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Leesburg Flower Garden Festival 25TH ANNUAL

Flower & Garden Festival: 25 Years Of Blooms

he Leesburg Flower and Garden Festival hits the quarter century mark this year. Originally conceived by community volunteers as a way to bring more visitors to the town’s downtown historic district, the festival is now one of Loudoun’s largest annual attractions. The festival signals a welcome to spring and offers something for everyone—from serious gardeners to those seeking to develop their green thumb, from kids tagging along with their parents or husbands in tow with a plant-seeking wife, to couples or individuals just wanting to enjoy time outdoors, local wines and beer, and some great music and food. There is no entry fee, but a donation of $3 is requested to help offset the cost of the event. Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. There will be plenty of parking available at Ida Lee Park, and shuttles will run continuously from the park to Church Street. For more information, contact 703-777-1368 or go to www.flowerandgarden.org.

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A Renaissance That Took Root he Leesburg Flower and Garden Festival has become a shining symbol of success for the town—the largest annual event to be held in Loudoun and one that has put Leesburg on the map as the host of a major regional horticultural showcase and tourism destination. That success has its roots in the inspirational efforts of a group of downtown Leesburg business people seeking to spur interest in the historic downtown. The recession of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s hit the

county hard—and businesses large and small, as well as local governments, felt the pain financially. But the Downtown Business Association, then led by its president, Su Webb, was not about to sit idly while storefronts were empty. At that time, the town had no Department of Economic Development, so Webb approached Mayor Bob Sevila and the Town Council to ask for $5,000 to support the DBA in its traditional Christmas activities in town. The council agreed, and the holiday program went ahead as

usual. But January continued bleakly on the economic front. It was at that point that business owners decided to launch Leesburg Renaissance as an economic development tool to bring in new businesses and, most importantly, to bring foot traffic back to downtown, Webb recalled. Again the DBA approached the council, this time to ask for $25,000 to hire a manager for the program and to provide office space at Town Hall. Leesburg ROOTS | CONTINUED ON PG. 4

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Renaissance would set up a program of special events and coordinate public relations. The first president of Leesburg Renaissance was Tom Galloway. The board of directors was comprised of leading downtown business people—Webb took the job of Special Events chairman and other members included Tom Jewell, Alex Green, Mary Hope Worley, Lud Sells, Stanley Caulkins, Norman Myers and Harvey Berger. Michael Tringale was hired as executive director. “He turned everything around. He was always 15 steps ahead of us, he had such energy,” Jewell said. Green recalled those tough economic times. “Downtown was in a rough shape retail-wise. The town had just built a new office and library (Rust) and Ida Lee (Recreation Center). Everything was going the wrong way economically, both private and public.” Webb’s Special Events Committee also included Loudoun Extension Horticultural Agent Andrew Gerachis, DBA Coordinator Donna Boone and Tringale. The group decided to focus on four major events: a flower and garden show, a hauntings program, a food festival and a music festival. Of the four events, two remain—the Leesburg Flower and Garden Festival and Leesburg Hauntings, now run by Loudoun Museum. That first flower and garden show, held April 2728, 1991, was exciting, Webb remembered. Al Heider, owner of Heider’s Nursery on East Market Street brought in a gazebo to be used as an information center. “We placed it under the stoplight at the intersection of King and Market streets,” Webb said. Twentyfive years later, the gazebo sits in the same spot. Heider was very involved from the start, helping set “everything up and participating, first as a landscaper, then as a vendor. Heider went on to bring the gazebo each year. “He was the first person in to unload the gazebo and the last person out of each flower and garden show we ran for the three years of Leesburg Renaisssance’s existence,” Webb said. The contrast of that first show with what visitors will see April 18-19 is striking. There were 20 landscaped gardens and 35 garden-related vendors in a four-block area on King and Market streets. The 2015 show will feature six landscaped gardens and 125 garden-related vendors, plus food and a vastly expanded music roster. The events for children—music and crafts—far exceed what Tringale called “even face painting for the kids” in that first press release. South King Street restaurant owner Fabian Saedi re-

membered the excitement of those days and how he and other downtown business people helped. “We all contributed to it,” he said. It was a private effort, but the town’s maintenance staff pitched in to help, as well as the town police. The show was free, but income was earned through vendor registration fees. “It is hard to express the joy we all felt that first year when flowers and people populated the streets of downtown Leesburg. Merchants saw visitors in their stores and sold merchandise,” Webb said 25 years after that initial outing. At the end of three years, the event morphed into a town government-run event. “It became too big, really out of our control; we thought it would be better with the town.” Saedi recalled. The council had hired John Henry King as its economic development director, so Renaissance transferred its files and programs to his care. Ultimately the program came under the auspices of its Parks and Recreation Department, which grew in stature alongside its major program as it built the team to support the growing festival, according to Town Manager Kaj Dentler, who, at the time, was the department’s director. Former Town Councilman Kevin Wright was on the board of Leesburg Renaissance, its youngest member, at 18. He was managing the Tally Ho movie theater at the time and recalled the first year. “It was amazing,” he said. It was a lot of hard work and he recalled being a volunteer on the overnight crew that supervised the setting up of the landscape gardens. “I learned a lot,” he said. Sevila remembered when the town was asked to take the event over, “I thought it was a brilliant idea. It was a perfect fit.” Current mayor, Kristen Umstattd, is equally enthusiastic. She hails the event as a key symbol of the town’s tourism and economic success and loves its friendly atmosphere in which regular attendees approach her on the street to chat and catch up on town doings. Looking back, Webb said the small group of business people had accomplished what it had set out to do—bring economic development awareness to the town and help keep merchants in business. Every year, Webb said, she stands at the intersection of King and Market with a big smile on her face. “No one knows who I am or the work that Leesburg Renaissance did in making this event so successful. But I do—and it’s a wonderful feeling.”

