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Calendar of Events

M a y 2 , 2 0 1 3 : Cassina Board Meeting at

the Cabins 10:00 a.m.

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M a y 6 , 2 0 1 3 :

St. Simons Council of

Garden Clubs Meeting,

Year-End Luncheon.

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M a y 9 , 2 0 1 3 :

Cassina Garden Club

Annual Picnic. All members

11:00 a.m. at the Cabins.

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M a y 1 6 , 2 0 1 3 : New Member Get-together

at the Cabins 10:00 a.m.

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M a y 1 8 , 2 0 1 3 : Annual Recycling event

Glynn Place Mall, 9 a.m.

until 1 p.m.

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May 21-27, 2013:

National Garden Club

Convention, Seattle, WA.

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June 2 -8 , 2013: National Garden Week.

May 2013

May 9, 2013

Cassina Cabins

11:00 a.m.

May Meeting

Annual Picnic - All Members

Installation of Officers

Hostesses: Gee Gee Adams, Jane Bangert, Caroline Fleetwood,

Tootsie Murray, Carole Ploeger, Sallie Sasser

Cassina Newsletter / 2 May 2013

Board Notes To keep the membership better

informed about Board actions, a report

from the most recent Board meeting is

included in the monthly newsletter.

Eighteen members attended the April

Board meeting and approved the

following items:

Report on the Garden Walk with

The Treasure Hunt poem read by

Ann Worthington.

Georgia Sea Grill is offering a prix

fixe dinner after the Garden Walk.

Broken fence rail was replaced.

Three olive trees were planted on

Cassina grounds.

Tidewater to repair flashing on Tea

Cabin chimney.

April Membership Meeting

Forty-three members and

five prospective members

attended Cassina’s April

meeting hosted by Sue

Chambless , Snookie

Collins, Virginia Ellis and

Sheron Williams. Anne

Aspinwall called the

meeting to order and Anne

Brown focused the Garden

Grace on daffodils.

The planned program was

not held due to cancellation by the speaker on short notice.

Kay Harrell gave the Treasurer’s Report with a reminder that

DUES ARE NOW DUE. Tootsie Murray asked for

volunteers for the May Picnic.

June Brown, Garden Walk Co-Chair, gave a report on the

upcoming Garden Walk, its focus being ―hands-on gardening.‖

All the owner/gardeners will be present to answer questions.

She discussed the Treasure Hunt, the afternoon Garden Party,

the raffle for Dish Gardens (donated by The Vine, Ace Garden

Center, and Edward of St. Simons) and reminded members of

the two-night stay at the Ocean Lodge, a prize given to the

person selling the most tickets. The Hampton Golf Club and

the Ocean Lodge will be offering lunch for Walk attendees.

There will be a display at the cabins about their restoration.

Georgia Sea Grill will offer a prix fixe after-Garden Walk

dinner for $24.95 per person. Kay Harrell reminded all

present to see the website for further details.

l-r: Virginia Ellis, Sue Chambless, Sheron

Williams and Snookie Collins. Hostesses

Each month a drawing is

held at the membership

meeting to celebrate the

birthdays for the month.

April’s birthday winner was

Pamela Hamilton. Happy

Birthday to Pam and other

members celebrating a

b i r t h d a y i n A p r i l .

(Remember—you must be

present to win).

Birthday Winner

GCG Roadside Beautification

Cassina Garden Club has contributed to

the GCG Roadside Beautification

program to help achieve lovely and

welcoming roadsides for our residents

and visitors.

GCG and the Georgia Department of

Transportation have worked together

for many years to protect roadside

wildflowers and promote the seeding of

annuals and perennials. Most recent

plantings in our DOT District (Jesup),

include 30,000 daffodil bulbs and many

acres of wildflowers with Corn Poppy,

Delphinium, Coreopsis and Cosmos.


7th Annual Tabby & Tillandsia Garden Walk is Here!

