Greetings from the President
Hello Members,
It is already July, and the weather has been everything from unbearable to just plain magnificent. Colors in the gardens are flourishing, and it seems it's already time to begin cutting some species back for the season. How the beauty of the warm season just seems to fly by. Our next monthly meeting will be a treat for anyone who has never been to the home and
garden of our treasurer, Carol Tvelia. The garden is just beautiful, and she has some very large koi to relax with. Please try not to miss it. I have comets and goldfish in my pond, and although I watch them lovingly just the same, they pale in comparison. Keep cool, relax, and enjoy your summer.
See you all soon, Diane
Mark the Date
Tuesday, July 26—Monthly Meeting, 6:00 Our July meeting will be at the home of Carol Tvelia in her garden. 25 Stephani Ave., Patchogue 475-3445
Sunday, September 18—Harvest Dinner, 3:30 p.m. at the Patchogue Beach Club
Get to Know A Fellow Gardener—Carolyn Young
Where were you born?
I was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up there. I had a younger brother and sister. Each summer our family would spend a couple of weeks in a cottage in Northern Michigan.
Tell us about your family?The family of my husband, Larry, also spent summers in a cottage in Northern Michigan. That’s where I met him. You could say that I ended up marrying the boy next door. I went to graduate school (seven different schools for graduate work) getting a Masters in other types of special education from Eastern Michigan University. I took post graduate work as well. Larry had worked in Yellowstone for the summer and was a special education teacher also, so we had the summers to travel to various National and State Parks with our two daughters. His work
in Yellowstone was where he got his feeling that everyone should see Yellowstone.
Where did you teach?
I graduated with a Bachelors in Elementary and Special Ed from Ohio University. Just after I was married, I taught in Michigan. I then took a job in Euclid Ohio which is northeast of
Cleveland, and taught there for a year and a half. We then moved to Kings Park in 1964 where we raised the girls. It was here that we started our interest in daylilies. Later, I worked with BOCES 3 in the Huntington Babylon area and then taught at Half Hollow Hills until I retired in 1992. After that we moved to Warwick, NY.
What gave you your first interest in gardening?
I think it was learning to identify wildflowers and trees when I was a camper only 8-12 years old. We lived on a ravine within the city of Columbus, Ohio, and I just always loved watching the birds, the trees, etc. Larry and I got into daylilies in about 1981, thinking we’d get something that would survive during the summers when we were traveling around the country. I became a nationalgarden judge, a national exhibition judge, and have maintained a national display garden
from the early ‘90s on. We moved, in pieces, from Warwick in 1997 to our present home. We had to have some of the trees cleared for the lilies, but
kept the woods for a perimeter.
What are some of your other interests?
I like crafts and sewing and decorating the house. But mostly we’ve spent out spare time camping.
A book you’d recommend?
Lasagna Gardening by Patricia Lanza. I have a signed copy of that because I’ve been up to her place. Also A Garden of Wildflowers that tells about wildflowers and how to propagate them.
An accomplishment you are proud of?
My years teaching kids with different disabilities. I knew from sixth grade on that I was going to do that.
An interesting place you’ve traveled to or visited?
When we started camping, we began with just a tent. Then a VW camper with a pop-up top. Finally, we built our own motor home from a used Bond Bread truck. This took a couple of years. I designed the inside, and we both built and repaired it. It was a 90- horse power-18 foot truck. We took it over the Rockies two or three times, traveling to state and national parks. We didn’t hook up to anything. We had extra battery to run our lights and cooked outside the camper.
Your favorite dessert or food?
All the foods I can’t eat any more because of my milk allergy.
Something you keep postponing?
Sorting through old school materials and papers
Future plans?
I’m going back to Warwick, in a 55-and-older community. I’ll be able to walk to the village, shops, and parks. I’ll be close to my daughter, an attorney and hiker. She likes living close to the
Appalachian Trail. Gets a watermelon and cuts it up and leaves it in a cooler on the trail for other hikers to enjoy. I’ll leave my other daughter’s family (with my two grandchildren) in Smithtown.
Daylilies!
Hundreds of registered hybrids are in bloom now in Carolyn Young's garden. She needs to downsize her nationally renowned collection and is selling clumps/divisions for $5.00 each. Some plants are available now; others will be dug as they finish blooming.Call Carolyn at 345-6194
to arrange a day and time to purchase. She’ll give you directions if you need them.
June Meeting in a Flash
• Rolling Rock will clean up the garden prior to the Garden
Tour. They will install the game table and benches.
• The Harvest Dinner will take place on September 18th,
at 3:30 at the Patchogue Beach Club. Bring a covered
dish.
• Jo Miller discussed plans for the new garden workshop
tentatively planned for September 10th. Flyers will be
handed out at the Garden Tour. Carolyn Young offered
free daylilies for the workshop, but she needs help preparing
them for the event.
• There has been a poor response to our Plant and Yard
sale. After much discussion members agreed unanimously
to skip the sale next year.
• Members discussed the possibility of allowing Art
Space artists to sell items in the Garden area. This is a
Village decision.
• Paula asked for volunteers to sit at gardens for the upcoming
tour, and Georgia asked members to make sure
the garden is presentable.
Timely Tips for the Garden in August
Pick herbs for fresh use and for drying. Harvesting will keep them growing longer.
• Order spring bulbs for planting
• Spread a mid-season layer of compost or manure.
• Keep deadheading and harvesting
• Leave some annual seeds to self-sow.
• Start saving seeds and taking cuttings.
• Remove any diseased foliage now, so it doesn’t get lost in the fall leaves.
• Cut back foliage of early bloomers to revitalize the plants
• Prune summer flowering shrubs as the flowers fade.
• Begin dividing perennials. Start with the bearded iris.
