President’s Message February 2019 Greetings MGC friends, February is close and our calen- dar is beginning to get a little fuller. The MGC/LGC joint meeting will be enlightening as we hear from Thomas Woltz about the latest projects from Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects and then we’ll enjoy a beautiful Valentine’s day lunch! Thank you so much Selden Popwell for hosting the Boards’ members at a reception the night before to welcome our speaker! Thank you to our January home meeting Hostesses: Pam Martin, Tay Chafin, Amy Drennon, Weezie Calandruccio, Kaki Smith and Mary Wood together with our Moderators: Caroline Orr, Sarah Benz, Lysbeth Francis, Catherine Stallings, Barton Lynch and Cary Brown and Recorders: Camille Mueller, Llewellyn Hall, Peggy Peters, Allison Braswell, Veazey Krausnick and Katie Dick- inson we had a fantastic lunch and productive meeting(s). Shout-out to Nancy Miller, Tay Chafin and Adele Wellford for so efficiently organizing our club as we move onward to Flower Show 2020! It is definitely shaping up to be an entertaining and fun event for all. Pam Martin, Conservation Chair, is gearing up for the National Affairs and Legislation meeting held in Washington, DC at the end of the month. Thanks for representing our club Pam! Thank you ALL for your participation, each person’s time and talent are what make our club so worthwhile, xxoo, Jenne Memphis Garden Club & Little Garden Club Joint Membership Meeting and Luncheon Memphis Country Club Thursday, February 14th, 11:00 a.m. Speaker: Thomas Woltz The Living Edge: The Landscapes of Nelson Byrd Woltz Along America’s Great River Renowned landscape architect, Thomas Woltz is a North Carolina nave and graduate of University of Virginia School of Architecture. (Continued on page 2) Jenne Williams Pictured with Mary Call Ford (LGC)
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President’s Message February 2019
Greetings MGC friends,
February is close and our calen-dar is beginning to get a little fuller. The MGC/LGC joint meeting will be enlightening as we hear from Thomas Woltz about the latest projects from Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects and then we’ll enjoy a beautiful Valentine’s day lunch! Thank you so much Selden Popwell for hosting the Boards’ members at a reception the night before to welcome our speaker!
Thank you to our January home meeting Hostesses: Pam Martin, Tay Chafin, Amy Drennon, Weezie Calandruccio, Kaki Smith and Mary Wood together with our Moderators: Caroline Orr, Sarah Benz, Lysbeth Francis, Catherine Stallings, Barton Lynch and Cary Brown and Recorders: Camille Mueller, Llewellyn Hall, Peggy Peters, Allison Braswell, Veazey Krausnick and Katie Dick-inson we had a fantastic lunch and productive meeting(s).
Shout-out to Nancy Miller, Tay Chafin and Adele Wellford for so efficiently organizing our club as we move onward to Flower Show 2020! It is definitely shaping up to be an entertaining and fun event for all.
Pam Martin, Conservation Chair, is gearing up for the National Affairs and Legislation meeting held in Washington, DC at the end of the month. Thanks for representing our club Pam!
Thank you ALL for your participation, each person’s time and talent are what make our club so worthwhile,
xxoo,
Jenne
Memphis Garden Club
& Little Garden Club
Joint Membership Meeting and Luncheon
Memphis Country Club
Thursday, February 14th, 11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Thomas Woltz
The Living Edge: The Landscapes of Nelson Byrd Woltz Along America’s Great River
Renowned landscape architect, Thomas Woltz is a North Carolina native and graduate of
University of Virginia School of Architecture.
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Jenne Williams
Pictured with Mary Call Ford (LGC)
s Great River
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January Speaker (cont’d)
Woltz is the principal owner of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. In 2011 he was invest-ed into The American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows and in 2013, he was
named Wall Street Journal Magazine’s Design Innovator of the Year. He is a big deal in urban landscape planning in cities across the country including Memphis!
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Conservation Pam Martin
We had a group of volunteers that worked hard December 4th to clean up the trails in Riverwoods!
Our President, Jenne, showed us that she is better with a gavel than she is with a rake! Even though we had a few broken rakes this hardy group had a lot of fun.
Pam Martin and several MGC members met with Allan Trently, West TN Ecologist for Natural Areas, on January 15th. They discussed Riverwoods and about opportunities in which we could partner together to do more in the future. Pam also met with Pam Beasley, Director of Germantown Parks and Recreation, on January 16th, for de-velopment talks regarding Riverwoods.
She is meeting with Allan Trently and Pam Beasley on January 31st for the annual Field Report on River-woods. We are looking forward to a great working relationship with the Germantown Parks and Recrea-tion.
We will have some exciting announcements about Riverwoods soon!
Fine Arts Cile Collier & Elizabeth Dickens
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FINE ARTS WORKSHOP
Come see what’s new for 2019!
The must have plants for your garden
Friday, March 29th
1:00-2:30
Millstone Market and Nursery
*A representative from Monrovia
will lead the workshop.
FINE ARTS REVISED DATES!!!
The MGC’s Fine Arts Committee will be arranging flowers in the Potting Hub on the following dates to
be used in connection with the Dixon’s 2019 Art Exhibition Openings!
Friday, February 22 at 1:30 pm
Wednesday, April 24 at 3:30 pm
Wednesday, July 24, Time: TBD
Friday, October 25 at 1:30 pm
Everyone is welcome to join in the FUN! Please call Elizabeth Dickin-son, Fine Arts Co-Chair if you have
any questions!
Horticulture Emily Lowrance
Potting for Spring Crops!
Thursday. February 7th
9:00
The Potting Hub
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Please take Note
New Members kicked off 2019 on January 2 by taking down the beautiful exterior Christmas deco-rations at the Dixon, followed by decorating and arranging flowers for The Dixon's Opening :"Eye to Eye: A New Look at the Dixon Collection". Additionally, they attended Home Meetings and of-fered input into the areas discussed.
Dixon Flower Rotations resume on Friday, February 1 and Horticulture Propagation programs will occur later in the month.
Vice President, Lysbeth Francis
THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS PLANT SALE IS BACK!!!
PREVIEW PARTY FOR MEMBERS
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2019
4:00 - 7:00
WE HAVE COMMITTED TO HELPING THE DIXON MAKE THIS A VERY SPECIAL YEAR WITH AN ENHANCED PREVIEW PARTY WHERE MEM-
BERS OF OUR CLUB WILL ACT AS HOSTESSES AT THIS COCKTAIL
PARTY EVENT.
PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL BARTON LYNCH TO
VOLUNTEER!
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Fellow MGC members,
The flower train has left the station full speed ahead! I am about to get on my broom to represent MGC teaching floral design classes-. Next week I will be in San Antonio (Alamo Heights Terrell Hills GC) and the following week in Dallas (Founders GC). I will be producing a workshop in Memphis with Hitomi Gilliam in Feb. for all of the Zone floral design workshop leaders. I will be leading a workshop in March for combined Knoxville & Lookout Mtn Garden Clubs and a workshop for Hancock Park GC (LA) in April.
Happy New Year,
Julie Spear
The Crosstown Concourse
Community Garden
is coming along nicely!
Crosstown posted this photo on Instagram which included a thank you to the Memphis
Garden Club for our contribution to the
garden.
Please take note, continued...
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Calling all Memphis Garden Club and Little Garden Club members
