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May 24, 2006
Olivia White Hospice Home workday 6/8
We came to the garden with a list of many tasks to be done and were able to get to all but 1 and added a few more. Color pots were added to the gazebo and several of the glider bench areas. All 10 of our shrubs were planted and several others were moved from the Rose Garden by Karen Kent, Allyson Daley and Malinda Slaybaugh. Our two apple trees and a couple of roses suffered some severe damage from local deer so they were treated by Laura Davis. Several beds were cleaned and filled with new compost. David Hockman not only finished a glider pad, but did some much needed repairs on our 3 wheelbarrels. Leslie Pennick and Elsie Ellis planted annuals in color pots and added herbs to the standing bed. Nancy Palmer and Elsie Ellis did some much needed watering. Bird baths were refilled (the crows have not left) and feeders were filled. Doug Grant stopped by (Northland Hospice Volunteer Coordinator) and agreed to spearhead the locust tree planting. If you are interested in helping him please contact the office (779-1227).
As usual we had many visitors to the garden. Some came from the home, and some from home to visit (David & Zane the Golden Retriever) residents. With the sun so warm our hats made earlier in the season were put to good use.
Thank-yous include:
David Hockman - finishing another brick glider pad and for repairing 3 of our wheelbarrels. One has a big new wheel.
Karen Kent - for continuing care for the Rose garden, planting, and general clean-up.
Allyson Daley - for filling in whereever needed/-planting new shrubs and annuals, and sprucing up the perennial bed by the house.
Elsie Ellis - watering all of the back garden and helping to plant some annual pots.
Leslie Pennick - creating some color pots
Malinda Slaybaugh and her dog - digging holes for shrubs
Nancy Palmer - watering
New plants include:
6 barberry shrubs, 3 blue spruce shrubs, Rose of Sharon (pink), annual color (geraniums, dusty miller, marigolds, bacopa, sweet potato vine, dahlia, lobelia, alyssum, pansy, and red saliva)
New blooms in the garden:
More alliums - we had 4 so far - Purple Sensation, Blue Flowered Ornmental Onion, Star of Persia, Ivory Queen Ornamental Onion. They have brought more questions from residents, staff and master gardeners, than anything else we have planted.
Penstemons - Palmeri, Utah Blue Bell, Rocky Mountain, Scarlet Bugler
Dutch Iris - Yellow, White, Purple, and Black
Cora Bells
Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale)
Plans for 6/8/06:
Making a better entrance to the garden for residents in wheelchairs - temporary until the path is finished
Finishing off glider pad with sand and spreading the dirt dug to place it
Repairing the back patio - sand/dirt
Begin mapping out a path from the parking lot to the Rose Garden that will eventually be brick
Weeding, and general garden clean-up.
Hope to see you in the garden this week - Thursday 8am-12pm. As usual park in the Congregational Church lot on Turquoise just past Switzer Canyon or on Turquoise. Wear a hat, sun screen, gloves and bring any special tool you like to use.
Today's Quote
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -Marcel Proust
Thanks,
Loni Shapiro
Posted by maxmaddy at May 24, 2006 1:14 PM