From the Potting Shed February 2015 Master Gardeners of Bergen County SAVE THE DATE! Mastering Organic Gardening and Landscaping Speaker: Bill Hlubik Professor, Rutgers University Director/Agricultural Agent, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County Director, the EARTH Center February 24 County Administration Building 1 Bergen Plaza, Hackensack, 1st Floor Meeting Room (Home of the County Extension Office) Refreshments at 7pm; Announcements at 7:20pm Volunteer Hours are Due It’s That Time! We need your Volunteer and Education Activity Report (VEAR) forms. We use this information for our Rutgers Cooperative Extension and Rutgers University reports, as well as the annual recertification of Master Gardeners. There are two ways to report. 1. Excel Form: Can be used on any PC and emailed. This is the easiest and best way to track hours. 2. Paper Form: Paper has to be mailed and you need to make a copy for records. Join fellow Master Gardeners for an enriching presentation on mastering organic gardening and landscaping. Bill Hlubik will demonstrate how the proper use of genetics, culture, plant placement, and soil amendments can stimulate beneficial micro-organisms and transform soils to provide a healthy environment for plants and people. We will learn how to reduce the use of pesticides, fertilizers, and water in landscapes and gardens. Both types can be found at mgofbc.org. If you haven't downloaded new forms (particularly paper) in a while, please download updated versions found on the website. Bill Hlubik is a Professor at Rutgers University and serves as the Agricultural and Resource Management Agent for Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County. Bill is the Director for the EARTH Center and the RCE of Middlesex County. There are now examples of volunteer and education forms on mgofbc.org. They can be found under MG of BC Forms. They may answer your question on how to list volunteer or education activities. Bill teaches undergraduate agricultural and horticultural courses and Extension programs to students and clientele throughout the state and the northeast. Bill helped to organize and teach the statewide Organic Landcare Program which just graduated its third year of organic land care professionals. Mr. Hlubik has conducted research on the development of new strawberry cultivars for the northeast as well as disease control of ornamental and vegetable crops. Bill grew up on a farm in Burlington County and continues to help out with the family farm in the production of vegetables, grains, specialty crops, and beef cattle. Bill has expertise in plant pathology, horticulture, agricultural production, turf management and organic landscaping. Bill is a graduate of Rutgers University. The January meeting was cancelled due to the expected snow storm and its speaker will be rescheduled for this fall. When using the excel form, please remember to save the file with your name and year of reporting. This can be done by clicking on the File menu, then Save As. You can then rename the file. Example, Jane Smith 2014. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to call or email Donna Karpel, at 201 327-8355 [email protected] March 21 39th Annual Rutgers Home Gardeners School Info and registration at www.cpe.rutgers.edu Register NOW! Table of Contents Page Save the Date 1 MG of BC News 2 Membership News 3 Volunteers Needed/Site News 4/5 Trips and Tours 5 Horticulture News 6/7 Garden Club Grapevine 8 Links are clickable and are noted in blue. 1 MG of BC News From the President’s Desk Web Site Passwords With the enormous success of the Skylands Manor Holiday Open House, I would like to thank De Trezza, Laura DeFlora and all the other volunteers who contributed to the event. This was the best year ever, and a whopping $30,784.94 was raised for the New Jersey Botanical Gardens! Check out the decorations video on our website, as well as the volunteers in action. If you would like to be able to access the password protected part of our web site, please contact Joseph Cooper, [email protected], to arrange for a password. Can’t wait to start digging in the garden? Well, here are four shows to fulfill your horticultural cravings: Skylands Decorating Committee Needs The Skylands decorating committee could use some sturdy shelving, clear plastic storage bins, and electrical power strips. Your donation would be a big help. Time to Renew your MG Membership Membership renewals are overdue. Please complete your renewal, making any necessary changes to the information that differs from last year. Then send it with your check for $20 payable to the Master Gardeners of Bergen County to: John Walters 6 Valley Road Glen Rock, NJ 07452 Meeting Dates in 2015: Feb. 24, Mar. 24, Apr. 28, and May 19 Feb. 12-15 NJ Flower & Garden Show Feb. 19-22 Connecticut Garden & Flower Show Feb. 28-Mar. 8 Philadelphia Flower Show March 12-15 Springfest Garden Show All lectures and workshops count towards master gardeners educational requirements. Details and links