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President
Marion Cooke
Vice President
Judy Uren
Membership Officer
Maxine Tester
Secretary
Jo Welsh
Social Secretary
Sue Spacey
Treasurer
Alan Isaacs 0407 725 426
Newsletter
Judi Kent
0459026581
Webmaster
Judy Hopley
5472 1156
Castlemaine & District
Garden Club
P.O. Box 758,
Castlemaine 3450
castlemainegardenclub
@gmail.com
http:/castlemainegardenclub.word
press.com
Much Useful Learning Concerning Horticulture
Volume 23, No. 10, October 2017
Castlemaine and District Garden Club Inc.
Malus Wesley Peggy Munro
Presidents Message. I love this time of the year even though I am generally exhausted by
the end of the day – there is always something to do out there!
Most areas of the garden are looking OK but it is very dry. We could
do with a week of nice steady rain.
I am trying to get the garden ready for opening for the HEDGE open
gardens. There will be at least fifteen gardens open over Melbourne
Cup week and it would be lovely to see you visit some of them if not
all.
By the time you get this edition of Mulch we will have created and
delivered the posies to the residents of Castlemaine Health for Senior’s
week. Many thanks to those who came along to Peggy’s to deliver
flowers and foliage, to create the posies and to deliver them.
Your committee have been hard at work getting the calendar ready for
next year and we think we will have a good line-up of speakers and
visits. This will be made available in time for the January get together.
The Garden Market plans are coming along well and you will receive
your copy of the roster within this edition. Please try to come along at
your allotted time – it is a great day chatting and selling to like -
minded people.
Please remember the giant raffle. Your contributions can be left with
Maxine at 51 Berkeley Street.
See you at the meeting.
Marion Cooke
The Dutch Iris are beginning and they have finally
synchronised with the Daylilies as planned – a
lovely mix of blue and yellow.
September meeting
Unfortunately the Growing Abundance organisation was unable to provide a
speaker for the September meeting. President, Marion Cooke, spoke about the
aims of the group, using local food with no waste, and Philip and Judy Hopley
talked about their roles as volunteers at Growing Abundance. Further
information can be found at:
http://www.growingabundance.org.au
A delighted Sue Spacey won the raffle – an unusual hellebore.
Peggy’s Pearls
I think I will go all girlie and write about the wonderful pink
flowers and blossom I have seen lately.
I went to Buda to make a booking to hear Simon Richard
speak at their fundraiser, and was really impressed by the
front garden.
Very good drifts of Tulipa saxatilis, what I call the Buda
tulip. It is pink and yellow and this year amongst the other
foliage was a real eye opener. I just might have to buy some
for next year.
Around the town there were great displays of blossom;
magnolias, weeping flowering cherries, the lovely Albizia in
Forest Street, and lots of different prunus. In my garden the
crab apple "Florabunda" was, as always, splendid and now,
later, the other "Wesley", much darker and bigger is just as
lovely.
It is a change from all the yellows of the daffodils and
jonquils. Although some of my daffodils are still flowering!
A great book from the library " Reinventing the Garden
Chaumont -Global Inspirations from the Loire" b y Louisa
Jones.
Call number 712.6JON
I found this fascinating reading as it is about a chateau in
France that has permanent display gardens. Not for just a
week like our Melbourne international show but gardens
planted in the autumn that remain for all the seasons. This
festival is the brain child of Jean-Paul Pigeat and began in
1992 and is a show case for innovative garden design.
Many of the gardens written about in the book are weird and
wonderful. I liked a straw bale garden that included a tower
with a wicker hut on top. Borrow this book for some more
creative ideas that could go in your garden.
I am still weeding. I think I should call it grassing as nearly
all the weeds are grass. At the moment they are taller than
many of the plants. How do they get into my garden?
I am trying to get everything ready to open for the HEDGE.
Do came and see how I have managed to win or not!
Happy weeding/gardening
PEGGY M
Show Parade:
We will gather at Peggy’s to make flower bouquets at 10am on November 3rd. Then off to the show parade to distribute our seeds, flowers and brochures for the garden market.
Castlemaine Garden Club Christmas function
Time is running out for you to book a place at our Christmas
function , which will be on Tuesday, the 28th November at
The Goldfields Track Café, 92 Harmony Way, Harcourt. We
will meet at 6.30 p.m.
The cost to members will be $20 inclusive of house wine, ( if
more expensive wine is required, this must be paid for
separately) ,soft drinks etc, the meal to be subsidised by the
Club. Please let me know of your interest in this function so
that I can compile a list for the menu and numbers of
attendees.
The menu will be as follows.
Main course.
Roast Pork with apple sauce and crackle, or
Roast chicken with herb stuffing. GF option with no stuffing.
( Main course is served with gravy and a medley of roast
vegetables and steamed greens).
Vegetarian option available, but must be ordered in advance.
Dessert.
Fruit mince pudding with cream, or
Pavlova with berries and cream.
Call Sue Spacey on 5470 5834 or 04 03 03 83 52.
Please book soon, to avoid disappointment!
There will be an Orchid
potting session at
‘Skydancers’ on
Saturday, 28th October at
2 p.m.
COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES SEPTEMBER MEETING MINUTES
Castlemaine & District Garden Club General Meeting
Tuesday 26th September, 2017, 7.30pm
Chair: Marion Cooke
Present: Marion Cooke, Sue Grimes, Judy Hopley, Philip
Hopley, Alan Isaacs, Jean Lorenz, John MacIntyre, Jenny
Nuske, Eileen Park, Kaye Payne, Sue Spacey, Heather Spicer,
Maxine Tester, Judy Uren, Jo Welsh, Bev Tozer, Lynda Prest,
Peggy Munro, Maria Young, Edward Gollings, Gabe Roman, Ann
Roman, Glenn Sutherland
Apologies: Pam Isaacs, Penny Garnett, Gill King
Visitors: Hilary Beckett, Cynthia Hardiman, Aulslbrook
1. Welcome to all, especially to the three visitors.
2. Apology
After many attempts by our organiser to secure a speaker,
the Growing Abundance group is unable to attend. It is proposed
to use the knowledge about Growing Abundance from within our
group to inform the meeting and generate questions to present at a
future time to Growing Abundance.
