THE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA

Annual
HISTORIC
GARDEN
WEEK
Journal
VOL. LIII, NO. 1, MARCH 2008
 FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear GCV Members:

It is with great pleasure that we announce that the new Editor of the Journal is
Jeanette Cadwallender of The Rappahannock Valley Garden Club in Fredericksburg.
Jeanette brings vast experience to this job. Her mother, Anne Rowe served on this
committee in the past. We are in great hands.
We are most grateful to the members of the Journal Committee for making it possi-
ble to produce two Journals over the fall and winter months. Special thanks go to
Laurie Starke of The Warrenton Garden Club who acted as Editor pro tem. when
Peggy Federhart of The Garden Club of the Northern Neck stepped down from the
position as Editor.

Please note that we now have one email address to which all articles can be submitted:
Journal @gcvirginia.org.

I know you will join me in welcoming and supporting Jeanette as the new Editor of
the Journal.

Warmest wishes,
Sally Guy Brown

Journal Editorial Board

2008
Editor: Jeanette Cadwallender, The Rappahannock Valley Garden Club
Ex Officio Members
The GCV President, Sally Guy Brown, The Garden Club of Alexandria
The GCV 1st Vice President & Chair of The GCV Communications Committee, Cabell West,
The Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton
The GCV Director of Public Relations, Linda Consolvo, The Nansemond River Garden Club
Journal Chair, Gail Braxton, The Rappahannock Valley Garden Club
Journal Advertising Chairman, Betsy Agelasto, The Virginia Beach Garden Club
Members
Mason Beazley, The James River Garden Club, The Garden Club of the Northern Neck
Fleet Davis, The Garden Club of the Eastern Shore
Betty Delk, The Nansemond River Garden Club
Mary Ann Johnson, The Roanoke Valley Garden Club
Sarah Pierson, The Rappahannock Valley Garden Club
Lynne Rabil, The Franklin Garden Club
Laurie Starke, The Warrenton Garden Club

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The Garden Club of Virginia
Journal
The Garden Club of Virginia Journal
(USPS 574-520, ISSN 0431-0233) is
published four times a year for members
by The GCV, 12 East Franklin St.,
Richmond, VA 23219. Periodical
postage paid in Richmond, VA. Single
issue price, $3.00.
Copy and ad deadlines are:
January 15 for the March issue
April 15 for the June issue
July 15 for the September issue
October 15 for the December issue
Email copy to the Editor and advertising
to the Ad Chairman
Journal Editor:
Jeanette Cadwallender (Mrs. Nicholas J.)
615 Fauquier Street
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Phone: (540) 373-7210
Email: journal@gcvirginia.org
Journal Advertising Chairman:
Betsy Agelasto (Mrs. Peter A. III)
Phone: (757) 428-1870
Email: betsyagelasto@mindspring.com
President of The Garden Club of Virginia:
Sally Guy Brown (Mrs. Thomas C., Jr.)
Journal Committee Chairman:
Gail Braxton (Mrs. H. Harrison, Jr.)
Vol. LIII, No. 1
Printed on recycled paper by
Carter Printing Company
Richmond, VA
MARCH 2008
ON THE COVER...
We recognize the 75th Anniversary of Historic
Garden Week in Virginia.
IN THIS ISSUE...
General Assembly commendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
GCV Restorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Demystifying GCV Flower Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The 74th Annual Daffodil Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Daffodil Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Historic Garden Week’s 75th Anniversary . . . . . . 7
From Gillette to Favretti: Landscape Architects . . . 10
Symposium photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Rose Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Ex Libris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Composting is Good Gardening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Instructions for Journal Submissions . . . . . . . . 18
Club Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Green Shopping Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Godmothers of The GCV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Slate of Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
OTHER REFERENCES...
Kent-Valentine House
Phone: (804) 643-4137 Fax: (804) 644-7778
Email: director@gcvirginia.org
Historic Garden Week Office
Phone: (804) 644-7776 Fax: (804) 644-7778
Email: gdnweek@verizon.net
www.VAGardenWeek.org
POSTMASTER send address changes to:
Executive Director
12 East Franklin Street
Richmond, VA 23219
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 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 361
Offered February 6, 2008

Commending the Garden Club of Virginia on the occasion of its 75th anniversary of
Historic Garden Week in Virginia.

WHEREAS, the Garden Club of Virginia each year proudly sponsors Historic Garden Week in
Virginia; and
WHEREAS, 2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the Garden Club of Virginia’s Historic Garden
Week tours, which have occurred every year since 1929, except for a period during World War II; and
WHEREAS, the popular nine-day Historic Garden Week, which will be held April 19 - 27, 2008,
at the peak of springtime color in Virginia, will attract over 30,000 visitors to three dozen tours
statewide, featuring more than 250 of the Commonwealth’s most beautiful gardens, homes, and
historic landmarks during “America’s Largest Open House”; and
WHEREAS, proceeds from Historic Garden Week tours are used to restore historic gardens and
landscapes throughout the Commonwealth, including properties owned by George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Woodrow Wilson and other important Virginia historical
sites; and
WHEREAS, dedicated Garden Club of Virginia members have raised more than $13 million over
the past seven decades to restore historic properties in the Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, these historic landmarks, together with private homes and gardens on Historic
Garden Week tours, attract visitors from Virginia, other states across the country, and nations
around the world and greatly benefit the economy of the Commonwealth through increased
tourism; and
WHEREAS, widespread publicity for the Historic Garden Week tours in leading magazines and
newspapers, on the Internet, and in other media enhances the image of the Commonwealth as a
major tourism destination; and
WHEREAS, in addition to historic restoration, the mission of the Garden Club of Virginia is to
conserve Virginia’s diverse natural resources, inspire a love of gardening, and provide education to
club members and the general public; and
WHEREAS, the Garden Club of Virginia’s Historic Garden Week tours and the club’s many
exemplary restoration projects help to promote and preserve the Commonwealth’s rich and distin-
guished history; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly com-
mend and congratulate the Garden Club of Virginia and its outstanding members on the occasion
of the 75th anniversary of Historic Garden Week in Virginia; and, be it
RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolu-
tion for presentation to the Garden Club of Virginia as an expression of the General Assembly’s grati-
tude for the club’s numerous achievements and best wishes for a successful tour April 19 - 27, 2008.

