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Pawpaw Chapter
2004 Officers
Director Don Spence
[email protected] 386.235.0404
President Charles Cuidera [email protected] 386.441.0363 Program Chair (VP) Walter Jubinsky [email protected] 386.672.0666 Secretary Carla McDougal [email protected] Treasurer Fran Burdick [email protected] Field Trip Chairman Sonya Guidry [email protected] 386.424.5161 work 386.427.3399 evenings Conservation Chair Paul Rebmann [email protected] Membership Chair Barbara Kieran [email protected] 386.672.2927 Refreshment Chair Barb Davis [email protected] 386.846.3872 Bookkeeper Eleanor Koble [email protected] Newsletter Marvette Bagwell [email protected] 386.212.9923
First Quarter 2004
Dear friend and Florida Native Plant enthusiast,
As we move into February, your President reports great enthusiasm stirring within our membership (frankly, I am praying I can keep up with all of you!).
First and foremost, I would like to recognize our new Newsletter Chair, Marvette Bagwell of “Full Moon Natives,” and “Computer Artistry,” for undertaking the formidable task of producing such a forum for us!
Lately, I’ve been entertaining thoughts that ‘mainstream’ attitudes may finally be shifting toward favoring Florida Native plant use in
President’s Message
Thank you Lyonia Chapter… … for inviting us to join you in listening to Dr Bill Grey speak about the Fall Flowering Ixia and thanks to all of those who brought refreshments. I think I counted 59 people!
Dr Bill Grey, with a grant from FNPS, researched the Fall Flowering Ixia, Nemastylis floridana, in SW Volusia County. This Iris, was initially found by John Kunkel Small in 1938 west of New Smyrna
the landscape, and the emergence of a new construction ethic. Within the past year, we have witnessed a number of encouraging local developments, most notably: Volusia County government’s moving to adopt a ‘Waterwise’ Landscape Ordinance; Volusia County's Department of Environmental Management recent grant of $25,000, to the University of Florida’s IFAS Extension Service at the Agricultural Center in Deland, for the construction and establishment of a Florida Native Plant Demonstration
Garden; and Stetson University's adoption of a Florida Native Plant Landscape Policy, as well as their commitment to employ only sustainable ‘Green’ building and requisitioning practices in both renovation and new construction projects on campus. Although, encouraged by these and other developments, I remain wary.
In Asian cultures, meditation teachers will often compare the development of concentration to the act of boiling water. They entreat their students: "If one continues to turn the heat on and off, the water will never
Beach for the first time. Since then its distribution is mainly in East Central Florida concentrated in the Pine Flatwoods flood plains of the St Johns River. Also known as the Celestial Lily, it can be quite difficult to
spot since it flowers for a short time in the Fall for a few hours a day each afternoon. When not in flower, it is difficult to spot due to its grass-like leaves and overall appearance. We will be planning a field trip with Dr. Grey, Bonnie Cary and Sonya Guidry this Fall to see the Fall Flowering Ixia. We’ll keep you posted.
-contributed by Ray Jarrett
Pawpaw – a Federally and State endangered rare plant found nowhere else in the world but Volusia County
Serving East Volusia and Flagler Counties
See Message, page 5
Preservation, Conservation, Restoration
“ Don Spence, then President Harriett
Damesek , and other members of our chapter gave feedback on plant
selection in this flyer.”
The PawPaw Chapter is collaborating with the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council (FLEPPC), the Water Conservation Program of the Water Authority of Volusia (WAV), Volusia County Environmental Management and the Lyonia Chapter in a project to promote natives and decrease sales of invasive exotics. WAV Water Conservation Coordinator Deborah Green secured a FLEPPC Education grant to produce and print a flyer on Exotics to Avoid within Volusia County. Don Spence, then President Harriett Damesek , and other members of our chapter gave feedback on plant selection in this flyer. Twenty-thousand of this full color brochure were printed and are being distributed by the
Collaborating to spread the word
The Florida Electronic Library (FEL) is proving to be an excellent citizen and student resource for environmental information. Any Florida library card holder can access the FEL at the following url:
www.flelibrary.org
Highlights include the Aquatic, Wetland, and Invasive Plant Information Retrieval System and the University of Florida Herbarium Collections Catalog. More general
Open a new path to learning
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participating agencies and particularly by our chapter.
Along with public education on what plants not to buy, the project specifies that we will encourage nurseries to stop selling these invasive exotics and replace them with natives. We promise that we are creating awareness of these natives and that the market is being created. Our series of demonstration gardens, recent workshops, and press contribute to this awareness. A new element, developed by WAV with printing by Environmental Management, is a round sticker indicating that a plant is native and giving the FNPS website. This sticker is being placed on the section label in nurseries. Ray Jarrett, through his close work with nurseries as a plant inspector, has taken the lead in this project. He and other members are working with Gray's Nursery in
Ormond Beach, Lindley's Nursery in New Smyrna Beach, Allandale Nursery in Port Orange and several others. Of course, during the course of this project, Volusia's first native plant nursery (Full Moon Natives) opened. There's no better proof than that we are creating a market for natives here. If you have a favorite nursery and would like to work with them to encourage the dropping out of invasive exotics and selling of natives, using this brochure and the new stickers, contact Ray. Ray Jarrett, Don Spence and Deborah Green will be presenting on this project at the state FNPS conference on May 15.
