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NEWSLETTER - Febuary 2005

January Happenings Special Thanks to our Guest Speaker Shirley Rock. Very Interesting and Informational regarding Cape Fuchsia, which really aren’t a fuchsia. They are in the snap dragon, foxglove family of plants. Beautiful pictures.

Febuary 24, 2005 Business Meeting: 5:00 – 6:00 Program:– 6:00 – 7:00 pm Richard & Jennifer Fairfield Topic: Pruning At the Everett Boeing Rec Center, Activity Rm

Old Business
Activity Sheet – Reviewed for the next six months. Have volunteers now for looking into a Program for the meeting, bringing refreshments and the Coordinator Gift.
If you have any ideas or topics you would like added. Send Angela a note.

Bank Account Report – Virtually Barb Beaman reported out that we have $470.26 in
our Share and $64.43 in our Checking bank account.

Action Items
Yard Sale – Mid April. As you begin working in your yard, please consider potting up at least 10 plants for our Plant Sale. Sue Davis had volunteered to have this years Plant sale at her home. Sue is on vacation in Hawaii and not present at this months meeting. Angela will confirm with Sue when she returns. This year the club will also be selling small clay flower pots that many of the Garden Club members have painted. Special thanks for Don Wood to get them sprayed and dried in his garage so they are ready to paint. Since we don’t have much time during the meeting to paint the pots, it was suggested to take pots home and paint. 4 or 6 would be great. Another suggestion was to add small plants to the pots, would increase the value. We need to get them started to produce a good root system. The more the better. The club does have some paint available to paint the pots.

March Outing - SOHO Nurseys – Angela will contact owner of Northwest Native Nursery and arrange for a weekend activity. She is thinking possible March.

New Business

For February Meeting
Hello Everett Garden Club members. For the program at the February club meeting, we will be discussing pruning in the garden. Fruit tree pruning is the area that comes to my mind every year about this time, but other plants often need pruning also. We will start with a general discuss of the topic (for instance, do you know what the four Ds are and how they relate to pruning?) and progress to specific guidelines. In addition, we would like to answer specific questions that the membership may have relating to pruning their garden. In order to be able to answer your questions, we would appreciate knowing about them in advance.

Therefore, if you have a question about pruning - either general or specific to a given plant - or a situation you would like help with, we would be happy to do a little research before the meeting and come prepared with an answer.

Please forward your questions/situations to me either via Email (richard.d.fairfield@boeing.com) or in plant mail at MS 02-44. If you could take and send a digital picture of your problem plant, that would help both with understanding the situation and in presenting a solution.

The meeting will be on February 24 so please get the questions to me by the 17th so we will have time for the research.

Thanks in advance    Richard Fairfield

Activity Guest Speaker – Shirley Rock
Phygelius Plant Sources
I enjoyed this evening with your club...very nice people.

The following are my plant sources:

•Digging Dog Nursery (P. ‘Tommyknockers’)PO Box 471 Albion, CA 95410
           www.diggingdog.com

•Collector’s Nursery (P. ’Sunshine’)16804 NE 102nd AveBattle Ground, WA 98604           www.collectorsnursery.com

 •Smokey Point Plant Farm (all other varieties)Arlington, WA

 •Summersun Nursery, Mt. Vernon, WA

•Joy Creek Nursery  (Lemon Drop & Peach Trombone) Scappoose, OR
           www.joycreek.com

 •Greers Nursery, Eugene, OR

Hedgerow Nursery, McMinnville, Or .

Share Info –
Around the room, Ken and Valerie shared they planted 300 Tulips, then used Alfalfa pellets over the beds, also good for roses. It’s inexpensive and you can get it from the Co-Op a food grade, or get the type that is sold to feed rabbits.

Jennifer shared her Witch Hazel is blooming, it’s the red blossom.

Question from Chuck? What to do with the Paper Whites Narcissus bulbs? If you have a solution
Chuck would love to hear from you. Send him an email. Chuck Causey chuckcausey2@msn.com

Valerie and Ken shared, they are going to put their PaperWhites out on the Deck and wait to see what happens.

Club Dues - 2005 club dues is due now! If you will still like to be a member of the Boeing Employee’s Garden Club Everett and receive the great newsletter and enjoy the wonderful speakers we have line up for this year. Send application and dues to Barb Beaman Mail stop 0J-MP. If we don’t hear from you by the end of February we will assume that you are no longer interested in being part of the club. Feel free to join the club anytime doing the year, but due to cost and time we will no longer be able to send you a newsletter. Happy Gardening!

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