Photo gallery of June 2010 Annual Meeting & Luncheon (coming soon...)

Monthly Club Meeting

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Wednesday, September 15
Our Lady of Victory Church
1230 S. Main Street
Centerville
11:30 A.M. Farmer's Market
12:15 - 12:45 p.m. Teatime
1:00 p.m. Club Meeting

"Photographic introduction to the Varied Birds of Cape Cod"
Vern Laux
Orinthologist and Naturalist at the Linda Loring Nature Center on Nantucket,
Birding columnist for the
Cape Cod Times
WCAI weekly commentator

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Ways and Means

The "Farmer's Market" held before the 2009 September meeting was a resounding success. In anticipation of repeating this event on, Wednesday, September 15 at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, please save decorative bottles for food items... create appropriate items that could be sold...flowers, fruits, vegetables, canned goods, jams & jellies, breads, herbs, honey, pesto, potpourri, soaps, pickles, relishes, etc
Prepare for this exciting event through the summer months.

The Annual Plant and Bake Sale was held on May 29 - Photo page of event.

Thank you to local garden centers for their help & support: Discounted strawberry jars from County Gardens, plant donations from Sprout Farms & Bush Gardens, and a generous donation of succlents from Mahoney's.

Civic Beautification

Osterville Historical Garden
October 13 (Wednesday) at 9:00 a.m.
Cleaning up and putting the Colonial Garden to bed at the Osterville Historical Society. Bring your gloves and gardening tools.
Raindate: October 14 (thursday) 9:00 a.m.

Reminder: Your week volunteering to tend the beds!

Conservation

The Conservation Committee has introduced a contest "Saving Our Environment" to educate and stimulate an interest in and awareness of what one can do to save our environment and to hopefully instill a life-time change in how we impact our fragile Cape Cod and its resources. To participate, points were determined each month (November, December, February, March & April) .
Congratulations to Joyce Ginouves as the winner!

Conservation Flyer: Tips & Tricks - Conservation & Environment (page 1) (page 2) Be sure to check "Links" page for valuable green resources!

Design


Floral Design Workshops:

Introduction to Basic Floral Design with Judy Lewis (4 part series)
September 10, 17, 24 and October 110:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Location TBA


**Please bring in designs and horticulture by 11:45 am to help critiqueing and judging.

Garden Therapy

Held at Harbor Point Assisted Living in Centerville. 2:00 p.m. Thursdays

September 16
October 21
November 18
December 9
January 20
February 17
March 17
April 21
May 19

Horticulture

"Eight Ball" zucchini Challenge...Penny sent in this photo:

Workshops

Perennial Exchange for all Garden Club Members: September 24 (Friday), 11:00 a.m. At Carolyn Lane's garden. Bring a sandwich and enjoy the garden. Drinks will be provided.

The Butterfly Garden at Long Pasture, Mass Audubon
Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary, Mass Audubon, 345 Bone Hill Road, Barnstable. From Rt. 6 take exit 7 to Yarmouth Port. Go north one mile on Willow Street, take a left onto Rt. 6A west (at the old Christmas Tree Shop), go one mile and take a right on Bone Hill Road. The sanctuary parking area is 0.2 miles ahead on the left next to the shed.

Maintenance at the garden is the second Wednesday of the month at 9:00 a.m. Call Irene Antkowiak if you have any questions.
September 8

Walk & Talk at the Audubon Hummingbird-Butterfly Garden. October 6 , 11:00 a.m. (Raindate October 8). Bring a sandwich; tea and cookies provided.

Click here for annual Horticulture tips
Click here for annual Conservations tips

Click here for some tips: Birdlife, Holiday Plants, Succulents, Lilies, Hydrangeas. Herbs, Garden Club Xmas Tree, Rhubarb birdbath,
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Membership

Welcome to new members: Mary Jane Eplett and Carol Wilkins:.

Provisionals for 2009-2010: Linda Baker (photo) & Lucille Noble.


Provisionals for 2010-2011: Cindi Reid, Suzanne Moyer, Kay Murphy, Marian Nicastro,, & Carol Warren:

Deadline for those wishing to propose a new member for the Fall of 2010 is August 15th, Contact Loretta Haugen for membership forms.

