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Next LGC General Meeting - Visitors are Welcome to Attend Thurs. Jan. 17, 2019 9:30 am
 "Landscape Design 101: From Planning to Planting" Kim Hartmann, Countryside Nursery Crystal Lake, IL Does your yard need an update? Wondering how to put together a plan? Gather some great ideas! Our favorite speaker returns to share the key principles for creating a landscape that fits your needs. Kim Hartmann holds a BS in Horticulture and Communication from the University of Illinois and is both an Illinois Certified Nursery Professional and a Master Gardener. She has been a landscape designer with Countryside for 11 years. Agenda: 9:30 am Continental Breakfast 9:45 am Business Meeting 10:30 am Speaker Where: Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Fire Station #53 671 Woodlands Parkway Vernon Hills, IL 60061 (at Milwaukee Ave & Corp. Woods Pkwy, across from Half Day Woods entrance) Parking: In front or back of the fire station or at Extended Stay America. Beverages: Bring your own drink; cups & tap-water are available.
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Happy New Gardening Year. My New Year’s wish is to have an early spring, let’s see if Mother Nature is listening! The Allocations team is in full swing, reports to come at the next two program meetings. The Plant Sale Committee will be gearing up in January as well. Any suggestions will appreciated to make a bigger and better 2019 sale, please contact Andrea Fossier. The committee is also looking for inexpensive garden art for our members to make, please contact Kathy Boss. In February we will make our annual donation to the Vernon Area Food Pantry, “From Our Hearts to Yours.” At our January meeting we will highlight what items the Food Pantry is requesting. I am so looking forward to our January program, “Landscape Design 101: From Planning to Planting, “ a wonderful start to 2019. Whether you have a new build home or and old one landscaping the area is a constant work in progress. Come join us and hear what Kim Hartmann has to say. And remember... Keep those hands dirty, Jan
As you might already know, Latin can be quite useful to gardeners. Plants have two Latin names, called Botanical Nomenclature, even though many gardeners use the common names for their plants…The first part of the name is the genus to which it belongs. An example, the genus of Coneflower is Echinacea. The second name is the “specific epithet” which modifies the first name…in other words, it might tell the color, the location where it was found , the size, or sometimes the person who discovered it, etc. So Echinacea purpura will be the genus Echinacea and the color of the native plant was purple. The first name is always capitalized and the second is always small letters. The name is either underlined or italicized. Together they form the species. The name of the variety /or cultivar will be in single quotes ie. Achillea millefolium ‘Summerwine’. ’The common name Yarrow may be in enclosed in brackets. When you go into a nursery to buy your plants, almost all nurseries will stock the plant according to the Latin name…not the common name. So under the letter “A”, will be Achillea, even though you call it Yarrow. It helps to know the Latin names so that you can go straight to the section where your plant is, instead of searching thru all the aisles. The catalogues will also list according to the Latin name. A few specific epithets (modifiers) you might see are: alba (white), coccineus (red), aureus (gold), niger (black), cyanea (blue), humilis (low), sinensis (Chinese), mollis (soft hairs), pumulis (drawf), vulgaris (common)and repens (creeping), folius (leaves), florus (flowers), cautis (stem) This amazing standardization called Binomial Nomenclature for plants, animals and minerals, was created by Carl Linnaeus in the 1750’s, and has been used by scientists and gardeners ever since. Reference:” Gardener’s Latin” by Bill Neal
Repel with Smell Popular plant choices for repelling or masking fragrances include the following: Marigolds – Strongly scented cultivars such as French marigold (Tagetes patula) are helpful when planted thickly in a vegetable garden. Mints – Cabbage pests and aphids dislike peppermint and other members of this family. Since mints are aggressive growers, set potted mints around your garden. Sweet Basil – Interplant in vegetable or flower gardens, or chop and scatter the leaves to repel aphids, mosquitoes, and mites. Top Ten Tips The following tips on deterring pests were gleaned from several lectures on best practices in the vegetable garden and from Rodale’s Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening.
If you have been challenged by pests this summer, you may want to try one or more of these tips when planning next year’s vegetable garden. Happy growing!
Nancy Slatin and her husband Alan reside on Fox Trail and have been Lincolnshire residents since 2006. She is a Master Gardener, active golfer, aspiring pastry chef and former Private Club General Manager. As a new Lincolnshire Garden Club member, she looks forward to learning from other gardeners and making new friends.
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