Patron—The Honorable W.J. Howell

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 GCV Restorations - The Incredible Vision
By Mary Lou Seilheimer, Chairman of the Restoration Committee
The Warrenton Garden Club

ust as Historic Garden Week in Virginia is unique and remarkable, so are the

J restorations of the historic gardens achieved with the proceeds of this event. The
Garden Club of Virginia has restored gardens at more than 40 historic properties
since the inception of Historic Garden Week 75 years ago.
Kenmore was the first restoration, with Charles Gillette as landscape architect. The
ladies could have stopped and been pleased with a great success, but these visionary
ladies realized that restoration of historic gardens could be a meaningful project for
their new garden club. Next came Stratford Hall and the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace,
and the restoration project was established.
Reflect for a moment on the foresight of this first Restoration Committee. They
realized that the gardens they chose for their restorations had to have intrinsic historic
value. They knew that in order to achieve their goals it was essential to hire an accom-
plished landscape architect/garden historian as their professional consultant who
would carry out the research and design work and oversee the projects. The very best
were chosen from the beginning and continue today.
In addition, this early committee understood how easily a garden could fall into
neglect. Therefore, they required each restoration to guarantee perpetual maintenance,
and they set up periodic visits by the committee. This requirement is still in place
today and, in addition, a committee member serves as liaison to each property.
To write about all of these restorations would take a book….or actually two. In
1975, Dorothy Hunt Williams, former President of The GCV and a member of the
Dolley Madison Garden Club, wrote about the GCV restorations in Historic Virginia
Gardens, and Margaret Page Bemiss of the James River Garden Club has written the
sequel to be available in the spring of 2009. Lists of the Garden Club of Virginia
restorations are available on The GCV website and in several GCV publications. Each
is worth a visit.
The outstanding achievement of the Garden Club in restoring more than 40 gar-
dens and landscapes is not the number; it is the high standard of work. The inclusion
of landscapes and gardens of every century of American history (from Bacon's Castle
c. 1680, to The Executive Mansion 1953), the range of geographic areas (from the
Moses Myers House in Norfolk to Historic Smithfield in Blacksburg), and the variety
of sites (from homes of presidents and famous people, to churches, to college campus-
es, city and rural, large and small) is what makes this work so remarkable. Indeed, this
compilation of gardens is historically significant as a review of the development of
Virginia's, and in fact this country's, landscape techniques. Each garden illustrates a
chapter of American history and landscape development.

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 Demystifying the GCV Flower Shows
By Lexi Byers
The Garden Club of the Middle Peninsula

he Garden Club of Virginia Daffodil, Lily and Rose Shows were instituted to

T educate members of The GCV in the art and science of horticulture and
flower arranging.
Because Historic Garden Week relies on capable flower arrangers and horticulturists,
the flower shows are an important means of honing the artistic skills of members.
Active participation ensures knowledge and expertise for accurate floral interpretation
of the Commonwealth's period homes and gardens.
Educational in nature, GCV flower shows are also fun. Three times each year mem-
bers from all 47 clubs have the opportunity to see old friends, meet new friends, dis-
cover beautiful new varieties for their gardens and see examples of the styles of flower
arranging that are printed in The GCV Flower Shows Handbook. How many times
have we overheard, "Why, I can do that!"
If you have not been to a GCV flower show, resolve to go to one of the three being
held this year: the Daffodil Show in White Stone, the Lily Show in Winchester and
the Rose Show in Franklin. Go with a group of friends just for fun or go to partici-
pate. It is easy to grab a specimen or two from your garden to enter in a horticulture
class. Volunteer to help with your club's Inter Club arrangement or horticulture col-
lection. For a behind-the-scenes experience, you will always find that the host club
needs assistance.
Study all the arrangements at the show. Could you pick the blue ribbon winner?
Read the judges' comment cards. They are invaluable learning tools for what makes an
excellent arrangement that conforms to the show schedule.
Perhaps you have been to a show, but have never entered. This is the year to stop
saying, "I can't do that". Study the schedule and decide what horticulture classes you
would like to enter or choose one of the artistic open classes. If you have never won a
blue ribbon in Horticulture or a ribbon of any color in Artistic, you qualify to enter
one of the novice classes.
All the information you need is contained in the show schedule, usually available
online at the GCV website three to four months prior to the show, and The GCV
Flower Shows Handbook. Go on the GCV website and study photographs of winning
arrangements from past flower shows. Attend one of the GCV flower arranging
schools that are scheduled prior to the daffodil and rose shows. Often the school will
feature a style of arrangement that appears in the upcoming show's schedule.
If you win a ribbon this year, congratulations! If not, be proud of yourself for trying
and see you at the next show.

