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July 2019THE GRAPEVINEColumbia County Master Gardener Program505 N. Columbia River Hwy, St. Helens OR 97051T: 503-397-3462Upcoming ster-gardener-volunteer-programIt has been decided to have a newsletter dedicated to just our membership and localorganization. This newsletter will be published once a month and will be edited bythe President of the Columbia County Master Gardener’s Association and the MasterGardener Program Coordinator. Please send any news items, events, articles,pictures, etc. to Sonia @ Sonia.Reagan@oregonstate.edu by the 25th of every month.The President’s CornerJuly is here and so is the Columbia County Fair! The fair opens onWednesday, July 17th at 10am and closes Sunday July 21st at 5:00 pm.(Seniors and Veterans have FREE admission on Wednesday!) This meansthe Demonstration Garden needs volunteers for answering questionsand providing tours of the Garden. Contact LaVina Patterson to sign upfor a shift or two: 503-397-4375 or lavanderlady@msn.comIn addition to the Fair Volunteers, please show up at the Garden on July15th, 5 to 7 pm to help finalize getting the garden ready for the openingof the Fair. Contact Sonia to let her know you’ll be there and for aheadcount for pizza! LaVina says there are plenty of items to still getaccomplished. See you there!Also on the agenda is the Annual Association Picnic. The coordinator isMelisa Richardson and Sonia will be helping her this year. Remember tomark your calendar on August 25th, noon to 3pm for the picnic. Larry Byrum, President, CCMGARemember to turn in your Volunteer Hours: mgvrs.extension.oregonstate.eduJuly 11Project Planning Meeting 10:00 amBoard Meeting 10:30amJuly 11BugNutz 1:00 pm-4:00 pmJuly 15All Chapter Meeting at Demo Gardenat 5-7pm to ready garden for CountyFair visitors; need head count for pizza!July 17-21Columbia County Fair! * See page 2July 18Columbia County Beekeepers Meeting:Paul Anderson presents on VarroaMites and control. Open to public.Columbia County Master Gardeners Association2019 CCMG Board of Directors Larry Byrum, President Chuck Petersen, Past President Sandy Newman, Vice President Brooke McClain, Secretary Kathy Johnson, TreasurerPage1 of 9 LaVina Patterson, Historian VACANT, OMGA Rep. Pat LaPointe, OMGA Alt-Rep.
Demonstration Garden – Getting Ready for County Fair Visitors!The weekly work parties continue on Mondays AND Saturdays from 10:00 AM til 12:00 noon.The Demo Garden was featured in the St. Helens Garden Club Garden Tour last month and now we arelooking forward to hosting visitors during the County Fair July 17 th – 21st. Please plan to join us for an allChapter “meeting” at the demonstration garden on July 15 th at 5pm to do some final work in preparation forour visitors. (Sonia is collecting a head count for our pizza dinner!) If you would like to help out with hostingvisitors, giving mini-tours and answering questions during the fair, please contact your Demo GardenCoordinator to sign up for some volunteer time.Demo Garden Update from LaVina: “Since everyone has worked so hard in the Demo Garden it is lookinggreat. Zelda and her husband pressure washed the fence so it is looking great. There are always weeds topull and a lot of deadheading to be done. For some reason the popcorn has put on silk and it isn't even kneehigh yet! There are still open slots to work in the Demo Garden during fair, please call me so I can put youdown for a time. Your Demo Garden Coordinator, LaVina Patterson”Demo Garden Coordinator: LaVina Patterson (503) 397-4375 ******************************July 17th – 21st 2019 – Columbia County Fair & RodeoFair Hours & Special Admissions: Wednesday 10 a.m.-11 p.m. - (Seniors/Veterans get in free) Thursday 10 a.m.-11 p.m. - (Jr. Rodeo/Kids free till 3p.m.) Friday 10 a.m.- midnight - (Rodeo at 7pm) Saturday 10 a.m.- midnight - (Rodeo at 7pm)And photos with OSU’s Benny Beaver from 3pm-7pm! Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. - (Carnival buddy day)The OSU Extension Master Gardener Demonstration & Learning Garden at the fairgrounds willbe open daily for tours with Master Gardeners on hand to answer your questions!Visit https://www.columbiacountyfairgrounds.com/ for admission prices & complete schedule.Remember to turn in your Volunteer Hours: mgvrs.extension.oregonstate.eduPage 2 of 9
Call for Photos of Pollinators!Metallic sweat bee on a coneflower. Photo by OSU.Next year’s Columbia Soil andWater Conservation Districtcalendar will featurepollinators and should bereally cool! They are seekingawesome photos ofpollinators in ColumbiaCounty (especially pollinatorsvisiting native plants) and aretrying to use locally takenphotos first.Crystalyn Bush, Riparian Specialist, (503)433-3205, *******Bug Nutz NewsThe Bug Nutz were enjoyed by two classes atthe Lewis & Clark School on May 30th. I wantto give special thanks to Sonia, Chuck andDeb for going to the 4-H camp at CampKiwanilong in Warrenton. The kids alwaysenjoy the bugs. LaVina PattersonThank you to the BugNutz!!Thank you for all the educational activitiessuch as eduformances, the Children’s Fair,(another one is upcoming in October)demonstrations at the demo garden and thekids activities at the Spring Fair!Remember to turn in your Volunteer Hours: mgvrs.extension.oregonstate.eduPage 3 of 9
