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September, 2022
Southampton Garden Club
September 8, 2022
Program: Cheryl Lenert “Closed Atmosphere-Single Species Planters”
Welcome: Phyllis Carney welcomed everyone to our first meeting. She promised we would have more fun and learning than meeting time this year.
Moment of Silence: Phyllis then requested a Moment of Silence for both world peace and peace within our country. Diane Kaplan asked that we add the children of Uvalde.
Birthdays: Our September birthdays are Analisa Frazier (8), Carolyn Corbett (9), Edie Archer (10), Kay Martin (13), Ann Hightower (14), Jacki McCreary (17), and Beth Zdeblick (28)
Membership: Pat Burgess and Analiza Frazier had received the letters of recommendation for the two candidates for membership who had attended three meetings, Joanne Cuadra and Laura Bellows. The Club voted to approve them for membership. Gail Viele had a guest, Kristin Loden, who is the wife of the new director of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.
Recording Secretary and Website: Ginger Clark The May minutes have been proof read and posted to the website. Beth Zdeblick and Rebecca Garfield have volunteered to proof the September minutes. The website has been updated with the programs for this year and the changes in membership. If any errors are found or updates are necessary please notify Ginger Clark at vaclark1828@swbell.net with the necessary changes. Mary Swift had asked where the reimbursement request form and the sales tax for were on the website. The reimbursement request form is under Resources which can be found at the top of the home page. The sales tax form should have been in the same location but wasn’t. It has since been added and both can be found under Resources.
Yearbook: Janet Kohlhase Yearbooks were ready to hand out at the meeting as soon as dues were collected. Janet thanked everyone who helped; it took a village to pull it together. There was one error, Kate Hughes’address was listed as 1918 South Blvd. It’s 1818 South Blvd. Janet, being an economist, couldn’t help but note that in a group as large as ours there was a greater than 50% chance that two people would have the same birthday. We have two cases, March with Ann Ahuero and Joanne King both having birthdays on the 28th and November with Susan Bishop and Caroline Ellsworth-Rucker both having birthdays on the 24th.
Treasurer: Mary Swift Bank The bank balance is $5,771.70 as of September 8, 2022. The books were successfully audited over the summer by Joanne Storm and Ginger Clark with only a few minor errors that were corrected. There is one check for $50.00 to the HFGC Poinsettia fund that was never cashed. Mary reminded everyone that when buying items for the Club to use the tax-exempt number as she cannot reimburse for sales tax.
Social Chairs: Alex Tyson and Sydney Jelinek. Kate Hughes has agreed to hostess our February meeting.
Fleming Park, Horticulture, Southampton Centennial Celebration Garden Tour: Mary Howe Hawkins Mary unfortunately could not attend the meeting as she tested positive for COVID. She has asked Phyllis if her house could be featured on the Garden Tour because of the variety of trees Phyllis has planted over the years. The tour will take place on March 11, 2023. Mary requested that the Club support the Tour by buying an ad for $500.00 in the program. The purchase was approved. Sarah Balinskas is also working on the Tour. There were some questions about the Tour such as were they going to sell tickets and if so where would any money collected go.
Federation: Phyllis Carney The Federation program to be held Friday, September 9 at 10:30AM will be held at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church on Buffalo Speedway at Bissonnet.
Green Thumb: BethZdeblick. Beth distributed copies of Green Thumb to the membership. She’s also had it sent digitally. She included web links to the different locations featured in the document so that one can click on the digital copy and immediately go to the event or location.
Mary Swift introduced Cheryl Lenert for the program “Closed Atmosphere-Single Species Planters
Following the program there was a drawing with winners picked from the numbers on the sign-in sheet. Ginger Clark and Pat Burgess won Cheryl’s closed container and a succulent planting, respectively.
October, 2022
Southampton Garden Club
October 6 2022
Program: Karen Cottingham “Growing Herbs for Use, Insight and Delight”
Welcome: Phyllis Carney welcomed everyone to our second meeting.
Birthdays Our October birthdays are Julie Baker (17), Janet Moore (25), Susan Bleakie (27), Lee Tawse (28), and Sydney Jelinek (30)
Membership: Pat Burgess and Analisa Frazier. We had two guests, Kristin Loden, the guest of Gale Viele for the second time and Mary Johnson, Carmen Wright’s mother who is visiting her.
Fleming Park and Horticulture: Mary Howe Hawkins and Lee Tawse. More compost was applied to the Pollinator Garden and native milkweed and lantana were planted in some bare spots. Any remaining bare spots will be filled in later. Snapdragons, pansies and violas are in the nurseries now but it’s better to wait until Thanksgiving to plant. Violas do much better here than pansies and are recommended. Joanne Cuadra won the door prize.
