Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of

the Cleveland Metroparks

Chippewa Garden Club Newsletter

http://chippewagardenclub.com November/December 2017

National Garden Club, Inc.

President—Nancy Hargroves

National Garden Clubs, Inc.

4401 Magnolia Avenue

St. Louis, MO 63110

Central Atlantic Region

Director—Regina Brown

Garden Club of Ohio, Inc.

President—Deanna Stearns

6820 Mapleridge Circle NW

Canton, OH 44718

GCO Cleveland District

Director—Jane Bodnar

21029 Avalon Drive

Rocky River OH 44116-1117

Chippewa Garden Club

President—Kathy Habib

3490 Mark Drive

Broadview Hts, OH 44147

Vice-President-Susan Jurecki

6752 Karen Drive

Seven Hills, OH 44131

Co-Secretaries-

Christine Sparano

7443 Old Quarry Lane

Brecksville, OH 44141

Sandy Ladebue

6522 E. Sprague Road

Brecksville, Oh 44141

Treasurer-Laura Springer

3665 Meadow Gateway

Broadview Hts. 44147

Co-Finance--

Lynne Evans

9455 Woodchip Lane

Broadview Hts., OH 44147

Kathy Ziemba

8207 Montridge Ct.

North Royalton, OH 44133

Historian-Margaret DeWolf

7001 Crestview Drive

Brecksville, OH 44141

A Message From the

President

Be sure to enjoy any sunny warm

days that might be left as we ap-

proach late fall and are ready to

tuck our gardens in for the winter.

We were lucky to have a warm

October that allowed us to con-

tinue to work in our gardens.

Keep your birdfeeders full dur-

ing the winter months, and the

birds will stay near your garden

in the summer. This year we

had a pair of young raccoons

that ate the seed from the feed-

er, so we had to start bringing

it in each night. Since the feed-

er was only large enough to

handle one raccoon, they took turns

hanging from it.

Mow the lawn as long as it contin-

ues growing. There were some years

we have mowed the lawn into De-

cember. Don’t forget to run your

gas powered lawn mower dry after

the last mowing. Drain and store

your garden hose indoors and drain

outdoor faucets.

Move your houseplants away from

cold windows to avoid leaf burn.

Keep them moist, but don’t overwa-

ter. The number one cause of house-

plant demise is overwatering. Most

houseplants should not be fertilized

during winter dormancy.

Wipe dust from houseplant leaves

with a damp cloth or place in the

shower to wash leaves. Dust blocks

leaves from taking advantage of the

lower light that they receive during

winter months.

Houseplants make great holiday

gifts. Plant some paper whites for

winter color and aroma, but pur-

chase them now while they are

available in stores. Consider them

an annual and toss the bulbs when

done blooming.

Don’t hate the snow when it comes.

Snow is great insulation for peren-

nials in very cold weather. Just

don’t let heavy snows pile up on

your shrubs causing the branches to

break. To prevent moisture loss on

evergreens, spray them with an

anti-desiccant.

Please turn the page.

Squire Rich Historical Museum

Brecksville Reservation Cleveland Metroparks

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A Message From the

President cont.

We have been hard at work,

scheduling education programs

and fieldtrips for 2018 that we

hope you will enjoy and feel that

your time is well-spent in Chip-

pewa Garden Club.

Kathy Habib, President

Dates To Remember

Tuesday, November 2

Garden Club of Ohio Holiday Pro-

gram at St. Michaels Woodside,

Broadview Hts.

Tuesday, November 14

CGC Holiday Design Program

“Woodland Inspired Holiday

Trends”

Please take your raffle items and

bakery to the community center

no later than 6:00 p.m.

November: date and time tba

Help decorate the Brecksville

Road planters for the holidays.

Watch your email for dates and

times.

Tuesday, November 28

Budget and Board Meeting at

6:00 p.m. at the Broadview

Heights clubroom.

Sunday December 3, 2017

1-3 PM

Chippewa Garden Club Annual

Meeting/Luncheon at Stancato’s

Restaurant, La Famiglia Room

7380 State Road, Parma.

See the October 5 email from

President Habib for more infor-

mation.

Gertrude Jekyll—British

Designer and Artist

Gary Esmond, Cleveland Botan-

nical Librarian, delivered a fasci-

nating lecture on Gertrude Jekyll

(1843-1932) at our September 26

membership meting. She de-

signed more than 400 gardens in

the United Kingdom, Europe, and

the United States of America and

was one of the first designers to

take into account color, texture,

and the ambiance of the garden.

Jekyll was more profound as a

gardener than as a designer and

thought of a garden as a picture

and as brush strokes She was

inspired by the Impressionist

movement and employed free

form planting methods quite dif-

ferent from the formal English

gardens of the time. She used

hot/cold color schemes, plant

clumpings and large herbaceous

borders.

She collaborated with the English

architect Sir Edward Lutyens on

many of the houses he designed,

including her own home,

Munstead Wood, near Godalming

in Surrey, England.

Jekyll collected plant specimens

for conservation, cultivated

plants at her Munstead nursery,

and gardened at her Munstead

home for over forty years.

Her writings included over a

thousand magazine articles, fif-

teen books and notes and garden

designs.

“The love of gardening is a seed

once sown that never dies.”

Gertrude Jekyll

Pat Gabriel

Gary Esmond

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News from the Recess

Gardening Team:

The Recess Gardening Team has

put the gardens to bed at Central

School. We’ve done lots of things

since school started in Septem-

ber, while the weather has been

wonderfully cooperative.

In addition to cleaning up the

gardens (deadheading, mulching,

weeding), we took coleus cuttings

from our planters in front of the

gym doors, we cleaned seed out of

all the milkweed pods, and we

constructed a rock border along

the rain garden. As you can see

below, the rocks were decorated

with sharpie markers.

