'A Way We Grow'
Martha's Vineyard Garden Club
June 2022
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From our President...
I’m thrilled to report that Blooming Art this year was a success in all categories!
Thanks to Jayne, Trudy and our terrific designers, the floral designs were beautiful and superbly
reflected a wide range of impressive art. Sheila and Wiet invited some renowned island artists
to the show. The Old Mill looked magical. Gay and Laurie worked hard leading their band of
docents.
Donna’s marketing and social networking gave us great visibility and generated excitement.
Stephen’s poster this year was spectacular.
Many enthusiastic volunteers, including members new to the Club, made the show run
flawlessly and contributed to a sense of community, and many compliments from our guests.
Although Alysa’s numbers are still preliminary, Blooming Art this year took in over $12,000! Art
sale revenue was almost double last year’s, and we had almost 500 attendees. The Club also
gained 7 new members.
Thank you to everyone who helped make our major annual fundraiser successful!
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Shared by Wiet Bacheller...
Just before midnight, this past Sunday night Wiet noticed that her husband John's 'night blooming cereus' opened up. Wiet titled her email to me 'A perfect Closing for Blooming Art'...which I agree with (since the final day of BA was Sunday). I thought it appropriate to share it with the Club, given the timing. The plant is a night-blooming cereus (the common name) referring to a large number of flowering ceroid cacti that bloom at night. The flowers are short lived, and some of these species, such as the Selenicereus grandiflorus, bloom only once a year, and for only one single night. Very Cool!
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A Warm Welcome to our
New Members!
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Esther Brandon - C
Rogers Brandon - C
AnnGray Doig - E
Judy Feingold - E
Ally Fuller - E
Mike Fuller - E
Mary Gosselin - VH
Elizabeth Hunt - VH
Janet Jones - VH
Jim Jones - VH
Theresa Meehan - E
David Wilson - OB
Susan Wilson - OB
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CONGRATS TO OUR SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT, ELLA BUCHERT!
At Senior Awards night at the OB Tabernacle, the MV Garden Club presented its $1,500.00 Scholarship to graduate Ella Buchert. In a commitment to encourage future generations to preserve and improve our island and make the world a better place, the Club awards scholarships to Vineyard high school students bound for a college major in a field related to horticulture, landscape, environmental studies, farming, or other connected areas of study.
Our recipient for 2022, Ella Buchert will attend the University of MA Amherst in the fall, majoring in Environmental Studies. She was an intern at Polly Hill Arboretum as their herbarium intern and was president of Interact Club, which is a service based club at the high school. This included weekly volunteering at the food bank. Here is a quote from Ella’s application that our presenter and Club Secretary, Joan Eville read at the awards presentation, ‘I want to be able to help solve climate issues that are happening right where I live, and around the world.’ We wish Ella and the entire class of 2022 much success in their future endeavors!
The MVGC scholarship is available subject to the approval of the MVGC Board of Directors annually. Scholarships are funded by member donations and proceeds from the Club's Blooming Art event. As a result of membership and community generosity, the Club has awarded over $21,000 in scholarships to Island graduates over the years.
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Old House Gardens, Heirloom Bulbs... This is a wonderful heirloom bulb resource I thought you might be interested in!
for the online catalog!
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If you love your garden, don't forget to enter it in the MV Times Garden Competition!
You may enter now through July 31!
There are six categories of garden you can consider... Container Garden, Grand Garden, Pollinator or Demonstration Garden, Kitchen Garden, Whimsical Garden and
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Call for Volunteers: Eastville Cemetery folks and organizer, Frank Kostka are looking for help to plant and resurrect this historic black cemetery that is located on The African-American Heritage Trail of Martha's Vineyard. This is NOT being organized by any MVGC member...but if you want to help, please contact Frank via 4merdawg@gmail.com.
Backstory: Frank commented on one of our Garden Club Facebook posts asking if we could help out. Given the fact that the Club was/is immersed in the plant sale and Blooming Art, I offered to put a call to action in our next newsletter.
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Thanks to these MVGC Members for sharing their Gardens! |
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President Susan Hobart's amazing wildflower garden she created! |
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Joan Cavazuti's iris, baptisia and allium! |
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One of Joan's beautiful peonies! |
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Joan's 'Shirley Temple' single peony. |
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Gay Smith's garden peony! |
Donna Arold's rose garden... |
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Susan Shea's lovely rhododendron!