-contributed by Deborah Green for the Pawpaw Chapter
periodical databases such InfoTracOneFile® contain full text for most articles retrieved. I searched “air potato” as a keyword and retrieved two complete newspaper stories of locals in South Florida battling the pesky invasive. There is also a kids module covering research needs for grades K to 12.
Graphic material more to your liking? The FEL is a gateway to the Florida Memory Project-a collection of digitized photos, drawings,
maps, etc. from the extensive State Archives collection. You will find strong representation in both agriculture and forestry, plus the John J. Small image collection of South Florida Botanicals.
Whip out your library card, fire up your browser, and search with abandon… courtesy of the State Library of Florida.
-contributed by Greg Carlson
1 mile west of I-95/Dunlawton
1737 Fern Park Drive, PO
www.FullMoonNatives.com Mon-Wed by appointment
Thur-Fri 10am-5pm Saturday 8am-4pm
386.212.9923
Conserve Water Plant Natives
Preservation, Conservation, Restoration
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Walk through Ormond Beach's new Hand Avenue Central Park Nature Trail Daylight Savings Time will be here soon, and the weather is still cool… what a perfect time for a mini field trip. This is a short walk/native plant ID on a new Hand Avenue Ormond Beach nature trail. Hand Avenue is located about 1 mile south of Highway 40 or about 2 miles north of LGPA.
Leader: Paul Rebmann contact phone: (386) 441-0423 or (386) 441-4962. Meet: 5:30 PM along the lake on Hand Avenue between Orchard and Nova. (Look for parked cars) Folks may want to bring a sandwich and drink for light dinner, with dessert to follow at the regular 7:00PM meeting at Sica Hall in Holly Hill.
April 20th Mini Field Trip Prior to Monthly Meeting
March 16 - Don Spence will lead us through a plant identification workshop. Ever wondered how to identify a plant without using a picture? Find out how and attend.
April 20 - This is a follow up program on last month's. We will have a chance to hear Marvette & Kevin Bagwell and Don Spence talk about some of the native plant choices we have. Come see some new and unique native plants.
May 18 - Greg Jubinsky - Environmental program manager of the Upland Invasive Exotic Plant Management Program Department of Environmental Protection – “ Weeding in Florida’s Natural Areas”
June 15 - Deborah Green - “Paradise Preserve”
July 20 - Ray Jarrett - “Nothing but Bugs”
August 17 – Steve Kinter
September 21 – Kevin Doxslater – “Beautiful Birds, Beautiful Music”
Upcoming Speakers
March 11 – 14 The Daytona Beach Garden Show at the Ocean Center – Booth 510 Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10 am – 6 pm, Sunday 10 am – 5 pm
Sat, March 27 Seaside Herb Society Herb Faire, Riverbridge Meeting House corner of Granda & Beach Street 10 am – 3 pm
Sat. April 3 Volusia County Master Gardener’s Plant Sale at the Agriculture Center in Deland
April 24 – 25 Earthday Celebration at Washington Oaks State Gardens
May 13 – 16 24th Annual Conference of the Florida Native Plant Society, Royal Plaza Hotel, Lake Buena Vista “Protecting Florida’s Future with Native Landscapes” FNPS Host: Tarflower Chapter
Mark Your Calendars
Bejaria racemosa
Preservation, Conservation, Restoration
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The December 16 holiday party and plant auction was an absolute riot. For those of us who are new members, the opportunity to sit together for the best food in town was incomparable. The array of salads was incredible: everything from bulghur wheat with fresh veggies to spinach and baby greens with exotic dressings. And then the desserts! Not to be outdone by the gourmet meal, the collection of native plants that members donated was
Holiday Party and Plant Auction
Excerpt from February 4 “The Daily Journal” article by Mark I Johnson, Staff Writer
New Smyrna Beach-Most Floridians tend to come from someplace else and, according to native plant enthusiasts, so does much of the shrubbery found in their yards. However, with nearly 6,000 species of plants indigenous to Florida, opportunities abound for using local greenery.
Special spruce up project forms public garden
Nat Spence checking out the coontie, rouge
plant and sea grape
Donnadine Miller digs in the dirt planting at the Old Fort Park
huge. For new members it was like being in a chocolate factory and wanting to sample each piece. Ray Jarrett was a great auctioneer and kept the fun going. Some spirited haggling made the evening even more fun. You could hardly resist the prices: $2.00 for a saw palmetto, $7.00 for a hand-made birdhouse, $5.00 for a coontie. The highlight of my bidding was Sonya Guidry's holiday tree decorated with seed packets for native plants. This
arrangement was in close competition with Sonya's tropical sage with a burgundy glass hummingbird feeder. Had to have them both. Since long-time member Betty DiFranco was unable to attend, these two items were delivered to her doorstep after the party. Who better to make sure all the seeds grow into native plants to produce more seeds. It was a wonderful evening for everyone. The informality of the event made it easy to meet new people and even start friendly bidding wars. For those of us who got a little over-excited and bought more than our cars could hold -- plan ahead for next year! I know I will be borrowing my husband's truck, so watch out bidding amateurs, by next year we'll be ready to rumble! -contributed by Barb Davis
Members of the Pawpaw Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society put those words into practice Saturday during a beautification project at the concrete lift station in Old Fort Park. ”This is our fifth public garden (throughout Volusia and Flagler counties),” chapter nursery chairman Ray Jarrett said. “The purpose is to allow the public to see the use of native plants.”
