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Landscape Committee Meeting Minutes

November 1, 2008

Please note a change of date for the first Spring meeting to April 25th @ 9:30 a.m. There is a board meeting at 10 a.m. on the 18th.

MINUTES

Diana Gould called the meeting of the Landscape Committee to order at 9:40 a.m. at the Chimney Hill office, Wilmington, VT.  In attendance were Pam Massey, Mary Ann Holthaus, Marguerite Babor, and Jane Carey. Ken Spicer, Executive Director, CHOA, was also present.

Minutes:  The minutes of the meeting of September 27, 2008 were approved.

CURRENT BUSINESS

1. We expect Janet Boyd to submit her plans for next year’s CH gardening early in January, 2009, as well as an indication of her fees for the year, and a schedule of garden workshops to be presented at the Boyd Family Farm in 2009.  (The latter will be included on the Committee’s webpage.)  Ken suggested that better watering and weeding follow-up is needed next summer, and the young, memorial lilac trees need special attention where watering and fertilizing are concerned.
2. Developing a Statement of Purpose for the Landscape Committee may be premature at this stage and should be tabled, since the Committee presently is extending its reach to include care of common land, some recreational activities, etc., beyond the role of the previous Beautification Committee.  However, Ken located a kind of annual agenda/calendar that was prepared by previous chairs of the Beautification Committee, which listed the Committee’s anticipated activities for the season.  Diana will e-mail the list to Committee members and ask for additions and comments to be discussed at our next meeting.
3. Jane will coordinate the snow shoe/cross-country ski get-together on MLK weekend, 2009 with Susan Ennis of the Clubhouse/Recreation Committee.  Details will be forthcoming via e-mail to Committee members.
4. Winter events, such as the get-together noted in Item 3, will be announced on the Landscape Committee’s webpage as well as in the main body of the CHOA e-newsletter and “Hill and Valley” news. 
5. The scheduled trail walk behind the Birchwood tennis courts is tabled until next spring.

NEXT MEETING DATE:  April 25, 2009, 9:30 a.m., Chimney Hill Office

ADJOURNMENT:  10:25 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Pam Massey

Landscape Committee Posts

Donations are welcome to the Gardener's Corner Library in the clubhouse. We are looking for gardening books, coffee table books about famous gardens, gardening magazines but PLEASE, only recent bulb, seed and plant catalogs -- whatever you might want to contribute.

Please bring your contributions either to the clubhouse office or to the CHOA office for cataloging.

Brattleboro:

• Agway - 1277 Putney Road - 802-254-8755
• Rasheds Garden Center - 708 Marlboro Road, Route 9W - 802-257-4840

Dorset:

• Mettowee Mill Nursery - Route 30 - 802-325-3007

Jamaica:

• D & K's Garden Center - Route 30/100 - 802-874-4160

East Dummerston:

• Walker Farm - 1190 Route 5 - 802-254-2476

Manchester:

• Dutton Farm - Route 11/30 - 802-362-3083
• Equinox Nursery - Route 7A - 802-362-2610

Jacksonville:

• Adam Bursma - 802-368-2890

 

Online Retailers

• High Country Gardens:

    Water-Wise Gardening Practices 

    Items of Interest for Fall   

    Long-Blooming Perennials   

• Bird by Bird Gardening, a gardening book that features information on attracting birds to your 
  garden.
  

Click here are some tips for water-wise gardening from USA Weekend.

For those of us who are beginning to prepare our gardens for fall and winter, click here  for some valuable tips from Fine Gardening Magazine on dividing perennials.

Horticulture Magazine, Information on Fall Rose Care

High Country Gardens September E-Zine

High Country Gardens, Information on Long-Blooming Perennials

Horticulture Magazine, Create Certain Moods or Effects in Your Garden

Fine Gardening, suggests flowering groundcovers (our old friend, the groundcover!) that both do a job and add color and interest to the garden.