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Spring 2020 Vol 61 No 1

JUNE OUT OF TOWN

2020

The 2020 June Out of Town will be held on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. It will be hosted by the Garden clubs in

Section I which include Conesus, Geneseo, Perry and Warsaw. The ladies in these clubs have been working very

hard to provide a fun filled tour

We will be trying something new this year. There will be no lunch. This will allow for the tour to begin earlier

in the day. A catered continental breakfast will begin at 9:00 am at the United Methodist Church at 21 Sum-

mers Street in Livonia, NY. Members’ Council Meeting will begin at 9:45 am with the tour to begin about

11:00. The cost of the ticket has yet to be determined.

The gardens on the tour will feature a mix of private homes and public spaces. In the ticket book you will find

directions to the gardens along with a listing of restaurants if you want to stop for lunch. Further information

will follow at our upcoming meetings in March and April.

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ANNE’S JOURNAL

ANNE’S ANECDOTES It’s hard to believe we are three months into 2020 already and Spring is not far away. Seed catalogs and magazines are being studied for ways to make our gardens more beauti-ful with less maintenance. A good time to remember to support our own clubs by ordering their potted plants or attending their sales. Course III of Landscape Design School is coming up on March 25th and 26th. The profes-sional instructors are experts in their fields and give you ways to plan, prepare and main-tain your home gardens. Remember you do not have to take all 4 of the courses unless you want to become an NGC Landscape Design Consultant. Why not give this one a try - you will not be disap-pointed and the Chatterbox Club has a wonderful lunch included in the fee. Plans are under way for our District Flower Show in May in conjunction with our Annual Meeting. I hope many of you will submit an entry or come to enjoy the lunch and visit the many creative arrangements. It will be a fun time to be “Down on the Farm”. In June we will be celebrating National Garden Week with our JOT meeting and garden tour hosted by the clubs in Section 1. Also let’s not forget that Donna Lowry has come up with a great 2 day, 3 night tour to Ohio in late May. Let’s fill that bus!

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Judges Council Christmas Mitten Party

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Spring 2020

Vitale Park gardens rededicated

On Wednesday, October 9th, Dottie Connelly, President of the Conesus Lake Garden Club (CLGC), welcomed members and guests to a reded-

ication ceremony marking significant improvements made to the two large gardens on the west side of Freedom Bridge in Lakeville’s Vitale Park.

The enhancements were made possible thanks to a generous Civic Beautification Grant from the 7th District of the Federated Garden Clubs

of New York State (FGCNYS).

Grant funds enabled the removal of several invasive plants, replacing them with healthy native plants and perennials that have proven to

survive well in our upstate New York climate. A spinning metal sculpture was also added to the southwest garden. In addition, soaker hoses

were installed to keep the gardens irrigated during extended dry periods. Finally, the soil in both gardens was enriched with environmentally

safe mushroom compost.

Special guests at the rededication ceremony were Anne Johnston, Director of the 7th District, and Kathy Valenti, the chairperson of the Dis-

trict’s Civic Beautification Committee.

Many members of the Conesus Lake Garden Club played significant roles in the improvements made to the bridge’s west side gardens. Nota-

bly, Ellen Collins and Jean Bolster created the gardens’ layouts and coordinated the work and Dottie Connelly wrote the grant application that

was approved by the 7th District.

The CLGC’s work on the four gardens at Freedom Bridge began in 2006. Over the past 13 years, these gardens have been lovingly maintained

by club volunteers. Vitale Park employees have also provided much-appreciated help throughout the growing season.

Vitale Park, owned by the Town of Livonia, is second only to Letchworth State Park as the most visited park in Livingston County.

One of the Conesus Lake Garden Club’s missions is civic beautification. To that end, In addition to the four gardens at Vitale Park, club mem-

bers maintain several gardens at Camp Stella Maris throughout the spring and summer.

The Conesus Lake Garden Club currently has 38 members and is eager to welcome new members. For more information, contact Rosemary

Fisher at (716) 983-8630 or by email at rosemary.fisher@hotmail.com.

