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Experiencing the

Monarch Migration

GGC member Karen Rice will talk about

firsthand experience (along with Pam Braak,

Greg Braak and Chuck Voelker) of one of the

most amazing phenomena in nature – the

migration of millions of Monarch butterflies

southward from their breeding grounds in

the United States and Canada to

overwintering sites in the mountains of

south central Mexico. Follow our intrepid

human travelers from DFW up the

mountains of Michoacán Mexico, and follow

the path of the migrating monarchs over

thousands of miles across unforgiving

environments.

Grapevine Convention Center

1209 S. Main Street

Grapevine, Texas

Next meeting: January 22, 2019

Social 9:30 a.m.

Meeting and Program 10:00 a.m.

In this issue — Page

President’s Message 2

2019-2020 GGC Slate of Officers 2

April Forum Information 3

Plant Sale 4, 7

West Texas Street Work Day 4

Ways and Means 5

Scholarship News 5

Workshops and Special Events 6

Caladium bulbs 8-9

Member of

National Garden Clubs, Inc., South Central Region,

Texas Garden Clubs, Inc., District II,

and Garden Club Council of Ft. Worth

2011, 2014, 2015

THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE January 2019

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President’s Message

Happy New Year! I hope that your holidays were filled with happy memories of family and friends. It may be January and cold, but the GGC activities continue into the new year preparing for our annual plant sale, ordering caladium bulbs and volunteering for community service projects. Please sign up for upcoming activities at our general meeting or use the on line sign-up.

You’ll notice our calendar reflects some of the workshops we are promoting to members that include long time GGC member Toni Moorehead, presenting a class at the REC on January 17th “Designing Your Home Landscape.” In recognition of Bird Sanctuary Week, on January 26th, GGC is sponsoring a presentation by the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center “Night Flight Owls’ Nocturnal Habits” at the Grapevine Library.

I hope to see all of you at our next General Meeting on January 22nd.

Candace Kyler

GGC Slate of Officers for 2019-2020

The nominating Committee is proud to announce our slate of officers for the Grapevine Garden Club 2019-2020 as follows:

President: Dinah Chancellor 1st Vice President (Programs): Jacqueline Weilmuenster 2nd Vice President (Membership): Susan Holly 3rd Vice President (Communications): Harriet Perrello Recording Secretary: Kathryn Armstrong Corresponding Secretary: Sharon Swagerty Treasurer: Pam Braak Publicity: Candace Kyler

These names were presented to the Executive Committee. The membership will vote on Tuesday, January 22nd.

We appreciate all who have agreed to hold officer posts for this coming year beginning in June.

Nominating Committee Joan Kowalski (chair) Ella Barber, Chris George, Ginger Jones and Pat Mingus

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Date Event Location

January 20-26 Bird Sanctuary Week Various locations

January 22,

2019

First GGC meeting of 2019 and election of 2019-2020 officers

Grapevine Convention Center

March 1 GGC Scholarship Application Deadline

March 13 District II Spring Convention Colleyville

Save the Dates

Please refer to GGC’s website for full calendar of club events.

http://grapevinegardenclub.org/calendar

Please note: The January 18th workday at the Perennial Gardens has been canceled.

GGC Member Forum: April 2019 Program Purpose: To enable GGC members to share ideas on five focus topics Five topics will be posted on color-coded signs positioned on tables clustered through-out the room. Topics: ~ Augmenting bird feeders ~ Shade gardening ~ Travel destinations for gardens and/or wildlife ~ Improving soils for successful gardening ~ Summer gardening in Texas heat Participants will choose three of the five topics. At the beginning of each 15-minute sharing session, previous lists of ideas will be reviewed and new ideas will be added to the lists. Five GGC members will be moderators for each focus topic. Please note: The moderator need not be prepared to do a “presentation” on the topic—just keep ideas flowing. This member will not circulate among the five topics, but will remain with the topic to help clarify ideas for the scribe. Each group will have a scribe who will use a marker and chart paper to record the ideas from the group. Chart paper from each focus topic will be collected at the end of the meeting and will be summarized for the next GGC Newsletter. NEEDED: Volunteers to be either a moderator or scribe. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Dinah Chancellor, Program Chair.