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 The Garden Club of Virginia presents
The 74th Annual
Daffodil Show
Sponsored by The Garden Club of the Northern Neck
Sanctioned by the American Daffodil Society
The White Stone Church of the Nazarene

Entries accepted:
Tuesday, April 1st 3-9 p.m.
Wednesday, April 2nd between 7-10 a.m.
Show open:
Wednesday, April 2nd 2-8 p.m.
Thursday, April 3rd 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

A RT I S TI C C L A S S ES
Ports of Call: The Northern Neck

199 A Leedstown Late Colonial arrangement

199 B Historic Christ Church Traditional Line Mass
199 C Reedville Mid-Victorian arrangement
199 D Sharps Art Nouveau

200 White Stone Beach: A Synergistic arrangement

201 Riches of the Orient: Moribana arrangement
202 Native American: Free Form arrangement
203 Challenge Class: Skipjacks: Traditional Line
204 Novice Class: Pots-et-fleurs
205 Children's Entry
For questions concerning the artistic schedule, contact:
Bonnie Morris (804) 333-5192, by-morris@verizon.net
Sue Ramsey at (804) 394-9784, sramsey22548@yahoo.com
Register Online at: www.gcvirginia.org

You are invited to tour Historic Christ Church c.1735. Costumed docents will
conduct a 45-minute tour Wednesday, April 2, 2008 from 10:45 to 11:15 a.m.
A $5.00 per person donation is requested.

Reservations required.
Contact: Mary Kier by Friday, March 28, 2008.
E-mail mpkier@skylink.com or (804) 529-7737

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 Daffodil Notes
What a Daffodil Treat in 2008
By Petie Matheson, The Daffodil Committee
The Garden Club of Gloucester
et your shovels out, ladies, and prepare your daffodil beds. The GCV Daffodil

G Committee has a wonderful new collection to offer this year. Much consideration was
given to the blooming time of this collection for possible entry into The GCV shows.
The following cultivars were chosen from Mitsch Daffodils of Oregon; Catalyst 2w-r; Jetstart
2w-o; Minute Waltz 6yyw-y and Protocol 6w-w (200 bulbs of first cultivar and remainder of sec-
ond will be sent to us); Pink Morn 2w-gwp; Trumpet Warrior 1yyw-wwy; and Vienna Woods 9w-
r. Sign up this spring for these beauties with your club's daffodil chairman. The Tried and True
Collection will not be offered this year, but look for it again in the future.
The 2006 Tried and True Collection featured a flower named Lemon Drops that has created
some confusion. This flower should be labeled in your daffodil bed as Dutch Lemon Drops' 5w-y.
The true Lemon Drops' 5y-y is available from Mitsch Daffodils.
The Daffodil Committee will conduct an educational workshop March 13th at 10:00 am at the
Kent- Valentine House in Richmond. The workshop will be open to anyone interested in learning
more about daffodils and will focus on basics such as transporting the flowers, grooming, staging,
and showing them. In addition, our properties and the proper process for filling in entry cards will
be described. Come to learn and bring lots of questions.
We look forward to seeing you at the 2008 daffodil show hosted by The Garden Club of the
Northern Neck, April 1-3. A new award, open to all exhibitors, will be presented. The Pat
Lawson Memorial Trophy will be given for the best stem in division 7.
Also, plan to come to the American Daffodil Society's 2008 Convention to be held at the Sheraton
West in Richmond on April 10-13. It will be fun and a great place to learn more about daffodils.

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 Historic Garden Week's 75th Anniversary
To Be Celebrated in Grand Style
By Suzanne Munson
Garden Week Executive Director

n celebration of

I Historic Garden
Week's 75th anniver-
sary, clubs across the state
have planned a fabulous
array of tours for our
guests. More than 30
beautiful events will be
held from the Chesapeake
Bay to the Blue Ridge
Mountains, April 19-27.
Interesting themes for
tours vary widely in con- The gates of Westover Plantation will welcome visitors
tent and period, from a to our 75th anniversary tour (April 24-26) as they did
focus on Virginia's proud in 1929, our first tour. Photo: Judith Ledbetter
18th century equestrian
history in rural Caroline County (April 22) to a 21st century, NASCAR-themed
luncheon tour of the Martinsville Speedway (April 23). Properties open span four
centuries of Virginia history, architecture, landscaping and interior design.
Notable houses include one previously owned by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
(Gloucester tour, April 26) and many with fascinating links to the American
Revolution and Civil War. The Old Town Alexandria tour (April 19) opens the
home owned by George Washington's physician and another where Robert E. Lee is
said to have accepted command of the Confederate Army of Virginia at the onset of
the Civil War.
One of the historic houses highlighted on the Petersburg tour (April 22) was
owned by Nora F.M. Davidson, who began the Memorial Day movement after the
Civil War. Among the extraordinary country estates featured in the scenic
Greenwood area (Albemarle tour, April 20 and 21) is Piedmont, owned by the same
family for nearly 275 years.
In addition to houses, brand new and old, tours will feature lovely gardens across
the state. Some enjoy panoramic mountain views, while others border picturesque
tidal waterways. Mother Nature cooperating, we hope to see daffodils blooming
near the historic home of GCV Daffodil Chairman, Glenna Graves (Harrisonburg
area tour, April 23). The spectacular tour in Richmond's Windsor Farms neighbor-
hood (April 24) will showcase mature gardens originally designed by Charles

