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VOL LVII, NO. 1, MARCH 2012
WWW.GCVIRGINIA.ORG The Garden Club of Virginia
Te Garden Club of Virginia exists to
celebrate the beauty of the land, to conserve
the gifts of nature and to challenge future
generations to build on this heritage.
From The Editor
Gardening, reading about gardening, and writing about gardening are all
one, said Elizabeth Lawrence. No one can garden alone. In this issue, youll
fnd many worthy garden companions. Mina Wood takes us on a tour of historic
gardens through the Hudson River Valley, and Susan Morten provides a delightful
look at trees through Nancy Hugos eyes. Jocelyn Sladen writes a cautionary tale
about our native woodlands, and we return with Jane White to Te Homestead,
where theres been more than one memorable GCV gathering. Just as Miss
Lawrence got her start as a writer in the Journals predecessor, Garden Gossip,
you, too, can share your garden stories in these pages.
Write to us at Journal@gcvirginia.org.
Journal Editorial Board
2011-2012
Editor and Chairman: Jeanette McKittrick, Tree Chopt Garden Club
ExOfcio Members
GCV President, Kimbrough Nash, Te Warrenton Garden Club
GCV Corresponding Secretary, Nina Mustard, Te Williamsburg Garden Club
GCV Photographer, Casey Rice, Harborfront Garden Club
Journal Business Chairman, Fleet Davis, Te Garden Club of the Eastern Shore
Journal Advertising Chairman, Katya Spicuzza, Albemarle Garden Club,
Te Garden Club of the Northern Neck
Former Journal Editor, Jeanette Cadwallender, Te Rappahannock Valley Garden Club
Members
Mason Beazley, Te James River Garden Club, Te Garden Club of the Northern Neck
Betty Anne Garrett, Te Garden Club of the Middle Peninsula
Julie Grover, Te Blue Ridge Garden Club, Te James River Garden Club
Mary Ann Johnson, Te Roanoke Valley Garden Club
Susan Morten, Te Martinsville Garden Club
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ON THE COVER...
Te Williamsburg Garden Club, host
of the 2012 GCV Annual Meeting, has
provided this beautiful rendering of the
Governors Palace Gardens of Colonial
Williamsburg, by Carlton Abbott and
Richard Wiatt of Carlton Abbott and
Partners Architects.
IN THIS ISSUE ...
Finish Your Trillium, Deer ........................... 3
A Journey Trough Time and the Hudson
River Valley ............................................. 4
A Month of Dafodil Shows .......................... 6
Dafodil Notes ............................................... 7
Laying the Groundwork for a Fruitful Spring ..... 8
Slate of Ofcers ............................................. 9
78
th
Annual Dafodil Show ......................... 10
Tomas Jeferson Medal for Conservation .. 11
Seize the Opportunity ................................. 11
In Memorium: Nancy St. Clair Talley ........ 12
In Memoriam ............................................. 13
Ex Libris: Seeing Trees ................................ 14
An Interview with Nancy Hugo .................. 15
Te Sound of Music Makes History ............ 17
Rose Notes ................................................... 19
In the Garden .............................................. 20
Club Notes .................................................. 21
Follow the James ......................................... 22
Contributions .............................................. 24
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Finish Your Trillium, Deer
By Jocelyn Sladen
Te Warrenton Garden Club
S
pring in Virginias woodlands is showtime for native wildfowers. Bloodroot,
spring beauty, and rue anemone are early fnds along the trail, with trout lily and
Virginia bluebells soon to delight us on the foodplain. Yellow ladys slipper will
light up the forest foor under new leaves of tulip poplars. Jack-in-the-pulpit, mayapple
and viburnum are in bloom. Te new abundance pleases some other locals, too. For
white-tailed deer, it means the salad bar is open. No spring tonic beats a spread of
Dutchmans breeches.
As a child, when wildfowers were more abundant and because I knew no better,
I would take fsts full of cutleaf toothwort to my mother on May Day. I would not do
that now for many reasons. Te toothwort is scarce, for one. Much else is missing in
our woodlands. I look for the paired emerald leaves of showy orchis, but the deer have
demolished so many plants that it is rare to come across them.
We humans had killed nearly all the white-tailed deer in the eastern part of this
country by the early 1900s. Since the 1930s, game laws and restocking to beneft
hunters have brought them back, but with unintended consequences. Deer thrive in
todays landscapes of mixed felds and forest edges, while woodlands are safer without
all those mountain lions. According to the Virginia Department of Game and Inland
Fisheries, there may be twice as many deer in Virginia today - nearly one million - as
when Jamestown was settled.
Biologists tell us that deer are now changing the composition of trees, understory
and ground fora in forested areas throughout the East. To the casual observer the woods
still look green, but they are much altered. Moving in herds and browsing virtually
without cease, deer have dramatically decreased the native forest foor plant cover.
Te losses have afected songbirds and other wildlife dependent on native vegetation.
Inevitably, the abundance of wildfowers has been diminished. Unfortunately, alien
invasive plants tend to be avoided by white-tailed deer.
Conservation biologists may yet fnd humane and science-based ways to control the
overpopulations. Deer birth control methods have not so far proved workable on a scale
that would make a lasting diference. Hunting may slow down the plant loss, but deer
come back with a speed that amazes. Our Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
does what it can to respond to many
stakeholders in managing ecosystems;
however, an agency funded primarily by
hunting and fshing must view its role
from a somewhat diferent perspective
than those concerned with native plants.
Meanwhile, as we struggle to defend our
tulips, the losses continue beyond our
gardens. Plant people, certainly gardeners,
should take the lead in encouraging more
research and action to solve the problem.
A Journey through Time
and the Hudson River Valley
By Mina Wood
Te Lynchburg Garden Club
M
embers of the Restoration
Committee journeyed north last
fall to explore Hudson River
architecture and landscapes from the early
Federal period to the revival styles of the
late 19
th
and 20
th
century. Te landscapes
represent changes in American tastes
over a 200-year period, and are both a
treasury of pioneering garden design and a
representation of some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world. Te Beekman
Arms in Rhinebeck was home to the group led by William D. Rieley, landscape
architect for the Garden Club of Virginia.
We began at Amy Goldmans beautiful garden in Rhinebeck, where she has
experimented with over a thousand varieties of tomatoes. Amy is active in the Seed
Savers Exchange and inspired us with her enthusiasm and knowledge as she led us
through all of the diferent methods of growing and preserving her beloved fruit.