The project was the brain-child of society member Donnadine Miller, who also is chairwoman of the city’s Historic Preservation Board. After prompting city officials to repair the historic planter, she said it was clear it needed something in it, so she went to the society. And, since it is in clear view of people using the park, Miller said the group decided it also would be a good place for a demonstration project.
Ray Jarrett was a great auctioneer and kept the fun going
Preservation, Conservation, Restoration
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Message… Continued from page 1
From September to November, Director Don Spence worked with the staff and volunteers on the grounds of the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse to install native plants as part of his Native
Going Native at the Lighthouse
Asimina rugelii
Plant Landscaping class. The 8-week course was held in the large meeting room overlooking the lighthouse. SInce there were many non-native plants and the lighthouse and 10 garden
plots that were overgrown and full of non-natives, the goal was to educate and then apply the knowledge to planting projects. After several classes, the group traveled to Melbourne to purchase native plants. The next day, we prepared the garden plats and planted 3 of the plats and a butterfly garden. Some of the plants were gopher apple, beauty berry, goldenrod, and saw palmetto. Plants in the butterfly garden included beach verbena, muhleygrass, coreopsis and butterfly weed.
After the planting at the lighthouse, PawPaw members Barb Davis and Betty DiFranco, together with JoEllen Basile from Sierra
boil." In the same way, if we allow ourselves to become complacent, thinking that we no longer need to actively promote alter Natives to the public, I believe whatever momentum has been established thus far, can easily be lost. As you can see in the Events Calendar, in the coming Months, we are afforded numerous opportunities for influencing public opinion and to generate the funds to continue our work. New for us this year will be our participation in the Daytona Beach Garden Show as a vendor. The Pawpaw Chapter will be exhibiting jointly with Full Moon Natives Nursery on the main showroom floor. With an anticipated
attendance topping 30,000 visitors, this event will be THE Premier opportunity for us to affect a positive change in the public's awareness. Harriet Damesek, our immediate past President, and new Public Relations Chair, has graciously volunteered to Chair this event. As you might imagine, staffing at this, and all our outreach events in 2004 is crucial to our success, so please come forward and volunteer your time. “Drop by drop a water jar fills,” in the same way, your intention and participation affects a result in the world by that much. --Your activity really does make a difference! Surely, we all joined FNPS for varied reasons, but I have found that, as my
discernment for what is happening in Central Florida (and the world) deepens, I realize this organization is about a lot more than Florida Native Plants. My casual inquiry into local flora, some twenty-two Months ago, has been transformed into a practice, --a vehicle, a way of bringing some measure of balance to a culture enamored with speed and the ‘bottom line.’ For this, and to those of you whose leadership has sustained our Chapter in the past, I am most grateful. Sincerely, Charles Cuidera - President
Club, went to the Marine Science Center where a well-meaning volunteer had planted the invasive purple porterweed. This exotic species was replaced with several different plants including goldenrod, seaside ageratum, white milkweed, and red sage. All the gardens are thriving, and it is a thrill to walk around the lighthouse and see native plants.
-contributed by Barb Davis
Ormond Beach Library – Butterfly Garden (Walter Jubinsky) – corner of Granada Avenue and Beach Street
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park – Native Plant Demo Garden (Terri Propst) – 2 miles south of Marineland off A-1-A in Palm Coast
Sunrise Park, Holly Hill – Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden (Fran & Scott Burdick) – Riverside Drive and LPGA Blvd
Old Fort Park Planter, New Smyrna Beach – Native Plant Demo Garden (Donnadine Miller & Ray Jarrett) – N Riverside Drive, 1 block north of Canal Street
Tom Rennick Park, Ormond By The Sea – Native Plant Landscape (Don Spence) – 1575 Oceanshore Blvd (A-1-A)
Marine Discovery Center, New Smyrna Beach – Native Plant Landscape – in progress (Ray Jarrett) – 118 N Causeway
Visit our Demonstration Gardens (Curators)
Memorials Love and memories live forever… may they bring you peace
Join us! We meet on the 3rd
Tuesday of each month
7:00 pm Sica Hall
1065 Daytona Ave Holly Hill
For more information call 386.295.0481
or 386.409.0543
Visit our web site
www.fnps.org
Pawpaw Chapter?P.O. Box 250516
Holly Hill, FL 32125
Larry Sauter – Osceola Elementary, Ormond – Sabal Palm, donated by Butchers Nursery
Gail Lincoln – Sunrise Park, Holly Hill – Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden
June Lyons – Riverside Park Manatee Children’s Playground, New Smyrna – Live Oak
Jerry Millen – TBD – Butterfly Garden