Library
Weekly arrangements needed for Centerville, Cotuit, Marstons Mills, & Osterville libraries provided by members. Arrangements are brought to libraries on Mondays and containers picked up following week. Please sign up for at least twice a year. Sign up sheets at meetings.
Centerville Library, www.centervillelibrary.org
M/W 9:30-5, T/Th 9:30-7, F 9:30-5, Sa 10-2
Cotuit Library, www.library.cotuit.ma.us
M 1:30-5:30, 7-8:30; Tu 9:30-5:30, W 1:30-5:30; Th 9:30-5:30, 7-8:30, F 9:30-5:30,
Sa 10-4
Marstons Mills Library, www.mmpl.org
MThF 1-5, Tu 10-8, W 10-6, Sa 10-2
Osterville Library, www.ostervillefreelibrary.org
MWF 9-5, Tu,Th 1-8, Sa 9-3, Sun 1-4.

Please remember to pick up your containers left at the libraries. It is helpful if containers are marked with your name.

Please double check at meetings the library sign up lists for correct library location placement. Thanks!

Submit a picture of your library arrangement
and it will be featured on the website!

Scholarship

Our Garden Club has awarded over $80,000 in scholarship money in the last 23 years.

Scholarships are awarded to Barnstable residents who are graduates of Barnstable High School, Sturgis Charter School and Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich. Seniors and recent graduates attending college may apply. To qualify, students must be planning to major in horticulture, botany, landscape design, conservation, forestry, environmental sciences, and related fields. Applications are available in the guidance offices of those schools.

The Scholarship Awards Recipients for 2010-2011 are:



Samantha Beynor, Barnstable High Scool
Conor Chandler, Barnstable High School
Chapen Mosher, Barnstable High School
Justine Ashley, Sturgis Charter School
Elizabeth Rask, University of Wisconsin-Madison (BHS Class of 2008)

Member's Calendar - Check this page for new features.

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Safari Tour 2008
Cotuit Gardens
click here for garden descriptions
click here for photo gallery

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Under The Green Umbrella

The First Project took place on July 13, 2009 at the Marstons Mills Children's Garden where children created Scarecrows. The Second Project was a Harvest Event in August where children picked vegetables and flowers, filling their baskets to bring home. Thank you to all participating members!
click here to see Scarecrow event
click here to see Harvest Event

Plans are underway for Garden Club members to help the Master Gardener's Program at the Marstons Mills Children's Garden 2010 beginning May 10 and every Monday thereafter throughout the summer. We'll host specific projects with the children. Sixteen children have already registered. They also happily take children's clothing donations for ages 6-12

Monday, August 30, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Spend some creative time with the children making Corn Husk Dolls. Save your corn husks and gather any bits of materials that can be used to decorate with. Call Priscilla is you'd like to participate or have any knowledge to contribute to this project.

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The Barnstable High School Cobb Astro Memorial Garden will host "Tea at a Hidden Jewel" on Monday, September 20, 4:00 p.m. for members to celebrate our gift of a beautiful garden to the Cobb Astro Park and our collaboration with Barnstable High School. (raindate: September 21)

click here to view Making the Garden (coming soon....)

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Barnstable Fair held in July, "A Garden Tour" was presented by the GCFM & the Southeastern District:
click here for photos (coming soon...)


Southeastern District Design & Horticulture Study Group (2009)
presented : " September to Remember "
A Standard Flower Show Celebrating 40 years of Heritage Museums & Gardens.
Lush seasonal Horticulture and inventive Floral Designs. Informative educational exhibits and entrancing artistic crafts.
Click here to view the show .

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Flower Shows:

"Blooms" at the Boston Flower & Garden Show was held March 24-March 28, 2010 at the Seaport World Trade Center, Boston. www.masshort.org/Blooms
(click here for Designs 101-107)
(click here for Designs 201-207)
(click here for Garden Cakes)
(click here to view an assortment of Show Gardens)

Marshfield Fair, August 20-29, Route 3A, Marshfeld, Ma, "Wonders of the World" presented by the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. and The Marshfiield Agricultural & Horticultural society.

Tower Hill Flower Show, October 21-24 at Tower Hill Botranic Gardens Boylston

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Community Events

The Osterville Business and Professional Association
Honored the OGC for our 60 years of service to the community.