Next was Montgomery Place in Barrytown (1804-l805), former home of Janet
Livingston Montgomery, a magnifcent federal mansion designed by Alexander Jackson
Davis. Te grounds refect the infuence of Andrew Jackson Downing, and enjoy
gorgeous views of the Hudson River. We then toured Edgewater, Richard Jenrettes
house and grounds, and the former home of Gore Vidal. It is so named for its proximity
and panoramic view of the Hudson River.
Te second day began with Olana, home of noted Hudson River painter Frederick
Church, where his Persian palace stands as one of his greatest works of art. Te house
and interior refect Churchs extensive travels in Europe and the Middle East, and
commands breathtaking views of the Hudson River Valley. Next was Locust Grove,
former home of Samuel Morse, with grounds that feature a garden of giant dahlias and
a landscape designed by Morse himself. Dinner that night was at the Culinary Institute
of America, a huge brick edifce that houses the famous culinary school.
We were fascinated with Stonecrop in Cold Spring, home of Frank Cabot, founder
of the Garden Conservancy. His lovely greenhouses and horticultural test gardens
contained familiar plants but also tantalizing new ones. Te afternoon was spent in
Millbrook at one of the highlights of the
tour, Innisfree, the former home of Walter
and Marion Beck. Landscape architect
Lester Collins explored a Chinese garden
design concept here based on paintings
going back a thousand years, and devised
the term cup garden to describe a
feature surrounded by a bowl shape for
better display.
Finally, we had an early morning
tour of Kykuit, home of the Rockefellers.
Perched on the rise from the banks of the
Photos by William D. Rieley
lower Hudson River with magnifcent
views, this handsome ornate house stands
in the midst of an elaborate Italian garden
with both Old World classical statuary
and major modern pieces. Our last stop,
Union Church, left us breathless and in
awe. Here we saw stained glass windows
created by Matisse and Chagall, given
by the Rockefellers in memory of their
mother.
Tis is but a small piece of the history that is tucked away on the banks of the
Hudson from Albany to the Bronx. Te next trip would have to include West Point,
Boscobel, the Vanderbilt Mansion, some of the Hyde Park properties, Manitoga,
Wilderstein and more. For avid gardeners and history lovers, a drive to the Hudson
River Valley will inspire you with its history and natural landscapes.
A Month of Dafodil
Shows
By Glenna Graves
Te Spotswood Garden Club
A
pril is a wonderful month for dafodil growers as our gardens are in full bloom.
Our Mid-Atlantic region is one of the best areas in the country for growing all
13 divisions of dafodils, and across the state, there will be a show close to you
for your participation.
A month of shows begins in March with our GCV Dafodil Show, hosted by Te
Garden Club of Gloucester. Tis will also be the Middle Atlantic Regional Dafodil
show, sanctioned by the American Dafodil Society, and will attract growers from all
of the Mid-Atlantic states. Te show is located at Ware Academy on John Clayton
Memorial Highway, March 29 and 30.
On April 7 and 8, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden will host a show sponsored by the
Virginia Dafodil Society, and on April 10, the Upperville Garden Club will host their
show. Many of our GCV members travel also to the Washington Dafodil Society Show,
which will be on April 14 and 15, held at Brookside Gardens, in Wheaton, Maryland.
A very special opportunity this year is the American Dafodil Society National
Convention and Show, which will be held in Towson, Maryland, April 19 22. Tis
show is spectacular, as hundreds of dafodils from all across the U.S. are entered in
competition, and it ofers a wonderful opportunity to see many new varieties as well as
many historic varieties possibly never before seen locally.
Plan to attend at least one of these shows, bring your blooms along, and perhaps
you may win the gold ribbon for the best in show!
Daffodil Notes
Te Times, Tey Are a-Changin
By Lucy Rhame, GCV Dafodil Chairman
Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club, Te Hunting Creek Garden Club
2012!
Time is moving on and so
is the Dafodil Committee.
As many of you may know, three years
ago our specialty bulb supplier in Oregon
downsized her business, and as a result,
she informed the GCV that she would
no longer be able to supply the club with
dafodil bulbs. Since then, the committee
has been procuring the GCV bulbs from
Brent and Beckys Bulbs in Gloucester. Te
website is www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com.
I am happy to report that many of you are ordering and growing. In fact, so much
so, I have bagged over 10,000 bulbs for collections in each of the past three years. Te
logistics of such a massive undertaking have become overwhelming, so, starting this
year, each club will be responsible for ordering its own GCV Dafodil Collections.
Te committee still will choose the bulbs in the collection, and the 2012 collection
can now be seen on the GCV website. From the GCV home page, click on fower
shows, then dafodils, and select the link to 2012 GCV Dafodil Collection. Te club
dafodil chairman will take its clubs orders, sort and bag the bulbs when they arrive,
and distribute them to the members. Tis can be done in the following ways:
1. If your club is a Section 501(c)3 non-proft organization, you can set up a
Bloomin Bucks account, www.bloominbucks.com, with Brent and Beckys Bulbs,
and aggregate your club order. Your club will receive 10% back at the end of the
year on the total monies spent. In fact, any bulbs ordered, whether from the
spring or fall catalogs, can be applied to the aggregate for the club if specifed.
2. If your club is not a Section 501(c)3 non-proft organization, you can still sign
up for a Bloomin Bucks account and choose any qualifying charity to which you
would like the money sent, such as the Garden Club of Virginia.
3. Your club can order from any supplier that you might choose. A list of retail
bulb suppliers can be found on the American Dafodil Society website at www.
dafodilusa.org.
At the fall Board of Governors meeting, each of your club presidents was given a
CD produced by the American Dafodil Society on growing and showing dafodils. It is
a very good source of information for garden club growers of dafodils, and I encourage
anyone interested to request to view the CD. It is a resource you can use again and
again, but that does not mean we are not still here to help you. Please contact me or
any member of the committee should you have any questions.
Te Gloucester Garden Club looks forward to seeing you at the GCV Dafodil
Show, to be held in Gloucester on March 29, and 30, Tursday and Friday. Te
schedule is available on the GCV website. Additionally, Brent and Beckys gardens will
be open for you to tour. Happy growing.
Laying the Groundwork
for a Fruitful Spring
By Karen Cauthen Miller
Director of Historic Garden Week and Editor of the Guidebook
T
he 2012 Historic Garden Week guidebook is awash with color. Te cover,
which features the Hermitage Museum and Gardens in Norfolk and 29 wa-
tercolors by our own Beth Marchant, make this an especially elegant book. A
two-page full color spread of the map of Virginia with Garden Club of Virginia restora-
tion sites highlighted appears in the frst few pages. Te guidebook is the longest, at 248
pages, in the history of the event. Tour descriptions feature 191 homes and gardens.
