-1)

Wednesday 5
MYSTERY TOUR (CY-1)
Our intrepid guide Pat Tillisch will surprise us with garden and greenhouse visits somewhere in Hunterdon, Somerset or Morris Counties.

Friday-Sunday* 14-16
NGC Convention, Atlanta, GA

Wednesday 19
GARDEN THERAPY – 9:15 AM (CP-2)
Allerton United Methodist Church, 104 Allerton Rd., Annandale.  Please bring greens and shears.

Wednesday 19
HHGC BOARD MEETING – 10:45 AM
Whittemore Wildlife Sanctuary, 7 Rockaway Rd., Oldwick

Wednesday 26
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING – 9:30 AM
High Bridge Emergency Squad, Route 513, High Bridge
Presentation of new officer slate and elections

Reminder: Sign up for hostess duties & flower design for next year

Business Meeting – 10 AM

Program – 11:00 AM:  “Feng Shui in Your Garden” – Joanne Vogel, a Master Gardener and long-time student of Feng Shui, will discuss how to apply the ancient Chinese principles of Feng Shui in your garden.
Coordinator:  Mary Pat Mackenzie

Flower Design (CP-5): “Prom Season“ – A corsage or nosegay done in an Analogous Color scheme (FSH p166). All fresh plant material. Ribbon may be used.
Designers: Peg Bailey, Chris Endris, Linda Kuhl, Dolores Lawrence, Judy Migliorini, Pat O’Brien, Jo Quinton, Jan Stalnaker, Pat Tillisch
All members are invited to participate.

Hospitality
Hostesses: Muriel Komoski, Audrey DiMarcello and Linda Kuhl

JUNE
“When gardeners garden,
                 it is not just the plants that grow,
                                    but the gardeners themselves.”
                                                                      Ken Druse

Thursday 3
Garden Club of New Jersey (GCNJ)
85th Annual Meeting. 
Bridgewater Marriott, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM.

Sunday-Saturday* 6-12

National Garden Week

Wednesday 9
GARDEN THERAPY – 9:15 AM (CP-2)
Allerton United Methodist Church, 104 Allerton Rd., Annandale.  Please bring greens and shears.

Wednesday 9
HHGC BOARD MEETING/LUNCHEON – 10:45 AM
Board luncheon at the home of Mary Pat MacKenzie

Wednesday 16
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING – 10:00 AM:  
Susan Thomas’s home.  Installation of officers; scholarship recipient introductions and scholarship presentations (CP-4); member plant exchange (CP-6); picnic luncheon.

Hospitality
Hostesses: Connie Brandenburg, Meryl Campbell and Janet Dunsby
Hostesses will supply desserts.
Members please bring a cold luncheon dish and serving spoon.
 
Reminder: Please provide in writing any changes in address, email or phone numbers for next year’s Handbook.
 
Attention Members:
If you would like to open your garden to member-tours over the summer, please contact John Moskway