3. Correspondence In and Out
Is as listed in the correspondence book.
The Roses group has replied with the wish to have their
contribution to the Bursary Fund refunded.
4. Garden Market
Please check the roster for the Garden Market. If it does
not suit, you need to organise and inform about a change.
Raffle. Items are needed for the Garden Club Market
Raffle. They can be taken to 51 Berkeley Street or to the next
meeting.
The second hand stall will take items no longer needed such
as pots and hoses. Bring to the next meeting or to the market.
5. Senior’s Week Posies - 2nd week October
Members are meeting at Peggy’s to put together and
distribute posies at the hospital on Wednesday 11th October.
6. The Show Parade is 3rd November. Members are needed to
make posies and walk in the parade.
7. Treasurer’s Report
Is as listed in MULCH
Acceptance Moved: Alan Isaacs Seconded:
Philip Hopley
8. Thompson House weeding.
Jenny Nuske has asked for volunteers to help. Contact: 0413 192
181
Meeting Closed: at 8.30pm for a ‘cuppa’.
Castlemaine & District Garden Club Committee
Meeting
Tuesday 10th October, 2017 Chair: Marion Cooke
Present: Judi Kent, Alan Isaacs, Sue Spacey, Jo Welsh
Apologies: Judy Hopley
BUSINESS:
Garden Market:
Received applications from twelve stall holders so far. Alan will
contact other regulars who have not yet applied.
Mowing is being done by Cookie.
Trailers - Alan, Sue, Marion
Fliers - 150 extra printed.
Sue has aprons.
Market roster to go in MULCH
Elliot/Midland Express to be contacted re ad and article for
market.
Treasurers Report:
A copy of MULCH to be placed in correspondence folder to enable
anyone to access treasurers report.
Bursary - Jo to follow up who has/has not been contacted re
bursary. (Rotary - donation of $300,)
BUDA has not yet sent m/ship letter.
Goldfields Roses & Gardens to be reimbursed their contribution.
Moved: Alan Seconded: Marion
Posies:
9.00am at Peggy’s.
Posy making members: Sue Spacey (again!), Peggy Munro, Heather
Spicer, Kaye Payne, Marion Cooke, Judi Kent.
2.00pm at Penhall is delivery!
Christmas Breakup:
Time is running out for booking for this. Cut off time to be
reviewed. Sue has article for MULCH.
Show parade: Friday 3rd November.
Sue will ring shire/show sec regarding registration. Sue has
completed seed packets. Fliers ready.
Posies to be made. Jo to make sheet for walkers and posy makers.
Posy making at Peggy’s from 10.00am.
Cookie to drive.
Meet at 6.00pm outside continuing education centre in Templeton
Street.
Next meeting:
Judi, Sue and Jo to be prepared if Neil Webster unable to talk
about his Newstead garden.
Suggested program for next year:
Marion to prepare program.
Next Meeting: 14th November
Meeting Closed: 11.00
Senior’s Week Posies:
A group of us gathered at Peggy’s
armed with anything that flowered
from the garden. Over 150 posies were
made up before a well- deserved cuppa
and cake (another Sue Spacey delight).
After lunch, we delivered the posies to
the residents of Castlemaine Health
homes. We were well received and the residents were very
grateful for the effort.
Don’t forget our massive garden club raffle at the
garden market:
Treasurer’s Report There are a few changes to the format of this month’s report. The accounts have
been modified to highlight the most important expenditures, separating out the costs
of printing Mulch, for example. We are also printing a Year-to-Date (YTD) column,
showing the income and expenditure for the period July through to the current
month. Any suggestions regarding the report are welcome.
Our cash balance includes $916 in the bursary account, which is to be wound up. Of
this, $258 will be returned to The Goldfields Roses & Gardens Group, while $100
from Pat Millar and $200 from our club remain for our community use. The fate of
the $300 from the Rotary Club is currently unknown.
September
YTD
Discounts Members are reminded to continue to support the businesses that support us in the
form of discounts
You will need your 2017
membership card for identification
All Stone Quarries (ASQ)
10% off gravel, mulch, soil and potting mix
15% off pots and plants
5% off seedlings
Beard’s Hardware
10% off most garden related products
Gardens Etcetera
21-25 Main Street, Maldon Tel:54742333
www.gardenetcetera.com.au
10% off (excluding items on consignment and sale items)
Sociana’s ‘The Green Folly’
10% discount
Stoneman’s Bookroom
10% off for purchases over $10
Taylor Brothers
5% off garden related products
Maine Garden Centre
224 Barker Street
10% off garden related products over $10.
MULCH is printed with the assistance of LEGION OFFICE WORKS
Next Meeting:
24th Oct. General Meeting
Location: Wesley Hill Hall
7.30pm
Garden Market Organising
Gary Sobey Orchids visit.
28th October 2pm
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Next Committee Meeting
Tuesday 10th November
At Sue Spacey’s
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The Castlemaine & District Garden
Club meets at 7.30pm on the fourth
Tuesday of each month from
February to October at the Wesley
Hill Hall. Duke Street, Wesley Hill.
Membership of the club is open to
all and costs $20 per year per
household ($31 if you want a paper
copy of MULCH mailed to you)
Mulch in colour is available via email
on request.
Subscriptions are payable at the
beginning of each calendar year.
New members are very welcome.
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