Included in this years guidebook are 506 individual advertisers, representing a record
$144,122 in income, almost $10,000 over the budget.
Te fall and early winter were consumed with the layout and editing of the guide-
book, and February and March were equally busy. Our new interim assistant London
Ray and I worked on updating master distribution lists. As a result the state brochure
was sent to over 600 new outlets and tour chairmen were integrated into the process,
helping tremendously with shipment locations for the guidebook. Hostess ribbons,
posters, DVDs of the Restoration Committees gorgeous new presentation, a new
Historic Garden Week fower arrangement card and a serious education in road signs
marked the winter months at HGW headquarters.
Te marketing and media plan to support Americas Largest Open House has
evolved and created strengthened partnerships and strategic alliances aimed at new audi-
ences. Facebook and Twitter logos are included on the state brochure and in the guide-
book, symbolizing our commitment to social media as a way to ensure the long-term
viability of this venerable event. We have negotiated a Living Social promotion for the
statewide pass, secured public radio in central and southwest Virginia (supporting 13
tours), and have been working with magazine editors to promote HGW. Since national
coverage requires at least a years preparation, this efort is designed to beneft the 79th
tour, but also to plant the seeds for coverage of the upcoming 80th anniversary.
HGW State Chairman Anne Cross and I attended district meetings, with Lynn
McCashin, GCV Executive Director, joining us for many. Te State Committee met at
the end of January. Tese gatherings have been wonderful opportunities to meet on a
more personal level, to discuss the exciting changes planned and to get input from each
of the clubs.
Te Garden Club of Virginia appreciates responsible advertising and reserves the right
to accept or reject submitted advertisements. Inclusion in the Journal is not to be
construed as an endorsement by the Garden Club of the advertised goods or services.
President
Ann Gordon evans (Mrs. russell s., Jr.)
the Huntington Garden Club
First ViCe President
Jeanette Cadwallender (Mrs. nicholas)
the rappahannock Valley Garden Club
seCond ViCe President
nina Mustard (Mrs. John C., iii)
the Williamsburg Garden Club
treAsurer
Anne Baldwin (Mrs. robert F., Jr.)
the Garden Club of Alexandria
reCordinG seCretAry
Charlotte Benjamin (Mrs. F. Charles)
the Garden Club of Fairfax
CorresPondinG seCretAry
Betsy Worthington (Mrs. richard B.)
the Lynchburg Garden Club
DIRECtoRS-At-LARGE
district 1
elizabeth Johnson (Mrs. samuel P., iii)
the Petersburg Garden Club
district 2
Candy Carden (Mrs. William t.)
the Garden Club of the northern neck
district 4
denise revercomb (Mrs. denise C.)
roanoke Valley Garden Club
Te Board of Directors
approved the following slate,
submitted by the Nominating Committee.
A vote will be taken by the membership at the Annual Meeting.
Laying the Groundwork
for a Fruitful Spring
By Karen Cauthen Miller
Director of Historic Garden Week and Editor of the Guidebook
T
he 2012 Historic Garden Week guidebook is awash with color. Te cover,
which features the Hermitage Museum and Gardens in Norfolk, and 29 wa-
tercolors by our own Beth Marchant, make this an especially elegant book. A
two-page full color spread of the map of Virginia with Garden Club of Virginia restora-
tion sites highlighted appears in the frst few pages. Te guidebook is the longest, at 248
pages, in the history of the event. Tour descriptions feature 191 homes and gardens.
Included in this years guidebook are 506 individual advertisers, representing a record
$144,122 in income, almost $10,000 over the budget.
Te fall and early winter were consumed with the layout and editing of the guide-
The Garden Club of Virginia s 78
th
Annual
Daffodi l Show
A judged show hosted by
The Garden Club of Gloucester
and sanctioned by
The American Daffodil Society

Thursday, March 29 from 2 to 6 p.m.
Friday, March 30 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m

Ware Academy
7936 John Clayton Memorial Highway
Gloucester

Chairmen
Mrs. W. John Matheson, (804) 693-4813
Mrs. Edward H. Ould III, (804) 693- 3773

Horticulture and Artistic Arrangements
Registration:
Mrs. David Meeker, (804) 693-4490
rbmeeker8@yahoo.com
or
www.gcvirginia.org


GCV President Kim Nash
receives the award from the
Virginia Museum of Natural History
Tomas Jeferson Medal for Conservation
Given by the Virginia Museum of Natural History
By Karen Jones
GCV Conservation and Beautifcation Committee Chairman
Te Martinsville Garden Club
T
he Garden Club of Virginia
gives some meaningful awards
every year, but this year we were
pleasantly surprised to fnd ourselves
receiving one. Te Virginia Museum
of Natural History Foundation chose
to give its frst Tomas Jeferson Medal
for Conservation to the Garden Club
of Virginia. Tis award is presented in
recognition of signifcant conservation
eforts in the state.
Having learned of the GCV and its
eforts in conservation education when
we held the 2009 Conservation Forum in
the museums Grand Hall in Martinsville,
scientists and members of their staf
attended the forum and were favorably impressed. Several museum trustees attended the
two subsequent forums held at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in
2010 and at the University of Richmond Jepson Center in 2011.
Te Virginia Museum of Natural History determined that the GCV is a worthy
frst recipient of this award, deserving recognition for its eforts to educate the public as
well as its own members on important environmental issues.
Its wonderful that the GCV gives awards to deserving individuals and
organizations, but its also a delight to accept one!
Seize the Opportunity
By Karen Jones
GCV Conservation and Beautifcation Committee Chairman
S
eize the opportunity to honor an organization, industry or individual who is not
a GCV member by nominating them for the Elizabeth Cabell Dugdale Award
for Conservation. Te recipient must have rendered outstanding service in the
conservation and wise development of the natural resources of the Commonwealth of
Virginia. We need heroes to inspire us, so look around in your community and fnd one.
Last year, the Alliance to Save the Mattaponi with its hard-fought success story was
the deserving recipient. In 2009, the Lipton Tea Corporation dazzled us with their zero-
landfll site achievement, meaning no company waste. Tey were both truly inspiring
stories about individuals and corporations working for the greater good. Please share
a similar local story with us. You will fnd the guidelines on the GCV website. Te
deadline is May 31.