The Garden Walk is just around the corner and there is

excitement all around. The eight gardens are being given

their last minute ―sprucing up‖ and the gardeners are ready

to greet their guests. Plants have been labeled in each

garden to aid the enjoyment of all visitors. The cabins and

gardens have undergone spring cleaning and will be open

all day for tours. The Garden Party, planned for 2:00 p.m.

until 5:00 p.m., is going to be the perfect end to a perfect

day! Ace Garden Center has been extremely helpful.

Many of the plants seen on the Tour will be in stock. The

Treasure Hunt will be one of the highlights of the Tour

with prizes to be won at the Garden Party. The container

gardens are ready for the raffle.

The gardens are so lovely and inviting that everyone who attends will be a winner! Your job is to sell

tickets! Remember the prize to the member selling the most tickets is a two-night stay at the Ocean

Lodge. If you are not already involved, please call someone on the Garden Walk Committee and offer to

help. You won’t want to miss out on all the fun!

Game's On! A Treasure Hunt in the garden?

How does it work, beg your pardon?

Wherever you start, get a card

With clues varied and not too hard.

There are eight different plants to be found

One in each stop -- look around.

Explore each garden with care;

You're sure to find something there

That will give you ideas and pleasure --

And, who knows, it may be the treasure!

Write down your answer for each stop

With your name and number on top

Bring to the Garden Party, please do

And a prize drawing may be in the cards for you!

Garden Walk Treasure Hunt Poem

written by Ann Worthington

Cassina member Liz DeMato attended the 52nd

Annual Deep South Region of National Garden

Club Convention "Georgia's Treasures" in

Savannah in March. Members from Alabama,

Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, and Louisiana

participated in this annual event.

Liz, Caroline Silcox, President, Garden Club of

Georgia and Winette Almon, DSR Historic

Preservation Chairman enjoyed an outdoor

evening at the opening of the convention.

Deep South Convention

June Brown,

Garden Walk Co-Chair

l-r: Liz DeMato, Caroline Silcox and Winette Almon


Field Trip to The Vine

Membership

Calling all sponsors and New Members! The membership

committee is looking forward to a great new year. We have

several terrific prospective members who have completed all

their requirements for membership and are anxious to join the

Cassina Garden Club. Invitations to join have been sent to

prospective members and sponsors.

The New Member Get-together is planned for 10:00 a.m. on

May 16th at the cabins. Some of our Board members will also

be attending. Be sure to mark your calendars. Our new

members will need your support as they begin their first year

of membership.

If you would like a new picture of yourself in next year’s

Yearbook, you will be able to have your photo taken at the

May picnic.

Please call or email June Brown with any membership

questions at 434-4616 or [email protected].

Cassina Club members had a fun workshop at the Flower Bar

at the Vine. Kelly Revels and Bryce Brock both did

demonstrations with fresh flowers and our pick of beautiful

blooms to work with and to do our own take-home

arrangements.

L-r: Leslie Carlton, Gee Gee Adams, Elizabeth LeSueur, Becky Yelverton, Kelly

Revels, Bryce Brock, Janice Lamattina, Mary Lynch, Susie Salvatore, Becky

Stephenson, Sibby Gruber and Liz DeMato.

L-r: Mary Lynch, Libby Hogan, Janis Rodriguez,

Ladye Heisel and Martha Martin.

Cassina Gardens

Martha Martin and her diligent helpers

have been hard at work to ensure the

gardens at the cabins are in perfect

shape for the Garden Walk.

Olive Trees

After thoughtful selection of a site and

using much care to avoid disturbing any

historical remnants, three olive trees

were planted in the Cassina grounds.

The branches are bearing flowers and,

hopefully, tiny olives!

L-r: Wil Kampschmidt, Frances Allen, Martha Martin


Cabin Product Sales

The Cassina Products committee has been working hard to add new retail venues

and replenish product inventories at new and existing retail venues in anticipation

of the approaching tourist season. We currently have 23 vendor sites with 19 of

them actively selling product.

