Horticulture

October 26, 2022

Chairman Léa Shuba, The Hunting Creek Garden Club

The 2010 Horticulture Field Day was held May 19-20 on the Eastern Shore. Tuesday’s visits featured woodland gardens with rare native and exotic plants, seaside landscapes with perennial borders and a pasture with a small herd of nanny goats. Attendees enjoyed an Eastern Shore clam bake on Wednesday evening. Tours continued Thursday after a visit to the Barrier Island Center. Four gardens featured views of marshlands, perennial and mixed borders, cutting gardens, vegetable gardens and herb beds. Photos

The 2010 fall Horticulture Workshop was held Monday, October 18 at Kent-Valentine House and focused on assisting clubs with staging and judging monthly horticulture exhibits. Featured speaker was Kay Shifflett of the Virginia Beach Garden Club, a trained and certified Garden Club of America horticulture judge. For an added surprise, she brought along two fellow judges, half her garden, her discerning eye and her fabulous sense of humor.

2011 Horticulture Field Day was held in the Middleburg area on May 18-19. Attendees gathered Wednesday at Oatlands Historic House & Gardens for box lunches and tours of the gardens, followed by tours of three additional gardens in the afternoon that included spectacular formal gardens, parterres, garden sculptures and garden rooms of mixed borders, herbs, shrubbery and perennials. Thursday morning offered four additional gardens with rural landscaping, woodland streams, a striking outdoor amphitheater and English-style garden rooms displaying romantic mixtures of color and texture.  Photos

The 2011 Horticulture Workshop was held at the KVH on October 18 and featured renowned speaker and author Doug Tallamy, Chairman of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware.

Member club educational displays of horticulture specimens at Board of Governors and Annual Meetings  were skillfully planned by the Horticulture Committee and included “Beautiful Gardens Plants of Distinction” and “Plant This, Not That.”