In Memoriam: Nancy St. Clair Talley
By Margaret Bemiss
Te James River Garden Club
N
ancy St. Clair Talley, the
35
th
President of the Garden
Club of Virginia, died
on Wednesday, December 28
th
, 2011.
Her funeral was a standing-room only
celebration of the remarkable life of a
remarkable lady.
What you saw with Nancy was not
always what you got. What you saw was
a cool, small, elegant, erect, smiling, soft-
spoken, Southern lady who always looked
fresh out of the proverbial bandbox. What
you got was a diminutive powerhouse
with a formidable intellect and a steely
determination. You also got, if you were fortunate enough to know her well, a warm,
engaging, entertaining and staunchly supportive friend.
It may be a hackneyed phrase, but Nancy was indeed a woman for all seasons:
wife, mother, grandmother, writer, historian, executive, counselor, environmentalist,
homemaker, gardener, cook she could, and did, do it all.
And Emily Dickinson said it all:
Tat such have died enables us
Te tranquiller to die;
Tat such have lived, certifcate
For immortality.
Florence Adams
Irma Frances Hall Ayers
Mary McCullough Rawls
Cooke Berkeley
Jimmie Ann Boykin
Nancy Dickerson
Bridgf orth
June Wall Camper
Dorothy Towles Rowe
Towlesey Castles
Eugenia Range Diller
Kathey Farmar
Patricia Gage
Judith Burnett Halsey
Sarah Winston Townsend
Harrison
Gay Hathaway
Jane Gamble Heyward
Marian Tonkin Hillard
Mary Knox Hubard
Elizabeth Kelly Kearf ott
Catherine Kacky
MacGregor
Anne Merritt Martin
Joan Coyne Martin
Elizabeth Overton
McAlpine
Anne Kane McGuire
Lucy Wood Morris
Margo McPherson Nevins
Jean Elizabeth Parker
Edith Sissy Prillaman
Katherine Read
Betsy Barton Scott
Savage
Katherine Kitty Spindle
Dorothy Northcutt
Kearns Hodgson Stiffer
Nancy St. Clair Talley
Margaret Flythe Peggy
Teague
Cecile Mears Turner
Suzanne Savedge Wescoat
Jeanne Gibson Woody
In Memoriam
2011
In Memoriam lists the names of Garden Club of Virginia members
who have died within the past year, compiled by the Journal
from names submitted by club presidents.
A
s trees bud and bloom for spring, we can learn from a treasure trove of
information how to experience the real joy of tree-watching from garden guru
Nancy Ross Hugos new book, Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets
of Everyday Trees. Nancy, known to many in the Garden Club of Virginia for her work
while a member of Te Ashland Garden Club, collaborated with photographer Robert
Llewellyn on the award-winning, rave-reviewed Timber Press book.
Nancy also became well known to gardeners in Virginia and beyond as a garden
columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Virginia Wildlife, as a contributor to
publications such as Horticulture, and as the author of two earlier acclaimed books:
Earth Works: Reading for Backyard Gardeners and Remarkable Trees of Virginia. She also
has managed education at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens and is a sought-after speaker.
She divides her time between Ashland and Howardsville, where she and her husband
have an outdoor education and retreat center called Flower Camp.
In Seeing Trees, Nancy illuminates largely unnoticed yet easily observable traits that,
if attended to, can reveal remarkable features and events in the life cycles of ordinary
trees. Te book invites readers to watch trees with the same care birdwatchers devote to
birds, and to record observations. Te novice is introduced to tree parts: leaves, fowers,
cones, buds, fruit, leaf scars, bark and twigs. Te goal: the ability to see trees.
Bob Llewellens photography shows with vibrant and breathtaking beauty what is
there to be seen. His pictures have the feel of illustrated art, worthy of framing. A two-
page spread, for instance, shows in extreme close-up the pea-like fowers of an eastern
redbud, considered perfect because they have both male and female parts. Even
helicopters that dangle from red maple twigs become a work of art.
Ex Libris
By Molly H. Sammler, GCV Library Committee, Te Petersburg Garden Club
Continued on p. 16
Review of Seeing Trees:
Discover the Extraordinary
Secrets of Everyday Trees
Flowers of eastern redbud,
Cercis canadensis
Photo Credit:
Robert Llewellyn
Seeing Nancy Hugo Seeing Trees:
An Interview with the Author
By Susan Morten
A
three-hour road trip taken three decades ago in search of a tulip poplar launched
Nancy Ross Hugo on a lifelong journey. Te former member of Te Ashland
Garden Club reached a milestone with publication of Seeing Trees: Discover the
Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees. Te book, with her words and Robert Llewellyns
photographs, came out in the fall to critical acclaim and the National Outdoor Book
Award.
Not that Nancy envisioned Seeing Trees three decades ago. Yet she had always had
an afnity for trees, one that would eventually lead her to see trees as living, breathing
organisms. She recalls reading books as a girl and being enchanted by animating
descriptions of trees and forests, such as the murmuring pines and hemlocks. At age 10,
she won $10 in a Keep Virginia Green poster contest for her drawing of trees.
As an adult, Nancy developed an interest in the Big Tree Program, the efort to protect
and to celebrate some of our most majestic and iconic trees. She decided to play hooky one
day from her teaching job to go see the Bedford tulip poplar, then the biggest of its kind in
the country. Some 155 miles later, she had to hunt for the tree, which, in those days, was in
the woods. Today, it stands inside a chain-link fence in a subdivision. Being in its presence
was thrilling. It was a peak experience, and I was hooked, Nancy told the Journal. In Seeing
Trees, she credits it as the tree that launched my career as a tree chaser .
She went home to Ashland and wrote about it for American Forests. She began
writing about trees, gardens and the natural world. She would later also manage education
programs at a botanical garden, lecture, and run her own outdoor education and retreat
center. Her work demanded increasing amounts of time away from home, which led to her
reluctant resignation from the garden club. She wrote columns and articles for local, state
and national publications. And she wrote books.
Her frst was Earth Works: Reading for Backyard Gardeners, a selection of her columns
from the Richmond Times-Dispatch. For her second, Remarkable Trees of Virginia, she
worked with Dr. Jefrey Kirwan and Bob Llewellyn. Bobs photographs have been widely
featured. One of his books won fve national awards, while another was selected as an
ofcial diplomatic gift of the White House and State Department.
It was Bobs questions to Nancy as they explored Virginia to see remarkable trees that
led to Seeing Trees. He began taking pictures of often-unnoticed, individual tree parts, just
Continued on p. 16
Photo Credit: Robert Llewellyn
Fruit of sweetgum,
Liquidambar styracifua
Happy Birthday to You!
