Horticulture

February 2, 2022

Chairman Elaine Burden, Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club

The June 1998 Horticulture Field Day, organized by Fleet Davis and Elaine Burden, was a resounding success with 220 participants. Homes and gardens in Loudoun County were visited, and catered lunch was served on the grounds of Oatlands in glorious weather. Unexpectedly, a homeowner requested liability insurance coverage from the GCV in the amount of $1 million for the day. The homeowner agreed to open without the insurance, but the discussion was sent to the Board of Directors.

The horticulture exhibit at the fall 1998 BOG displayed “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue” and a plant exchange.

The spring 1999 Annual Meeting exhibit,“Tapestry by Design,” called for five potted plants in a basket featuring foliage in chartreuse, silver, purple and any variation.

The June 3, 1999 Horticulture Field Day was held in Clarke County with a flower-arranging workshop at Long Branch Historic Plantation on June 2. The workshop, conducted by Barry Ferguson, was a fund-raiser for Long Branch. Four Clarke County gardens were on display for the 200 attendees. The Bittersweet Shop, a local garden shop and nursery, brought plants and containers to sell with part of the proceeds also going to Long Branch. Read Journal article.

The October 4, 1999, Horticulture Workshop and was a great success with 50 attendees. Donna Hackman provided a start-to-finish slide show of her “massive and very beautiful Middleburg garden, Highland Springs.” Fran Boninti spoke on native plants and brought live specimens from her Charlottesville garden.

The fall 1999 BOG horticulture exhibit was titled “Sedges Have Edges, Rushes are Round, Grasses are Hollow like Holes in the Ground.” The meeting also included a plant exchange.

The spring 2000 Annual Meeting horticulture exhibit featured three-to-five plants in either a trough garden of miniature plants or a window box full of plants.