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What's New March Field Trip--Dig up those tools and get them ready for Spring. Trip will include lunch while our gardening tools are being sharpened. See details on right. Sign up today!
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Board Members
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President:
Pam Demetroulakos
Vice President:
Beth Mancuso
Secretary:
Laurie Boggis
Treasurer:
Evonne Peters
Civic Beautification:
Susan McMullen
Pinar Gokce
Susan Smith
Membership Chair:
Liz Warner
Nominating Chair:
Jan Foss
Public Relations:
Wendy Webber
Ways & Means Committee:
Lisa Biggio
Ways & Means:
Maureen Karwowski
Ways & Means Committee:
Nancy Lipski
Diane Lovejoy
Ways & Means:
Kathy Martin
Patty Shea
Hotess Coordinator:
Jan Waldman
Web Site:
Amy Berenson
Past President:
Janie Snowden
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Welcome to the Driftwood Garden Club web site!2006-2007 Program Highlights
We have been fortunate to enjoy a wonderful line up of speakers and workshops this year. Here are some recent highlights of our activities.
At our February meeting, we saw many examples of "Vertical Gardening:Plants that Flower Up and Around." Maria von Brincken, a Certified Landscape Designer, showed us examples of vertical gardening from both historical and modern gardens and choice plants. Is your garden vertically challenged? Vine and wall plants grow on structures that create the walls of outdoor rooms. Ornamental vines, perennial, annual, edible and wall plants add texture, flower, berry, fragrance, and sometimes fruit to the structures. She is one of only seven APLD-certified professional landscape designers in Massachusetts. Her work has been featured in Fine Gardening Magazine and Taunton Press’ Front Yard Idea Book.
Our January meeting was a huge hit! Pam Demetroulakos, Event Chair of the Driftwood Garden Club invited Chef Paul Baker, of Foodies Feast, to show off his cooking finesse with his presentation: "Borage, Lovage and Lavender, Cooking with Herbs and Edible Flowers." The event took place on January 30th in the home of Sally& Jim Harshbarger in Marblehead. Members were introduced to the English classic Pimm's Cocktail, lobster&lovage phyllo triangles, crab and borage dip as well as lovage-carrot quiche and a rich lovage-potato soup. Saving the best for last, Paul and his talented assistant and wife, Julie, served lavender lemon pound cake. Yummm! These old-fashioned herbs were a definitive hit. Look for them, as they may be cropping up in local gardens everywhere. Paul's incredible cuisine for breakfast, lunch and dinner can be found at Foodies Feast, 114 Washington Street in Marblehead.
One of our favorite meetings is the December holiday workshop. This year our members Ginny von Reuden and Laurie Boggis helped us take an ordinary wreath and make it an extraordinarily beautiful decoration! And now we finally know how to make those beautiful bows! With libations and dessert, a good time was had by all!
In November, we learned about the difference between a cactus and a succulent. Paul Carlberg enlightened and stimulated us with his insight and display of these wonderful prickly plants, bringing many from around the world.
In October, our 5-club collabortive meeting at the Community Center brought us Paul Tukey with "Gardeners as Stewards of the Planet." He encouraged and taught us how to work in partnership with spouses, landscapers, and neighbors to increase the number of lawns cared for organically. He exlained the many different resources available to the gardner and landscaper to improve the health of the garden and lawn while limiting our exposure to 4-step pesticides and toxins which are long-lasting and damaging to children as well as adults. Our own Chip Osborne was there to support the topic and answer questions. A large crowd was inpired to start compost piles, use compost tea and stop polluting our lawns and gardens!
In September, Michael Levin from Bonsai West inspired & educated us in the wonderful world of Bonsai. Several member's husbands already took a class from him and are now the proud owners of beautiful bonsai trees. See more at his web site www.bonsaiwest.com
Other Upcoming meetings:
February 13th, 10am--Vertical Gardening: Plants that grow up and around (Abbott Public Library)
March--Fieldtrip! Tuesday, March 6, 11:00am. Garden Tool Sharpening and Lunch. Let's get some of those over-worked garden tools out to be sharpened so we can be ready for Dig and Divide and the planting season in style! Ceramaloy Carbide Sharpening Co. in Salem will take our tools and for very reasonable prices, make them like new, while we enjoy a delicious, well deserved lunch. Our tools will be ready when we are done, so we can pick them up on the way home. Meet at St. Andrew's parking lot at 11:00 to carpool. Lunch at either Finz or Capt's? Note: Ceramaloy takes only cash or check, no credit cards.
Annual cocktail party, Saturday March 31st, 7pm with special speaker "The Secrets of an Arborist" by Jim Harshbarger.
Please continue to look here for the program calendar, important announcements, interesting resources, upcoming gardening events, links, and other information that you may find useful.
Please send your ideas and suggestions for the web site to the webmaster address below.
Enjoy!
Driftwood Garden Club's Dig and Divide will be April 25th, 2007 at 9am. We will gather most of the plants needed to sell at our annual Plant Sale, May 19th. .
Our Annual luncheon will be Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at the Corinthian Yacht Club. Yum!
Our 4th Annual Members' Garden Tour will be in early June, 2007 this year. This tour is a low-key, casual ways to share your garden. The half-day tour of approximately 5 gardens gives members an opportunity to show what they have worked hard to accomplish. All size gardens are interesting and enjoyable. It is a fun day filled with many compliments, ewwws and ahhhhs!. Please consider sharing your garden. For more information, contact Pam.
Highlights from last year's meetings
Williamsburg Wreaths with Josie Kolourat-Maritz
A Taste of Holland - Adriana O'Sullivan
Valentine Rose Workshop with Nancy Engel
Dining With Flowers by Marisa McCoy
In November, we were awed by expert flower arranger, Marisa McCoy, who gave us some gorgeous ideas for our holiday tables. She used everything from ribbons and pheasant feathers, to stunning roses, crabapples and limes. She decorated candlesticks, used unusually-shaped containers and truly inspired us. At the end, eight lucky members of the audience got to take home one of her creations.
In December we had a fun time making wreaths under Josie's tutelage, using clementines, ribbon, dried orange peels and pods. They were all so different from each other, but they all looked and smelled beautiful.
January took us to Adriana's homeland, Holland, along with the Cottage Gardeners. Our armchair travelers saw slides of Keukenhof, the largest spring flowering bulb display in the world. We saw small towns all over Holland, along with both private and public gardens.
February brought us Nancy Engel from The Sunny Window in Southborough. Nancy taught us some interesting tidbits about roses and aromatherapy, served us rose tea and showed us how to make a wreath of dried Turkish roses. Some of the fun facts we learned are: roses are good for treating depression, stress, emotional trauma and scars; it takes 60,000 Bulgarian roses to make 1 ounce of rose water; and lastly, if you put rose geranium in a diffuser for a dinner party, you will be guaranteed a good time!
If you would like information on joining the Driftwood Garden Club, please fill out the form below or email our Membership chair, Jan Waldman. Click on email link on left. We look forward to hearing from you!