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 Gillette, as well as some
of the city's finest houses.
With approximately
200 wonderful properties
open on nearly three
dozen events, it is impos-
sible to highlight all of
the treats in store. Be sure
to read your guidebook or
check the website for
details, including flower
arranging demonstrations
and many other special
Auburn, a highlight of the Gloucester-Mathews tour
(April 26), was once owned by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. events planned by clubs
Photo: The Garden Club of Gloucester across the state.
Media interest in the
tours is high and includes inquiries from numerous major national and regional pub-
lications. In December, The Washington Post launched our 75th anniversary in an
article featuring major American milestones to be observed in 2008. With a picture
of colorful spring blooms, the article noted that our state's flowers, dormant then in
winter, will be "wide awake, ready to be primped and trimmed like show dogs" dur-
ing Historic Garden Week in Virginia.
Following this enthusiastic notice, our website www.VAGardenweek.org showed a
spike in interest, and this year we expect to see about 100,000 visits to the site for
information. Be sure to
check the new Tour
Highlights pages for
event notes and selected
images in rotation
frames. The entire
guidebook is attached by
tour name to the
Schedule page.
Organized in 1920,
The Garden Club of
Virginia launched what
was to become its signa-
ture program in the late Garland contains authentic woodwork and decorative
1920's. Volunteers wrote elements from England's Tudor period. The lovely gardens
were originally planned by noted landscape designer
personal notes to their
Charles F. Gillette. Open on Richmond's tour in Windsor
friends and invited them Farms (April 24). Photo: Three Chopt Garden Club
to visit Virginia during

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 the last week in April for a "pilgrimage" of historic houses and gardens, with pro-
ceeds to restore the historic grounds of Kenmore. The first tour was a major suc-
cess, with income above $14,000. In 2007, total ticket sales were approximately
$700,000, and over the last seven decades, income has reached nearly $13 million.
More than 40 important historic sites have been restored by The GCV over the last
seven decades with Historic Garden Week proceeds.
Tours have been held
every year since 1929,
except for a period dur-
ing World War II when
Club members tended
their Victory Gardens.
The name "Historic
Garden Week" reflects
the purpose of our
events–to restore historic
gardens. Also, the first
tours opened only his-
In a departure from the usual Garden Week luncheon
toric properties–venera-
venues, Martinsville (April 23) will offer lunch in the
ble Virginia manor President's Suite at the Martinsville Speedway, a tour
houses of the 18th and of the NASCAR track and President Clay Campbell's
19th centuries. elaborately equipped motor home. The tour also fea-
Fascinating descriptions tures private homes and gardens and a wonderful
5,000-square-foot glass greenhouse.
of some of these old Photo: Mike Smith, Martinsville Speedway
properties are contained
in the charming diary, Garden Club Pilgrimage to Virginia (1930), available at the
Kent-Valentine House.
Even though some may say that it is getting harder these days to organize tours,
there have been challenges since the beginning. Only five years after the first events,
volunteers in a 1933 Garden Club meeting raised questions regarding whether the
tours had reached their "saturation point" and how much longer they could recruit
volunteers and find houses to open. The minutes of the meeting concluded:
"Garden Week is ours" and "if we are to keep it, we should have it annually, or we
should lose our right to hold it! This is the cry of the Powers that Be."
On that quaint note, the ladies marched on to establish a powerful tradition that
has endured and flourished through succeeding generations. This is a rich and dis-
tinguished legacy, one in which every member of The Garden Club of Virginia can
take enormous pride as we observe Historic Garden Week's 75th diamond anniver-
sary this April.

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 From Gillette to Favretti:
Landscape Architects and
The Garden Club of Virginia
By William D. Rieley
Landscape Architect for The Garden Club of Virginia

he work of Gillette, Shurcliff, Hopkins and Griswold highlighted thus far

T in this series of essays established the sound, professional approach to

projects that remains a hallmark of The Garden Club of Virginia's work.
Several others made significant if not longterm contributions that should necessarily
be recognized in this last essay before discussing the work of my immediate prede-
cessor. These individuals include Morley Williams whose beautiful presentation plan
for the Stratford Hall garden continues to serve as a model, Donald Parker who
completed designs for the University of Virginia's East Gardens after Alden
Hopkins' sudden death, and Meade Palmer, the archetypal Virginia gentleman land-
scape
B. architect, whose work at Point of Honor ranks among the best examples of his
work.
And now to Rudy J. Favretti who served as the Garden Club's landscape architect
from 1978 to 1998 when he retired. The Garden Club chose as their consultant an
author and teacher already recognized in the field of historic preservation. During
his tenure, he left his mark on many of the Garden Club's previous undertakings
and prepared plans for many new projects, most significantly Bacon's Castle, Belle
Grove, Montpelier, Centre Hill, Belmont, Ker Place, Smithfield Plantation, Grace
Arents Garden, and his last for the Garden Club, Mount Vernon's Bowling Green.
These gardens reflect our country's history spanning the centuries from our earli-
est known and documented garden at Bacon's Castle to the early twentieth century
landscapes of painter Gari Melchers at Belmont in Fredericksburg and the DuPont
garden at Montpelier.
In his work, Favretti applied his expertise to changing prevailing attitudes. At
Smithfield Plantation, for example, he raised the prospect of not planting boxwood,
but removing it. He pointed out, quite correctly, that a house of this period would