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Town Honors Three Longtime Festival Participants As part of the Flower and Garden Festival’s 25th anniversary celebration, the Town of Leesburg is honoring three participants who have been there from the first show in the spring of 1991: Holly Heider Chapple, the Loudoun County Master Gardeners and Fabian Saedi, owner of Old Town Grill, Seafood and Steak. HOLLY HEIDER CHAPPLE Chapple’s introduction to the festival was helping her parents with their Heider’s Nursery booth. She soon graduated to her own space, near the intersection of King and Market streets, where she has become a fixture, selling cut flowers, foliage and flowering fruit tree branches—including her trademark lilac. “From the beginning, we had lilac from the farm,” she recalled. Chapple always enjoys the interaction with the public. “It wasn’t a store front; it was always about bring-

ing flowers to people.” And visitors to the festival enjoy seeing her put a bouquet together. “They want to see me make it, and they want to buy that particular one— they’ll take it right out of my hand.” Her experience at the festival was “the beginning of learning how to design, mak-

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ing bouquets and realizing how much people enjoyed them, and realizing I could make a career out of it,” she said of her Holly Heider Chapple event design company. The festival weekend is a family operation as her husband Evan and their seven children have all helped over the years. Chapple’s dedication to the festival is strong. It was during festival time 10 years ago that one of her children was born. “The kids opened the booth and I came on the Sunday—I didn’t want to miss it,” she recalled. “Now I’m being rewarded for not missing it,” she quipped of her honor. LOUDOUN COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS

The organization’s contribution to the inaugural festival in 1991 was an informational booth staffed by master gardeners and Monroe Technology Center students, according to president Denise Palmer. Starting in 1993, the group became a vendor, selling plants in addition to offering horticultural information. The Master Gardeners was a volunteer program of the Virginia Cooperative Extension. Gardener Inge Radel and Andrew Gerachis, the county’s horticultural agent at the time, spearheaded the idea of selling plants

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at the festival to raise funds to maintain the group’s growing demonstration garden at Ida Lee Park. Radel said the initial tomato, pepper and herb plants were raised in members’ homes and sold at the festival for 25 cents each. Later, gardening books were added to the sales inventory. That early effort became the base from which the master gardeners would fund their thriving volunteer community education programs. The plants—now greatly expanded in number—are still grown in members’ homes. The booth space has expanded to include additional types of plant material, donated by members, useful gardening products and small “cutesy” containers to inspire even gardeners with little space to grow vegetables or flowers, Palmer said. The volunteer gardeners have a dedicated fan base. “They seek us out to purchase some of our more unusual vegetable or herb varieties,” she said. Members answer the public’s questions and inform them of the organization’s community education programs. Palmer said her association is thrilled to receive recognition of its long support of the festival by the town. “It is an honor to receive this award on behalf of so many before me who unselfishly gave of their time and HONOREES | CONTINUED ON PG. 8

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mounting a series of events, including a flower and garden festival. Saedi has been both a financial supporter of the event and a food vendor through his restaurants. “We started doing our food, gourmet stuff, and bread, cake, pies and 18th century food,” he said. The food was cooked in the restaurant kitchen and presented on the sidewalk. He also has personal involvement with the vendors, some of whom stay at his 10-room Colonial Inn, where they are just a step away from their exhibit space and do not have to haul their supplies far. “Overall, the festival’s been very good for everyone in town. I run into people who say they were here three or four years ago—it brings them back into town.”

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hen visitors arrive at the Leesburg Flower and Garden Festival April 18-19, they will find a wide variety of vendors spread out over a six-block area of the historic downtown. The 2015 festival has 131 garden-related vendors, a mix of old and new from all over the country. Among those returning are two Loudoun County vendors—Holly Heider Chapple and the Loudoun Master Gardeners—who are being honored at this year’s festival for their participation over the past 25 years. An overview of what’s available is awe-inspiring, including plant materials—shrubs, fruit trees, perennials, annuals, bulbs, herbs, vegetable seedlings—along with garden art, ironwork and statuary, beehives, bird houses, garden hats, boots and gloves, soaps, oils and lotions, garden furniture, lawnmowers, garden power equipment and hand tools, birdhouses and feeders, stone and brick pavers and edgers, sundecks and porches, garden umbrellas and awnings, watering systems and sprinklers, hammocks, baskets, stained glass, pottery and greenhouses. Perhaps the most valuable offering at the festival doesn’t go home in a bag. The vendor displays offer tons of ideas for your own backyard improvements and there are no few greater sources of garden know-how than the experts gathered at the event. Here’s a bird’s eye view of some of the more unusual items to be seen at this year’s festival. New vendor Bill Campbell of Tennessee Twigs from Mountain City, TN, will sell handmade benches, planter benches, garden arbors, twig tables and other unusual items. Another new vendor is Unique Birdhouses, from