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and Donna's homegrown strawberries! |
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Treasurer Alysa Emden iris's, |
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and Alysa's beautiful peony, |
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and finally, Alysa's clematis! |
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Members...DO send me pics of your garden as the season progresses...Its always great to see what our GC members are growing! Send to:donna.arold@gmail.com with a little description of the pic and your name!
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Our Next Meeting is Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 1:00pm @ The Old Mill and we will be hosting speaker, Jesse Ausubel. The topic will be 'Growing Cherries'! Jesse suggests we look over the article 'The cherry orchard in Jesse Ausubel’s backyard' (article from the MV Times) prior to his presentation! CLICK HERE to read it! We hope to see you at the Old Mill in July! Sounds like a fun topic!
STARTING AT OUR JULY MEETING...do bring your well loved gardening books for our Garden Club Book Sale, which will be held as part of our October meeting!
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What an inspirational workshop Nancy & Judy gave for the BA Floral designers at the end of May! Here is some info and pics from the class! |
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Former Garden Club Presidents Judy Bryant and Nancy Cabot held an interactive floral demonstration session in prep for our Blooming Art event as a support to our beloved floral designers! The workshop featured helpful hints for floral design including choosing and caring for flowers, containers, size and scale of arrangements, accessories and mechanics of flower arranging. Attendance was great and some GC members asked for opinions after the workshop ended. We thank these special sisters sincerely for once again sharing their knowledge with all of us! |
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BLOOMING BIDS FOR KIDS DONATION!
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cape Cod & the Islands is hosting Blooming Bids for Kids at the Field Gallery in West Tisbury in late June. It is a fundraiser and the MVGC is donating a basket of garden related items along with a household membership to the MVGC for one year!
Thanks so much to the members who jumped in and donated some lovely garden-related items for our Blooming Bids for Kids Silent Auction basket. The basket total value is $299.00 and includes a GC household membership! This opportunity came together really fast and due to the cutoff date we didn't have an opportunity to ask the entire membership. But don't feel left out...we will do it again next year, so hopefully we will donate a basket worth 3 or four times what we've donated this year!
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A Spring Garden Event at the MV Museum's Cooke House & Legacy Gardens you may find of interest!
Historical Horticulture Workshop: Herbal Home Helpers - June 25 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Cooke House Legacy Gardens, 51 School Street in Edgartown.
At this special workshop, you will learn which herbs solve what household problems and take home a piece of history with appropriate cuttings from the Cooke House & Legacy Gardens.
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We have an appeal from Garden Club member, Wiet Bacheller for 6 to 8 volunteers from the Club who will be willing and available the morning of Monday, August 8 to spend an hour or two to create about 36 centerpieces for the dinner tables and a few extra bouquets for the registration tables for the Hospice Annual Soiree dinner and Auction.
The Location: Farm Neck Golf Club, Oak Bluffs
For The Event: Hospice Annual Soiree Dinner and Auction.
All flowers etc. will be provided...they just need the hands!
For more information and to sign up please contact: Wiet Bacheller, 508-693 -0927 or mobile 774-563-0281 or email Wiet at: hwuebjohn@verizon.net
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THE GARDEN CLUB'S ANNUAL PLANT SALE
WAS A HUGE SUCCESS!
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Over Memorial Day weekend, the Greenhouse Committee hosted their annual plant sale! It was a group effort with some members helping to move plants from Wakeman to the Old Mill grounds and the Greenhouse Committee set up the window boxes and boards for plant display!
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Despite some rainy weather, the Club netted over $4,000.00 through the Plant Sale this year, so huge thanks and kudo's go to our amazing Greenhouse Committee! They are a dedicated and knowledgeable group and we want them to know how much we appreciate all they do!
The Greenhouse Committee consists of the following Garden Club members: Marilyn Bergeron, Wesley Brown, Shelley Brown, Judy Bryant, Tracie Clark, Mary Ann Dolezsar, Angela Egerton, Bob Geary, Carol Goldstein, Al Eville, Jackie Hokanson, Carol Jackson, Charlie Lopresti, Vito Palermo, Mary Lou Perry, Mary St. Germain, Sue Silva, Judi Worthington.
