Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of
the Cleveland Metroparks
Chippewa Garden Club Newsletter
http://chippewagardenclub.com November/December 2017
National Garden Club, Inc.
President—Nancy Hargroves
National Garden Clubs, Inc.
4401 Magnolia Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110
Central Atlantic Region
Director—Regina Brown
Garden Club of Ohio, Inc.
President—Deanna Stearns
6820 Mapleridge Circle NW
Canton, OH 44718
GCO Cleveland District
Director—Jane Bodnar
21029 Avalon Drive
Rocky River OH 44116-1117
Chippewa Garden Club
President—Kathy Habib
3490 Mark Drive
Broadview Hts, OH 44147
Vice-President-Susan Jurecki
6752 Karen Drive
Seven Hills, OH 44131
Co-Secretaries-
Christine Sparano
7443 Old Quarry Lane
Brecksville, OH 44141
Sandy Ladebue
6522 E. Sprague Road
Brecksville, Oh 44141
Treasurer-Laura Springer
3665 Meadow Gateway
Broadview Hts. 44147
Co-Finance--
Lynne Evans
9455 Woodchip Lane
Broadview Hts., OH 44147
Kathy Ziemba
8207 Montridge Ct.
North Royalton, OH 44133
Historian-Margaret DeWolf
7001 Crestview Drive
Brecksville, OH 44141
A Message From the
President
Be sure to enjoy any sunny warm
days that might be left as we ap-
proach late fall and are ready to
tuck our gardens in for the winter.
We were lucky to have a warm
October that allowed us to con-
tinue to work in our gardens.
Keep your birdfeeders full dur-
ing the winter months, and the
birds will stay near your garden
in the summer. This year we
had a pair of young raccoons
that ate the seed from the feed-
er, so we had to start bringing
it in each night. Since the feed-
er was only large enough to
handle one raccoon, they took turns
hanging from it.
Mow the lawn as long as it contin-
ues growing. There were some years
we have mowed the lawn into De-
cember. Don’t forget to run your
gas powered lawn mower dry after
the last mowing. Drain and store
your garden hose indoors and drain
outdoor faucets.
Move your houseplants away from
cold windows to avoid leaf burn.
Keep them moist, but don’t overwa-
ter. The number one cause of house-
plant demise is overwatering. Most
houseplants should not be fertilized
during winter dormancy.
Wipe dust from houseplant leaves
with a damp cloth or place in the
shower to wash leaves. Dust blocks
leaves from taking advantage of the
lower light that they receive during
winter months.
Houseplants make great holiday
gifts. Plant some paper whites for
winter color and aroma, but pur-
chase them now while they are
available in stores. Consider them
an annual and toss the bulbs when
done blooming.
Don’t hate the snow when it comes.
Snow is great insulation for peren-
nials in very cold weather. Just
don’t let heavy snows pile up on
your shrubs causing the branches to
break. To prevent moisture loss on
evergreens, spray them with an
anti-desiccant.
Please turn the page.
Squire Rich Historical Museum
Brecksville Reservation Cleveland Metroparks
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A Message From the
President cont.
We have been hard at work,
scheduling education programs
and fieldtrips for 2018 that we
hope you will enjoy and feel that
your time is well-spent in Chip-
pewa Garden Club.
Kathy Habib, President
Dates To Remember
Tuesday, November 2
Garden Club of Ohio Holiday Pro-
gram at St. Michaels Woodside,
Broadview Hts.
Tuesday, November 14
CGC Holiday Design Program
“Woodland Inspired Holiday
Trends”
Please take your raffle items and
bakery to the community center
no later than 6:00 p.m.
November: date and time tba
Help decorate the Brecksville
Road planters for the holidays.
Watch your email for dates and
times.
Tuesday, November 28
Budget and Board Meeting at
6:00 p.m. at the Broadview
Heights clubroom.
Sunday December 3, 2017
1-3 PM
Chippewa Garden Club Annual
Meeting/Luncheon at Stancato’s
Restaurant, La Famiglia Room
7380 State Road, Parma.
See the October 5 email from
President Habib for more infor-
mation.
Gertrude Jekyll—British
Designer and Artist
Gary Esmond, Cleveland Botan-
nical Librarian, delivered a fasci-
nating lecture on Gertrude Jekyll
(1843-1932) at our September 26
membership meting. She de-
signed more than 400 gardens in
the United Kingdom, Europe, and
the United States of America and
was one of the first designers to
take into account color, texture,
and the ambiance of the garden.
Jekyll was more profound as a
gardener than as a designer and
thought of a garden as a picture
and as brush strokes She was
inspired by the Impressionist
movement and employed free
form planting methods quite dif-
ferent from the formal English
gardens of the time. She used
hot/cold color schemes, plant
clumpings and large herbaceous
borders.
She collaborated with the English
architect Sir Edward Lutyens on
many of the houses he designed,
including her own home,
Munstead Wood, near Godalming
in Surrey, England.
Jekyll collected plant specimens
for conservation, cultivated
plants at her Munstead nursery,
and gardened at her Munstead
home for over forty years.
Her writings included over a
thousand magazine articles, fif-
teen books and notes and garden
designs.
“The love of gardening is a seed
once sown that never dies.”
Gertrude Jekyll
Pat Gabriel
Gary Esmond
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News from the Recess
Gardening Team:
The Recess Gardening Team has
put the gardens to bed at Central
School. We’ve done lots of things
since school started in Septem-
ber, while the weather has been
wonderfully cooperative.
In addition to cleaning up the
gardens (deadheading, mulching,
weeding), we took coleus cuttings
from our planters in front of the
gym doors, we cleaned seed out of
all the milkweed pods, and we
constructed a rock border along
the rain garden. As you can see
below, the rocks were decorated
with sharpie markers.