Southampton Centennial Celebration Garden Tour: Mary Howe Hawkins and Sarah Balinskas. The Garden Tour will be held Saturday March 18 in the afternoon. There will be six gardens and two people per garden are needed to be docents. Please contact Mary or Sarah if you are interested. Tickets tentatively priced at $20 will be available online on the Centennial website. There will be no cash sales. The proceeds will benefit Trees in Southampton for the planting and care of street trees. As approved at the last meeting the Club will donate $500 to the Tour. Mary Howe Hawkins did the design for the site.
Recording Secretary: Ginger Clark. The September minutes have been approved and posted to the website. Lee Tawse and Mary Bradshaw will proof the October minutes.
Treasurer: Mary Swift. Our balance is $6772.37. We can now accept payment via Zelle and Venmo. The proposed contributions listed below are the same as last year except for the contribution to the Garden Tour. It was suggested that we buy children’s’ gardening sets for our Toys for Tots contribution. The list was approved.
Friends of Fleming Park $100
Friends of Southampton Esplanades $100
Federation Christmas Auction $40-50
Federation Poinsettia Project $50
Toys for Tots $100 (in 21 and 20)
TGC – President’s Book $10
TGC – Seeds for Life $50
District IV Convention Auction $50
Southampton Centennial Garden Tour $500
Proposed Total $1,010
Flower Show and Federation: Carolynne White. The show will be horticulture only and will be held at Ginger Clark’s house on April 13, the second Thursday of the month because of a conflict with Easter. We will need volunteers to be additional committee members, clerks and do awards and tabulations. Carolynne passed a signup sheet around for the show.
By-Laws Change: It is proposed to make official the informal change that we made to the September meeting because of Labor Day. The amended article listed below will be voted on at the November meeting.
Article XI Meetings
Section 1. Regular meetings shall be held the first Thursday after Labor Day and the first Thursday each month from October through May, excluding January, unless otherwise provided by the Executive Board, at the hours and place designated in the Yearbook.
A copy of the change was handed out to each member attending the meeting and will be emailed to the remaining members.
Anne Gorman then introduced our speaker, Karen Cottingham, who gave a fascinating talk on the uses of herbs.
November, 2022
Southampton Garden Club
November 3, 2022
Program: Darla Harris “Introduction to Ferns”
Welcome: Phyllis welcomed everyone to our third meeting.
Birthdays: November has the most birthdays! Adrienne (3), Hope (5), Marcia Randall (7), Marcia Faschingbauer (12), Channing (14), Mary Swift (15), Susan Bishop (24), Sherrie (25)
Membership: Analisa has received three letters of recommendation for Kristen Loden. She was voted in to the Club.
Treasurer: Mary Swift reported that we have a balance of $6,520.23 after paying previously approved donations. There are eight members with dues outstanding.
Flower Show: The flower show will be horticulture and photos only. There will be two educational tables done by Carolynne and Mary Howe Hawkins. You need to have potential entries growing by the February meeting. Remember to rotate your plants that you plan to enter. There will be a terrarium class and a succulent bowl at the February meeting. The show will be on the second Thursday of April to avoid a conflict with Easter.
Parliamentarian: The proposed changes to the By-Laws were approved.
Social: The December luncheon will be at Alex Tyson’s. RSVP’s are needed. Bring a gift worth no more than $10-$15 if you wish to participate in the plant-themed gift exchange.
Federation: The plant sale will be November 12 from 9AM-1PM at Bellaire United Methodist Church at Bellaire and Newcastle. Please donate plants. You can take your plants to the Federation meeting on Friday November, 11, or bring them to Carolynne. Allan Masters an expert in floral design will be doing the presentation at the November meeting. Craftex will be doing the presentation at the December meeting. The December 9 Gala auction item should be $40-$50. Volunteers?
Yearbook: We need to reprint the cover to the yearbook to include both the city and state. Please bring photos that you think would make good cover art to the next meeting.
President’s Report: Phyllis will send out a questionnaire to collect the information necessary for the President’s Report.
Green Thumb: Beth passed around this month’s calendar of events.
Excursions: We’re planning an excursion to the Botanic Garden in March or April.
December 2022
March 2023
Southampton Garden Club
March 2, 2023
Program: Amy Thomsen “Native Species”
Welcome: Phyllis welcomed everyone to the meeting.
Birthdays: Pam Hess (4), Joanne Cuadra (10), Ellena Dickerson (21), Kristen Loden (24) and Joanne King (28)
Membership: Bob Ittner was the guest of Sydney Jelinek. He’s been the caretaker of the gardens at Palmer Memorial Church.
Minutes: February minutes have been approved and posted to the website. Marcia Faschingbauer and Barbara Clark will proof the March minutes.