can be found on our website. Wishing you a happy winter! Joseph Cooper MASTER GARDENER PROGRAM—SYLLABUS for WINTER 2015 th All classes are 10am-12noon in the Learning Center, 4 floor (unless otherwise stated) DATE TOPIC INSTRUCTOR Feb 6 Woody Plants: Small Trees Joel Flagler Feb 13 Plant Propagation Joel Flagler Feb 20 Landscape Design Basics Arnie Friedman Feb 27 Turf IPM Joel Flagler Mar 6 Deer Management Seminar Carole Stanko, NJDEP Mar 13 Springfest Flower Show; Augusta, NJ; meet 10am in the show lobby Mar 20 Pruning Workshop; Hands-on; location TBA Joel, Arnie Friedman Mar 27 Hotline Training Dail Reid Apr 3 Good Friday Holiday—No Class (Spring Semester runs from Apr 10-Jun 5) Bergen County Rutgers Cooperative Extension Office Joel Flagler Agricultural/Resources Management Agent & County Extension Dept. Head 201-336-6780 Dail Reid Horticulture Consultant 201-336-6788 Cooperating Agencies: Rutgers, the State University of NJ, US Department of Agriculture, and Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders. Rutgers Cooperative Extension educational programs are offered to all without regard to race, religion, color, age, national origin gender sexual orientation or disability Rutgers Cooperative Contributors to this month’s newsletter include: Daphne Boss Ayalon, Joseph Cooper, Suzanne Danzig, Tracey Fraser, Arnie Friedman, Carolyn Gretchen, Donna Karpel, Lucy Malka, Miriam Taub, De Trezza, and John Walters. 2 MEMBERSHIP NEWS Meet Agnes Adler Master Gardener, Class of 1990 Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Agnes Center), she picked up where she left off years before. She attended Bergen Community College for a class in horticulture and another in plant propagation. Her goal, she said, was to work with plants and people. “A wish to study was always in me,” she said. Then, at age 63, Agnes took a 10-day course in the Amazon rain forest to study with ethnobotanist Dr. Jim Duke. She refers to that course as a “safari boot camp.” Mention an herb to Master Gardener Agnes Adler and you’ll get instructions on its use and how to prepare it. Do you have a sore throat? An infection? How about something to strengthen your immune system? Agnes can advise on the herbs that will help your condition. Do you have a kitchen window that could benefit from a selection of herbs on the sill? Again, Agnes will suggest how to bring your outdoors indoors. Agnes, who is 84 years young, is a woman of many talents: She’s a sculptor, collage maker, stained-glass artist, gardener, and herbalist. Her home in Westwood is chock full of her artwork, books, plants, and memorabilia. In fact, during our interview, she wore a ceramic clay necklace that she created. Also abundant in the Adler home are the sculptures created by her husband, David, who died last year. They were married 58 years and have a daughter in California and a son in upstate New York. Agnes was born in Budapest where her interest in plants began at age 3 when, she recalled, her father brought home a succulent named Echeveria mexicana. “He brought it home to encourage me to learn the names of the plants,” she said. He told her that maybe when she grew up she could go to school to become a botanist. But, times were changing in Eastern Europe. Hungary was no longer safe for Jews. At age 14 while on a bus to run an errand, Agnes had a chance encounter with Raoul Wallenberg that saved her life. Later, she lived in Mandatory Palestine under the British, Cyprus, and for 10 years in Israel. It was during that time that she became a member of a collective settlement, or kibbutz, and worked in the vineyard, her favorite workplace. “For me the vineyard was the best place. You were out in the sunshine, connected to plants,” she said. The vineyard, she recalled, toughened her up and taught her perseverance. In 1961, Agnes came to the United States to study art at Cooper Union. While working as a medical records analyst at Bergen Pines (now Bergen Regional Medical “I was always interested in the medicinal part of plants and how they affected people. We saw Indians in the rain forest who took care of their medical needs [with plants] for 12,000 years. There were shamans who were expert in harvesting in the wild. I tried to get as much of this knowledge as I could in 10 days.” Realistically, she adds, “you could study 30, 40 years and you still won’t know everything.” But, as a result of her study, she created a lecture for the Bergen Museum. One of her audience members, an herbalist, befriended Agnes and took her to every herbal conference in New England. “Plants are very powerful and, in the future of medicine, plants will probably play an even more important part,” Agnes predicted. Agnes served for seven years as hospitality chair of the Master Gardeners of Bergen County. In 2012, Agnes received the Rutgers Master Gardeners Association of New Jersey's “Award for Excellence. It was really a surprise to me when suddenly they called my name,” she says of receiving the award. She added with a laugh, “I’m