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THE BAILEYAN
The
Official Newsletter of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Garden Club of Ithaca,
New York
The Liberty Hyde Bailey Garden
Club
of Ithaca meets each month, on the third Tuesday (second Tuesday in May
and December) at the Horton Room in the Floriculture Greenhouse, Tower
Road Cornell University Ithaca, New York.
The Club is open to all
gardeners. Visitors are welcome.
Volume 44 Number 5
May 2005
2005 Officers
| President |
Debi Lampman |
| Past President and Treasurer |
Elke Schofield |
| First Vice President |
Ray Fox |
| Second Vice President |
Elizabeth Owens-Roe |
| Recording Secretary |
Helen Swank |
| Editor of the Baileyan and Webmaster |
Carla Hegeman
Crim |
| Corresponding Secretary |
Cliff Manchester |
| Assistant Treasurer |
Tom Guihan |
| Directors |
Ken Devine (2005)
Ruth Doll (2004)
Dave Farmer (2003) |
| Regional President |
Debra Nero |
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This month:
May 10th
REGULAR MEETING 7:30PM
(SET-UP VOLUNTEERS MEET AT 6:00 PM)
IN THE HORTON ROOM
Seedling Sale
Fill your garden for $8!
Non-members are welcome, but must join the club and pay dues
($30 plus $8 for the seedlings) prior to participating
Refreshments
will be provided by May Jenks
Next Meeting: June 21st - Garden visit TBA
May
Notes:
From the Berm Committee:
Our club will be planting a
berm at the Farmer’s Market a few days after our seedling
sale. Volunteers will be needed to help with this planting and
continuing care through the Summer.
We have set up a schedule at
weekly intervals. This will involve visiting the berm once or twice per
week per volunteer to weed, apply mulch, deadhead or water as needed.
Please check your Summer
schedule and pick an available week, in coordination with others, when
you could serve. This would be appreciated.
I will be in touch by phone
to fill out the schedule of volunteers and will keep you informed by
the newsletter.
Cliff Manchester
Berm Committee
Volunteers for upcoming sales:
The following members have graciously agreed to help out at our
seedling sales:
Members’ Seedling sale (5/10, 6:00
p.m.)
Elke Schofield
Helen Swank
Ruth Doll
Ed Cobb
Ken Devine
Connie Fairbanks
Marty Pilat
Beverly and Bob Hillman
IHS Plant Sale (5/14*)
Ruth Doll (7:00 - )
Ken Devine (7:00 - )
Carla Crim (7:00 - )
Helen Swank (7:30 - 10:00)
Elke Schofield (9:00 - )
Connie Fairbanks (9:00 -11:30)
Beverly and Bob Hillman (7:00 -12:00)
Mike Hayes and Gudrun Reiterer (10:00 - )
*Set-up crew will meet at the hoophouse at 7:00 a.m. We could still use
more hands for the afternoon shift and for clean up after the sale!
New Photos !
Plant Auction, 4/19/05
Ed Cobb provided these wonderful pictures from last month's auction:
Admiring the Siberian Bugloss
from Ray Fox's Garden
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Charlie and his Clivia
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Charlie and Bev
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Debbie and our new member
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The check-out line
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Ruth with a stack of Dr.
Bailey's books |
Seedlings, 5/04/05
Here is a preview of the beautiful seedlings for Tuesday night's sale:
A Sea of Green
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A profusion of petunias
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Bright Blooms |
Can't you just smell the basil?
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Opportunities
Upcoming
Events
May 6th - 7th- Annual
Trumansburg Festival of Flowers - The fourth Annual
Trumansburg Festival of Flowers theme for the Garden Decorating Contest
is "It's For the Birds!" Visit the Presbyterian Church on Main Street
to view the entries on May 6 and 7. The Bird Lover's Art Auction
event will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, May 6 at the Historic Camp House in
Trumansburg. The festival begins at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 7 with
the Taughannock Garden Club's Plant Sale at the Presbyterian Church.
There will be a featured table of bird attracting plants for gardeners
to purchase. Many of the festival's other Saturday
events will involve birds as well. Steve Kress will be speaking on
"Gardening for Birds"at 2 p.m. at the Ulysses Philomathic Library's
Melvin Room. Kress will There will also be a Bird House Building
Project, hosted by Main Street volunteers, on the lawn of the
Presbyterian Church. Other activities include the "Spring Fling" silent
auction and children's craft at 9 a.m., the Historical Society luncheon
at noon, Shared History Walking Tours at 3 p.m. and the Ulysses
Philomathic Library Wine Tasting at 6 p.m. A complete schedule of
Festival of Flowers activities is now available at the Village Office
and in other locations around the village and town. For more
information, call Susan at 387-4471.
Sunday Afternoon Hikes at the
Cayuga Nature Center. Free to CNC members/$3.00 for non-members.
For more information and other upcoming events at the CNC, visit http://www.cayuganaturecenter.org
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May 8th, 1:00 p.m. “Medicinal Plants and Herbs” Hike - Join CNC
volunteers and staff in exploring our native pharmaceutical resources.
May 15th, 2:00 p.m. - "Life in a Gorge" Interpretive Hike.
May 22nd, 3:30 p.m. “Edible Plants” Hike - Join naturalist Linda
Speilman and expand your palate!
