September Club Meeting
September 2024
Monday, September 9, at 7:30 PM
Subject: Better Together – Plant Combinations that WOW!
Speaker: Caitlin Boyle
You match your clothes and you pair your food with wine because they are better together. Learn how to pair plants for maximum impact using colors, textures and shapes as building blocks.
Biography
Caitilin (Dirt Diva Designs) grew up in Sagaponack, NY, part of the then-remote now-famed Hamptons. The memory of that beauty drove her to build views wherever she lived. First Baltimore, then Philadelphia and now Chatham, NJ. In her high-stress careers as a journalist and a marketer, she found great repose in her backyard, whether looking at some beautiful flower or delighting in the twilight from a favorite chair at the end of a challenging day. She designed her own spaces to create joy, literally from the ground up and wanted to do the same for others. Caitlin trained at the New York Botanical Garden in Landscape Design and opened Dirt Diva Designs, a full-service landscape design firm, in Chatham, NJ. Before starting Dirt Diva, Caitlin was a decorated journalist and marketer, nominated twice for Pulitzer Prizes. Recently The New York Times published a piece she wrote for her blog, The Dirt. She hosts webinars on landscape design and contributes to local magazines.
Design Exhibit
Theme: Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susan)
Challenge: Construction Design, see Handbook, p.74.
Intermediate: Creative Mass Design, see Handbook, p.74
Novice: A small design suitable for placement on a vanity in the manner of an American Traditional Design, see Handbook, p.70.
Open: Designer’s choice (one entry per member).
Artistic Design Exhibits – Please read “Artistic Design Rules” beginning on page 13 of the MGC Yearbook as well as the 2017 revised edition of the Handbook for Flower Shows.
Horticultural Exhibits – Please read “Horticulture Division Rules” beginning on page 14 of the MGC Yearbook as well as the 2017 revised edition of the Handbook for Flower Shows.
1. Fruit or Vegetable (maximum 3 varieties per member)
2. Annual – 1 cut specimen
3. Perennial – potted plant or cut specimen
4. Open (maximum 2 entries per member)