glad they appreciated my seven years of carrying bags of food to the meetings.” Since Agnes has many stories to tell, she self-published her memoir titled “On Swallow’s Wings: The Personal Journey of Agnes Adler.” To read a 2012 interview with the Adlers in The Jewish Standard, go to http://jstandard.com/index.php/content/item/21586/. Archivist Wanted Attention “Senior” MGs. If you’re no longer able to do physical work (think weeding), but you want to keep up your certification hours, this job may be for you. The MG’s need a new ARCHIVIST. The job includes creating an index and scanning documents on to a disk to create an archive and answering questions from the Board as requested. If interested, e-mail Joseph Cooper, [email protected], ASAP. 3 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED/SITE NEWS Thinking Outside the Book: StoryWalk at the Thielke Arboretum Innovative On Feb. 7 at 2pm, rain/snow date Feb. 8, the Glen Rock/Thielke Arboretum, 460 Doremus Ave., Glen Rock, is launching a new innovative project, called StoryWalk®, on its grounds. StoryWalk® is a novel approach to encouraging people of all ages to get out in Nature while enjoying wonderful children’s books. StoryWalk® was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and is currently used in 48 states and four countries. Laminated pages from The Snowy Day by Ezra Keats will be displayed on beautiful Arboretum trees along a pre-determined trail. As you stroll along the trail, you will be directed to each sequential page of the story. The Snowy Day is the first of an anticipated four book, four season nature/literacy project at the Arboretum. What’s a good book without a discussion afterwards! At the conclusion of this StoryWalk®, the Glen Rock/Thielke in collaboration with The Curious Reader Bookstore, will provide hot chocolate and light refreshments as a venue to share your experiences with your family and friends. In the spirit of community support for literacy and nature, The Curious Reader, 229 Rock Rd., a unique and special children’s bookstore, is generously donating materials, a banner, some monetary assistance, and a percentage of the special book sales that day. Sally Morgan and Jim Morgan have created a literary haven for toddlers through young adults in their welcoming children’s literary space. In addition, Mail & More Inc., 233 Rock Road, a mail center under the direction of Paul Duggan, is providing the labor and laminating materials for the book pages to enable them to be securely mounted in the outdoors to be enjoyed by all. This is an outdoor experience, so dress accordingly. This event is free to the public for your enjoyment. All are invited! Come celebrate a new winter experience of StoryWalk®, with the award-winning book, A Snowy Day by Ezra Keats, in the stunningly beautiful Thielke Arboretum on Feb. 7 at 2pm. Remember the Arboretum is open dawn to dusk, so plan to revisit the StoryWalk as many times as you’d like. The StoryWalk® book will change in the Spring, so look for our future announcements. Please visit us at www.glenrockarboretum.org for additional information about the Arboretum and upcoming programs. Docents Needed at Thielke/Glen Rock Arboretum Volunteers for the 2015 docent class for the Thielke/Glen Rock Arboretum, at 460 Doremus Avenue in Glen Rock, are now being recruited. Docents give educational talks, and act as tour guides for both children and adults at the Arboretum. Whether conducting a tour for adults, or sharing educational knowledge with children’s groups, docents share their love and knowledge of this beautiful natural environment and heighten awareness and importance of the need to conserve nature with others. Docent applicants must be 18 or older and participate in an ongoing free training program instructed by the Arboretum Education Team. Docents do not need a background in biology, science or teaching. You just need a love of nature, a desire to give back and help others, and an enjoyment in being with other like-minded individuals. If you are interested, please contact the docent coordinator, Lucy Malka at 201-410-9620, [email protected] For further information about the Arboretum and its programs, visit www.glenrockarboretum.org, or check us out on Facebook. Rutgers Job Opening The Rutgers Department of Agricultural and Resource Management Agents is continuing a search to fill a staff-level Program Associate II position with Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension in Passaic County. Your assistance in finding suitable applicants by sharing this announcement would be greatly appreciated. The posting can be found at: http://uhrapps.rutgers.edu/jobs/JobDetail.aspx?pst_num=14001740 4 Washington Spring Garden One of Bergen County’s hidden treasures is located in Van Saun Park in Paramus. A breathtaking garden constructed around an historic site has been an oasis for many of Bergen County’s residents. Washington Spring Garden was planted around a natural spring that, as history has it, was a site where