Attending the October 9th rededication ceremony of Freedom Bridge’s west side gardens were Dottie Connelly, Pat Vaughan, Joan Kuyon, Kathy Valenti, Kathy

Palozzilo, Jo-Caroll Wihlen, Anne Johnston, Jeanne Marquardt, Jan Schur, Ann Holevinski, Sharon Simmons, Nita Hawkins, Ellen Collins, Mary Anne Palermo,

Carolyn Peck, and Jean Bolster.

Garden Club News

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Bloomfield Garden Club’s 46th annual plant sale May 16th from 9-3 at the

Bloomfield Historical Academy Bldg., 8 South Ave, Bloomfield. The Sale will fea-

ture annuals, herbs, hanging basket and perennials. For more information, call

Laurie O’Mara 585-406-3457.

Creative Gardeners of Penfield 4th annual plant/garage sale June 5th from 9-4

and June 6th 9-noon, 107 Huntington Meadow between Clark Road and Panora-

ma Trail. Raffle baskets will be included.

Geneseo Garden Club plant sale May 16 9:00am at Gateway Park (corner 20A

and Volunteer Road across from Wegmans).

The Town of Ontario Garden Club plant sale Saturday May 16th 9:00am-1:00pm

Casey Park, 6551 Knickerbocker Road.

The Victor Garden Club is selling 11 inch plastic clay-looking flower pots filled

with pink and purple Supertunia, verbena and Angelonia for $20.00. Deadline

for ordering and payment Wednesday, 3/25, pick up 5/21. For questions and

order forms contact Mary at victorgardenclubyny2@gmail.com.

Garden Club Plant Sales and Fund Raisers

Gates Garden Club

The Town of Gates will display this

flag at the Gates Town Hall

Town of

Making A Difference In Our Community

Civic Beautification Grants Awarded

By Kathy Valenti, Civic Beautification Chairman

As usual, it was inspiring for the committee to review Civic Beautification applications. Many of our clubs are actively making our

communities more beautiful. At the Members Council Meeting on April 1, three clubs will receive awards from the 7th District

Civic Beautification Fund.

Macedon Garden Club: $700 – For plants to attract butterflies on the Butterfly Trail at Canal Lock E30.

Sodus Garden Club: $335 – Sodus gateway sign renovation and rock mulch bed.

Victor Garden Club: $350 – Towards a new Village of Victor gateway sign.

Did you know from Anne Johnston——

RESUSEABLE BAGES-THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE

New Yorkers use more than 23 billion plastic bags a year. The is three times the 7.7

billion people in the entire world! Or put another way, that is approximately 1,150

bags per person per year.

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Create a bird, bee and butterfly habitat this spring by adding native trees and shrubs to your landscape.

Buttonbush, a large 5-12‘ four-season shrub, is a good nectar source for birds, bees and butterflies. Buttonbush is deer resistant. Flowers, perfect round 1” white or pale pink flowers, studded with round-headed pistils appear in June and can last until September. The pincushion-like flowers are a nectar source for bees, hummingbirds, and swallowtail butterflies. Leaves turn yellow-red in fall. Red-brown nutlets form in the fall and persist through winter. Stems and trunks, twisted and peeling with age, provide shelter for birds and winter interest. Buttonbush can be grown in part shade to full sun, alkaline, well-drained, wet soil, clay but is not tolerant of dry soil. Buttonbush Sugar Shack, a 3’ cultivar, is available from Wayside Garden Center and Bristol’s Garden Center. Black Elder-berry, is a large, 5-12’, multi-stemmed shrub with arching branches. American elderberry will tolerate dry conditions in part shade but thrives in moist to wet soil in full sun. Black Elderberry is one of the few plants that will grow under walnut trees. Insects, bees, butterflies and moths collect pollen from large, flat clusters of white, mildly fragrant flowers May to July. Purple, berry-like fruit ma-tures in August to October. Berries are a valuable food source for birds and other wildlife. Elderberries make excellent preserves and pies if you can if you can beat birds to berries. Elderberries should not be eaten raw. Plant two varieties for cross-pollination. Adams and York, with a very high yield and the largest berries, are good companions. Both varieties are available at Bristol’s Garden Center.

