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WALKING AND HIKING TRAILS
Environmental Awareness - Joyce Flanagan Chair
Vermont has beautiful landscapes and places to walk and hike.
These are some hikes that Joyce likes in the Burlington area:
Winooski River-Salmon Hole Winooski Overlook Park and Woodside Natural area.
Winooski Park District- Muddy Brook Winooski Valley Park District- Old Mill Park Ethan Allen Homestead, Intervale Centennial Woods (UVM) Natural Area- off East Avenue East Woods Natural Area- off Farrell St. Oak Ledge- off Flynn Ave, (north on the bike path to “Stonehenge Clock”, south to a little cove where a plaque identifies an ancient tree.) Red Rocks Woodside Natural Area by St. Michael’s College.
A couple of other hikes further away are: Shelburne Bay Park-Allen Hill Mount Philo Colchester Pond Sources include: “AMC’s Best Day Hikes in Vermont: Four-Season Guide to 60 of the Best Trails in the Green Mountain State” by Jen Lamphere Roberts, and local brochures. There are also many sites on the internet for hikes in the Burlington area.
Environmental Awareness - Joyce Flanagan Chair
Vermont has beautiful landscapes and places to walk and hike.
These are some hikes that Joyce likes in the Burlington area:
Winooski River-Salmon Hole Winooski Overlook Park and Woodside Natural area.
Winooski Park District- Muddy Brook Winooski Valley Park District- Old Mill Park Ethan Allen Homestead, Intervale Centennial Woods (UVM) Natural Area- off East Avenue East Woods Natural Area- off Farrell St. Oak Ledge- off Flynn Ave, (north on the bike path to “Stonehenge Clock”, south to a little cove where a plaque identifies an ancient tree.) Red Rocks Woodside Natural Area by St. Michael’s College.
A couple of other hikes further away are: Shelburne Bay Park-Allen Hill Mount Philo Colchester Pond Sources include: “AMC’s Best Day Hikes in Vermont: Four-Season Guide to 60 of the Best Trails in the Green Mountain State” by Jen Lamphere Roberts, and local brochures. There are also many sites on the internet for hikes in the Burlington area.
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Thank you Theresa Carroll for speaking to the Burlington Garden Club and for these wonderful indoor plant tips and advice.
“BRINGING THE BEAUTY OF OUTDOORS IN”
Mother Nature Helper
Theresa and her husband Mick Levine started Mother Nature's Helper jn 1982. Armed with a degree in Forestry and a love of the outdoors, Theresa knew the value of green plants-they provide beauty, reduce stress, and they also minimize airborne illness. Some plants can extract harmful substances from the atmosphere.
So many Vermonters enjoy the beauty of our state in their free time, but have to work inside. Theresa's goal was to bring the beauty of the outdoors to homes and workplaces.
Theresa and her husband Mick have succeeded in growing Mother Nature's Helper to be the largest interior landscape business in VT, Their business also incorporates holiday decorating, fresh flower designs and exterior plantings.
1. When you get a plant from a shop, you will see that each shop has a different way of planting, with different soils.
Always get one where the roots are coming out of the bottom of the container, and the soil is near the top of the pot.
2. The soil should have perlite, so the water can drain.
3. To repot: Trim off the roots coming out of the bottom of the pot. Pick pot that is not too much larger than the one the plant is in, both in width and depth. Only use plastic pots. So plant does not dry out too fast, and pot is light in weight. Get indoor Soil Coast of Maine pink bag light weight. Be sure it has been stored inside, so you do not get fungus into soil. And continue to store soil inside.
4. Massage roots - Leave 1/2 inch at top of soil and pack in soil. Put in sink to water and run water through it and spray leave to hydrate them.
5. Always water from top down so salts can be washed out this way. Treat your plant nicely. If plant happy leave it alone, do not repot.
6. If you are going away for a while, you can use a 1” wick made out of strips of sweatshirt. Pull plant out of pot. Add wick from bottom up into pot and then back out to the bottom. Repot plant using a stick to tamp down soil. So water does not run out too fast. Really wet soil so it is totally hydrated and until water runs out of the bottom of the pot. Put into a larger pot with styrofoam in the bottom and leave some water around the styrofoam. Wick should be in water. You should be able to leave plant for 3 weeks this way.
7. If you have to use porous clay pots, soak pots first for at least 1/2 a day so it is full of water and will not pull water from plant.
They are very heavy and hard to move. Break easily. The synthetic plastic pots do not last very long and are expensive.
8. To take care of diseases: There is a fungus that lives in the top 1” or so of the soil. You cannot get rid of it.
However you can kill the adults. Get an insecticide soap, with fatty acids that will kill the adults. Do it again in a week? To kill the new generation. The fungus likes warm moist soil.