C
elebrating your clubs silver, golden, diamond or platinum
jubilee this year? As fresh and smart as they are, its hard
to believe that we have centenarians in our midst! Te
very defnition of the phrase, aging gracefully, these grandes
dames have lots to celebrate. If your club has a big birthday
coming up, please let the Journal know. Well be publishing a list
of all clubs celebrating their 25
th
, 50
th
, 75
th
and 100
th
birthdays
in the September issue, as well as those celebrating any decade 60
years and up. Please drop a note to journal@gcvirginia.org no later
than July 15 if youre having a big birthday in 2012.
Happy Birthday to You!
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To illustrate the extraordinary in the
ordinary, the book profles 10 familiar
species: American beech, American
sycamore, black walnut, eastern red cedar,
ginkgo, red maple, southern magnolia,
tulip poplar, white oak and white pine.
Cleverly crafted profles fow like stories,
helping one to see, to appreciate, to know
better the trees just outside the door.
Just by virtue of being in a trees
presence, one develops an overall
impression of the tree that is more than
the sum of its parts ... like friends or
family members whose recognizable
features and behaviors have blended into
one unmistakable, and beloved, presence,
Nancy writes.
Seeing trees requires you to collect
yourself and to train your attention
on something capable of perpetuating
wonder. Nancys narrative and Bobs
photography beckon us into the woods,
into the backyards, and even the waste
places, where you can encounter the
incredible organisms that are trees.
Te Kent-Valentine House Library
Committee is pleased to have acquired an
autographed copy of this book.
Continued from p. 14 Continued from p. 15
because they interested him and sparked
his curiosity about what he was seeing. If
Nancy didnt know the answer, she would
ask a botanist or knowledgeable source. In
Seeing Trees, Nancy and Bob examine trees,
not on the massive remarkable-tree scale,
but on the scale of the trees constituent
parts: leaves, fowers, fruits and the like.
Bob began using software created for
microscopes to marry multiple images of a
single part of a tree. Te result: an image so
up-close, so detailed, that it feels intimate.
Bobs images beg explanation. Nancys
words illuminate what were seeing, such
as pollen being released from the anthers
of a male red maple (Acer rubrum). Her
descriptions invite wonder and awe about
the way life works.
Te sum of Nancy and Bobs elemental
approach is that Seeing Trees opens a whole
new world, one that has been, all along,
right there in our own backyards. Hence,
the critics accolades. Im thrilled if (the
praise) draws more attention to trees,
Nancy said. Trees need advocates.
Te Sound of Music Makes History
By Jane White
Hillside Garden Club
T
here are many delights as one begins to age. Among them are the memories of
good times and of wonderful, old-fashioned Broadway show tunes we all know
and love. Imagine putting all that together into a performance with the story
line being the history of the Garden Club of Virginia and the intervening show tunes
sung by a romantic duo of professional voices.
Tat is what happened thirty-three years ago in 1979 in Lynchburg for the annual
joint meeting of the Lynchburg and Hillside Garden Clubs, and again in Martinsville
for the Annual Meeting of the Garden Club of Virginia. An original script and CD of
the Lynchburg performance has recently been discovered and copied. It was presented
at the January board meeting of the Garden Club of Virginia to be deposited in the
library of the Kent-Valentine House.
Tis was pure entertainment. Te leading lady was Mary Morris Booth, a
mezzo-soprano and past president of Hillside Garden Club. Te leading man was Dr.
Richard Parke, former Broadway tenor who was professor of music at Randolph Macon
Womans College in Lynchburg. Pianist was Dr. Allen Huszte, professor of music at
Sweet Briar College.
Te storyteller, historian and moderator of the one-hour performance was Mary
Morriss husband, Lea Booth, long-time executive director of the Virginia Foundation
for Independent Colleges, whose wit as a raconteur was known far and wide. Having
researched Follow the Green Arrow, Te History of the Garden Club of Virginia, 1920
1970, by Mrs. James Bland Martin, Lea regaled the crowds with tale after tale of the
early years of garden club ladies as they struggled to rid the state of billboards, establish
Garden Day as an annual event and win the
respect of politicians and the press.
One noteworthy event occurred after
World War II when, according to legend, in
1945 the garden club ladies adopted the little
French town of Ver Sur Mer where hundreds
of Virginia soldiers were buried. Tis story
was followed by the song Youll Never Walk
Alone.
Mary Morris, a widow, now lives at
Westminster Canterbury where she still
enjoys sing-alongs and looks as young,
slender and glamorous as she did on stage
just a few years ago.
Mary Morris Booth and Richard Parke
on stage at Te Homestead.
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Te Chestnut Rose at Poplar Forest
By Joyce Moorman, GCV Rose Committee
Te Lynchburg Garden Club
D
id Mr. Jeferson plant roses at
his Bedford County retreat?
It is believed that he did.
Tere are references to planting roses in
several sources, including his Planting
Memorandum for Poplar Forest. In an
entry for November 1816, Mr. Jeferson
indicates, planted large roses of dift.
kinds in the oval bed in the N.front.
Dwarf roses in the N.E. oval.
It may never be known if the
Chestnut Rose, a heritage rose which
grows abundantly in the center of the
boxwood turnaround at the north entrance
to the house, was there in Jefersons day, however. It was introduced in England around
1824, making it questionable that it would have been imported to Virginia and planted
prior to Mr. Jefersons death in 1826.
Grandson Francis Eppes inherited Poplar Forest after Mr. Jefersons death and sold
it in 1828 to the Cobbs family. In 1840 Emily Cobbs married Edward Hutter. Te rose
likely was added to Mr. Jefersons central oval rose bed by the Cobbs/Hutter families.
It was growing in its current location when the non-proft Corporation for Jefersons
Poplar Forest acquired the property in 1984.
Te Chestnut Rose, Rosa roxburghii, originated in China and also is known as
the Burr Rose because of its bristly globular hips, reminiscent of chestnut burrs. It also
is known as Chinquapin Rose and Moss Rose. Te beautiful double blooms have a
nice spring fush. Unusual for a species rose, lesser repeat-fowering occurs throughout
the rest of the season. It opens out almost fat, with a muddled collection of petals at
the center. Te color is a deep pink with lilac tints at the center. Te bark exfoliates as
it matures and the leaves are comprised of many individual leafets. Its growth habit is
informal, and, if adding it to your garden, you would want to consider using it among
other plants.