We hope the stones will help keep
the turf grass and lawn mowers
out of our garden!
We’re looking forward to our in-
door meetings. We sure hope spi-
ders, bees, and seeds are on the
agenda.
Thank you for helping us learn
all about nature and gardening.
You Rock!
The 4th and 5th Grade Recess
Gardening Team
The 4th and 5th Grade Recess Gardening Team
Milkweed Pods Picked by the Team A Rock from the Rock Border
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Rockefeller Park
Rockefeller Park is a part of the
Cleveland Public Park system
and is the largest park complete-
ly within the Cleveland City lim-
its. Rockefeller Park contains the
Rockefeller Park Greenhouse at
750 E88th St and the Cleveland
Cultural Gardens situated along
Martin Luther King Blvd. Both
are free and open to the public.
Construction of Rockefeller Park
Greenhouse began in 1905 on 270
acres of land donated by oil mag-
nate, John D. Rockefeller. It was
originally intended to be used to
grow plants to landscape city
parks and gardens.
The Greenhouse has 1 acre under
glass and 3-4 acres of outdoor
gardens. It evolved into a botani-
cal garden with specialty plant
collections including ferns and
succulents, seasonal floral dis-
plays and theme gardens.
Outdoors there is the Betty Ott
talking garden in Braille. Plants
were chosen to appeal to all sens-
es and are in raised beds to allow
visitors to touch and smell.
The Mall is a traditional formal
garden with corner statues of the
four seasons, and the Peace Gar-
den gazebo is a charming place to
sit and enjoy the gardens.
The greenhouse has a spring
plant sale and a fall bulb sale on
site.
The Cultural Gardens are on the
National Register of Historic
Places and commemorate ethnic
groups who have impacted the
City of Cleveland. The gardens
were a joint effort within Cleve-
land’s ethnic communities. The
Shakespeare Garden was the
first to be developed in 1916 and
eventually become the British
Garden.
There are 29 established gardens,
including American, African
American, Chinese, Greek, Ital-
ian, Russian, Polish and Slovak,
with over 60 busts and statues of
prominent people from world his-
tory. Currently, there are 8 new
gardens in development.
Kathy Habib
Betty Ott Talking Garden
Succulent Display
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Planting Before Putting
the Garden To Bed
Noel Akin, Director of Communi-
cation and Education, spoke to
our garden club on October 2017.
Noel presented many gardening
tips, answered questions, and dis-
cussed many garden plants.
She told us that fall is a great
time to reseed lawns and plant
new plants since the soil temper-
ature is still warm, the air tem-
peratures have cooled down, we
often have increased rain fall,
and fall plant prices drop. She
did remind us that our lawns and
plants need an inch of rain per
week and to water if that doesn't
occur. She also advised us to put
a trickle of hose water for an hour
or more on trees and shrubs
which have been stressed by
drought. This helps them stay
healthy through the winter.
Noel suggested planting layers of
spring bulbs, either in the ground
or in a pot. Not all bulbs require
the same depth so start by plant-
ing the deepest bulbs first and
adding plant food such as bulb
tone or bone meal and an inch of
soil, and then repeat the process
with subsequent layers.
To protect bulbs from wildlife, use
chicken wire over the planted
bulbs and a granular repellant in
the hole.
The 2018 Plant of the Year is Al-
lium Millennium, an ornamental
onion.
To plant trees, dig a hole that is
twice as wide as the bulb, and use
two parts of soil to one part of
amendment.
Before winter, tie grasses like a
haystack to keep them neat and
easy to prune in spring. Grasses
add winter color and texture.
Prune foliage from bulbs when
the leaves are yellowing. Wrap
tender bulbs in shredded paper
and store in the garage where
temperatures don’t drop to freez-
ing or in the basement.
Use wilt stop to protect ever-
greens, boxwood, rose canes, and
hydrangeas.
To clean garden tools, run them
up and down through a bucket of
sand and Murphy’s Oil soap.
At the conclusion of her talk, the
plants Noel brought to demon-
strate were given to members of
the audience.
Pat Gabriel
Garden Therapy
Chippewa Garden Club volun-
teers Susan Forest, Sandy
Ladebue, Sharon Hemeyer, Chris
Sparano and Lynne Evans gath-
ered together on October 7th to
present “Twigs and the Golden
Rule” to the residents at Pleas-
antview Care Center.
The Garden Therapy program
featured the Fibonacci mathemat-
ical sequence seen in the spirals
of natural objects inclusive of
twig leaf formation, fern fronds,
sea shells, flower petal placement
and seed heads. We displayed
examples of these natu-
ral specimens, and the manifesta-
tion of the Golden Ratio across
the universe was discussed.
Participants were then guided in
creating a square twig wreath
with fall inspired materials such
as twigs, artificial leaves, fall
flowers and ribbon.
Garden Therapy’s final pro-
gram of 2017 “Festive Yuletide
Sprigs” will be held on December
2nd. All volunteers are welcome
to help. Call Lynne Evans if you
are interested in participating.
Lynne Evans
Noelle Akin
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Chippewa Garden Club
Presents our Annual Holiday Show Fundraiser
“Woodland Inspired Holiday Trends”
Featuring
Molly Taylor & Bailey Wilson
Owners of
Molly Taylor & Co.
Hudson, Ohio
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Doors open at 6:30 pm
Program starts 7:00 pm
Brecksville Community Center,
1 Community Dr., Brecksville, Ohio
(off Route 21-Brecksville Rd., South of Route 82)
Ticket price: $10.00 at the door
Advance tickets can be purchased from Chippewa Garden Club members.
Holiday Raffle Bazaar and Refreshments!