The Cedar Mill Garden Club
Providing Gardening Programming for 65 years in the Portland Metro Area.
Holiday Party Pictures are on the About Us Page and
Wildflower Pictures and Young House Pictures and Information on the Program Page.
GALLERY PAGE
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Activities: Garnet Ascher, New State President & CMCG member; Barb Cushman, president and Sue Owen, treasurer at Convention; Plant Sale; Potting Hostas; Cedar Mill Garden Club Members at Dilley with books; Student showing Jackie McClung fairy garden; Pat Still with floral arrangements; The Audubon Society and owl; Ed Foy with Mushrooms; Marion Buckman and floral designs. SECOND GROUP OF PICTURES: Garnet and Pat at Garden Cllub Day; Beth Rose answering questions about Mason bees and mason bee nests, May Installation with Barb Cushman, Cheryl Gavette, Marilyn Berti, Delores Greenholtz; July Picnicat Barb Cushman's with Jackie, Pat and Gail--Cheryl, Shivaun Aloha and Jeanette-Marilyn and Sue at July Picnic
HOLIDAY POTLUCK PARTY PICTURES ON ABOUT US PAGE
Above: New Members of Cedar Mill Garden Club , Clockwise: Debbhie Puhl, Sherrie Wade, Diane Abel, Virginia Bruce, Alice Schlosser,Trish Reading, Jan Leavitt, Renata Berry - Click to enlarge pictures .
L to R Paulette Busch, Cheryl Gavette and Scouts dig hole.
ARBOR DAY ACTIVITIES!
ARBOR DAY MEMORIAL TREE
The Garden Club also planted a tree honoring Virginia Steenson, former member, now deceased . This event was also planned by Paulette Busch and Cheryl Gavette and was well attended . The tree was planted in Terra Linda Park near her former home and in addition to Cedar Mill Garden Club Members, relatives were invited.
Club Member Profile: Pat Still
Pat Still has been a mainstay of the Cedar Mill Garden Club since 1981. She has held all of the offices and most recently was Plant Sale co-chair for eight years, insuring during that time that the sale has grown to be an annual success for the club and a valuable resource for the community. Pat has always had a garden worthy of "oohs and ahs." She prefers herbaceous perennials of unique varieties and cultivars, but she includes as well, some of the old favorites such as foxglove, and delphinium. Her current favorite flower is the peony of which she has close to fifty in a specially constructed grouping of raised beds in the far part of her spacious garden, along with a tall white "deer fence." The beds were constructed after trips visiting gardens with the Hardy Plant Society in England and France in 2008 and 2009 and were build along with cement paths in the front and back to add beauty, but also to provide ease of gardening. The peony has, Pat says, now supplanted the rose as her current favorite, but she loves all flowers and has entered and won for her horticulture many times. One of her favorite roses took first for best fragrance a few years ago in the Portland Rose Society Show. Pat says that it is hard to grow roses in her area because deer so love the blooms, but this year she has not seen many of the graceful, but voracious creatures. In addition to belonging to the Cedar Mill Garden Club, Pat is a member of the Aloha Garden Club and the Hardy Plant Society
Pat has lived in her home for 30 years and raised five children. She currently has 8 grandchildren and one cute curly and lovable Bichon Frese dog, Logan that goes everywhere with her and keeps her company since her husband passed away. Her daughter, Cheryl Hopkins, also a Cedar Mill Garden Club member, lives in the area and is a great help. As you can guess, Pat's is a very mature yard. She has a climbing Hydrangia growing around a towering oak in her back yard that must be at least 30 feet tall, a beautiful Magnolia in the front and many select shrubs which show off her beautiful flowers. Pat loves to travel and while she does not enjoy dare-devil experiences, she would like to explore all corners of America, especially. Last summer she went to Branson, Missouri. She has a time share in Hawaii and enjoys traveling there. When asked what was number 1 on her "Bucket List," she said visiting the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, but not the raft trip down the Gorge!
Pat is an avid reader, enjoying Historical fiction and family sagas of the type written by Mary Alice Monroe. She collects 1940's vases in Matte White, think McCoy, and loves to cook, particularly bake. Her specialty is pies which are to die for and she even baked pies for a small bakery in Cedar Mill when she first moved to Oregon in the 80's. She went on to explain that if all of her pies did not sell, they were returned, so the entire neighborhood occasionally feasted on pie. Oh to have been a neighbor back then. .....Barbara Cushman, Cedar Mill Garden Club
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Vignettes from Cedar Mill Garden Club member's gardens
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Some of our members including Shivaun Smith, Jackie McClung and Pat Still are participating in the community garden S. of the Cedar Mill Bible Church on Cornell Rd.
CEDAR MILL GARDEN CLUB TEAMS
WITH GIRL SCOUTS FOR ARBOR DAY
The Cedar Mill Garden Club decided to honor of Arbor Day 2011 by planting a tree with a scout troop. So Paulette Busch got in touch with Sandy Schmunk, co leader of Girl Scout Troop 1606 from West Tualatin View Elementary school, and a pardnership was born. Arrangements were made for a tree planting on the school grounds during Arbor Week 2011, so the girls could earn their Eco-Action badge. ....
Paulette and her co-chair, Cheryl Gavette, selected a location and choose an appropriate tree, a flowering native Dogwood cultivar. Six of the Garden Club members met with the scout troup on April 20 to explain tree care to the girls. Erik Mace from the Tree Code Group also presented materials on the importance of trees in urban settings.
One of the Garden Club members, Sue Owen, surprised the girls with the information that she had also gone to school at West TV when she was a child, and another, Lorainne Hacke, reported that she had been the school Librarian there many years ago!
Then the girls completed digging the hole and planted the tree, each one taking part enthusiastically. They will be responsible for taking watering the tree through the summer and the next school year until the tree becomes self sufficient.
Girl Scouts putting soil back in hole and stomping it down. (tree is out is picture)
