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2006 GCV Horticulture Award of Merit Winners Amarylis Childress: Roanoke Valley Garden Club Ama, as she is known, is a member of the GCV Horticulture Committee. She shares her love of horticulture through lectures and demonstrations at many Roanoke and Salem area garden clubs, exhibits, plant societies, and at Explore Park’s Spring Festival. She and her husband, Paul, have generously opened their home and garden for Historic Garden Week, for the regional meeting of the National Daylily Society and other events and for Horticulture Field Day in May, 2006 C.J. Carter: Garden Club of Northern Neck C.J., a member of the GCV Horticulture Committee, and incoming president of her garden club, is an enthusiastic and generous gardener. She shares information freely and has opened her beautiful garden for local garden tours and was featured in Better Homes and Gardens: Perennials, in spring, 2005. She exhibits winning horticulture specimens regularly at club meetings and has presented a program on making hypertufa planters for herbs to her club and others. C.J. is one of four founders of “Just Gardens”, an educational tour held annually on the Northern Neck, attracting some 1000 visitors. Nancy Gresham: Tuckahoe Garden Club Nancy, a tireless promoter of good horticultural practices in Tuckahoe Garden Club and in the Richmond community as well, has encouraged club members to become Backyard Habitat Sites, providing information on plants that attract and feed wildlife and birds. Always mindful of sharing her knowledge, she created a superb handout outlining shrubs and perennials that are good choices for Garden Week blooms. In an effort to help document gardens in Richmond, Nancy has become an accomplished plant photographer. Janice Whitehead: Spotswood Garden Club Janice, Horticulture Chair for her club and former member of GCV Horticulture Committee, has been a driving force for many projects in her club, at James Madison University Arboretum and for the Greener Harrisonburg Society. Currently Spotswood’s president and member of the GCV Development Committee, she still eagerly shares her knowledge with other garden clubs, youth groups and high school science/horticulture projects. Never satisfied with the status quo, Janice continues to attend horticulture symposiums throughout the state and she has regularly shared daffodils, lilies and roses for GCV flower shows. Her lovely garden has been featured in Southern Living. Nancy Brewbaker: Franklin Garden Club Nancy has been deeply involved in conservation, as well as restoration and horticulture, particularly since Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Nancy was the driving force behind the establishment of a pocket park in downtown Franklin after the devastating floodwaters ravaged the area. She serves the city on the beautification committee and continues to be involved in landscaping parking lots, trimming trees and planting flowers in parks and at entrances to the city. Kathy Welsh: Garden Club of Fairfax Kathy, currently Vice President of the Washington Daffodil Society, is an ADS judge and an accredited daffodil instructor. Since 1996 she has judged on opening day at the Philadelphia Flower Show. Kathy tirelessly shares her knowledge and passion for daffodils with others, running lectures and workshops for those interested in learning about daffodils, and also by regularly contributing to the ADS publication-The Daffodil Journal and to the Washington Daffodil Society’s quarterly newsletter. She currently serves on the GCV Daffodil Committee. Ellie Daley: Leesburg Garden Club Ellie, currently Horticulture Chair of the Leesburg Garden Club, has been chairman and coordinator of Va. Historic Garden Week. Her great love is native plants and she generously shares her knowledge with others. She continues to learn by attending local and state seminars and by taking courses at the U.S.B.A. graduate school. Because of her love of the environment Ellie has been in charge of the Lincoln Spring cleanup, which is part of “Keep Loudon Beautiful” for twenty years. She also works with middle and elementary school teachers to find students who might be interested in attending Nature Camp at Vesuvius, Va., in an effort to promote love for, and awareness of the environment among the young. Carolyn W. Jones: Garden Club of the Eastern Shore Carolyn, Chairman of the GCV Flower Show Committee, is an enthusiastic gardener and flower arranger and an accredited artistic judge for GCV. She opened her garden to GCV members during a Horticulture Field Day Workshop and has conducted many workshops as she graciously shares her garden expertise. She recently co-chaired the BOG meeting on the Eastern Shore and served as Garden Week Advisor for the 2006 tour. Carolyn and her husband supervised the planting of hundreds of Loblolly Pines and hardwoods as a buffer around agricultural fields along the road to Bayford, preventing erosion and adding beauty to the landscape. Mary Howard: Rivanna Garden Club Mary, chairman of the Conservation Committee for Rivanna, is also a certified judge for the GCV (Lilies). She is an enthusiastic plant “sharer”, and has generously opened her garden twice for Historic Garden Week and in April, 2006 for the Piedmont Horticulture Society’s “Through the Garden Gate”event. As a Master Gardener, Mary has donated many hours of service to the community. Judy Stegall McNeer: Boxwood Garden Club Judy, an enthusiastic sharer of gardening tips and expertise, serves as Lily chairman for her club. She has mentored three children at an elementary school, opening their eyes to nature and the wonder of growing things. One child, especially, blossomed under her tutelage, taking five blue ribbons and the Best in Show Cup at the Daffodil Show at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Judy has won many blue ribbons at the GCV Daffodil Show in Norfolk. Allison Freeze Major: Little Garden Club of Winchester Allison’s passion is gardening- and also reading, discovering and sharing books about gardening. Her specific expertise is in the propagation, care, rescue and growing of orchids, vegetables, and at times, roses. She has served on the GCV Horticulture Committee and has served as her club’s Horticulture Chair several times. She shares her horticultural and landscape knowledge with anyone interested and will share plants, her greenhouse and her books at any time or place. |