9. Check the soil when you buy a plant, do not buy one with warm moist soils! If leaves have brown edges, or round black spots, it is a virus. Just take off all of the bad leaves. Put it in a dry area. A virus will make the leaves wilt or drop off.
You should not water more if this is the case.
10. Theresa loves Bromeliads…pineapple, Spanish moss, as flowers bloom for a long time. Air plant, so its water needs are small.
11. Use clean clippers, and cut off dead leaves, branches. Put plant in the sun.
If the plant is too dry, it will have yellow leaves. Not wilted ones. If the branches are too heavy, or out too far, trim them back, or thin them. Cut off a branch, just before the next branch. Leave on the auxiliary leaves. If you pick up a plant and it is light weight, it will have perlite in the soil. Better to have plants dry out, than be too wet. If you are not sure if you should water, then wait.
If the plant leaves are flappy, then you will need water. If they are stiff, or turgid, don’t water.
Pruning plants new growth, will allow the plant to stay the same size. Pinch off new growth.
In a vine, the growth goes to the top of the vine. By pinching off this new growth, you will
allow the energy for growth to go to the center of the vine, and it will be thicker, healthier.
If light is low for plant, the leaves will be smaller.
To have a long row of plants, use noodles, to hold water, and put Spanish moss on top. Add plastic rocks from Michaels.
Apps: Google Lens. Use to ID plants.
Fertilizer: use Jacks Plant food.
If you need a fast first fertilizer. Like for a hanging plant. Use Ofmocote or bloom booster for flowers.
Use a leaf shine. Spray it on. It takes off the dirt, doesn’t clog pores, and is slippery
To see Theresa work inside:
Former Rossignol factory, called White Cap. UMall. Living wall at the People’s Bank, St Paul and Bank St, Burlington
The Burlington Garden Club thanks Julie Rubaud for her recent excellent talk at our monthly meeting.
RED WAGON PLANTS
" We delight in the garden season and in bringing together people and plants. Come learn, share, and celebrate with us. Please go to our www.redwagonplants.com to see our full list of plants, events, and classes for 2020".
Julie Rubaud - 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd, Hinesburg, VT - Tel: (802) 482-4060 | Fax: (802) 482-4068
www.all-americaselections.org
Founded in 1932, this educational, non-profit organization evaluates new seed-grown flowers and vegetables from around the world to recommend the best each year to gardeners. The National Gardening Association at the Vermont Garden Park, 1100 Dorset Street receives the award winner seeds of the current year, which are then grown by the Garden Park volunteers. The Garden Park is one of two All America Selections certified display gardens in Vermont. The other is by Dr. Leonard Perry and UVM students at the Burlington waterfront.
www.friendsofthehortfarm.org
Descriptions of the gardens, tree and plant collections, calendar of events, workshops, and more.
CLAUSSEN'S FLORIST, GREENHOUSE 7 PERENNIAL FARM - since 1972
Thank you Chris Conant for your donation of plants for the Ronald McDonald Gardens and to the Burlington Garden Club members.
Claussen's has over 40 greenhouses and offers annuals, perennials, fresh floral arrangements, flowering & tropical house plants, sympathy flowers, plant rentals, dried & silk arrangements, novelty items, garden decor and tools, pottery, balloons, stuffed animals and much more.
www.claussens.com open 7 days a week during season. Address 187 Main Street, Colchester, VT Phone 802-878-2361
“BRINGING THE BEAUTY OF OUTDOORS IN”
Mother Nature Helper
Theresa and her husband Mick Levine started Mother Nature's Helper jn 1982. Armed with a degree in Forestry and a love of the outdoors, Theresa knew the value of green plants-they provide beauty, reduce stress, and they also minimize airborne illness. Some plants can extract harmful substances from the atmosphere.
So many Vermonters enjoy the beauty of our state in their free time, but have to work inside. Theresa's goal was to bring the beauty of the outdoors to homes and workplaces.
Theresa and her husband Mick have succeeded in growing Mother Nature's Helper to be the largest interior landscape business in VT, Their business also incorporates holiday decorating, fresh flower designs and exterior plantings.
1. When you get a plant from a shop, you will see that each shop has a different way of planting, with different soils.
Always get one where the roots are coming out of the bottom of the container, and the soil is near the top of the pot.
2. The soil should have perlite, so the water can drain.
3. To repot: Trim off the roots coming out of the bottom of the pot. Pick pot that is not too much larger than the one the plant is in, both in width and depth. Only use plastic pots. So plant does not dry out too fast, and pot is light in weight. Get indoor Soil Coast of Maine pink bag light weight. Be sure it has been stored inside, so you do not get fungus into soil. And continue to store soil inside.