In the first quarter of this year, we have sold $1,642.89 (wholesale) in Cookbooks

and Flora books to our retail and tourism site vendors.

We will continue to actively sell and increase distribution, adding more retail and

tourism venues in the months ahead.

With the Slave Cabins open for tours Wednesday mornings June-August, our

busiest time for product sales is approaching.

Need a Coastal Cookery, Native Flora of the Golden Isles, or notecards for a

special gift or for Mother's Day? Call Jennifer Broadus: 638-0897

The Golden Days Program

was begun in 2009 by the

president of the National

Garden Club and Cassina

has been a participant for

three years. Our plan was

to encourage the planting

of daffodils to honor

Cassina members who may

now be confined to their

homes or in assisted living

or nursing homes, those

who have ―downsized‖ and

are no longer able to

garden or those who can no

longer participate in garden

club activities. It was also

to honor members who have made significant

contributions to the garden club such as past presidents

or long time or Life members.

Over the years Cassina has tried several different

approaches to carry out the Golden Days idea and

honor our members. This year we will be delivering

approximately twenty-three Bud vases filled with

blooming daffodils. Each is tied with a yellow bow

and includes a personalized note from the Membership

of Cassina.

Golden Days Project

Beverly Nash, Coordinator of

Golden Days Project, holding

Cassina grown daffodils ready

for a delivery.

Please contact Beth Thrift for

any member concerns at

[email protected]

Member Concerns Our sympathy to the family of Rita

Trudeau who passed away on

April 18th.

Our sympathy to Jane Ledbetter on

the loss of her sister.

Charlotte Dennis is convalescing

after a broken hip.

Tootsie Murray has recently under

gone surgery.

Mary Ellen Parkins is recovering

from a fall.

Sue Chambless has had shoulder

surgery and is recovering.

Becky Yelverton is undergoing hip

replacement surgery.


Horticulture Article

You may prefer to plant your geraniums, your

lantana or your pentas in the same area of the

flower bed year after year, but over time, the

flowers will fail to prosper unless you are faithful

in routinely adding compost with each season to

keep the soil refreshed. The challenge with annuals

– whether vegetable, herb or flower – is to move

them about the beds to avoid soil depletion and pest

replication. Disease-causing bacteria and fungi, as

well as pests and their eggs, can survive from one

season to the next if their host plants remain

undisturbed.

My perennials, such as tarragon, don’t wish to be

moved once established. And I confess, it is

tempting to leave the basil and cilantro where they

have self-seeded. But the tomatoes require annual

rotation and the basil travels with the tomatoes.

Here are some sequences, grouped by ―family,‖

that prove rewarding based on a four-year (plots) or

four-box (raised bed) rotation:

After the onion family (liliaceae, including garlic,

leeks, onions, chives), follow the next growing

season with the cabbage family (cruciferae,

including Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage,

collards, kale, mustard, radishes). The liliaceae

skins emit a compound that plant parasites typically

plaguing the cruciferae don’t like.

After the squash family (cucurbitaceae, including

cucumbers and melons as well as squash and

pumpkins), plant root crops such as the apiaceae

family (parsley, cilantro, dill, chervil, carrots or

Dancing in the Garden – Following Partners and Pirouetting Plants written by Peggy Golden

celery). If the vining crops were planted heavily

enough, they will have smothered the weeds,

making it easier to keep the root crops clean.

Onions also do well following the squash family.

After the cruciferae, follow with nightshades

(solanaceae, including tomatoes, peppers and

eggplant), because the cabbage-patch crop residues

help rid the soil of the pathogens that attack the

nightshades. Or if you have enough rotation space,

follow with leguminosae (peas, beans and lentils)

for their nitrogen-fixing quality, which will help

replenish the soil used by heavy feeders – a good

cool-weather tactic between crops.

