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Xna Randall of Kinston spoke to the Pine Knoll Shores Garden Club members at their
November meeting in Town Hall, on the use of live foliage arrangements, Mrs, Randall,
member of the Home Gardeners Club of Kinston, explained that her program was not design^p
to teach formal, show-style arranging, but to use plant material we have
at hand for last minute table arrangements or a touch of live greenery in
ARRANGEMENTS the home for casual entertaining or personal enjoyment. She suggested
that foliage arrangements, which tend to be large, can be every effectively
PRESENT!^ used in churches.
Although Mrs, Randall prefers using foliage to dried or permanent arrangements, she
suggested that it might sometimes work well to use live greens mixed with dried materials
or a fake posy or two. Pretty accessories that you may have tucked away on shelves or in
china cabinets can be used nicely to add extra color to foliage.
Using a basic grouping of magnolia leaves, Mrs, Randall changed the feeling from
season to season by adding other foliage. For spring she used acuba, although budding
branches of flowering trees and shrubs are also natural spring favorites.
In summer, shades of lighter yellow, white and green may be added by using caladium
leaves, Florida plant, a simple variegated privet hedge, or spiraea. Variegated pittis-
porum and Dusty Miller are also nice additions.
In the fall, dogwood or maple add a red touch. Also, red tip, which grows easily and
profusely, can be used at several seasons.
In the winter, all the greens associated with Christmais are popular - pine, holly,
yaupon, wax myrtle, cedar, blue spruce and boxwood. An occasional winter arrangement can
be perked up with bits of maidenhair or Boston fern clipped from your houseplants.
Preceding the demonstration. President Lois Jean O'Keefe thanked Ann Ratliffe, Alice
Jean Noble, Marge Kalning and Muriel Chapin for serving as hostesses, Jean Craddock an|^
Ruth McGibbon were welcomed as guests,
Margaret Mercer, corresponding secretary, read a letter from Surfside Garden Club
In Morehead City, advising members of a special Christmas Arrangements show being pre
sented on November 28 at 10 a,m, at Carteret Technical College,
Bobbie Ready, projects chairman, sketched a plan that had been prepared by the
group of members studying the upgrading of the town entrances at Mimosa and Oakleaf,
This will include several large ornamental stones, some new Japanese pines and pine
straw covering, plus trimming and shaping the existing plants. The club members voted
their approval of the plan, based on necessary permits from the State Highway Division
and adjacent property owners,
Vivian Macdonald presented the popular “Did you know?" fact - the information that
mace and nutmeg are similar in taste because they are actually part of the same plant.
The nu*toeg is the kernel of the nut or fruit, and mace is the ground seed covering.
President O'Keefe thanked Jean Zumbach and all of her committee for a successful
Green Bag Day on October 24th, Plans for the December meeting center around a Christmas
tour of Tryon Palace in New Bern on December 12th,
JOAN DAWSON
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Because the annual Luminaria celebration on Christeas Eve was canceled last year
by the high winds and unprecedented killing freeze that came rushing into the area ^
late afternoon, many citizens saved the candles and bags -Uiey purchased
fyojj the Pine Knoll Shores Garden Club last year. The club will sponsonJ||
rESCHEKJLED event again this holiday season, and hope for better weather,
FOR members will distribute flyers and take orders for additional candles
from neMComers or people rfx> used their supply of candles. If you are not contacted^
would like to join in this heautlful communlty-Hide custom, please call Margaret J>mltn,
at 247-4211 before December 6th,
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