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 not have had foundation planting at all.
Today, and indeed throughout his career as an author, teacher and landscape
architect, Favretti steadfastly works to promulgate his central philosophy that the
grounds of historic sites should receive the same careful preservation as the buildings
they surround.
For his contributions to its
work and to the larger fields of
historic preservation and educa-
tion, the Garden Club estab-
lished a fellowship in honor of
Mr. Favretti. It funds students
who spend three months docu-
menting a historic private garden
through research and field inves-
tigation. In ensuring a docu-
mentary record of an important
landscape that might otherwise
have been lost over time, the fel-
lowship continues as a fitting
tribute. Rudy Favretti with students at Upper
Brandon Plantation. Photo: Will Rieley
While the intention of this
series of articles has been to honor the contributions of landscape architects to the
Garden Club, the contribution of its members should be acknowledged as well.
Every project is a joint effort between consultant and client. A successful project
results when it is appropriately funded and guided with a sense of purpose and good
judgment. What Ralph Griswold wrote in 1975 still rings true today: "Progress in
the accuracy of historic preservation has advanced concurrently with The Garden
Club of Virginia's accomplishments . . . . Although the methods of preservation
have changed considerably, the motives have remained the same: to preserve the
past for the enlightenment of the future."

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 IMAGES FOR OUR
FREDERICKSBURG CONFERENC

Honoring HGW Chairmen Sally Guy Brown, Mina Wood and William Rieley,

Symposium attendees Members ofThe Rappahannock Valley Garden Club with a

costumed hostess from the Fredericksburg Office ofTourism

Mina Wood and Warren Byrd Dianne Spence and Rose Marie Tronge

Photos by Linda Consolvo

Sally Guy Brown, Nancy Campbell and Mina Wood

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FIRST SYMPOSIUM
CE CENTER !
! FEBRUARY 11-13

Simply Elegant Flowers Mary Washington Monument

Suzanne Wright and Elizabeth Johnson Celebrating the renovation of The Mary
preparing the entry display Washington Monument grounds

Jane Coulter and Denise Revercomb Christine Harris, Suzanne Munson

enjoying works by Bill Pinkham and Mary Wynn McDaniel

Photos by Linda Consolvo

Phillip L. Rodenberg, Mary Lou Seilheimer and Josiah P. Rowe III laying the wreath

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 Rose Notes
By Pat Taylor, GCV Rose Chairman
The Boxwood Garden Club

pring is a welcome time of rejuvenation for both nature and people. Colorful

S blooms that decorate the landscape are the antithesis of winter's gray skies.
Longer days and milder temperatures beckon gardeners to go outside, allowing
them to analyze their gardens' growing conditions and determine what improvements to
make in the coming season. The Rose Committee hopes this garden assessment will
include roses.
Whether this is the first year you will plant roses or whether you already have an
established rose bed, the criteria to consider remain the same. Roses require six hours or
more of sunlight daily. The site must drain well and contain excellent soil. Less than opti-
mal soil should be amended with a mixture of compost or topsoil, shredded bark and
builder's sand. Be careful not to use white play sand, as it contains harmful levels of salt
due to its beach origin.
Roses grow best in soil with a pH of around 6.5. For soil that is too acidic (lower than
6.2), add ground limestone, an alkaline substance, to raise the soil's pH. Soil that is too
alkaline (higher than 6.8) requires the addition of soil sulfur to lower pH. Late fall and
early winter are the ideal times to address this task, as it takes several months after adding
limestone or sulfur for the pH to adjust to correct levels. Unfortunately, life in the gar-
dening realm is seldom perfect, so if your pH needs correcting, do it anytime.
Roses thrive in organic-rich soil. Adding bone meal, blood meal, cottonseed meal, fish
meal and alfalfa meal to rose soil
feeds beneficial microorganisms.
These, in turn, feed the earthworm
population, which keeps the soil
loose, thus, enabling the roses' ten-
der feeder roots to grow unfettered.
March is the month to prune
roses and begin spraying for black
spot. In April begin fertilizing and
continue to fertilize and spray regu-
larly throughout the growing season.
With careful attention to amend-
ing soil, pruning, spraying and fer-
tilizing, your roses should be prolific
bloomers and ready for the October
Rose Show in Franklin.

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 Ex Libris
You Never Know What You Might Find
By Suzanne Wright
The Petersburg Garden Club

onderful surprises await you at The Kent-Valentine House library.

W Not long ago, Mary Lloyd Lay and I met there to do library chores
of sorting, cataloging, and the shelving of recent acquisitions. We
wound up spending almost the entire morning going through books we already
had in the library.
Mary Lloyd is putting in a new full sun garden and could not stop pouring
over the extensive collection of books on perennials in the library. Alliums
and columbines really stole her heart, and her wish list seemed to just grow and
grow.
As for me, I got hooked on flower arranging books, as there is to be a wed-
ding in our family. I found myself drooling over Paula Pryke's Flowers, Flowers!
Inspired Arrangements for all Occasions, giving me a gold mine of ideas for the
rehearsal dinner. The photographs of every imaginable type of arrangement are,
quite simply, stunning. Ms. Pryke combines not only flowers of every possible
kind (from simple wild flowers to the most exotic flowers from foreign lands),
but also uses vegetables, seed pods, gourds, twigs, mosses, vines, and lichen in
equally fascinating and unusual arrangements.
Paula Pryke shares her artistry and knowledge of arranging with not only
beautiful photographs, but also with a winning and readable writing style. She
presents color schemes, floral themes, special occasions, a vast array of contain-
ers, and techniques, in an interesting and easy-to-understand way. I was partic-
ularly interested in her easy explanation of how to make your own natural con-
tainers from vegetables, foliage, as well as sticks of every shape and size. In
many instances, there is a color step-by-step guide as well as a list of the materi-
als used in making each arrangement.
Lest you get the wrong idea, we did complete our appointed tasks, but the
books on perennials, and Paula Pryke's Flowers, Flowers! fired our imaginations.
The Kent-Valentine House library is a place for surprising discoveries. Whether
your passion is arranging, garden restoration, conservation or horticulture, you
can find that special book in your library at The Kent-Valentine House.

