Horticulture

February 15, 2022

Chairman Rosemary Wallinger, The Spotswood Garden Club

June 1, 2000, Horticulture Field Day

The horticulture exhibit at the fall 2000 Board of Governors featured “Salvia, Sage, Lamiacea,” a collection of the stems of five different salvias, annual or perennial or both, exhibited in glass bottles.

The horticulture exhibit at the spring 2001 Annual Meeting, “Layers of the Landscape,” called for a bird garden for all seasons — from canopy tress to ground covers. Rosemary admitted she had worried the exhibit was asking too much but was delighted to report the projects had involved members, husbands and children, turning the beautiful exhibits into an educational opportunity for all involved.

June 6-7, 2001, Horticulture Field Day

The 2001 Horticulture Workshop, “Drop-Dead Gorgeous Gardening – For the Fun of It,” was held on September 26 at the Kent-Valentine House and included speakers Laura Dansby, “Roses You Can Grow Without Life Support;” Janice Whitehead, “Landscape Gardening Unplugged;” Fran Boninti, “Going Green with Natives;” and Rosemary Wallinger, “Letting Go of Grass.”

The horticulture exhibit at the fall 2001 Board of Governors, “Invasive Plants in Your Backyard: Pretty is as Pretty Does,” called for a display of branches or stems of two invasive plants from the club’s region, displayed in glass containers, to include suggestions for what to plant instead. In her tribute to the Little Garden Club of Winchester, Sally Guy wondered if “those of us not native to Clarke and Frederick counties are considered alien invasives?!” She added, “We will try to incur no harm in the landscape.”

The horticulture exhibit at the spring 2002 Annual Meeting was “Native Instinct,” described as a “drop-dead beautiful example of how wonderfully resourceful the women of the GCV can be.” Chairman Rosemary Wallinger said The Atlas of Virginia Flora was a valuable resource for the project and recommended it to gardeners and horticulturists.