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ne of the perennial delights of the Leesburg Flower and Garden Festival is the landscaped garden displays, and there will be five new vendors among them for the 2015 show. Visitors each year can be seen inspecting every detail of the miniature gardens which are meticulously designed over several months and then erected overnight. This year, six landscapers will enter the exhibit area Friday evening, April 17, and convert piles of stone, brick, soil, sand and mulch, trellises and gazebos, fountains and massed plantings into miniature gardens. The transformation of town streets into landscaped wonderland is a show in itself, and residents often wander downtown to watch the process. It can take until the wee hours of Saturday morning before the last details are in place and the garden is ready. Town Manager Kaj Dentler led the festival for many years as director of the town’s parks department. He said the landscapers’ exhibits form the heart of the show. In the festival’s early years, the event was a great way for landscape designers to get their visions out in front of the public, he said. It was also a great way for them to educate residents on how to meld hardscape and plant materials, how to assess sun and shade requirements and

the properties of different trees, plants and shrubs. It was during Dentler’s tenure at the festival that it was awarded the National Gold medal Award for Excellence by the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration in 2005. The 2015 show will feature six landscape designers, including Main Street Landscape Inc. from Haymarket, which is marking a return to the show. The five new landscape companies are: The Pond Doctor LLC from Warrenton, Greensward LLC from Culpeper, Homeland Scapes LLC from Leesburg, Deckscapes of Virginia LLC from Catharpin, and BlackWater Designer Concrete from Winchester. Leesburg Parks Manager Doug Fulcher is in charge of the show and the annual competition for bragging rights. Prizes are awarded for Best Overall garden design, Outstanding Technical Craftsmanship, and Outstanding Creativity. A fourth, and arguably the most popular award, is the People’s Choice Award. The views of visitors casting ballots do not always coincide with the judges’ selection. Judges this year are: Dave Schied, head of Horticultural Studies for Northern Virginia Community College; Loudoun County Master Gardener Sam Allaire; and horticulturist Ann Rose from Front Royal.

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lopping down on the courthouse lawn to enjoy a picnic or just have a rest while taking in some great music has been a popular component of the Leesburg Flower and Garden Festival over the years. Each year organizers try to put together a skillful blend of old and, likely, new favorites. Also this year, organizers are offering a greater variety of acoustic music to create a more intimate atmosphere on a smaller stage than previous festivals. SATURDAY, APRIL 18 The roster kicks off at 10 a.m. with the popular Orphans of Twang Unplugged, who have performed at the festival for the past three years. The 2015 version sees Clark Hansbarger and Rob Remington and Kara Hansbarger as an acoustic trio. Their distinctive sound blends New Orleans, Nashville, Memphis and SoHo with rich harmonies and earthy energy. The Orphans are followed at noon with Naked Blue, featuring duo Scott and Jen Smith. The two quit their day jobs in 1991 and have been writing, recording and performing music ever since. They have six albums to their credit and have contributed on hundreds more. Naked Blue is a frequent and popular act at the Acoustic on the Green summer concert series in Leesburg. There will be a break in the musical offerings at 2 p.m., when the Town of Leesburg will receive its 25th consecutive award as a Tree City USA. Members of the Town Council and the Tree Commission will be on stage. At 2:30 p.m., Ben and Jim Mason bring their lyric-driven, freak-folk style done on keyboards. They are followed at 4:30 p.m. by Sweetnova—Amy and Luke Denton, an acoustic folk/ jazz duo. Her voice has been described as “silk and soul” while Luke provides flawless piano skills, solid guitar chops and seamless harmonies. SUNDAY, APRIL 19 The festival’s second day typically starts with a slower, quieter mood. Gary Smallwood, a returning festival performer, has been voted Loudoun’s favorite musician for the fifth year in a row. He and his brother, Tom Smallwood, will team up to bring great vocals and guitar playing to the occasion, starting at 10 a.m. At 11:45 a.m., acoustic guitarist and up-and-coming singer-

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to plant the right plant in the right place, and take whatever physical and mechanical care of it I could,” he said, noting wild plants have grown fine over the centuries without herbicides or pesticides. What McGrath advocates is the proper care for each plant. “I can teach them a few things to get the perfect balance of sugar and acids, and strong back flavors without their becoming hard or watery.” A lot of the natural approach is commonsense, McGrath said. Take lawn care for instance. “I want to get across to people that lawn care is not really orLAWN | CONTINUED ON PG. 19

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