Treasurer: The balance is $6368.11. We have 60 active members including seven emeritus members. The income from dues was $4025.
Flower Show: The flower show will be horticulture only and will be held at Ginger Clark’s house at 1828 Dunstan on Thursday, April 13. Note that it will be the second Thursday of the month to avoid conflicting with Holy Thursday. Specimens and photos can be brought to Ginger’s house between 8AM and 9:30AM on the 13th. Photos should be 8x10 prints mounted on foam board which can be purchased at Michael’s. You can use adhesive spray or double-sided archival tape (recommended) in the corners to attach the photo to the foam board. Both are also available at Michael’s. Horticulture specimens should be displayed in narrow clear glass containers. There is no limit to the number of specimens that can be entered. One photo in each category “Woman in a garden”, “Through a window”, and “Any flower” can be entered. You have to have had the specimens for at least 90 days prior to the show and any multi-plant pot entry 60 days prior to the show. Carolynne will have Rebecca send the show schedule to all members.
Social: Sydney Jelinek passed around a sign-up sheet to bring a “sweet or savory” food item to the Flower Shower party on Thursday evening at Ginger’s.
Horticulture/Fleming Park: Mary HH, Phyllis and Lee did a spring cleanup of the pollinator garden. More plants will be added after the March Mart.
Centennial Garden Tour: Mary Howe Hawkins and Sarah Balinskas are chairing the Centennial Garden Tour. It will be held from 12:00-4:00PM on Sunday March 18. Mary was signing up volunteers to help at the six gardens that will be on the tour. Volunteers serve for two hours at one of the gardens and then can tour the others for free. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 the day of the tour at 1818 Sunset (Mary HH’s house). Members who volunteer are asked to wear their Southampton Garden Club aprons. If you don’t have one, contact Phillis. There will be seating for volunteers in the gardens. Phyllis will prepare a flyer on the Garden Club to distribute during the tour. For information about the Centennial or to get Southampton Place signs go to www.southamptonplace.org.
District IV Convention: The convention will be held at the Bayland Community Center on March 21. Designing Women (Phyllis and Joanne Storm are members) doing the afternoon program.
Federation: The new officer workshop will be held on April 14 after the regular meeting.
Art work for the Yearbook covers: Lorene Williams and Kate Hughes have submitted items. Alex Tyson will submit something to Phyllis. Phyllis will send the entries to the membership in an email. We will vote on the choices at the May meeting.
John Fairey Gardens: A friend of Mary Bradshaw, Mary Barone, is co-chairing the annual John Fairey Gardens Luncheon. It will be held on October 19, 2023 at the Bayou Club. Mary Barone lives on Bissonnet and she and her husband, Marcellus, are The Southampton Group builders.
The John Fairey Gardens in Hempsted used to be known as The Peckerwood Gardens before Mr. Fairey died. Our club did an excursion there years ago. The gardens are amazing.
Anne Gorman introduced Amy Thomsen who presented a fascinating talk on “Native Species”. Amy will send the PowerPoint files to Rebecca for distribution to club members who would like a copy.
May 2023
Southampton Garden Club
May 4, 2023
Program: Luncheon and installation of officers
Welcome: Phyllis welcomed everyone to the meeting. She thanked hostess Julie Baker and co-hostesses Mary Bradshaw, Ginger Clark, Sherrie Glass, Tonya Judah and Gail Viele.
By-laws: Two amendments to the by-laws were discussed. The first proposed change was to take references to gender out of our by-laws (Article IX, Section 1 below).
Article IX Duties of the Officers
Section 1:
- The President shall preside at all meetings of the club and the Executive Board, and shall appoint all committee chairmen. SheThe President shall be an ex-officio member of all committees except the Nominating Committee.
Alex Tyson made a motion to approve the change as written which was seconded by Mary Swift. The changed amendment was unanimously approved.
The next change proposed was to add (Article XI Section1 below) that the April Flower Show will be the second Thursday of the month if Easter falls on the Sunday after the first Thursday in April. Carolynne White made a motion to approve the change as written which was seconded by Sherrie Glass. The changed amendment as written was unanimously approved.
Article XI Meetings
Section 1. Regular meetings shall be held the first Thursday after Labor Day and the first Thursday each month from October through May, excluding January unless otherwise provided by the Executive Board, at the hours and place designated in the Yearbook. Note: April Flower Show is the second Thursday IF Easter falls on the Sunday after the first Thursday in April.
Suggestions for further changes were made by Sarah Balinskas to do away with voting on new members and just accept them after they have attended three meetings. Carolynne White proposed that we change the status of emeritus members to honorary members. The reason for this change would be to avoid having to pay the $8.00 dues required by District IV. It was decided to table these proposals until next year.