George Washington rested with his troops and drank from the spring. Approximately 10 year ago, Bergen County redesigned this important garden under the direction of Alan Koenig, Landscape Architect for Bergen County Department of Parks. Alan integrated this new planting design, walkways, and bridges to blend beautifully with the original, mature rhododendrons, azaleas, and mountain laurels. This garden puts on a magnificent display throughout the year. For years the park’s maintenance crew attempted to keep up with the care of the garden along with the daily upkeep of Van Saun Park and the zoo. In 2008, Alan Koenig approached Joel Flagler asking if MGofBC would step in to help maintain the garden. From the spring of 2008 to the present, the garden has been cared for by a core group of MGs. As site coordinator, Suzanne Danzig has worked alongside fellow MGs, Joseph Cooper, Jeff Chan, Fred Levitan, Pat Vellas, Christiane Oliveri, and Serpil Levine, who have tirelessly kept the garden weeded, the spring free of watercress, provide spring and fall clean-up, and mulched the beds. We have taken great pride in what we do at the garden and the ultimate reward is when the frequent visitors come and thank us for keeping this special sanctuary beautiful. Please join us as we continue to maintain this hidden treasure. Contact Suzanne at [email protected] TRIPS AND TOURS NJBG Skylands Manor Tours–Feb. 1 Guided tours of the ground floor of historic Skylands Manor at the NJ State Botanical Garden will be available on Sunday, February 1 from 11am to 3pm Sponsored by the NJBG/Skylands Association, the nonprofit member support organization working with the State to preserve the gardens, the 45-minute guided tours of Skylands history and architecture are conducted by NJBG volunteer tour guides or docents. Owls of New Jersey Audubon program at NJBG – Feb. 22 NJBG invites you to learn more about the Owls of New Jersey at the New Jersey State Botanical Garden on Sunday, February 22, at 1pm. Don Torino of the Bergen County Audubon Society will offer an indoor photo presentation on these fascinating and important raptors, touching on the many different species that inhabit our region. Sorry, no live specimens. This program is free and will be held indoors at the Carriage House Visitor Center. Ongoing snow cancels. Josie Ko is planning new tours for Spring Trip to Philadelphia Flower Show The Garden Club of Teaneck is taking reservations now for the 2015 Philadelphia Flower Show bus: Wednesday, March 4, 8am departure. Tickets are $62/person for round-trip bus, show entry ticket, and gratuity. Questions? Please contact Aura Altieri, 201 923-7028 and/or email queries to [email protected] Sorry, reservations without payment are not accepted and only partial refunds after midnight February 17. Send checks (payable to Garden Club of Teaneck) to Flower Show, 417 Maitland Ave., Teaneck, NJ 07666. Please include your name, address, tel. number(s) and email address. 5 HORTICULTURE NEWS A Bee in My Bonnet: Part III – The Beewitching Power of Flowers Our journey today takes us to the sunny side and the dependency that evolved between bees and some flowering plant families about a hundred million years ago. I’m visualizing a co-existing, equal exchange distribution system of vast proportions. Nectar and pollen tucked in a flower were the lure developed by plants to attract bees. Not to be outdone, bees evolved to return the favor by transporting pollen stuck to body parts to the next flower they visited. Put differently, male sperm in the pollen is carried to the female part of the flower – the stigma. And in this simple way, DNA for sexual reproduction is transferred between individuals of the same species via carrier. Judging by the fact that flowering plants play a dominant role in Nature, this system is extremely efficient. The sun plays a vital part in this relationship because both bees and flowers make active use of the sun. We’re all aware of the role the sun plays in photosynthesis. But the sun actually ties cause and effect between bees and flowers. Bees rely on the sun to navigate from hive to feeding source and back. Have you ever seen bees working on a cloudy day? What’s a flower to do under these circumstances? Some flowers dependent on bee pollination, like the pumpkin flower, won’t open on cloudy or rainy days. Many flowers, such as poppies (Papaver spp.) close at night. A closed flower ensures quality products by keeping the pollen dry and other insects out. Why bother and waste energy to open shop when customers won’t be arriving? gets too cold to fly. And if that’s not enough, a variety of flowers ensures nectar flows throughout the daylight hours. Flower species learned to share a limited pollination resource by timing their colorful display during the day and the growing season. And so, the apple tree flowers at the beginning of the season and Joe-Pye weed (Eutrochium maculatum) shines at the end. While chicory (Cichorium intybus) flowers open very early in the morning