Horticulture Chair Nancy Percivall shared little-known facts about African violets.
CVGC members attend the District II Annual Meeting held at the Comfort Inn and Conference Center in Bowie. Interim President Trish Demers gave a two minute speech on our club's accomplishments and promoted CVGC's upcoming flower show, 60's Flower Power, in May. CVGC also received a Certificate of Merit recognizing our 55th Anniversary. Floral Designer Mike Burch (Potomac Floral Design of La Plata) working on one of many of his fabulous arrangements.
A close up of a natural substitute for a kenzan using end cuttings from floral materials. Bamboo skewers acted as tensions rods to hold them in place – add more stones to cover later. Speaker Claudia Donegan, Director of the Center for Habitat Restoration, Maryland Department of Natural Resources Chesapeake and Coastal Service, presented an informative slideshow on how beavers naturally provide intact natural systems giving any ecosystem much needed ecological capital and how increasing the beaver population will restore Maryland’s ecological services. Ecological capital equals ecological services! Examples of the services beavers provide include flood control, nutrient processing, stormwater and groundwater management, erosion control, and creation of habitats for aquatic, rare, threatened, and endangered species. And who knew Crofton had it's own prehistoric giant beaver population! To read an article by Claudia that appeared in the Maryland Natural Resources Magazine, winter 2021 on beavers as a keystone species, click the button below. To read about Crofton's prehistoric beaver population, click the button below. Margo Antonelli, Second Vice President, installed Heather Marken, sponsored by C.J. Salisbury, as a member of CVGC. Welcome Heather! The February hostess team, Lois Nichols (coordinator), Beverly Frye, Becky Hogan, Nancy Percivall and Angela Wetzel, decorated with a 60's Flower Power theme to get members excited for our upcoming flower show.
Sustainable Gardening Tip: Create a healthy compost pile that reuses food waste, grass clippings, yard waste, and other natural ingredients to make a nutrient and mineral-rich compost that can be added to garden soil to increase productivity and health of the soil.
In 1998, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society launched the Great Backyard Bird Count, the first online citizen project to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near real time. Canada joined the project in 2009, and in 2013 it became a global project — the world's largest biodiversity-related citizen science project.
Each February, for four days, the world comes together to spend time in their favorite places watching and counting as many birds as they can find and reporting their observations to help scientists better understand global bird populations before one of their annual migrations. This year the Great Backyard Bird Count takes place February 16 to 19. If you would like to participate, click the button below for more information. |
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