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 Composting is Good Gardening
by Heidi Baldwin
The Lynchburg Garden Club

ccording to the

A Virginia
Cooperative
Extension Service,
"composting is the man-
agement of the natural
breakdown of organic
material. Visible and
microscopic organisms
digest the remains of
plants and animals into
a stable end product
Volunteer cleome surprises and delights in one Lynchburg
called humus. This compost bin. Photo: Heidi Baldwin
takes place in a moist,
oxygen-rich environment at a moderate temperature. Humus is dark in color and
B.
has an earthy smell."
Composted humus provides the ultimate garden fertilizer, with all the nutrients
that your garden needs in a slow release form. It amends the soil, and keeps clay
soil aerated and sandy soil moist. Studies show the average household creates 200
pounds of kitchen waste a year, so besides providing free rich soil, composting can
help save space in our landfills.
Choose a location for your compost bin that is away from your house, prefer-
ably on a slope and near a water hose. A nine-foot by three-foot wooden bin is a
suggested size, divided into three sections, open on the up-hill side for depositing
composting materials and with doors on the down hill side to access the finished
humus. Three bins will allow the compost to layer and re-oxygenate, and provide
a place to mix the brown and green materials. Many gardeners mix the compost
haphazardly, depositing materials within the bins. Bins can be made of any num-
ber of materials from heavy wire to cinder block and there are many commercially
sold composters that will facilitate turning the mixture in various ways. The pho-
tographs show ideas presented by Lynchburg's master gardeners at the City
Cemetery.
To start composting, add green materials to brown materials in the selected bin.
Green materials are nitrogen rich grass clippings, kitchen scraps, vegetable scrap-
ings, dead-headed flowers, spent plants, coffee grounds and egg shells. Brown

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 materials are carbon rich dried
leaves, pine needles, saw dust,
wood ships, and shredded
newspaper. Sun, water, bacte-
ria, fungi, worms and insects
will create glorious humus in
six months. Do not add ani-
mal, dairy or high fat materi-
als, weeds, diseased garden
refuse or materials with pesti-
cides. Cover all kitchen scraps A compost bin can be as simple as a wire
with leaves to keep animals enclosure.
out. If the pile does not heat
up in the sunshine, add more
green materials and turn it
more frequently.
There are ways to be more
aggressive. Frequent turning of
the pile can create rich coffee-
colored crumbly soil in three
months. Small piles and leaves
that have been shredded or
chopped by the lawn mower Open compost bins provide room to separate
material at different stages of decomposing.
will break down into rich soil
faster. Mechanical bioactiva-
tors to turn and till the pile
are available commercially,
and some people even add red
worms to their compost to
keep the air circulation going.
Gardeners can start their
compost bins any time of year,
and the new rich soil can be
used to cover spring perennial
beds, summer vegetable gar- Three types of manufactured compost bins.
These allow for the turning and concentrated
dens or to winterize a bed in
heating of the material.
the coldest months.

Photos: Lynchburg Master Gardeners

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 Instructions for Journal Submissions
By the Editorial Board
The Garden Club of Virginia

rticles for the Journal must be typed in Microsoft Word and submitted elec-

A tronically to the Journal editor at Journal@gcvirginia.org as attachments, not

imbedded in email. A confirmation of receipt of the article will be sent.
Articles should be in narrative form and must be 450 words or less. The number of
words in the article should be noted at the end of the article. (Word Count is useful
for this.)
The title of the article should be centered at the top of the page in Times New
Roman, font size 14. The byline and the article should be in Times New Roman, font
size 12. The byline, giving the author's name, should be followed by the name of the
garden club of which the author is a member and both of these lines should be in ital-
ics. If it is applicable her title may be included.
Care should be taken to use the correct name of a garden club. Some clubs have
The as part of their name, others do not. The GCV Register and the GCV website
provide this information.
Paragraphs should be indented and there should be no space between lines or para-
graphs. Book and magazine titles as well as email and website addresses should be
underlined so that the printer can easily see that they are to be in italics in the Journal.
The use of bold print, capital letters or italics for emphasis as well as the use of
exclamation points, dashes and unnecessary quotation marks is discouraged. In most
cases these will be edited out.
If information such as an announcement of an event is submitted with no article the
Editorial Board will print the information in a template format. If the announcement
is also on the GCV website that fact should be noted.
Articles of 200 words or less may be accepted for Club News as space allows. A
photograph may be included.
Photographs must be submitted to the Journal address electronically in jpeg format.
The image size should be 300 dpi with 100% resolution. The document size should
be 4 inches by 6 inches.
Deadlines are as follows:
January 15 for the March issue
April 15 for the June issue
July 15 for the September issue
October 15 for the December issue
The Style Sheet, found on the GCV website in the Journal section under
Downloads, has special instructions for writing for GCV publications as well as other
useful information.
This article has been written to resemble as closely as possible a correct submission
to the Journal.
word count 438

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 Club Notes
The Augusta Garden Club has created
educational signage along Lewis Creek as
a conservation project which was
inspired by a recent Garden Club of
Virginia Conservation Forum. Lewis
Creek runs through Staunton and
Augusta County and is part of the
Chesapeake Bay Watershed. After a bus
trip to the creek with local conservation-
ists who spoke eloquently about the
value of clean water and the poor state of
Lewis Creek's watershed, the entire
August Garden Club was moved to edu-
cate the public with illustrated signs
teaching the impact of water quality on
all forms of life. The Augusta Garden
Club has created a community task force
with Mary Baldwin College and local
people to keep the creek clean.
The first sign was installed and land-
scaped in the Summer of 2007 in Gypsy
Hill Park. It explains the importance of
watersheds in general and ours in partic-
ular. Every two years signs will be added
along the creek's course that will be site
specific to the flora and fauna of that
particular area.

