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The Shoreline
February, 2002
PKS Garden Club
A very lively plant auction was held at the
meeting of the Pine Knoll Shores Garden Club on
Wednesday, January 9 at Town Hall. Bill Johnston,
husband of member Beth Johnston, acted as auctioneer,
assisted by Yvette Bannen. He kept the bidding rising
and lively with his humorous and sage comments about
the plant or shrub up for bid. Beth Johnston, Jeanne
Umbarger, Arlene Terrell, Dot Belding, Judy Poit and
Lois Jean O'Keefe prepared the scrumptious
refreshments for the meeting.
The auction was fast moving, competitive and lots of
fun! Several varieties of trees were auctioned - fig,
magnolia, live oak, red maple and native holly. Shrubs
that brought competitive bidding were fatsia, dwarf
yaupon, holly, acuba, dwarf nandina and forsythia.
The variety of marvelous plants and flowers offered had
the air quivering with ever rising vocal bids and waving
hands. The keen competition was for spider plants,
spiderwarts, strawberry begonias, aloes, jades, coffee
plants, orchids, lucky bamboos, crotons, a Thanksgiving
cactus, devil's backtDone, hoya carnosa, rain lily, golden
lantana, an Amazon lily, peace lily, cyclamen, rosemary,
lariope, bromiliads, clivias, calenchoes, and arrowhead
vines. Two dish gardens chock full of small plants
arranged in their shallow bowls brought healthy
competitive bidding. At the meeting's close, members
were spotted staggering happily to their cars with
armloads of hard won pots of greenery.
Vice President, Betsy McGibbon announced that from
January 1 to December 31 of 2001, garden club
members had worked 515.5 hours weeding and
beautifying the public gardens of Pine Knoll Shores. She
also demonstrated and shared information about a
fascinating lucky bamboo plant that she brought for
Show and Tell. It's a member of the dracena family,
grows best in water, and has wonderful fat stems that
can be curled and spiraled by placing it in darkness,
which makes it very pliable. It has pretty little leaves,
but the thick green spiral stems are what make it so
unique and attractive.
Ecology Chairman, Vivian Macdonald reported that 102
crape myrtles, 11 dogwoods, 174 shrubs, 464
wildflowers, 552 bulbs, and 3, 317 various flowers had
been planted by Garden Club members from January 1
to December 31, 2001.
Luminaria Chairman, Chris Walters was thanked for
arranging the beautiful display of luminaria lights
encompassing all the marinas and extending the length
of Mimosa Boulevard on Christmas Eve. She, in turn.
thanked all the members and other town residents who
aided with placing and retrieving the candle kits.
Francoise Boadman of Station Club in Morehead City will
be guest speaker at the next meeting on February 13.
His topic will be Gardening with Bulbs. Guests are
always welcome.
Submitted By; Clare Winslow
Luminaria 2001
Heartfelt appreciation to all those who made donations and
helped in any way to make the Christmas Eve display such a
success. Fifty-one residents and guests helped with this
endeavor. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did!
The Pine Knoll Shores Garden Club
PKS Women's Club
ti \ The PKS Women's Club will have its
February meeting on Friday, February 22"'* at the Town
Hall beginning at 9:30 a.m. for refreshments with the
meeting starting at 10:00 a.m. The program will feature
Sharon Jones, the patient care coordinator for Hospice
who will give a History of Hospice in Carteret County.
After the February meeting the Lunch Bunch will go to
Amos Mosquitos restaurant. Anyone interested in joining
this group can sign up at the meeting.
The club's Beach Book Club will meet at Jeannette
Lindgren's home on February 14‘^ at 2:00 p.m. to
discuss Sullivan's Island by Dorothea Frank. The book
Bums Book club will meet on February 11^*^ at Martha
Randall's home and will discuss The Bonesetter's
Daughterb'i Amy Tan. The third book club will meet on
February 4“’ at Diane Donovan's home at 101 Walnut
Circle (call Diane at 247-6409 for the meeting time).
They are reading the biography of John Adamsb^/ David
McCullough. For more information on this newly formed
book group, contact Dot Miller at 808-2981.
One of the club's committees, the Cook's Night Out
Group, will go to the Royal Pavillion on February 8‘'^.
Please call Pat Filan at 210-3119 or Kay Spiegelberg at
247-7970 to make reservations. The Pine Knoll Shores
Women's Club meets monthly, except in the summer
and promotes social, civic and educational interests of
the community. Membership dues are $15.00 and may
be mailed to Dot Belding at 9 Fairways Court in Pine
Knoll Shores. For information on the PKS Women's
Club, call Jerri Matthews at 240-2544.
Submitted by: Rita Randall
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