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Plant sale: Plant sale volunteers met & will have exciting news to share at

our January meeting. Sign up sheets will be at our next couple of meetings

to sign up for all areas of need for the April 13th plant sale. We will also be

collecting plastic gallon pots so bring those cleaned to the meetings.

Thank you. Cecilia Mitchell

Vintage Pots: The 2019 plant sale is coming up in April and this may seem

like a long way away, but it will be with us sooner than we think. We will be having a “Vintage Pot” section this year, and we are looking to the members to help us with this. Collect pots you believe to be “vintage” and then please clean them thoroughly and bring them to the meetings. There will be a table on the left at the main entrance of the convention center where you can leave them. If you have a lot of pots, yippee… contact me and we can arrange

pick-up. Thank you. Catriona and Elizabeth

West Texas Street Work Day

February 12, 2019 - 10 AM

It is time to do some pruning on West Texas

Street. I can’t think of a better way to

celebrate Valentine’s Day than to spend time with friends visiting and working in the

garden. Have you got some colorful mucking around boots? Great, let’s all dig ‘em

out and see if we can brighten up the day. Who knows, it may be cloudy, like it is

today, as I write this note to you today. Doesn’t that sound liked fun? Let’s do it and

then we can head over to Jakes to eat and drink coffee and swap stories. Hey you

newbies out there – come join in on the fun – think you don’t know anything about

gardening? Great, come join in and we can learn together. Trust me – I’m still pretty

good at killing plants along with the rest of ‘em, but I’m never too old to learn.

Wear your boots, bring your pruning shears and weeders and let’s get together and

dig in the dirt. I know there will be some cleaning up to do because it has been a

while since we planted those pansies. Be sure to dress for the weather; it may be

freezing or hot – we never know. Come see us at the signup table at the January

22nd meeting or signup on line in the Members Section on our Website.

If you have any questions about this project, give me a call, I’m in the book.

Suzi Guckel, Chairman

West Texas Street Project

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Ways and Means:

Chuck Voelker is offering a knife and garden tool sharpening service. All you have to do is bring them to the Ways & Means table at the next meeting. His fee is quite reasonable and is donated to the garden club. His work is excellent.

We‘ll have new Field Guides for sale at our January meeting – Raptors and general

Wildlife. The Owls Field Guide is also back in stock, joining the Birds, Fish, and Trees

and other handy and useful guides. Alexandra Evans

Scholarship News

Please pass on the following information about our scholarship to a child of yours, a

grandchild of yours or a neighbor attending a GCISD school or lives in Grapevine,

Texas. We will be awarding one or more $3000 scholarships in the Spring. The

purpose of the scholarship is to encourage the study of Horticulture, Floriculture,

Landscape Design, Conservation, Forestry, Botany, Agronomy, Plant Pathology,

Environment Management, City Planning or other related subjects.

Scholarships may be awarded to any of the following enrolled with a declared

major in horticulture related subjects:

A graduating Senior residing in the city limits of Grapevine or in the Grapevine-

Colleyville School District.

A graduating Senior who is the child or grandchild of a Grapevine Garden Club

member.

A scholarship recipient from the previous year.

A college student with a permanent residence in Grapevine or within the Grapevine

-Colleyville Independent School District.

Deadline for accepting scholarship applications is changed to March 1st. This

allows the committee time to review the applications and present them to the Board

Members in April. The awarded applicants and their parents are then invited to

attend our May Spring Luncheon to be presented to and congratulated by our

membership.

The scholarship committee is looking forward to receiving many applications to

review who are pursuing a horticulture related study. If you know of anyone that fits

these descriptions please refer them to our website grapevinegardenclub.org for more

information and an application.

Joan Kowalski

Scholarship Chair

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Workshops and Special Events for the Winter

Please join us for the upcoming informative workshops and community events. Con-tact Karen Rice (see yearbook for contact information) to sign-up for these activities.

January 21, 2019 (Monday) Wall-Farrar Adopt-an Area Trail Tidy-up dates. 9 a.m. Walk, talk and enjoy the natural area of Wall-Farrar trail as we pick up litter.