Augusta Garden Club members pictured

top to bottom: Debbie Buckley, Kathy
Moore, Kathy Frazier, Chris Richardson,
Grace Rice. Photo: Dana Krusz

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 Green Shopping Tips
Green Shopping Tips is a useful conservation document produced as a collaborative
effort by The Richmond garden clubs: Boxwood, James River, Three Chopt and
Tuckahoe. Here are some suggestions that work for the environment and save money.
! Use rechargeable batteries.
! Use cloth diapers. You'll save $600 per child by using a laundry diaper service
instead of disposable diapers.
! Use a real camera instead of disposable ones. If you take 24 pictures each month
you will save $144 in a year.
! Many families spend over $260 each year on paper towels and napkins. Switch to cloth.
! Use washable plates, cups, and silverware for parties and picnics instead of
disposable products.
! Use an electric razor or hand razor with replaceable blades instead of disposable razors.
! Buy high quality/long life tires. They cost less per mile traveled and reduce the
problem of disposing of used tires.
! Use a washable commuter mug for your morning coffee and eliminate a Styrofoam
or plastic cup every day.
! Bring bags to the market, either cloth or old paper and plastic ones. When buying
only a few items, don't take a bag.
Find more at www.gcvirginia.org on the Conservation page, right side, listed under
Related Downloads.

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 Godmothers of The GCV
By Catherine Whitham
Development Committee; Three Chopt Garden Club

ost of us think of a Godmother as a special friend who has a deep

M affection for her godchild and stands by faithfully during that child's
formative life, giving additional support and love. A Fairy Godmother
fills another role by popping in and bestowing something wonderful when least
expected. The Godmothers of The GCV share the qualities of both kinds of
Godmothers. They are so named by past GCV president Lee Cochran who, upon
hearing about the project to double The GCV Endowment to $3.0 million,
enthusiastically supported the idea and suggested the past presidents become
Godmothers of The GCV by making a special capital gift.
The 2006 Strategic Plan set a bold challenge to raise $1.5 million by 2011 for
the endowment. Best business practices recommend an endowment of $3.0 mil-
lion in order to preserve and protect the historic Kent-Valentine House as well as
build infrastructure for a continued vibrant GCV. The endowment is funded
solely by members' gifts; dues only cover a portion of the operating expenses and
do not support any of the various
GCV funds.
Our GCV Godmothers have cre-
ated their magic and now encour-
age each of us to join them in
helping to increase our endow-
ment. Listed on the next page are
the Godmothers who let us know
of their gift or pledge as of
December 30, 2007. The total for
Godmother gifts and pledges to
date is a most generous $167,500.
These past presidents have made
a profound contribution to The
GCV, not only by their monetary
gift, but more so by their tangible
expression of abiding love in this
wonderful organization. We are
most grateful for these gifts and
especially the spirit in which they
are given.

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 CONTRIBUTIONS
Report Period From 10/01/2007 through 12/31/07
Godmothers of The GCV
The current and past presidents listed below have given or pledged a major gift toward
building The Garden Club of Virginia Endowment since 2005
Mrs. Thomas C. Brown, Jr. Mrs. James C. Godwin
Mrs. Rudolph Bumgardner III Mrs. Henley L. Guild
Mrs. Robert C. Carter Mrs. Benjamin W. Mears
Mrs. George M. Cochran Mrs. W. Tayloe Murphy, Jr.
Mrs. Austin T. Darden, Jr. Mrs. Charles H. Schutte, Jr.
Mrs. George H. Flowers, Jr. Mrs. Lilburn T. Talley
Mrs. Robert C. Wood III
Common Wealth Award Fund
Provides monies to individual clubs for local civic beautification efforts.
Donor:
Mrs. Muscoe R. H. Garnett, Jr.
Donor: In Honor of:
Jamie Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ann Gordon Evans
Donor: In Memory of:
Beverley Wellford Rowland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ida Dulany Beverley Wellford
Kent-Valentine House and Library
Donor:
Margaret Bemiss
Mrs. Robert W. Forsyth, Jr.
Mary Lawrence Harrell
Mrs. James H. Herbert
Mr. Gary Martindale
Emma Read Oppenhimer
Donor: In Memory of:
Pat Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Clary Harris
Sarah Wade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Clary Harris
The Garden Club of Virginia Endowment
Supports the ongoing prreservation of the historic Kent-Valentine House, headquarters
of The GCV and Historic Garden Week.
Donor:
The Garden Study Club
The James River Garden Club
Mary Hart Darden
Mrs. Edward C. Eisenhart
Mrs. James C. Godwin
Hubard Family Trusts
Julie W. MacKinlay
Mrs. Benjamin W. Mears, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Nash
Mary Bryan Perkins
Grace A. Rice
Mr. and Mrs. W. Randolph Robins
Cabell West
Catherine C. Whitham
Mrs. Robert C. Wood III
Donor: In Honor of:
The Ashland Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sally Guy Brown
The Augusta Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Taylor
The Boxwood Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sally Guy Brown
Mary Lou Seilheimer
The Franklin Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patty Simmons

