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Month: November 2013
Annual General Meeting Reminder
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2013
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Firehall at Ross / King Street in Picton.
POT LUCK AT 6:00
AGM TO FOLLOW
The Club is providing turkey and ham. Please bring side dishes, desserts, and remember to bring your own dishes, flatware and mug.
Social with refreshments at the conclusion of the AGM – come and join us.
The minutes of last year’s meeting and the financial report will both be proposed with a members’ vote for acceptance.
Click the links to view the pdf documents: Minutes Annual Report
Festival of Trees
Nov. 22 – 24th, 2013 Fri. & Sat. 10am – 9pm; Sun. 10am – 2pm
Isaiah Tubbs Resort, West Lake
Sponsored and received donations to a value of $345 came with our tree. Thanks to Lockyer’s and Marvin’s Flowers for their $50 donations to go with $130 worth of gardening books, plus two society memberships, and a number of smaller donations.
click image for a larger view of the Horticultural Society’s tree
Society Meeting – October 30
President Colleen Green welcomed 30+ members and new members to the meeting and noted that the next society meeting was the Annual General meeting to be held on November 27 immediately after the 6:00pm Pot Luck Supper. Colleen gave a brief outline of the recent District 3 event in Tweed and reported that, based on what was learned, our society is headed in the right direction. Congratulations to all concerned!
The Horticultural Society has been invited to create a tree for the Festival of Trees in late November.
Colleen then introduced the evening’s featured speaker – OHA District 3 Director Penny Stewart. During the informal session before the meeting started, Penny was resplendent in full Hallowe’en mode including the witch’s crooked hat. (Un)Fortunately, there are no photographs of her in full regalia.
Penny’s topic was ‘Flower Arranging’ and she reminded everyone that it’s supposed to be fun – hence the flowing black dress and witch’s hat (and the bats) – fitting into the presentation theme of spooktacular.
What followed was a highly animated display of constructing TWO show arrangements with hints and tricks of the trade being showered on the audience.
First came a ‘mass’ design involving a small pumpkin as the topical container as Penny explained style, balance, size, colours, and textures as they applied to winning displays. No sooner was that completed then Penny moved on to the large design (and a large pumpkin) with lines of hawthorn and corn stalks for balance and volume as well as the colours and textures that make flower arrangements so appealing. The pictures below show the overall effects of the designer’s art … and the bats were there because it’s all meant to be fun!
For those who missed it, or were busy watching the display construction, here are Penny Stewart’s Notes [32 kb pdf] on her presentation.
Mini-Show
The mini-show topic was ‘anything pruned over the year from your garden or environs, dried and/or still green’.
Mini-show entries were judged by the members at large. 1st place went to Pat Stuckey [image at right], 2nd place to Sheila Simmons [image below left], and 3rd place to Mary Jenkins [image below right].
Click the images to see larger versions.
Photo-credit: Bert Jenkins
And the mystery plant was …
Sitting patiently on the ‘swap’ table at the October meeting, a mystery plant defied everybody’s attempt to identify it.
It’s a zamioculcas zamiifoliaa – more commonly (for obvious reasons) known as a ZZ plant.
The beautiful images posted for mini shows, garden shows, and our meetings are from photographs created by member Bert Jenkins.
