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Projects
CP#1 - Work
continues weekly, April through November, at the Garden-for-the-Blind
and Physically Handicapped.
The garden is 100% member supported.
Garden
Chairman
.Jean Gall
Garden Irrigation Liaison.
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.Jean Henkel
Green Thumbers & the Gardens We Care For
Spring Garden 1
Joan Zsilavetz
Spring Garden 2
Sandy Saflarske
Primrose Path
..Jean Gall
Rose Hedge
Kathryn Howell and Nancy Boehmer
Winter Garden
...Angie Heuer
Bird Garden
...Rita Fletcher
Butterfly Garden
.Belinda Kirchner
Perennial Garden
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Pam and Joan Zeller, Diane Petersen
Circle of Senses
...Jean Henkel and Jackie Coester
Fragrant Garden
.Kim Shibata
CP#2 - In May, we provide and plant annuals in the nine kettle drums
in the lockstone pavement area at the Woodbridge Main Library, 25%
participation.
CP#3 - Garden Club members provide and plant flowers at the VETERANS'
MEMORIAL on Dow and Auth Avenues in Iselin, 25% participation.
CP#4 - Two members are assigned monthly to bring in an artistic floral
design with a given theme to be displayed during our monthly meeting,
100% participation. Please refer to the Monthly Planner for
assignment details.
CP#5 - Arbor Day is an annual celebration in April.
CP#6 - A $200 scholarship for pursuing a career in the horticultural
or environmental fields will be awarded to a senior student in one of
Woodbridge Township's three high schools, 100% participation
CP#7 - Provide financial support to the Rutgers Gardens, a Garden Club
of New Jersey project, 100% participation.
CP#8 - Provide financial support to the New Jersey School of
Conservation. The program "Train a Teacher to Train a Child" at
Stokes Forest is a GCNJ project, 100% participation.
CP#9 - Provide financial support to the New Jersey Conservation
Foundation, 100% participation.
CP#10 - Make 110 tray favors for the Menlo Park Veteran's Home for
Christmas, 100% participation. Date to be announced.
CP#11 - An Information Center has been established at the Iselin
Branch Library. One member is assigned each month to set up a
display, 50% participation. Please refer to the Monthly Planner for
assignment details.
CP#12 - Provide financial support of the Audubon Society, 100%
participation.
CP#13 - Sponsor a Garden Education Day at the Iselin Library for the
community, 100% participation.
New Projects
NP#1 - Continue to increase club membership.
NP#2 - Continue with workshops on subjects members express an interest
in.
NP#3 - Plan more group functions and field trips.
NP#4 - Consider hosting a standard or mini flower show.
Monarch Watch
Tagging Butterflies with the Woodbridge Garden Club
by Sandra VanOrden: 09/22/02
Some of the ladies the Woodbridge Garden Club spent a few hours
catching and tagging Monarch butterflies in the garden of club member
Jean Gall on Sunday, September 22, 2002
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Jean has a lovely garden dappled with shade and abundant with buttery bushes, crepe myrtle trees, and flowering plants. The sweet fragrance of the flowers and the sound of the water from the koi pond attracted many monarchs to the garden. |
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A few houses away from the Gall's garden, is the Sewaren Library Butterfly Garden. Many of the garden members took the opportunity to visit and net the monarchs there as well. |
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It was a perfect day for tagging. |
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With little practice, we were all able to net a butterfly but, sometimes it took two of us to get them out of the net. Their little feet would cling to the net and they wouldn't let go! |
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Once out of the net, we hold them gently with their wings flat together. |
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Then we would look to see if they were male or female by gently opening their wings. The male has two black spots on their lower wings that the female does not possess. |
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Each butterfly was given an identification number, their information was recorded on a master list, and a small sticker the size of a hole punch was softly pressed onto the discal cell of the lower wing. |
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The butterfly was then released. |
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Only one of the butterflies we cought that day had been previously tagged with a yellow sticker. We recorded the information and sent it on its way. Another butterfly netted had a broken wing and was pretty battered looking. We put him into a net cage with plenty of flower heads and called Jim Kupcho so that he could possably repair the wing. |
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Continuing
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