Program Note
Wayne Newell, PhD, who has been a Leesburg resident for 40 years and is a Geologist (Geo morphologist), talked about the limestone conglomerate outcroppings in Leesburg. See some pictures from Glady’s Lewis’ property that Dr. Newell discussed.
Members’ Spotlight
Di Cook
My B-day is June 30th. My message is that as long as you change your age by 1 year you can go forward or backwards! Di
Joan Elliott
8/21 - Northern Va. native, grew up in Fairfax Co, married a native Alexandrian, 3 children, 6 grands raised our family in Clifton, moved to Loudoun 25 years ago.Live on an old Christmas tree farm—grew and sold Christmas trees for 18 years. Volunteered for what was then Hospice of Northern Va, chaired their annual Tree of Lights for three years. Past president of The Ladies Board of Inova Loudoun Hospital and continue to chair and serve on various LB committees Past Elder and Deacon in the Presbyterian Church (Catoctin and Leesburg)Past president-Catoctin Garden Club Loudoun County Master Gardener And......Danced on Dick Clark’s American Band Stand!!!!!🤪It’s been and continues to be a great ride, always “paying it forward”.
A little bit of Poetry
(shared by Rosalie)
And Now It’s September
and the garden diminishes: cucumber leaves rumpled and rusty, zucchini felled by borers, tomatoes sparse on the vines. But out in the perennial beds, there’s one last blast of color: ignitions of goldenrod, flamboyant asters, spiraling mums, all those flashy spikes waving in the wind, conducting summer’s final notes.
The ornamental grasses have gone to seed, haloed in the last light. Nights grow chilly, but the days are still warm; I wear the sun like a shawl on my neck and arms. Hundreds of blackbirds ribbon in, settle in the trees, so many black leaves, then, just as suddenly, they’re gone. This is autumn’s great Departure Gate, and everyone, boarding passes in hand, waits patiently in a long, long line.
From American Life in Poetry
Ingeborg’s last roses
Gift From the Sea Arrangements (GCV)
(include sea shells/driftwood in your design)
Horticulture
Best Dahlia
Best Sunflower
Latin name is Helianthus annuus, variety is Sonja
In the News: Flower Arrangement Project
On Tuesday , August 25, 2020, four members of the Leesburg Garden Club got together with our president, Suzi Worsham at her home at Riverside on the Potomac, to arrange 30 vases full of colorful flowers to present to our community. We each donned masks and stayed 6 feet apart and enjoyed our time together. It was a great opportunity to be creative, whimsical and artistic with atleast 10 buckets full of glorious, colorful flowers from our gardens.
We then brought them to the heroes in our town of Leesburg who have been so strong in serving our community during the pandemic. We visited and dropped off the flowers to all the Police stations and Fire stations ( who also got loaves of home made zucchini bread) Post offices, Nursing homes and Assisted Living places, INOVA hospital and the Children's Emergency room ,Town hall, Urgent Care facilities and the two newspapers in town. They were well received and much appreciated by the recipients.
The arrangers were: Ingeborg Bock, Tracy Coffing, Sherri Anderson and Linda MacLean with generous flower offerings by Suzi Worsham, Kate Williams and Sherri Dennis. All of us felt that representing the Leesburg Garden Club in such a generous way was a wonderful and heartfelt experience.