January 22, 2019 (Tuesday) Violet Propagation work-shop after the General meeting 1 - 2 p.m. Dick Pafford, Debbie Boyle Tarrant County Master Gardeners Loca-tion - REC Center

January 26, 2019 (Saturday) Night Flight Owls Noctur-nal Habits – GGC to host at the Library 2 p.m. Blackland Prairie Raptor Center. Open to the public – bring your friends.

February 26, 2019 (Tuesday) Basics of Floral Design workshop after the General meeting 1 - 2 p.m. Rachel Clark & Marty Swindell. Location - REC Center

March 27, 2019 (Wednesday) Container Garden workshop 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Materials fee required. BYO pot. Location to be announced. Karen Rice & Ginger Jones

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Color Your World Plant Sale

We need volunteers! If you are not already signed up on one of our many committees, please sign up at our next meeting or by contacting Cecilia Mitchell or Annemarie Garlin, plant sale co-chairs.

Please review the list of colorful plants below and, if you have any EXTRA in your yard…. WE WANT THEM FOR THE SALE! Please plan to dig them up, pot them in 1 gallon plastic containers and let Paula Wilson know now which plants you plan to coddle and then donate to our plant sale on April 13th. We will have soil and pots

available for you at the Botanical Garden – please watch for dates and times. Please pot the plants at least six weeks ahead to give them plenty of time to develop a good root system before we sell them. (Don’t forget to line the bottom of the pot with newspaper to keep the soil in place.)

If you have some of the plants on this list, but for one reason or another you cannot dig them, please contact either Joyce Quam or Gregg Braak.

Annemarie Garlin

Shrubs and Trees

Possumhaw/Yaupon Holly

Coralberry

Mahonia

Viburnum

Redbud

Saucer Magnolia

Mexican Plum

Flowering Quince

Forsythia

Spiraea

Roses

Crepe Myrtle

Virginia Sweetspire

Perennials

Four-Nerve Daisy

Phlox

Ox-Eye Daisy

Iris

Penstemon

Salvia

Calylophus

Mistflower

Passion Vine

Fall Aster

Columbine

Coneflower

Clematis

Plant list courtesy of Toni Moorehead, Master Gardener and owner of Signature

Gardens. For her complete plant list:

http://grapevinegardenclub.org/objects/Year-Round_Color_Plant_List_-_Toni_Moorehead.pdf

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GGC Members 2019 Caladium Bulb Order Form It’s time to order Caladium Bulbs for spring planting and summer color. Bulbs are #1 size and healthy. The cost will be $0.65 per bulb, (exception is $1.10 per bulb for Miss Muffett and Florida Red Ruffles). Minimum order 10 bulbs. Please make your check out to GGC. Contact Karen Pafford, (Yearbook page 61) for additional information. Turn in this completed order form with payment attached no later than February 11, 2019, or mail to Grapevine Garden Club, P.O. Box 811, Grapevine, TX 76099-0811. Bulbs will be available for pick-up the latter part of March/first of April.

NAME __________________________________ PHONE: __________________ E-mail ______________________________________________________________ Total # of bulbs @ $0.65 each________ Total # of bulbs at $1.10 each __________ Check enclosed made out to Grapevine Garden Club $________________ SELECTION (10 bulbs minimum, each variety selected). Red Flash (Dark red central veins with pink spots and Quantity ___________ dark green margins, partial sun, tall, bushy, upright) Carolyn Whorton (Medium toned pink blotches with red veins Quantity ___________ and green mottling, sun, tall, large leaves, upright and strong) Florida Cardinal (Bright red center with medium green margin, Quantity ____________ sun, medium height, bushy with medium size leaves) Florida Red Ruffles (Shiny red leaves, with green borders; short, Quantity ____________ compact; full leaves, shade to full sun) ($1.10 each) Rosebud (Frosty medium rose center with dark rose veins, upright, Quantity ____________ medium and full sun) White Queen (Creamy white with green netted veins and dark Quantity ____________ red central veins, tolerates sun, tall with medium number of leaves) Aaron (Large white center with vein veins and narrow green margin, Quantity ____________ Tall with few leaves, good in sun) Miss Muffett (Chartreuse with varying red and white veins with red Quantity____________ spots, compact and low growing/bushy, semi-shade) ($1.10 each)

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