4. Massage roots - Leave 1/2 inch at top of soil and pack in soil. Put in sink to water and run water through it and spray leave to hydrate them.
5. Always water from top down so salts can be washed out this way. Treat your plant nicely. If plant happy leave it alone, do not repot.
6. If you are going away for a while, you can use a 1” wick made out of strips of sweatshirt. Pull plant out of pot. Add wick from bottom up into pot and then back out to the bottom. Repot plant using a stick to tamp down soil. So water does not run out too fast. Really wet soil so it is totally hydrated and until water runs out of the bottom of the pot. Put into a larger pot with styrofoam in the bottom and leave some water around the styrofoam. Wick should be in water. You should be able to leave plant for 3 weeks this way.
7. If you have to use porous clay pots, soak pots first for at least 1/2 a day so it is full of water and will not pull water from plant.
They are very heavy and hard to move. Break easily. The synthetic plastic pots do not last very long and are expensive.
8. To take care of diseases: There is a fungus that lives in the top 1” or so of the soil. You cannot get rid of it.
However you can kill the adults. Get an insecticide soap, with fatty acids that will kill the adults. Do it again in a week? To kill the new generation. The fungus likes warm moist soil.
9. Check the soil when you buy a plant, do not buy one with warm moist soils! If leaves have brown edges, or round black spots, it is a virus. Just take off all of the bad leaves. Put it in a dry area. A virus will make the leaves wilt or drop off.
You should not water more if this is the case.
10. Theresa loves Bromeliads…pineapple, Spanish moss, as flowers bloom for a long time. Air plant, so its water needs are small.
11. Use clean clippers, and cut off dead leaves, branches. Put plant in the sun.
If the plant is too dry, it will have yellow leaves. Not wilted ones. If the branches are too heavy, or out too far, trim them back, or thin them. Cut off a branch, just before the next branch. Leave on the auxiliary leaves. If you pick up a plant and it is light weight, it will have perlite in the soil. Better to have plants dry out, than be too wet. If you are not sure if you should water, then wait.
If the plant leaves are flappy, then you will need water. If they are stiff, or turgid, don’t water.
Pruning plants new growth, will allow the plant to stay the same size. Pinch off new growth.
In a vine, the growth goes to the top of the vine. By pinching off this new growth, you will
allow the energy for growth to go to the center of the vine, and it will be thicker, healthier.
If light is low for plant, the leaves will be smaller.
To have a long row of plants, use noodles, to hold water, and put Spanish moss on top. Add plastic rocks from Michaels.
Apps: Google Lens. Use to ID plants.
Fertilizer: use Jacks Plant food.
If you need a fast first fertilizer. Like for a hanging plant. Use Ofmocote or bloom booster for flowers.
Use a leaf shine. Spray it on. It takes off the dirt, doesn’t clog pores, and is slippery
To see Theresa work inside:
Former Rossignol factory, called White Cap. UMall. Living wall at the People’s Bank, St Paul and Bank St, Burlington
The Burlington Garden Club thanks Julie Rubaud for her recent excellent talk at our monthly meeting.
RED WAGON PLANTS
" We delight in the garden season and in bringing together people and plants. Come learn, share, and celebrate with us. Please go to our www.redwagonplants.com to see our full list of plants, events, and classes for 2020".
Julie Rubaud - 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd, Hinesburg, VT - Tel: (802) 482-4060 | Fax: (802) 482-4068
www.all-americaselections.org
Founded in 1932, this educational, non-profit organization evaluates new seed-grown flowers and vegetables from around the world to recommend the best each year to gardeners. The National Gardening Association at the Vermont Garden Park, 1100 Dorset Street receives the award winner seeds of the current year, which are then grown by the Garden Park volunteers. The Garden Park is one of two All America Selections certified display gardens in Vermont. The other is by Dr. Leonard Perry and UVM students at the Burlington waterfront.
www.friendsofthehortfarm.org
Descriptions of the gardens, tree and plant collections, calendar of events, workshops, and more.
CLAUSSEN'S FLORIST, GREENHOUSE 7 PERENNIAL FARM - since 1972
Thank you Chris Conant for your donation of plants for the Ronald McDonald Gardens and to the Burlington Garden Club members.
Claussen's has over 40 greenhouses and offers annuals, perennials, fresh floral arrangements, flowering & tropical house plants, sympathy flowers, plant rentals, dried & silk arrangements, novelty items, garden decor and tools, pottery, balloons, stuffed animals and much more.
www.claussens.com open 7 days a week during season. Address 187 Main Street, Colchester, VT Phone 802-878-2361
BGC is a member of:
Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont (FGCV))
New England Garden Clubs (NEGC)
National Garden Clubs (NGC)
New England Garden Clubs (NEGC)
National Garden Clubs (NGC)