To Weed or Not to Weedby Marjie StankoEach summer an unknown plant forces its way through soil to sunalong the side fence of my backyard.Each summer the guys who help me maintain my yard insist it’s a weed(A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "aplant in the wrong place." www.wikipedia.com).Each summer, convinced it is a sore for sweet eyes, I pull it from aridsoil. Cast it in the trash. Make sure it’s gone.This year, now a Master Gardener, I know to “find out what it is beforeyou destroy it.”The plant of questionable origins had permission to stay once itsprouted this Spring. With the same sparkling devotion I give to all myother plants, I watered. Like every other plant, it prospered. Clustersof small purple and pink bells amid long, thin dark leaves grew onhardy stems. Three feet of green and grace now beautify the fence.This winter’s Master Gardener Certification class taught me tools to research and identify what I can’t figure out onmy own, techniques for grooming my garden, pest control, pruning techniques. It reawakened long dormantmemories of starting my herbs and vegetables from seeds in egg cartons, keeping them warm in a table top box Iconstructed from an old window and milk crate. My continuing joy of houseplants, always filling my home with life inall its luscious greenness has been reconfirmed.Now, I’m working on discovering what this new plant is. A photo search led me to common comfrey. While studyingin the herb gardens of the Morris Jumel Mansion over 40 years ago, I learned comfrey is:1. A staple in Colonial herb gardens.2. Great for teas, poultices and cold cures.3. The only plant with Vitamin B12.(As a woman who periodically has depleted B12 and aspires to a high green diet, this gave me hope.)4. It takes 30 cubic feet of comfrey, eaten at one sitting, to provide the minimum daily requirement.5. Poisonous in large quantities, comfrey’s probably not the right choice as a dietary supplement.(These last two facts dashed my comfrey hope).I also learned it is not native to the PNW, and therefore, out of its native element. Which means it’s a weed.This year, nonetheless, I have upgraded its status. Whether or not it’s comfrey, it has gone from weed to wanted.Remember to turn in your Volunteer Hours: mgvrs.extension.oregonstate.eduPage 4 of 9
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July 7 - 10 a.m.Maurice HornHydrangea Tour in the Gardens of Joy Creek Nursery & Their Use as Landscape PlantsJoy Creek Nursery houses a large collection of hydrangeas, not only the showy mop-head andlacecap types that are familiar to the public but also less common species, climbing forms and closerelatives. Many of these shrubs are more than 20 years old in the garden and will be at their best inJuly. This tour is designed to acquaint gardeners with the large variety of hydrangeas that areavailable and to teach good cultural practices. Learn how to use them as not only specimens, but aslandscape plants. The tour begins in the cool of the morning at 10 a.m. and will include instructionsand best practices for planting and care. Free and open to the public.Maurice Horn is co-owner of Joy Creek Nursery. Hydrangeas are among his many plant passions.Come with your questions!July 21 - 1 p.m.Ramona WulzenThe Big Beautiful TourThere are amazing bold and beautiful plants in the gardens at Joy Creek Nursery. Many of theseserve double duty as privacy plants in the landscape, something many of our customers are seekingout these days. Come and walk the gardens with Ramona and learn about some larger plants outthere and determine which ones will do well in your own garden. There's always something new tolearn! Plants in the larger range include perennials, shrubs, small trees, grasses and vines. Manyhave fall color or flowers or interesting bark. Free and open to the public.Ramona Wulzen draws on her years of experience working with Joy Creek customers and tendingher own gardens. A life-long gardener, she has gardened both on a city lot and on three acres inthe woods. Ramona is a veteran of our retail department and now works in our landscapedepartment.Remember to turn in your Volunteer Hours: mgvrs.extension.oregonstate.eduPage 6 of 9
Columbia County Oregon Bee Atlas GroupOur Columbia County Oregon Bee Atlas group plans to collect native bees all over the county throughoutthe summer. We are particularly interested in collecting bees from natural areas, especially from nativeblooming flowers. If you can direct us to a good location where you have noticed a lot of flowers (or weeds)blooming, please let us know. We have a list of plants we are looking for, some of which may still be inbloom in higher areas and some that are yet to bloom such as thistles, goldenrod, huckleberry, asters,phacelia, mallows, penstemon, and sunflowers. If you have any suggestions for good collecting areas withplenty of blooming flowers, please let Debi know at 503-543-3294 or email: bmixtus@gmail.comColumbia CountyBeekeepers – JulyMeetingColumbia County OregonBeekeepers July meeting: Itis time to explore the Varroamite. What is it? How doesit affect honeybee health?Why