The Garden Club of Kent Monthly Dinner Meeting
Monday, May 20, 2024, 6:30 p.m.
United Methodist Church, 1435 E. Main St., Kent
Cost & Reservations The dinner is $16 per person, cash or check only. If you only want to attend the talk (begins at 7:30 p.m.), there is no charge. Members' club callers will be in touch to ask for an RSVP. Otherwise, you can RSVP via the club's email account: backyardpest@gmail.com. Deadline to reserve is Thursday, May 16.
On the Dinner Menu Apricot chicken with rice, California vegetable medley and salad. Vegetarian option is a large salad with vegetables, beans and beets. Both come with rolls, beverage and dessert.
Dr. David and Susan Jarzen have traveled around the world studying the vegetation and ecology of flowering plants. At the May 20 monthly dinner meeting of The Garden Club of Kent, they will present a beautifully illustrated talk on the topic of angiosperm flowers and seeds, attempting to answer the age-old question: "Which came first, the flower or the seed?" (as in which came first — the chicken or the egg?).
All flowering plants produce seeds to perpetuate the next generation. The variety of fruit and seed types, as seen around the world, is staggering. An answer to the question of "which came first" may be learned from the paleobotanical evidence as expressed in some fossil plant material discovered in China by David and Susan’s colleague, Professor David Dilcher of Indiana University.
Dr. Jarzen has recently retired as a research associate of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in paleobotany and paleoecology. He earned his BS degree in 1967 from Kent State University, majoring in biological sciences, and two years later received his MA degree in botany from the same institution. In 1973, he was awarded the PhD degree in geology from the University of Toronto. His research interest in the nature of extant and fossil plant life provided extensive field work in all regions of Canada and the United States, as well as Europe, Africa, Central and South America, the South Pacific and several localities within Australia. The focus of his work incorporates a global view aiming to understand the evolution of plant life during Earth’s history, with an emphasis on fossil floras recorded from the Paleogene, Neogene and Cretaceous of the world.
Together with his best friend, field partner and wife, Susan Jarzen (owner of f 6.8 Nature Art & Photography), he explores the natural history of the world at every chance.
Location: The Garden Club of Kent, 480 Ravenna Rd. in Streetsboro
Friday, May 24 through Sunday, May 26, 2024
Friday & Saturday: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday: 8:00 a.m. to 12 noon
CASH OR CHECK ONLY
One of the region's best annual plant sales happens to be operated by our very own Garden Club of Kent! You'll find awesome tomato varieties, thriving perennials and hundreds of vegetables, herbs and annuals. It's one of the most abundantly and robustly stocked community-based plant sales in the area. Look for a huge assortment of vegetables, herbs, annuals and perennials, including many enticing varieties of tomatoes ($4 per) and 300+ thriving perennials donated from members’ gardens — including very affordable hostas, which are crazy expensive at retail prices.
Proceeds benefit The Garden Club of Kent and the club's college scholarship program.
The Garden Club of Kent
Grounds located at 480 Ravenna Rd., Streetsboro, Ohio 44241
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