2010 Cahoon in Bloom - "Chasing the Mermaids"
Celebrating the Centennial of Ralph Cahoon's birth with an exhibit of his whimsical Cape paintings, starting July 29. The Garden Club exhibited floral interpretations of his artwork from August 5-8.
click here for photos 2010 gallery

At The Cahoon Museum in Cotuit, August 14-17. 2008 Osterville Garden Club members presented floral arrangements interpreting the museum's Americana artwork. The exhibition was entitled
"At Home in America"
Click here for photo 2008 gallery

Sixteen Osterville Garden Club Members contributed designs for an exhibition entitled "Pastel Works" at the Cahoon Museum in May 2009.
click here for 2009 photo gallery of designs

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Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts

Continue to Check out listings and activities in the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts 2009-2010 Calendar. www.GCFM.org

Southeastern District & GCFMA, Annual Luncheon, April 22 at the Pine Hill Golf club in Plymouth.
(click here for photos from this event)

Flower Show School, Sepember 14

Floral Technique Workshop, September 28, 10:00 a.m., Espousal Center,Waltham

October 8, Southeastern Disrict Coffee

Designing Principles, October 13, 10 a.m., Espousal Center, Waltham

New England Regional Meeting, October 18-19, Vermont

GCFM Fall Conference, October 26, 8:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m., "It's Not Easy Being Green", Andover Country Club, Andover, MA

Landscape Design School, October 28-30, Regis College

Design Workshop I, November 2, Espousal Center, Waltham

Environmental Workshop, November 9, 930 a.m. - 12 noon

Horticulture Morning, November 15, 10 a.m. - noon, Espousal Center, Waltham

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Other Garden Club Events:

NEDS 2010 Plant Sale & Aucion at Tower Hill Botanical Garden., August 28. Bargain tables of daylilies will open at 11 a.m. Live auction will start at 12 noon. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Boylston, Ma

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2010 Vision of Beauty Calendar and a great design resource available to order from www.gardenclub.org for $5.95 including shipping and handling.

Osterville Garden Club presents Inside Out A Garden Companion Now in it's third printing! Monthly suggestions for indoor or outdoor gardening $15.00 plus $2.50 P&H check made out to "Osterville Garden Club" P.O. Box 56 Osterville, MA 02655 All proceeds go to our scholarship fund. The Mayflower is the official publication of The Garden Club of Massachusetts, Inc. It is published five times a year.  A year subscription is $8.00 for garden club members. ($25.00 a year for non-members) Checks should be made payable to GCFM,Inc. Orders can be taken at club meetings. Subscriiptions run from June to June. The Handbook for Flower Shows (2007) is THE guide for growing, staging, exhibiting and judging according to the rules and regulations of the National Garden Clubs, Inc.  Copies of the handbook can be ordered at Garden Club meetings.  A new edition is now available to order.  Updates can be downloaded via our website by clicking on the National Garden Clubs, Inc. link. Go back to top

Special Events:

Osterville Village Day Parade 2009
The Club was awarded the "Judges Award"

2010 Parade Date: July 17

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Second Printing:

The Osterville Garden Club Cookbook
Little Neck Dijon; Salmon with Raspberry Sauce; Fresh Tomato Tart; Apple Bread Pudding; and Sunken Chocolate Cake with Coffee Ice Cream!    Pages jumping with the spirit and sparkle of our garden club members!  In addition to fabulous recipes, another feature of our cookbook that makes it unique, and unprecedented in this area is 60 beautiful black & white photographs of member’s gardens & flowers, as well as conservation places.  These are pure visual poetry interspersed throughout the book.  Placed beneath each photo are beautiful quotes about gardens, gardeners, and nature.  This cookbook will truly be a keepsake! 

The cookbook cost is $15.00 each.  If you would like a copy(s) sent to you, there will be an additional fee of $2.00 per book for Shipping/Handling.  Send mail orders to: Osterville Garden Club, attn: Cookbook, P.O. Box 56, Osterville, MA 02655.  Make your check or money order out to the Osterville Garden Club. Cookbooks are also available at the Osterville Historical Society and Books By The Sea - all in Osterville. 

Thank you for your support!

‘Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty’ – James Russell Lowell