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 The Little Garden Club of Winchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sally Guy Brown
The Lynchburg Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joyce Moorman
The Garden Club of the Middle Peninsula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anne Bland
Lexi Byers
The Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brantley Knowles
The Garden Club of Warren County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sally Guy Brown
Winchester-Clarke Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. David Diller
Sally Guy Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The GCV Board of Directors 2006-2008
Susan Upshur Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carolyn Jones
Terry Buntrock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen Jamison
Mrs. B. Purnell Eggleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Mill Mountain Garden Club
Virginia J. Harris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barbara Dillard
Sue Ramsey
Karen A. Jamison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nina Mustard
Dianne Spence
Dr. and Mrs. T. M. Jamison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Catherine C. Whitham
Marty Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen Jamison
Susan S. Mullin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mina Wood
Nina Mustard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen Jamison
Patricia T. Sauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cabell West
Dianne Spence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen Jamison
Pat and Donald A. Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cabell West
Mrs. Charles C. Wentworth II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emma Read Oppenhimer
Dootsie Wilbur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Hart Darden
Donor: In Memory of:
Chatham Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Motley Bennett
The James River Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zayde Rennolds Dotts
Three Chopt Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Goolsby West
Ellen R. Barber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Celia Latimer Ochs
Lynne Beeler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Goolsby West
Mr. and Mrs. Bowlman T. Bowles, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Clary Harris
Allen Goolsby West
John and Matilda Bradshaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Thompson W. Goodwin
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Goolsby West
Florence Bryan Fowlkes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizabeth Jeffress
Mrs. Virginia B. Gunnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emma T. Matheson
Karen A. Jamison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Goolsby West
Mrs. Arthur W. Lee III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Andrew H. Christian
Mrs. Spotswood B. Hall, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Nolde, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Clary Harris
Allen Goolsby West
1st Thursday Lunch Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Goolsby West
Emma Read Oppenhimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeanne Parrish Roberts
Allen Goolsby West
Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Savage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. George F. Parsons
Betty Schutte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Louise Dame
Judy Doughtery
Judge and Mrs. Lloyd C. Sullenberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charles Rueger
Cabell West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Brandt
Rebecca Clary Harris
Mrs. Norine Campbell Gregory
Catherine C. Whitham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Goolsby West
The GCV Conservation Fund
Supports GCV clubs in local and statewide conservation projects.
Donor:
The Little Garden Club of Winchester
Mrs. William Tayloe
Mrs. W. McIlwain Thompson, Jr.
Donor: In Honor of:
The Augusta Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marsha Merrell
The Garden Club of Danville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anne Jiranek Doyle
Gabriella Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anne Jiranek Doyle
Three Chopt Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rossie and Sandy Fisher

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 The Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eleanor Huffines
Anne G. Baldwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vici Boguess
Sally Guy Brown
Donna Clausen
Mrs. Horace W. Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fleet Davis
Mary Bruce Glaize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dottie Ballard
Sally Guy Brown
Marsha Merrell
Lucy Rockwood
Mr. and Mrs. R. Gordon Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cabell and John West
Donor: In Memory of:
Winchester-Clarke Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Brandt
Mrs. Thomas N. Connors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Goolsby West
Claiborne and Charles Dickinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlye K. Parsons
Monica Frackelton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Goolsby West
Mr. and Mrs. R. Gordon Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Goolsby West
The SEED Fund
Supports Events, Education, and Development.
Donor: In Honor of:
Candace Carter Crosby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Henderson Heyward
Other Gifts
Donor: In Memory of:
Beverley Hereford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Lockwood Frizzell
Glenna Graves
Friends of the Symposium
Roberta Bryan Bocock
Di Cook
Kay Halpin
The McDaniel Family

The Garden Club of Virginia

Slate of officers presented by the Nominating Committee
2008-2010 term
President Cabell West, Mrs. John Thomas West IV
The Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton
First Vice President Kim Nash, Mrs. Arthur H. Nash
The Warrenton Garden Club
Second Vice President Ann Gordon Evans, Mrs. Russell Smith Evans, Jr.
The Huntington Garden Club
Treasurer Joanie Robins, Mrs. W. Randolph Robins
The Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton
Recording Secretary Betsy Worthington, Mrs. Richard B. Worthington II
The Lynchburg Garden Club
Corresponding Secretary Meg Clement, Mrs. Whittington W. Clement
Three Chopt Garden Club
Directors at Large Betsy Agelasto, Mrs. Peter A. Agelasto III
The Virginia Beach Garden Club
Nina Mustard, Mrs. John C. Mustard III
The Williamsburg Garden Club
Muff Nolde, Mrs. John A. Nolde, Jr.
The Boxwood Garden Club

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CALENDAR 2008
Mar 1 Common Wealth Award nomination deadline

Apr 1-3 Daffodil Show, White Stone Church of the

Nazarene in White Stone

Apr 19-27 Historic Garden Week in Virginia

May 8-9 Horticulture Field Day, Leesburg area

May 13-15 GCV Annual Meeting, Richmond

May 31 Elizabeth Cabell Dugdale Award nomination

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June 18-19 GCV Lily Show, Winchester

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