and close at noon, four o’clocks (Mirabilis jalapa) only open in the later part of the day. Grateful bees do their part and spend every possible moment working. Flowering plants also evolved to spread vertically from ground to sky, layering a palette of enticing rewards for winged creatures. The result is a great mosaicked landscape of diverse habitat, including groundcovers and shrubs, trees and vines, with perennials and annuals growing in between. While all bee species pollinate, bumblebee and solitary bee species pollinate flowers wholesale, indiscriminately. But what good is pollinating a borage stigma with calendula pollen? That’s wasted energy. Honey bees are very special because they developed “brand name loyalty”, vastly increasing the chances for successful reproduction. Throughout the day they will prefer to visit the same flowering species as much as possible, rather than skip from one species to another. Although it’s snowing outside, swirling thoughts of flowers, bees, and summer occupy my mind. The growing season isn’t far off and if I want happy honey bees, I first need a nourishing environment. What would it take to create bee-haven? Lovely sun also keeps bees warm enough to function and so, on the same token, induces nectar flow in flowers. If all this talk of sun makes you think of large flowing, flowering meadows, then here’s a fresh look at the natural habitat bees call home. This environment is the layered landscape, where plant species of different heights share resources and live side by side. Bees need variety. Variety offers a secure space from enemies, and shelter from wind and cold. Variety also includes an ample supply of forage, from the day it’s warm enough to leave the hive in spring, till the day it From The Green Side: A Report from the TPIE and Things on the Horizon It's cold snowy January and I have escaped to South Florida. My excuse is it’s Florida's yearly Tropical Plant Industry Exhibition. Held every year in Fort Lauderdale at the huge Convention center, this show features growers of tropical plants from all over Florida, marketers of nursery and grower accessories, and lots of interesting hort. industry people. 6 One great plant I was introduced to is Synsepalum dulcificum known as Miracle Fruit. The red berries from this plant when chewed on will turn anything you eat afterward from sour to sweet! It really was amazing. I popped this little berry (that was a lot like a pomegranate seed) into my mouth and chewed the meat off the hard seed. After spitting that out I took a slice of a sour lemon and chewed on it. Instead of being super sour, it was like a sugar coated lemon! I am told that the active ingredient, miraculin, is sometimes processed as a sugar substitute for diabetics, but it has never gotten FDA approval in the U.S. Walking around I came upon a vendor of Biochar. I've been hearing about this soil amendment lately. It is one of the new ideas coming over the horizon in the world of sustainable and Eco-friendly gardening. Biochar is really a version of our old friend charcoal. It, however, in this eco-friendly version, is made from biomass. Biomass, of course, is any collected green waste. It can be excess sawdust from a mill, the leftovers from processing sugar cane, lawn waste, fall leaves, etc. Instead of turning into mulch or burying and burning, the biomass is heated in a low oxygen environment. So instead of breaking down and the carbon being released into the atmosphere or converted to fertilizer, the waste turns to charcoal. It is then ground up and used as a soil amendment. What this process means for the environment is that the carbon is locked up almost forever. This means the more Biochar that's made, the less carbon emissions. But, the real importance is what Biochar can do for crops and the garden. Biochar, when spread over a poor quality soil and then incorporated near the surface, significantly improves growing conditions. Its first benefit is in improving soil texture. It is light and granular and does not soften or compact soil, so dense soils drain better. Soils with low water content or areas of drought benefit because Biochar retains moisture because it is very porous. A second great benefit is that it is a perfect environment to support soil organisms especially mycorrhizae. Recent research shows a third benefit in the ability of Biochar to hold onto nitrogen. It prevents the nitrogen from leaching down into the soil and keeps it closer to the surface because it binds to the char. I am not advocating that we all rush out and start spreading Biochar in our gardens. Heavens NO! It will not replace mulch and compost. However in the case of a garden where topsoil doesn't exist or has been scraped away by construction or flooding, it might be an important amendment to use in rebuilding the soil. For growing crops when soil has been worn down by over planting, compaction, or the creation of new raised beds, this seems to be an important component. Where do you get it? Well, it's been made