Arboriculture Chairman , Sandra Lovell

Tree Talk

Spring 2020

I’m writing this month about climate change. If we had any doubts about the validity of climate change, this past year should put all doubts aside. The fires and drought in Australia, California, and around the world. Where there are no droughts it seems there are floods. We are all very aware of the flooding along the Lake Ontario shore, but did you know that all the Great Lakes are 15-20 in. above what is normal? Flooding from Lake Superior in Northern Michigan is so bad that a town is moving buildings. That is at the beginning of the Lake flow so later it all comes to us on Lake Ontario. I believe our problem with flooding is more the result of high rainfall throughout the Great Lakes Basin than Plan 2014.

So, what can we do ourselves to help with climate change? Recycle, of course, but one other thing that we can do is to be aware and use our voices to encourage clothing companies to clean up their acts. They are the #2 polluters of water on earth, use toxic chemi-cals in manufacturing, have unsafe working conditions, and employ children. I don’t know about you but I didn’t realize how large the carbon footprint for the clothing industry was.

I would like to challenge you to do one thing a month to try to reduce your own carbon footprint. It could be one of many things; recycle something new, eliminate a chemical from your life or give to a new organization that works to delay climate change. Two Environmental organizations that are worthy of support and paying attention to are: Green America and Friends of the Earth. Both have received the highest rating by Charity Navigator and over 88% of contributions are used for programs. In New York, NYPIRG is an effective watchdog.

Good news; the telecom companies are making great progress. The best, T-Mobile is using 95% clean energy. Amazon web services has committed to 100% clean energy by 2030.

Anne Huber

Conservation & Environmental Issues

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World Gardening

A Job well Done!!!!!

The figures are in, thanks to the donations from all of the Garden Clubs in New York State, we collected $23,647.18 for the

two World Gardening Projects. Dig Deep received $18,080.51 This means that four homes received the cistern and the

plumbing for water which will be delivered monthly. Solar lights were also installed in those homes for power in the Navajo

Mountain area of Utah. Our district contributed $2,343.25 of that amount.

Water for South Sudan received $5,566.67. Our district contributed $1,157.60 of the total. In South Sudan we helped by con-

tributing funds for approximately a third to half of a well which will provide water for 200-300 people in a village which has

never had water before.

We are bringing water to those that need it and for that they are very grateful. Thank you to all of the Garden Clubs in District

7 for their contributions to the total funds raised for World Gardening. I am very proud of the generous and caring people in

our Garden Clubs. We do make a difference!

Janet Lockhart, 7th District World Gardening Rep

In Memorium

Shirley Dumbauld, former 7th District Director (1993-1995) from the 7th

District FGCNYS, Inc.

Shirley Dumbauld former 7th District Director (1993-1995) from Dorothy

Dailey

Jeanette DeWolf, former member of Four Seasons Garden Club from Four

Seasons Garden Club

Susan Hyde, former member of the Rochester Garden Club from Dorothy

Dailey, Oatka Garden Club

Judy Hazen, former Hilton Garden Club member and Section III Chair,

passed away 2/15/2020

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Shirley Daumbauld

In Honor of

Bets Knudson, 7th District Director

(1979-1981), celebrating her 100th

birthday from the 7th District FGCNYS,

Inc.

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Where have the Birds gone?

I sit at the computer and it looks like a blizzard outside and just 20 minutes ago the sun was shining. The birds are coming to the

feeders but not hanging around. They snatch a seed and whiz by to find a more sheltered spot to eat. This scene causes me to

wonder where our summer birds are right now. You might wonder the same thing.

I was in Aruba for a week in December. As I sat on the balcony admiring the plantings around the resort I spotted a familiar mock-

ingbird. But wait, it was not our Northern Mockingbird but a very similar looking Tropical Mockingbird. And there were pigeons in

the trees but on closer inspection with binoculars they were resident bare-eyed pigeons that don’t leave the warm tropics.

I went out with a bird guide and we did find some birds that had migrated to Aruba. One was a Northern Waterthrush. Not really a

thrush but a wood warbler. I have seen them at Durand Eastman Park. They skulk along the water’s edge and that’s exactly what it

was doing in the mangrove swamp. Then we spotted a Great Crested Flycatcher which I routinely see in the woods next door in

the summer. They eat insects so must fly south for food.

