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2004 GCV Horticulture Award of Merit Winners
The Horticulture Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2004 Horticulture Award of Merit. Each of these talented women have been nominated by their club for demonstrating outstanding knowledge of horticulture and their willingness to share it with their club and community.
Nita Easley Andrews - Chatham Garden Club Chatham Garden Club proclaims, “Gardening is in Nita’s heart and mind.” She is generous in sharing her plants and her knowledge, and is a community resource for plant identification. She enjoys the challenge of propagation of difficult native plants such as wood ferns and mountain laurel, and is committed to the use of natural fertilizer and pest controls. Nita has served 6 years as Rose Test Chairman and 6 years as club Horticulture Chairman.
Mary Sherwood Holt - Huntington Garden Club Mary Sherwood Holt has a passion for gardening. Coming from a long line of gardeners, she wears many hats. She is an environmental activist, accomplished home gardener (with a love of native plants), and a community volunteer, working with the gardens at the Virginia Living Museum, gardens at the city library, and the 1607 Garden for the Newport News/Jamestown 2007 Community Program.
Mac Doughtie Houfek - Virginia Beach Garden Club “Whenever friends come to Virginia Beach and want to visit gardens, the first person to call is Mac.” This sums up the way her fellow garden club members think of Mac, the gardener. She has shared her knowledge and often her plants with friends, their friends, the GCV, and even the viewers of the House and Garden Television Network when Rebecca’s Garden toured and filmed her garden.
Genrose Lashinger - Williamsburg Garden Club “Genrose has a green thumb and a generous heart.” She shares her love of horticulture with “gardenclubbers”, Master Gardeners, the Colonial Chapter of the Herb Society, and the volunteers of Mattey’s Garden (Williamsburg Garden Club’s Common Wealth Award). In Mattey’s Garden, Genrose continues to educate the children and helps train the teachers, all the while preaching and practicing organic gardening.
Anne Olsen - Garden Club of the Northern Neck Since 1990, when Anne took the Master Gardener course she has volunteered 2000 hours to that program as president, course teacher, and in organizing numerous clinics and workshops open to the Northern Neck gardening community. Anne played an active role in the formation of the newly organized chapter of the Native Plant Society, re-designed the memorial garden at the Lancaster Community Library and had a central role in the memorial meditation garden at Rappahannock Community College where the club planted trees to commemorate 9/11.
Nancy J. Philpott - Garden Study Club Nancy is a Master Gardener who has received specialized training in environmental horticulture. She as volunteered over 250 hours with the Martinsville-Henry County Extension Office hotline and has written numerous articles for the Master Gardener Newsletter and the Martinsville Bulletin. She is currently working on the formation of a tree steward program in Martinsville.
Linda Pinkham - The Elizabeth River Garden Club Linda holds a degree in horticulture from Virginia Tech and previously owned with her husband Smithfield Gardens, a garden center in Suffolk, Va. As horticulture chairman of her club, Linda shares her knowledge through varied horticulture programs, informational handouts, and an “Ask the Horticulture Committee” workshop held before each meeting. Linda writes for the Garden Club of Virginia Journal and the Hampton Roads Home and Garden Living Newsletter. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Botanical Gardens, the GCV Horticulture Committee and will become the president of the Daylily Society in 2004.
Kay Van Allen - Lynchburg Garden Club Kay serves her club, the GCV, and her community well with her expertise in horticulture. She is horticulture chairman for her club and serves on the GCV Horticulture Committee. In the Lynchburg community she serves as a landscape advisor to Point of Honor and Amazement Square (Lynchburg’s Children’s Museum). In addition, she has co-authored a book on gardening, The Garden of Two Sisters.
Lucy Wilson - Martinsville Garden Club A dedicated gardener, Lucy freely shares her expertise in horticulture by giving programs and workshops for area garden clubs and encouraging the planting of new species with her own club members. She is a Master Gardener and a board member of Gateway Streetscape, a city and county beautification group. |