According to Wesley, (the Committee Chair), the group had been unable to meet together during the pandemic, but he is hoping that the Greenhouse Committee will be able to resume their weekly 9:30 A.M. Monday work together at the greenhouse in September. They are always happy to have new volunteer workers and are hoping for some extra hands to help out come Wintertime.
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Above are the Social Media stats for our Facebook page as of 6/19/2022! This page began on 4/25/2021, and my GOAL of 1,000 follows by our Blooming Art 2022 conclusion was met! Thanks to all of you who shared our content and helped to make it happen. That's how the Club will grow its membership! |
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Our Social Media stats through Instagram are shown above...and please continue to share, follow and like gardenclubmv via Insta! It would be great if we could increase these numbers,...so those of you who are Instagram users, DO tap in and share, share, share our Garden Club stuff or tag us in your posts! |
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Some exciting news re: our website and our newsletter reach...this month we've had 43 sign ups via the pop up spot when you open our website! It seems a few members have signed up for the newsletter again, but your email address is already in the roster to receive it if you're a paid up MVGC 2022 member! If you're NOT getting the newsletter monthly, do check your spam or junk folder. Depending on your email settings, sometimes these kinds of emails randomly get dumped there! If you're unsure, let me know via donna.arold@gmail.com.
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COME TO 4:00 FRIDAY ON JUNE 24!!
In an effort to enjoy more social time with members, we are hoping you will come to 4:00 Friday at the Old Mill! Members are invited to the Old Mill in West Tisbury (do bring a guest or friend!) along with whatever you want to drink and snack on to enjoy yourself or to share. Its Carry In/ Carry out, just like when you go to the beach! The timeframe is 4:00 - 5:30 and the four o'clock Fridays will be held the last Friday of each month and will continue through the warm months, hopefully until October! We hope to see our new members there!
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A Mini Blooming Art 2022 recap for those of you
who may have missed it!
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Our GC greeters and docent chairs Gay & Laurie! These chicks rocked it...many thanks for keeping things moving along and for your wonderful record keeping! |
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Our sweet and gentle Nancy w/her arrangement and art piece! I think her granddaughter would be amazed at her interpretation...I know I was! |
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Nancy & Joan greeting attendees on a sunny Saturday morning and Jayne, floral design chair stepped in for a photo op with the 'Storytime II' peeps!
(thanks for the pic, Jayne!
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Anne interprets Alison Shaw's image...so pretty!
And the art piece sold, which is so exciting!
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Irene with Jay Lagemann's piece and her interpretation of it...and a silver vessel she just happened to have! Ahhhmazing! |
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Wiet and her interpretation of this beautiful bird art piece that sold at the show! |
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Kathy looks quite happy with her arrangement! Simply beautiful! |
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Secretary Joan with her beautiful floral interpretation of Valentine's 'Mermaid Farm' painting! |
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First time-arranger Susan pictured with her floral design! (And contributing artist Marston Clough bought the art piece!) |
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Leah puts the finishing touches on her arrangement! |
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First time designer Pam with her creative arrangement! |
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Caroline was lucky to meet Washington, the artist at the show and take this pic with him! |
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Dynamic duo Nancy and Mary Ann create another masterpiece! |
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Fawn's sweet and whimsical
floral design!
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Susie is happily at work on her elegant arrangement! |
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It was so exciting to have had some ladies from The Mashpee Garden Club come to the Island for Blooming Art 2022! Thanks Anne & Co. for making the trip! |
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At Polly Hill Arboretum...
This sounds like a cool program happening at Polly Hill! Check it out if you're around...How to Make a Meadow. The date is June 28, 2022 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am, and you should register ahead of time, so here's the info!
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Nancy Weaver received this and asked we share it with Club Members...Read the below message & help if you can! Thanks in advance!
We’re set to plant 1,000 New England blazing-star plants at Bamford on Thursday at 10am. This will be our first rare plant introduction there and an important milestone for the site! We have somewhere around 10 volunteers so far but need more help. If you could spread the word to your volunteer core, it’d be greatly appreciated. They can RSVP with me at mike.whittemore@tnc.org. Thank you very much!
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Hello Members!
If you would like to contribute to the newsletter, please reach out to me! Anything that's garden related or even some pics of what you're growing this time of year would be wonderful to include! I would love to have some feedback and hear your thoughts on this newsletter! My email is donna.arold@gmail.com. Thanks so much for reading, and have a wonderful Summer!
:-) Donna
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