Membership: Bob Ittner has attended the requisite three meetings and we have received three letters of recommendation for him. He was voted in and is our first male member. Emeritus membership was proposed for Peggy Vineyard. After discussion of Peggy having been President 2 years, Program chair and Social chair in addition to hosting multiple Flower Shows and meetings/luncheons there was a motion by Mary Swift to make Peggy Vineyard Emeritus, it was seconded by Mary Bradshaw and unanimously approved. Sarah Balinskas introduced her guest, Nancy Bolduc who lives in the 1900 block of Wroxton. She had also attended our Flower Show cocktail party. She is interested in joining SGC.
Social: A sign-up sheet was passed around for hostesses and co-hostesses for next year’s meetings by Laura Bellows. Anne Gorman volunteered to host the 2024 Flower Show. We still need volunteers for the December, January and February meetings.
Birthdays: In the interest of time Phyllis omitted listing the birthdays for April, May, June, July and August. They are as follows:
April: Janet Kohlhase (4)
May: Bev Weimer (18), Carmen Wright (31)
June: Gail Viele (15), Maggie Dalthorp (21), Mary Bradshaw (30)
July: Leslie King (4), Susan Broer (7), Lorene Williams (8), Pat Burgess (16), Mary Howe Hawkins (29)
August: Sandra Wilson (7), Tonya Judah (18), Ginger Clark (20), Jill Satterwhite (25), Rebecca Garfield (27)
Ellena Dickerson, whose birthday was on March 21, thanked Phyllis for the flowers from the SGC but Phyllis had no idea who sent them and would like to know who it was to thank her.
Treasurer’s report: We have 61 members including 8 emeritus members. Our balance is $4949.87 after accounting for the flower show expenses. Mary Swift needs all requests for reimbursements of expenses for this year submitted by the end of May. We need three volunteers to be on the audit committee. Rebecca Garfield and Carolynne White volunteered.
Minutes: The minutes of the March meeting have been proofed and posted to the website. Lee Tawse and Rebecca Garfield offered to proof the May minutes.
Yearbook: June 1st is the deadline for submissions to next year’s yearbook such as pictures of new members, updated pictures of members or corrections to or changes to phone numbers or addresses. Janet will send out an announcement to the club with her preferred email address for receiving pictures submitted for the yearbook. Phyllis suggested that information about how to prepare horticulture samples for the Flower Show should be added to the yearbook.
Since we have to redo the yearbook cover this year to include the city and state, we decided to change the illustrations on the cover and the title page and add a picture to the back cover. Three pictures were to be chosen for the front and back covers and the title page at this meeting. Three artists in our membership, Lorene, Alex and Kate, submitted a number of candidates. Mary Howe Hawkins chose two from each artist and the membership was instructed to choose one from each artist and put their ballot in a box. Janet will decide placement based on which one fits best in each location.
Awards: Phyllis announced that SGC received a First Place at the District IV Convention for our Yearbook edited by Janet Kohlhase. We also received Honorable Mention for our Website and President’s Report.
Flower Show:
Expenses ~$1200
Horticulture 84 entries of which 16 were photos
Best of Show Carmen Wright
Sweepstakes Award Marcia Faschingbauer (most points for winning entries)
Photography 16 entries
Special Award Laura Bellows
Education 2 entries
Educational Award Carolynne White
Proposed Slate of Officers 2023-2024
President Ginger Clark assisted by Carmen Wright
1st VP Programs Anne Gorman assisted by Kristen Loden
2nd VP Membership Leslie King
3rd VP Yearbook Janet Kohlhase
4th VP Flower Show Phyllis Carney and Mary Swift
5th VP Website Rebecca Garfield
Treasurer Mary Swift
Social Committee Co-chairs Laura Bellows and Kate Hughes
Horticulture Mary Hawkins and Lee Tawse
Recording Secretary Joanne Cuadra
Corresponding Secretary Rebecca Garfield
Parliamentarian Diane Kaplan
Fleming Park Co-chairs Mary Howe Hawkins and Lee Tawse
Federation Liaison Carolynne White and Phyllis Carney
Excursions Julie Baker
Green Thumb Needed
Anne Gorman presented out-going president, Phyllis Carney with an appreciation gift of Felco snipers, garden gloves in a cute garden watering can. A motion was made and seconded to approve the election of the slate. A vote was taken and the new officers were elected unanimously. Phyllis thanked the outgoing Board members and had baskets with an African violet for each one. She had a flower pin for each incoming Board member. The installation of the new officers was skipped in the interested of time.
New member Bob Ittner arrived and was welcomed as our charter male member.
The meeting was adjourned.
A group photo was taken.
We then proceeded to the luncheon.
Our next meeting will be at The Raven on September 7.