We hope the stones will help keep

the turf grass and lawn mowers

out of our garden!

We’re looking forward to our in-

door meetings. We sure hope spi-

ders, bees, and seeds are on the

agenda.

Thank you for helping us learn

all about nature and gardening.

You Rock!

The 4th and 5th Grade Recess

Gardening Team

The 4th and 5th Grade Recess Gardening Team

Milkweed Pods Picked by the Team A Rock from the Rock Border

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Rockefeller Park

Rockefeller Park is a part of the

Cleveland Public Park system

and is the largest park complete-

ly within the Cleveland City lim-

its. Rockefeller Park contains the

Rockefeller Park Greenhouse at

750 E88th St and the Cleveland

Cultural Gardens situated along

Martin Luther King Blvd. Both

are free and open to the public.

Construction of Rockefeller Park

Greenhouse began in 1905 on 270

acres of land donated by oil mag-

nate, John D. Rockefeller. It was

originally intended to be used to

grow plants to landscape city

parks and gardens.

The Greenhouse has 1 acre under

glass and 3-4 acres of outdoor

gardens. It evolved into a botani-

cal garden with specialty plant

collections including ferns and

succulents, seasonal floral dis-

plays and theme gardens.

Outdoors there is the Betty Ott

talking garden in Braille. Plants

were chosen to appeal to all sens-

es and are in raised beds to allow

visitors to touch and smell.

The Mall is a traditional formal

garden with corner statues of the

four seasons, and the Peace Gar-

den gazebo is a charming place to

sit and enjoy the gardens.

The greenhouse has a spring

plant sale and a fall bulb sale on

site.

The Cultural Gardens are on the

National Register of Historic

Places and commemorate ethnic

groups who have impacted the

City of Cleveland. The gardens

were a joint effort within Cleve-

land’s ethnic communities. The

Shakespeare Garden was the

first to be developed in 1916 and

eventually become the British

Garden.

There are 29 established gardens,

including American, African

American, Chinese, Greek, Ital-

ian, Russian, Polish and Slovak,

with over 60 busts and statues of

prominent people from world his-

tory. Currently, there are 8 new

gardens in development.

Kathy Habib

Betty Ott Talking Garden

Succulent Display

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Planting Before Putting

the Garden To Bed

Noel Akin, Director of Communi-

cation and Education, spoke to

our garden club on October 2017.

Noel presented many gardening

tips, answered questions, and dis-

cussed many garden plants.

She told us that fall is a great

time to reseed lawns and plant

new plants since the soil temper-

ature is still warm, the air tem-

peratures have cooled down, we

often have increased rain fall,

and fall plant prices drop. She

did remind us that our lawns and

plants need an inch of rain per

week and to water if that doesn't

occur. She also advised us to put

a trickle of hose water for an hour

or more on trees and shrubs

which have been stressed by

drought. This helps them stay

healthy through the winter.

Noel suggested planting layers of

spring bulbs, either in the ground

or in a pot. Not all bulbs require

the same depth so start by plant-

ing the deepest bulbs first and

adding plant food such as bulb

tone or bone meal and an inch of

soil, and then repeat the process

with subsequent layers.

To protect bulbs from wildlife, use

chicken wire over the planted

bulbs and a granular repellant in

the hole.

The 2018 Plant of the Year is Al-

lium Millennium, an ornamental

onion.

To plant trees, dig a hole that is

twice as wide as the bulb, and use

two parts of soil to one part of

amendment.

Before winter, tie grasses like a

haystack to keep them neat and

easy to prune in spring. Grasses

add winter color and texture.

Prune foliage from bulbs when

the leaves are yellowing. Wrap

tender bulbs in shredded paper

and store in the garage where

temperatures don’t drop to freez-

ing or in the basement.

Use wilt stop to protect ever-

greens, boxwood, rose canes, and

hydrangeas.

To clean garden tools, run them

up and down through a bucket of

sand and Murphy’s Oil soap.

At the conclusion of her talk, the

plants Noel brought to demon-

strate were given to members of

the audience.

Pat Gabriel

Garden Therapy

Chippewa Garden Club volun-

teers Susan Forest, Sandy

Ladebue, Sharon Hemeyer, Chris

Sparano and Lynne Evans gath-

ered together on October 7th to

present “Twigs and the Golden

Rule” to the residents at Pleas-

antview Care Center.

The Garden Therapy program

featured the Fibonacci mathemat-

ical sequence seen in the spirals

of natural objects inclusive of

twig leaf formation, fern fronds,

sea shells, flower petal placement

and seed heads. We displayed

examples of these natu-

ral specimens, and the manifesta-

tion of the Golden Ratio across

the universe was discussed.

Participants were then guided in

creating a square twig wreath

with fall inspired materials such

as twigs, artificial leaves, fall

flowers and ribbon.

Garden Therapy’s final pro-

gram of 2017 “Festive Yuletide

Sprigs” will be held on December

2nd. All volunteers are welcome

to help. Call Lynne Evans if you

are interested in participating.

Lynne Evans

Noelle Akin

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Chippewa Garden Club

Presents our Annual Holiday Show Fundraiser

“Woodland Inspired Holiday Trends”

Featuring

Molly Taylor & Bailey Wilson

Owners of

Molly Taylor & Co.

Hudson, Ohio

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Doors open at 6:30 pm

Program starts 7:00 pm

Brecksville Community Center,

1 Community Dr., Brecksville, Ohio

(off Route 21-Brecksville Rd., South of Route 82)

Ticket price: $10.00 at the door

Advance tickets can be purchased from Chippewa Garden Club members.

Holiday Raffle Bazaar and Refreshments!