is it important to knowits life cycle? What can bedone? What does the futurehold? Now is the time to actto help your bees raisehealthy “fat” bees to survive the winter. Paul Anderson from Tualatin Valley Beekeepers will tackle thisextremely important subject Thursday July 18th at 6pm at the Columbia County Extension Office.Note that this is a change to our normal schedule of monthly meetings. In August, we will return to meetingon the first Thursday of the month at 6 pm at the PUD meeting room. On August 1st, Mark Johnson, a localcommercial beekeeper, will be our speaker.This will be a free open to the public meeting and everyone is welcome to attend! For more information,please contact Linda: (503) 799-7073 lindazahl2@gmail.com Linda Zahl, President of the Columbia County Oregon BeekeepersRemember to turn in your Volunteer Hours: mgvrs.extension.oregonstate.eduPage 7 of 9
A WALK THROUGH THE GARDEN part 3 of 3An original essay by Margie Ann Stanko, 2019 Master Gardener TraineeA WALK THROUGH THE GARDEN part 3 of 3Essay by Margie Ann Stanko, 2019 Master Gardener TraineeThere are flowers I can’t identify, and a clematis which reminds me of a lotus, only it’sgrowing as a vine that crawls along the ground. Another hero plant vying for victory withthe sun. I gave it a metal sculpture of two people to use as a trellis. It seems happy to weaveits way around it in a tangle of purple and green. The Japanese maple, Andromeda, weepingcedar, rhododendrons, hydrangea, and hellebore - with its large cream and green waxypetalled blossom, lilies, and grasses are here, there and everywhere, all in the wrong place atthis wrong time.I do have relationships with the herbs in my garden,even if they were there when I became the owner, I feel blessedby their presence. I’m not sure about my apple tree – toofruitful for just me. But that jungle of rhododendrons, Japanesemaples, firs, and ferns that shrinks the space by itswaywardness, even with their beauty, I have no attachment to.Even the rosebushes –their magical flowing alien scentspermeating the air at sunset mean nothing to me.Maybe I am just a practical gardener. I want beauty andutilitarianism. I make an exception for the violas, their Let MeTell You A Story faces and their gentle scent entertain with abright chortle and velvety appeal. I have to replace Chuck, the‘Charles Joly’ lilac I purchased during Lilac Days at the Hurda Kelger Gardens. The smokeof the fires in The Gorge suffocated him.I am getting ready to pull out, reposition, discard what was before and repurpose whatis beloved. Hopefully, with the Master Gardener program beside me, the garden I create willbe lush with color, scent, texture and tastes that tantalize and tease, no longer mattering whatwas, just mattering what is.Remember to turn in your Volunteer Hours: mgvrs.extension.oregonstate.eduPage 8 of 9
Columbia County Master Gardeners AssociationBoard Meeting MinutesJune 6, 2019President Larry ByrumAttended by Larry Byrum, Sandy Newman, Kathy Phelan, LaVina Patterson, Chuck Petersen, Chip Bubl &Sonia ReaganHousekeeping: Secretary’s Report – Minutes of May Board and Chapter meetings, Accepted as written Treasurer’s Report - Questions on two vendors paying 50 instead of 25 at Spring Fair. Additionalspace and table requirements. Questions on Spring Fair Insurance and how much it is and how it ispaid. Chuck moved the questions should be left for Kathy’s Spring Fair report as she was not inattendance at the meeting. Correspondence Sonia brought up Spring Fair bills labeled past due received in Extension Office, Soniawill mail to Kathy. Larry has not been receiving emails from OMGA so was not prepared to go to OMGAquarterly meeting today. Chuck received an email noting update from Chuck to Larry on the OMGAmail list so that should solve the problem.Committee Reports: OMGA Rep: Larry will go to the September Meeting and prepare the Two Minute Report. CC Fairgrounds Garden: Garden ready for St Helens Garden Tour on Saturday June 8, with somefinishing touches being done on Friday, June 7.Old Business: Demo Garden Chapter Meeting on July 15: Larry is working on and it was decided to have Pizzainstead of Pot Luck. Motion was made and passed to pay for the pizza out of the Demo Garden budget.Work Party and Pizza to be announced at next Membership Meeting. Work Party will be 5:00 PM to7:00PM and Sonia has volunteered to pick up and deliver the pizza to the Demo Garden.New Business: Annual Picnic lead(s)– announcement in Grapevine and Country LivingA discussion was held as to how to get someone interested in taking on the Lead for the Picnic. Soniawill send out a notice by email, it will be in the monthly Newsletter and brought up at the MembershipMeeting. OMGA mini college attendee Jerry SimpsonNo Mini College this year so what should be offered instead as a benefit for the winner of the MasterGardener of the Year award? Some discussion but no decision was made. July 2019 Board Meeting scheduled for Thursday, July 11July 4 was to be Board Meeting but it was moved out to July 11 instead. Brooke McClain, SecretaryRemember to turn in your Volunteer Hours: mgvrs.extension.oregonstate.eduPage 9 of 9
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