From Cornell Cooperative Extension
Annual Spring Garden Fair and
Plant Sale - Saturday, May 14, 9 am
- 1 pm, Ithaca High School
Join your fellow gardeners in a celebration of spring gardening! Plants
galore from local growers and gardeners! Free pH testing, expert
gardening advice, horticultural drawing, fun for kids and more!
Open Days Garden Tours 2005
- Sunday, May 15 and Saturday June
18. Join us for the second annual Tompkins County Open Days
Garden Tour! Six private gardens will be included in the Garden
Conservancy's Open Days Program, a national listing of exclusive
gardens that are only open to the public on these dates. A $5.00
admission fee is collected at each garden, and 40% of the proceeds
benefit the Community Beautification Program. Visit the Open Days
website at www.gardenconservancy.org for more information.
Call the GROWLINE With Your Yard & Gardening Questions - For help
with questions about house plants, vegetables, flowers, herbs, lawns,
trees and shrubs, soils, plant health and nutrition, household pests,
wildlife, plant identification and pest management, call the GROWLINE
at 272-2292. You can also e-mail your questions to growline@cornell.edu.
Treasurer’s Report
April 2005, Submitted by Elke Schofield
INCOME
Club Auction, April 19,
2005
$373.50
EXPENSES
Greenhouse - soil for
1/1-3/31/05
$102.76
Checking
account as of 4/30/05 = $1,659.23
Petty
Cash: $50.08
Meeting
Minutes
Liberty Hyde
Bailey Garden Club
7:30 pm, 19 April 2005
Horton Room, Ken Post Greenhouse
The meeting was called to order by President Debi Lampman. There
were 23 members and three guests in attendance.
A LHBGC directors meeting was held at 7:00 pm to review the agenda for
tonight’s meeting and discuss next month’s seedling and plant sale
prices. They congratulated editor Carla Crim for the attractive
LHBGC membership brochure and card she designed.
Elke Schofield, Treasurer, submitted her report which showed no income
in March but expenses of $123.39 for such items as a new book,
newsletter expenses, refreshment supplies, padlock for the hoop house,
and membership dues for Kathy Howard to TGOA, leaving a balance of
$1,412.29 as of 31 March 2005. There was an additional $26.47 in
the petty cash account.
Discussion centered on the LHBGC seedling sale at our Tuesday, 10 May
meeting. Ruth Doll is supervising the sale and called for
volunteers to meet the following Saturday at 9:30 am at the greenhouse
for transplanting seedlings. The cost of seedlings for members will be
$8.00. It was decided that in order to participate in the sale,
non-members must join the club and pay dues ($30.00 plus $8.00 for the
seedlings). This is still a real bargain for the seedlings, and
they will get all the benefits of membership. Leftover seedling
will be included in the IHS annual plant sale.
Ruth Doll mentioned that new procedures at Cornell call for the
appointment of one person from each organization using the greenhouses
to be responsible for security, litigation, and liability. LHBGC
needs to designate such a person.
A signup sheet was circulated to solicit volunteers for the 14 May
Annual Plant Sale at Ithaca High School. We need people between
7:00 - 8:00 to load trucks at the greenhouse and lots of baggies.
The remainder of the meeting was devoted to the annual LHBGC plant
auction. Auctioneer Debi Lampman lead spirited bidding for the
wide variety of evergreens, house and outdoor plants which members
generously donated to raise funds for the club treasury.
Our thanks to Beverly and Bob Hillman who provided a variety of
delicious refreshments.
Meeting adjourned at 9:30 pm. (Please note that the next meeting
will be on 2nd Tuesday, 10 May 2005)
Submitted by Helen E.
Swank
Recording
Secretary
Featured Link:
~*~ The Violet Barn ~*~
This link, and an article about the
Violet Barn, was provided to me by a member at our last meeting (I'm
not sure who, but thank you). The Violet Barn, located right here
in the Finger Lakes Region of Central NY, is home to thousands of
species of African Violets. Their website contains
information about their business, their online catalog, and a wealth of
information about growing African Violets and other houseplants.
They also have an online violet discussion group "The
Violet Voice" that you can join.
2005 SEEDLING CHECKLIST
Click on the link above for a printer friendly, up-to-date list of all
the seedlings that will be available at the Members' Sale.
Seedling
Sale Tips:
On the night of the seedling sale, you will be faced with a veritable
smorgasbord of beautiful seedlings for your garden. With so many
varieties to chose from, it can be downright overwhelming. A
little planning ahead will ensure that you get the plants you want in
the shortest time with the least amount of confusion and running around.
- Take a
look at the checklist and think about
what you would like to plant this year. We have many old
favorites, but also some unusual varieties. If you are unsure
about what a plant looks like or its growing requirements, look for
information in books, seed catalogs, or on the internet OR make a note
to ask one of our experts about it on the night of the sale.
- Debi Lampman recommends that you have your
labels and containers ready to go before the sale. She recommends
putting pieces of masking tape on inexpensive sandwich baggies.
Write the name of the plant or variety on the tape. You can do
“double duty” by putting visibly different plants in the same bag (for
example, you should be able to distinguish a petunia from a pepper, but
you would have to be an expert to sort out the hot pepper varieties - I
learned this one the hard way last year!)
- When you are dividing the plants, try
to get as much of the root as possible without mangling the adjacent
plants. Some of your seedlings might look a little traumatized
when you get them home. If they are wilting, dunk the roots in a
container of water until you get them in the ground. You will be
amazed at how fast they will recover and catch right up to the
plants your neighbor paid too much for at Home Depot!
Happy planting!