After the rose has established itself, it is considered to be practically indestructible
and disease resistant. Te Chestnut Rose remains in many old southern gardens with
plants reportedly over a century old and still thriving.
In the Garden Club of Virginia Rose Show, the Chestnut Rose could be
entered in several classes of Old Garden Roses. Tere will be plants for sale that have
been propagated from the Poplar Forest Chestnut Rose on Historic Garden Day in
Lynchburg, April 24, 2012.
We hope you will want to add a unique and unusual rose to your garden.
Te Chestnut Rose of Poplar Forest
In Te Garden
By Julie MacKinlay
Te Virginia Beach Garden Club
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Did f eel.
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These days to the soil I bend
To tuck and smooth, bathe and tend.
For sure,
Still give
I care to groom and praise,
But now f or the plants I raise
To live.
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Te Tuckahoe Garden Club of
Westhampton
T
he Tuckahoe Garden
Clubs Nancy Purcell has
a green thumb, as clearly
shown by the geraniums on her
balcony at Westminster Canterbury.
Te two plants were still bearing
100 blooms in mid-December.
She brought them from her former
home on Tiber Road, where she
lived for over 60 years.
Nancy also had a talent for
growing dazzling dahlias, many
of which went home with club
members. Her bountiful vegetable
garden, in which she spent untold
hours, later became a garden co-op,
shared by neighbors and friends.
She joined Te Tuckahoe Garden
Club in 1955 and served as its
president from 1964 to 1965,
providing inspiration with her love
of and gift for gardening.
Mary Horton
Follow the James
By Lea Shuba, GCV Horticulture Chairman
Hunting Creek Garden Club
T
his year, the GCV Horticulture Committee brings you a Horticulture Field
Day featuring fabulous gardens in the middle of a city and its suburbs. Tis
will be a contrast to last years tour, but an equal measure of enjoyment and
inspiration. Te event will take place in Richmond on May 23 and 24.
Our tour will loosely follow the James River, as it makes its way from Goochland
County and the far West End toward Windsor Farms. Beginning from the west,
Tuckahoe Plantation is featured, home to Sue Tompson of the Tuckahoe Garden Club.
Tuckahoe is a National Historic Landmark and Tomas Jefersons boyhood home. Te
gardens and grounds have retained only a few remnants of the early landscape but the
owners have attempted to refect the historic landscape traditions in todays gardens.
Many old peonies, a memorial garden designed by Charles Gillette, and an old Ghost
Walk boxwood alle are important elements of the gardens today. Te Gillette garden,
active greenhouses and vegetables tended by Charles and Anne Reed at Redesdale, also
on the National Register of Historic Places, will be available to tour. Mrs. Reed is a
member of the Boxwood Garden Club. Finally, Carol Price of Tree Chopt Garden
Club will open her charming English country style garden, featuring roses, peonies and
perennials leading to a tree-lined meadow.
A little closer to town, Susan and Edwin Estes will open the gates of their relatively
new but artistically designed garden. It was a blank slate when purchased twelve years
ago, and now features terraced gardens, herbs, and woodland walks showcasing rare
plants.
Te city tour will spotlight both private and public gardens. Situated on a hill
overlooking the James, Maymont is an early suburban garden built in the late 19
th

century. Te GCV Restoration Committee has stepped in twice to repair and restore the
beauty of the original gardens. Te Rose, Italian, and Japanese gardens are particularly
fne. Peggy Valentine of the James River Garden Club has agreed to share her lovely
garden. She is a true horticulturist with beautiful beds of perennials and roses. She
worries that her garden is not perfect, a concern voiced by all true hands-on gardeners.
Other gardens nearby that will be open belong to non-garden club members Lissy
and Stewart Bryan, and Anne and Roger Boeve. Te Bryans garden is comprised of
many stunning garden rooms, and the Boeves retains its original Gillette design. Both
showcase the results of skilled labor and a love of gardening. Tose able to attend this
years tour will be the lucky recipients of this shared garden wisdom, as well as the
opportunity to enjoy group dining and plant shopping.
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Te Elizabeth River Garden
Club
Leesburg Garden Club
Dana Adams
Pearl R. Adamson
Betsy Rawls Agelasto
Suzanne Aiello
Kathryn S. Allen
Elizabeth Lamar Allen
Jackie Anderson
Rebecca W. Atkinson
Anne Avery
Gail Babnew
Marguerite O. Bacon
Mari Ann Banks
Pam Barber
Turner Barringer
Mrs. John C. Barrow
Jill P. Beach
Ann W. Beasley
Joanne Beck
Nancy G. Beebe
Mrs. Taylor Benson
Garland L. Bigley
JoAnn Bilbrey
Mary H. Bivens
Anne T. Bland
Elizabeth Lamar Boetsch
Mrs. Kae N. Bolling
Hylah and McGuire Boyd
Matilda and John Bradshaw
Jody Dennis Branch
Gail Braxton
Lynda H. Briggs
Stephie Broadwater
Frances Bailey Brooke
Lynn B. Brooke
Catherine Brooks
Jessie Broskie
Mary Lou B. Brown
Sally Guy Brown
Susan Upshur Brown
Jody W. Bundy
Mrs. L. David Butler, Jr.