and used in the Amazon region for the last 2000 years. However, unless you are doing slash and burn in the rainforest, you have to buy it. The really good thing is you only need to add it once. Since it doesn't degrade, it stays in your soil permanently. Now a note about the Biochar I saw at the show. It is a packaged Biochar called Cool Terra. It is a Biochar that has been PH adjusted to make it consistently neutral, since Biochar, when made is slightly alkaline, is amended with micro rhizomes. Do we need to add more of these to our soil? The science is cloudy here. If you’re adding compost and mulch, there should be plenty of natural organisms in the mix. If you’re fixing a soil or building beds, Biochar should only be one component along with the above normal items. Soon I think we will be seeing it at most nursery supply places and it is certainly sold online. I cannot be specific on the quantity to use, but I believe if you spread an inch or two and work it into the surface that would be enough. The other interesting thing I saw was a vendor of beneficial insects. If anyone has toured Secor Farms in Mahwah, you would have seen this greenhouse being rid of thrips and aphids without the use of insecticides. The environmentally friendly way of growing to control insect pests is to release beneficial insects on your growing plants. For years we've heard of using ladybugs for eating aphids. Well, coming down the pike now are more advanced insects that can target unwanted pests without harming the environment. The booth I stopped at was a company called Beneficial Insectary from Redding, California. They carry a wide selection, but I was amazed by a couple of their featured pest controllers . One is Green Lacewing. It is a small insect that attacks the eggs and the immature stages of most soft bodied pests like aphids, thrips, spider mites, mealy bugs, and caterpillars of moths. The grower releases these that eat away for two weeks consuming 200 eggs or larvae and then go into a cocoon and emerge as an adult that lives 4-6 weeks. I was amazed that they eat up to 600 eggs. Then I was introduced to Fly Parasites, a small bug that searches out fly pupa where they lay their eggs. The eggs hatch and the larvae feed on the fly pupa. It kills the fly and then new fly parasites are hatched and go off looking for more flies to attack. They do not bother humans or animals. Their whole life is spent seeking out fly pupae to reproduce! Right now most of these products are aimed at the greenhouse grower and commercial producer, but soon I think we will see versions of these marketed and specialized for the home and smaller grower. Lastly I wanted to share a great plant I saw. It was a euphorbia grafted to a cactus also from the euphorbia family. Here's the photo. 7 The February Garden Club Grapevine Feb. 5 7:30pm Harrington Park Garden Club, Harrington Park Library, 10 Herring St. Topic: Comparative Landscapes; speaker: Barbara Bell Take a journey through garden history from Ancient Egypt to the present. Explore the features that define different periods in landscape design and learn how events and cultural influences make these gardens specific to their times and continue to inspire us today. Info: Gerri Gibney at 201-768-2615 or http://www.gardenclubofharringtonpark.com Feb. 6 1pm Demarest Garden Club, United Methodist Church -109 Hardenburgh Ave., Demarest Topic: Designing Your Rock Garden with Texture; speaker: Michael Wilson Feb. 10 7pm Ramsey Area Garden Club, Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, 55 Wyckoff Ave., Ramsey Topic: Container gardening: When the Pot becomes the Home; speaker: Ray Edel Feb. 11 7:30pm Garden Club of Oakland, Oakland Senior Center, 20 Lawlor Drive Topic: Winter Pruning with the Blue Star Memorial Highway Garden; speaker, Lucy Smith, who is a professional horticulturist. According to Ms. Smith, winter is the best time to address the anxieties that gardeners have always felt about just when and how to prune deciduous plants. Feb. 11 9:30am Wyckoff Area Garden Club, McFaul Wildlife Center, Wyckoff Topic: Decorative Birdhouses Using Materials from Nature; speaker: Speaker: Eileen Avia will use of seeds, nuts, sticks, bark, and dried flowers to decorate her beautiful, one-of-a-kind birdhouses. Feb. 17 7:30pm Glen Rock Garden Club, 678 Maple Ave. Topic: History of Herbs of Bergen County; Speaker: Pat Libutti For further information, call 201 447-6099. Feb. 19 7pm Bergen-Passaic Chapter of Native Plant Society of NJ, REI, 2200 Bergen Town Center, Paramus Topic: Attracting Wildlife with Native Plants; speaker: Elaine Silverstein Feb. 19 7:30pm Teaneck Garden Club, Rodda Center, 2nd floor, 250 Colonial Court, Teaneck Topic: Preparing your Garden for Spring; speaker: Ray Edel Please contact our liaison, Lucy Malka, at [email protected] or 201-791-3562, to supply information for the Garden th Clubs Grapevine. Publications deadlines are no later than the 25 of the prior month. 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