Looking along the rocks near the beach we spotted several Royal Terns one of which had a large leg band with numbers. My guide

photographed the bird and sent the photo to people that band birds and the response was a nice certificate from USGS saying that

the bird had been banded in Virginia in July 2019. It was about 6 months old and had made it to Aruba. A Royal Tern’s maximum

lifespan in the wild is about 28 years. Let’s hope this youngster makes many more trips to Aruba and beyond.

Carolyn Ragan , Bird and Butterfly

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The George Eastman Museum is facing long-overdue repairs and moving its visitor entrance, so your support now is especially welcome. Last fall fifteen Federat-

ed Garden Clubs garden donated to the museum’s wreath auction. Bloomfield Garden Club members gave three wreaths for the Sweet Creations auction at the

museum! Designers were Denise Seibert, Marlene Moran and Judy Francis.

Garden clubs also giving wreaths in 2019 were Geneseo (Mary Kruppner), Lakeshore (Cindy Rossi), Gates (Theresa May), Greenbrier (Jean Hamel), Pitts-

ford (Sue Zolner & Judy White), Allyn’s Creek (Kate Sturman), Hilton (Carol Snook), Four Seasons (Susan Broda), Shorewood (Joan Priesh), Conesus (Jean Bolster),

Rochester (Terry Davin), Town of Ontario (Roxanne Flynn), and Hubbard Springs (Debbie Toogood). Many thanks to those generous donors.

Table settings inspired by favorite movies will be on display at the George Eastman Museum this spring. That event is called Eastman Entertains and

runs from May 5th to May 24th this year.

SEVENTH DISTRICT FEDERATED GARDEN CLUBS OF NYS Annual Meeting, Luncheon and Flower Show

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Burgundy Basin Inn, 1361 Marsh Road, Pittsford, NY 14534

9.OO am: Registration, coffee, exhibits and shopping 9.45 am: Business Meeting

Luncheon will follow at 12:15 pm

The Garden Club of Mendon will provide the gift baskets. Anne Johnston will provide the centerpieces. The proceeds from the

sale of the centerpieces will be fund “Books for Scholars.”

AFTERNOON PROGRAM

NGC DISTRICT FLOWER SHOW – “WELCOME TO THE FARM” Special guest Victoria Bellias, New York State President of FGCNYS, Inc.

Speaking on the state’s agenda

RESERVATIONS Tables will be assigned in order of reservations received.

Reservations should be made through Clubs. Any Life Members who wish to sit at the Life Members’ Table should be listed on the reservation form.

Cost: $28.00. Includes morning coffee/pastries, buffet luncheon, dessert and rental of the full banquet center.

Please make checks payable to 7th District FGCNYS, Inc.

Mail to Linda Burdick, Assistant Treasurer 5568 Canton Drive, Geneseo, NY 14454

Phone: 585 346 2282

Deadline is April 29, 2020 Sorry no refunds after the deadline.

————————————Detach Here and Mail Reservation Form ——————————

Club:___________________________________________ President:____________________________________ Number of Reservations:________________________ Amount:______________________________________ Treasurer’s Name & Phone #____________________________________________________________________

MEMBERS COUNCIL MEETING & THINK SPRING LUNCHEON

THEME: FOOLS HAVE MORE FUN!

Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Place: Macedon Center Fire Hall, 2481 Canandaigua Rd., Macedon Center 14502 (please park behind the fire

hall, not on the side)

Time: 9:45 am Meeting; Luncheon served at 12:00 pm

Cost: $17.00; catered by the Macedon Garden Club

CREATE A SMALL ARRANGEMENT REPRESENTING THE THEME

Please bring your own tray with a small floral arrangement and choice of plate, silverware, cup or glass and

napkin. Have fun putting an arrangement together. When lunch is served you will be using the items from your

own tray.

Seating will not be assigned. You can sit with members of your own club but we encourage everyone to

meet and mix with other members. This is a nice opportunity to get to know one another better.

Club or individual reservations will be accepted.

Make checks out to 7th District FGCNYS, Inc.

Mail to: Linda Burdick, 5568 Canton Dr. Geneseo 14454

Phone: 585-346-2282

Deadline: March 25, 2020

Name of Club__________________________________ President_______________________

# of reservations________

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