Ann B. Bynum
Maricia Rish Capps
Catherine C. Capps
Liz Carden
Andrew and Liz Carter
Helen S. Carter
Judy Cathey
Helen V. Catlett
Cean Cawthorn
Sherrie and Gordon Chappell
Melanie F. Christian
Catherine H. Claiborne
Eva Clarke
Kathryn N. Clary
Beth R. Cleveland
Lee Stuart Cochran
Kristen Cofeld
Louisa Hunt Coker
Dr. Elizabeth Compton
Linda Consolvo
Jinx Constine
Rachel Cottrell
Mrs. Tom Coulbourn
Margery Couper
Jane E. Covington
Barbara B. Cox
Cecile A. Cox
Kara OBrien Cox
Teckla Hilbert Cox
Berenice D. Craigie
Susan L. Craun
Pat Creech
Cathy Creekmore
Ann Kiley Crenshaw
Anne Geddy Cross
Linda B. Custis
Mrs. Cliford A. Cutchins
Kristin B. Dabney
Virginia Puller Dabney
Jackie DAlton
Ruth G. Daniels
Elizabeth Darden
Mary Hart Darden
Coralee B. Davis
Margaret C. Davis
Joan Dawson
Eeda Dennis
Mary L. Denny
Syd Dickenson
Claiborne Dickinson
Lit Dodd
Ashli Douglas
Patricia M. Dunnington
Nell G. Holt
Sue Eley
Frances H. Ellis
Clarkie Eppes
Mrs. Steven E. Epstein
Moonie Etherington
Donna Eure
Ann Gordon Evans
Patricia Falcon
Rebecca P. Fass
Dana S. Faulconer
Mrs. Jayne Y. Feminella
Mrs. Lolli Fensterer
Dee Ferguson
Muschi Fisher
Rossie Fisher
Jane Ford
Mrs. Merritt W. Foster
Donor
Florence Bryan Fowlkes
Patricia P. Fox
Rosemary D. Francis
Mrs. James S. Frantz
Kay C. Freeman
Melinda Frierson
Charlotte Frischkorn
Paige Frith
Cameron Q. Furber
Pamela W. Gale
Kitsie Garland
Chrissy Garner
Lynn F. Gas
Diane Ginsberg
Sally Gladden
Dorothy H. Glaize
Mrs. Kirsti Goodwin
Elizabeth Gordon
Pamela C. Gottschalk
Letitia M. Grant
Freddie Gray
Mrs. James C. Greene
Mary Ann Grifth
Margaret J. Grills
Julie G. Grover
Virginia B. Guild
Melissa Gullquist
Lucy Gunn
Greta I. Gustavson
Bettie H. Guthrie
Perry S. Guy
Pamela L. Gwathmey
Margaret C. Hager
Susan C. Hall
Deborah Hamilton
Patricia Hammond
Courtenay P. Hansen
Gail L. Harris
Jil W. Harris
Virginia J. Harris
Polly Harrison
Ada S. Harvey
Karen Hedelt
Sarah Hellewell
Dorothy R. Hendricksen
Jane Sale Henley
Elizabeth T. Herbert
Janet G. Hickman, M. D.
Mary C. Hinterman
Sandra K. Hodge
Sally Hodgkin
Mrs. Frederick A. Hodnett, Jr.
Susan Joy Holland
Rachel Hollis
Mrs. Charles R. Hoof III
Elizabeth Dunn Hoof
Ann Mari Horkan
Lynn E. Hornsby
Mary Horton
Mac Houfek
Chris Howison
Bunny Hubard
Beverly K. Hudson
Pamela Hudson
Lucy Huf
Charlotte D. Hundley
Mrs. William E. Hunt, Jr.
Ruth Ellen Hurley
Anne Hurt
Diane K. Hynes
Jane Ishon
Kate Jacob
Heidi F. James
Karen A. Jamison
Missy Janes
Anne M. Jennings
Michelle Jennings
Mary Ann Johnson
Jean F. Johnson
Leila Jones
Lucy K. Jones
Lou Jordan
Alice M. Julias
Roberta A. Kellam
Sarah W. Kellam
Lois M. Keller
Mrs. Robert J. Keller III
Mrs. R. Calvin Keyser
Judy Kidd
Patricia Rodman King
Beverley G. King
Ann A. Kington
JoAnne H. Kinnamon
Betty F. Kipps
Joyce Klingensmith
Lynn Korf
Mary-Mac Laing
Susan G. Landin
Meg Laughon
Joni Albert Lawler
Rosalie F. Leigh
Betty H. Lesko
Ginny Lewis
Gladys S. Lewis
Sara Ann Lindsey
Marianne Littel
Amy Sandidge Little
Kristine D. Lloyd
Nancy F. Lowry
Mary Lunger
Barbara Luton
Mrs. Tomas J. Lyons, Jr.
Mrs. Charles G. Mackall, Jr.
Catherine P. Madden
Jane Maddux
Becca & Bernie Mahon
Mrs. Michael S. Malbon
Katie Mann
Tammy V. Mason
Anne Mason
Francine Brown Mathews
Lucinda May
Madeline Hutcheson Mayhood
Kathy McCahill
Rennie McDaniel
Tricia McDaniel
Laura Quinn McDermott
Brenda McGehee
Alice Reed McGuire
Jeanette Felton McKittrick
Maureen G. McKnight
Ann Harvey McMurray
Mary Jac Meadows
Katherine T. Mears
Gwen S. Meredith
Rexanne Metzger
Betty M. Michelson
Elisabeth F. Miles
Mary Susan Millar
Tina Minter
Camilla H. Mofatt
Sue Ann Morgan
Margaret C. Moring
Katherine M. Morris
Nancy E. Morris
Susan Morten
Jill B. Mountcastle
Mrs. W. Tayloe Murphy
Merrick T. Murray
Kimbrough K. Nash
Kaye R. Nazarian
Lucy S. Neal
Margaret Neale
Elizabeth Miller Nef
Mrs. Bruce Nelson
Tommi T. Nevin
Lois M. Nichols
Mrs. John A. Nolde, Jr.
Suzanne S. Obenshain
Rebecca H. OBrian
Nancy S. Orme
Anne T. Overman
Frances Padden
Anne Parker
Dana C. Parker
Sandy Parks
Mary Parsley
Mrs. Blaise Pasztory
Catharine Patton
Carter C. Paxton
Doris P. Peery
Mrs. C. D. L. Perkins
Mary Page Pettyjohn
Nancy J. Philpott
Helen R. Pinckney
DelLaneW. Porter
Charlotte Porterfeld
Mrs. Lucy G. Powell
Marianne Prentiss
Lauren S. Prince
Kathryn M. Quarles
Mary Lyall Ramsey
Katherine Rose Rawls
Ann Reamy
Elizabeth B. Reed
Rachael Remuzzi
Harriet T. Reynolds
Linda D. Reynolds
Casey Rice
Linda Richards
Mary Scully Riley
Michael N. Robertson
Susan F. Robertson
Peggy Robins
Mr. and Mrs. W. Randolph
Robins
Mrs. Robert W. Robinson, Jr.
Diane D. Romano
Mrs. J. Tomas Rosch
Patricia G. Rosenberg
Sue W. Rosser
Susan H. Roszel
Blair Johnson Rumney
Peggy Rust
Susan T. Ryan
Mary Kay Ryan
Molly H. Sammler, esq.