The chenopodiaceae family – beets, spinach and

swiss chard – add vital minerals to the soil when

they die at the end of their growing season. They

keep on giving beyond harvest.

Okra will thrive if planted in a bed formerly

blooming with marigolds. The marigold roots deter

nematodes to which okra is sensitive. A cover crop

of mustard can also be used to improve nematode-

infested soil.

Planting herbs such as garlic, chives, sage, thyme,

basil (and even mint, if you can keep it from taking

over the bed) throughout your garden – flower or

vegetable - can help repel damaging insects as well

as reduce disease.

The advantages to using these ―green‖ remedies

include fewer chemicals, more variety, healthier

soil and an extended growing season. Think of it as

giving a little back to Mother Nature.


Cassina Garden Club History

Cassina members were

very busy submitting

and winning numerous

awards. Our website

was recognized by the

NGC as a First Place

winner in 2008. Our

Tabby and Tillandsia Garden Walk won 1st Place

for an inaugural event from the Deep South region

and the GCG. The following year, 2009, our

Newsletter received First Place and our eighty-one

year History was recognized with a Trophy, Rosette

and First Place. The NGC in 2010 gave First Place

to our GW for its fundraising efforts to preserve our

cabins, and the GCG gave us first place awards for

our Newsletter, Website and Yearbook. In 2011,

we continued to receive recognition for our work

including First Place for Special Achievement and

for our Publicity Press Book, and our Yearbook,

Website and Newsletter continued to be number

one in the state.

In 2009, large glass front display cabinets were

installed in our meeting cabin. Members worked

with our artifacts, photographs, and memorabilia to

tell the story of Cassina. It was divided into four

sections: First Inhabitants, Plantation Days, Mill

Days and Archeological Dig.

Eighty years of Cassina scrapbook history was

officially presented to the Coastal Georgia

Historical Society as part of the Cassina Garden

Club Collection in 2009. Additional installments in

2010 included club yearbooks, copies of

documents, newsletters and other paper records.

Monies raised from the Garden Walk in 2009-10

were donated to the St. Simons Land Trust for the

construction of a Gazebo at the new botanical trail

Our last history article, bringing us into the present, is written by Cassina’s President, Anne Aspinwall.

Thanks to Rose Ann Williams for encouraging members’ research and writing skills: Elizabeth Freyer,

Leslie Carlton, Ruth Kolumber, Phillis Harrell, Jane Rives, Sandy Storino and Anne Aspinwall. All were

most gracious to accept the challenge. The community has benefited, and will continue to benefit, from the

efforts of our dedicated members.

Cassina Garden Club 2008-2013—by Ann Aspinwall

in Frederica Park. Cassina won first Place for Civic

Improvement for this project.

During 2010-11, Cassina entered into discussions

with county government to lease property adjacent

to the cabins. This property contains historic ruins

and our state champion Southern Red Cedar. When

the lease was executed, we installed a spilt rail

fence around our entire property. Members

continued the NGC Golden Days project by

planting over 500 bulbs in this new area in 2012-13.

In 2012, members planted a ―Plant It Pink‖ garden

at the Golden Isles Hospice. This NGC program

seeks to raise awareness and support for breast

cancer and cancer research by planting gardens in

public spaces. Cassina was recognized for its

contribution to the NGC’s Penny Pines forestry

project. In celebration of Cassina’s 85th

anniversary, the 28th Annual Tour of Homes was

exclusively on Sea Island and saw over 770

visitors. Cassina continued to partner with The

Friends of Harrington School and the African

American Coalition to open our cabins during black

History month. The first two olive trees were

planted on the grounds of Epworth on either side of

the bell. Members continue caring for the cuttings

from the historic mother tree. Three four-year-old

cuttings will be planted on Cassina’s newly fenced

property this spring. The Board hired Tidewater

Preservation, Inc. to prepare a survey of the cabins.