Eleanor Savage
Gail L. Savage
Virginia C. Savage
Jan Saxman
Katherine S. Schulz
Betty G. Schutte
Inge and Ranjit Sen
Jean A. Shivel
Anita L. Shull
Elizabeth Sibold
Lourene T. Silvey
Jocelyn Sladen
Kaye D. Smith
Ashlin Smith
Nan Leigh Smith
Kathryn V. Sparrow
Marianne Spellman
Brooke Spencer
Ellie Spencer
Lois Spencer
Katya Spicuzza
Mary Lew Sponski
Anne Oz Dechert Staley
Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Stalfort II
Julie K. Stamm
Elizabeth S. Steele
Elaine Stephenson
Susan Stinson
Betty Fulk Strider
Jane Owen Stringer
Mary Hamilton Stuart
Gina Sullivan
Betty Sundin
Nancy McAllister Sutclife
Suzanne Swain
Patricia A. Tackitt
Mrs. Lilburn T. Talley
Mrs. John E. Tankard, Jr.
Suzanne S. Taylor
Lucha Taylor
Mrs. Hubert S. Taylor, Jr.
Judith Boyd Terjen
Suzanne F. Tomas
Lauren Tompson
Mary Henley Tompson
Mary G. Tompson
Patsy L. Tompson
Scottie Tomson
Dianne Torn
Blanche H. Toms
Kay Trakas
Marcia B. Turner
Janet B. Tutton
Sheryl P. Twining
Mrs. Charles F. Urquhart III
Cassie Van Derslice
Wendy C. Vaughn
Jessica Bemis Ward
Polly Watson
Kathy Watson
Joan Wehner
Mary Beth Wells
Mrs. Linda C. Wenger
Mrs. Donald Westfall
Carole A. White
Jane B. White
Debi Whittle
Mary Ratrie Wick
Alice R. Wilkerson
Mrs. Forrest E. Williams
Kate Williams
Kay P. Williams
Mrs. Vann Williams
Widget Williams
Victoria Willis
Lucy Wilson
Susan M. Wilson
Susan Winn
Margaret Douglas Wise
Virginia Wiseman
Libby Wolf
Mina Wood
Lauren Elliott Woolcott
Betsy Worthington
Mary Denny Wray
Betty W. Wright
Ann L. Wright
Susan S. Wynne
Mrs. Richard W. Young
Mary Q. Zocchi
Colleen B. Zoller
Kate Zullo
Donor In Honor of
Te Augusta Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kimbrough K. Nash
Te Little Garden Club of Winchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kimbrough K. Nash
Te Garden Club of Norfolk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kimbrough K. Nash
Te Virginia Beach Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kimbrough K. Nash
Winchester-Clarke Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kimbrough K. Nash
Sally Guy Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deedy Bumgardner
Grace Rice
Candace Carter Crosby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kimbrough K. Nash
Mina Wood
Marge Dillard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barney Sackett
Elizabeth Galloway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kimbrough K. Nash
Tibby Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diana and Hill Carter
Frances and Don Giles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kimbrough K. Nash
Anna Baldwin May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anne Baldwin
Betty M. Michelson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deedy Bumgardner
Katherine GronesGall
Mac Houfek
Julie W. MacKinlay
Josephine J. Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Betsy Parrish
Jeanne H. Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DeLane Porter
Susan S. Mullin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mina Wood
Caroline Hoof Norman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sally Guy Brown
Jamie A. Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ann Gordon Evans
Judy B. Perry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mina Wood
Joyce P. Richter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carole White
Virginia Voght Rocen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sally Guy Brown
Mary Hodge Topping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ann Gordon Evans
Jack Wescoat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suzanne Wescoat
Donor In Memory of
Te Hampton Roads Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margo Nevins
Leslie S. Ariail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John H. Ariail, Jr.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bessie Bocock Carter
Mrs. Herbert Claiborne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bessie Bocock Carter
Cyndi Fletcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June Camper
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan Martin
Roanoke Valley Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan Martin
Mrs. Robert L. Galloway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katherine Farmar
Mary Bruce Glaize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Betty Jo Manuel
Judy B. Perry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller
Suzanne V. K. Tankard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suzanne Savedge Wescoat
Chamie Valentine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nancy St. Clair Talley
Mary Z. Zeugner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah W. T. Harrison
Garden Club of Virginia Endowment
Supports the ongoing preservation of the historic Kent-Valentine House,
headquarters of the Garden Club of Virginia and Historic Garden Week.
Donor
Mrs. James C. Godwin
Betsy B. Worthington
Donor In Honor of
Te Rappahannock Valley Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lucy Rhame
Sally Guy Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Candace Carter Crosby
Mina Wood
Deedy Bumgardner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mina Wood
Fleet G. Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mina Wood
Betty F. Kipps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller
Marty and Temple Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sally Guy and Tom Brown
Ann Wentworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Emma Read Oppenhimer
Suzanne Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mina Wood
Donor In Memory of
Te Ashland Garden Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lois Wickham
Te Hunting Creek Garden Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Franny Dawson
Te Spotswood Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller
Elizabeth Yancey
Sue Diller Balliew and Glen Balliew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller
Roger and Pam Boles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller
Ike and Julie Broaddus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carolyn Tompson Broaddus
Sally Guy Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller
Catherine C. Capps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller
Candace Carter Crosby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gay Hathaway
Anne McGuire
Fleet G. Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Hopkins, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nancy St. Clair Talley
GCV Conservation Fund
Supports GCV clubs in local and statewide conservation projects.
Donor In Honor of
Jane Webster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robin Ingram
Donor In Memory of
Lynn Broaddus and Marc Gorelick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carolyn Tompson Broaddus
Celie Harris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nancy St. Clair Talley
George Lewis and Ann Lewis McDaniel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller
Betty Byrne Ware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nancy St. Clair Talley
Bessie Bocock Carter Conservation Award Fund
Donor
Te James River Garden Club
Patricia A. Kellam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily S. Alexander
Katherine T. Mears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller
Kimbrough K. Nash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugenia Diller
Anne G. Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jimmie Ann A. Boykin
Betty Byrne Ware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nancy St. Clair Talley
Cabell Goolsby West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nancy St. Clair Talley
Martha D. Whipple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nancy St. Clair Talley
Gift-in-Kind
Donor
Chez Foushee
Hilldrup Companies
Virginia Living
WCVE, Richmond
WVTF, Roanoke
Katherine Darden Beale
Sharon Carter
Beth Marchant
Restoration
Supports GCV Restoration projects across the Commonwealth.
Donor In Honor of
Gabriella Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fleet G. Davis
Bellevue Forest Garden Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlotte Benjamin
Fleet G. Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Bemiss
Willie McDaniel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Wynn McDaniel
Judy Perry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Bemiss
Susan C. Tompson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Te GCV Restoration Committee
Donor In Memory of
Mrs. Charles C. Freed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nancy St. Clair Talley
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