This survey will outline everything needed to do in

the future to preserve the 1830’s cabins. The

February luncheon was held at The Brunswick

Country Club. The 7th Annual Tabby and

Tillandsia Garden Walk ―Garden Treasures‖

showcased gardens on St. Simons Island and

culminated with a grand Garden Party at the cabins.

Joanne Scott, Janis Rodriguez, Kay Harrell

and Leslie Carlton with the Newsletter award


A Look Back - Our 2012-2013 Club Year

Summer at the Cabins

State and District Garden Club Conventions

After winning the State and Deep

South Region Award for the best

newsletter, Cassina's Newsletter

won the National Award, #12-2 Aiii

Publication Newsletter Award

Cassina also received a Certificate

of Commendation National

A w a r d # 5 0 A i i i

Historic Preservation, plus several

other District and State Awards.

Our gardens in bloom Cabins open for visitors during the summer

months. Wednesdays 10 a.m. until noon

Visitors and docents Anne Brown, Martha

Armstrong, Layde Heisel, Anne Caswell

l-r: Pam Hamilton, Dale Anderson, Beverly Nash, Liz

DeMato, Ruth Kolumber, Sue Cansler, Anne Aspinwall,

Janis Rodriguez, Lee Dillard attend the District Meeting.

Sue Cansler, Liz DeMato, Sharon

Flores at the District Board Meeting

Liz DeMato, ―Bubba‖ Deen, and

Winette Almon at the Deep South

Meeting.

Awards

Anne Aspinwall, Ruth Kolumber and Janis

Rodriguez with the Preservation Certificate


New members: Diane Abernethy, Dale Anderson,

Anne Brown, and Yolanda O’Hern

New Members and Programs

New Members with their sponsors

at the September meeting

―The Vision behind `The Sea Island Look’

T.M. Baumgardner‖

Candace Long Brewer and Sissy Baumgardner Lingle

―Container Gardening‖

Bryce Brock and Kelly Revels

―The Vine‖

―Enchantment with Georgia Coastal History‖

June Hall McCash

―Celebrating 85 Years‖

Dick Yarbrough

―Butterflies‖

Hillary Parker


Field Trips and Workshops

University of Georgia Marine Extension Service ―CoastScapes‖

Southern History—Exploring Midway

Kingsley Plantation, Jacksonville, Florida

Workshop at ―The Vine‖

Cassina May Newsletter

Editor Pamela Hamilton

Publisher Leslie Carlton

Kay Harrell

Janis Rodriguez

Distribution Susan Oakey

Photographers Janis Rodriguez,

Joanne Scott

Nancy Muldowney

President: Anne Aspinwall

VP/President-Elect: Janis Rodriguez

Recording Secretary: Susan Oakey

Treasurer: Kay Harrell

Assistant Treasurer: Leslie Carlton

2012-2013 Officers


Historic Preservation and Community Outreach

Frederica Academy students visit the Cabins Dedication of Audubon Marker:

Ed MacKethan, Anne Aspinwall,

Frances Allen, and H. L. Richards

Heritage Days at Oglethorpe Elementary:

Deana Davis and Mary Ellen Parkins with students

Planting the Olive Trees at Epworth:

Janis Rodriguez, June Brown, Anne Caswell and Anne Brown

National Black History Month: Amy Roberts and singers

Continue to save your aluminum can

pull tabs throughout the summer!

Recycle Event, Saturday,

May 18, 9 a.m.– 1 p.m.

Glynn Place Mall


Golden Days Project,

NGC project for senior members

Penny Pines

NGC Reforestation project

Preparing for Bake Sale

at our Christmas Tour

NGC and GCG Projects

―Plant It Pink‖ at Hospice for

Breast Cancer Research

Christmas Tour of Homes– Garden Walk

Updated water color Logo

for our Garden Walk Decorating for Christmas Tour

Enjoy the Garden Walk

Have a safe and wonderful summer!

Happy Mother’s Day!

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