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June 26, 2006
Volunteers Needed at the Celtic Festival
SUMMER FUN AT THE CELTIC FESTIVAL
Master Gardener Volunteers (or any interested gardeners), are needed to help staff the Viola's Nursery Booth at the AZ Highland Celtic Festival being held in Foxglenn Park on July 15 & 16, 2006. This festival is lots of fun for the entire family and while Viola's will supply the plants, we need volunteers with gardening expertise to help out at the booth from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sat. and 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Sun. The Celtic Society has done some research and put together informative handouts explaining the Celtic history/use of each plant for sale.
For those interested in volunteering in any capacity for the festival, please call 928-556-3161. More info on the festival can be found at www.nachs.info.
Posted by hbraun at 1:09 PM
June 15, 2006
Arizona Native Plant Society
Arizona Native Plant Society Program Events for the year 2006:
Program meetings are held the 3rd Tuesday, 7-8:30 pm in Room 313, NAU Biological Sciences Building, from March-October. Field trips are scheduled for the following Sunday, with carpool hookups at NAU north parking lot at 10 am. All events are free and open to the public. For information, call 814-2644.
August 15, speaker Janice Busco, "Garden design with native plants, featuring penstemons and enhancing native companion plants."
August 20, field trip, leader Jan Busco, "Looking for4 penstemons at home and on forest trails."
September and October programs will be listed as they are developed.
A special opportunity;
Flagstaff Chapter, AZ Native Plant Society will be awarding a plaque honoring the native plant gardens judged to be the best in areas of design, seasonal appearance, water usage, etc. by chapter committee members. Judging will take place during the summer of 2007. Enter your garden by requesting an application form at the March 2007 program meeting.
Posted by ferrise at 1:27 PM
June 14, 2006
New Publication from UofA - Watering Trees and Shrubs
It's hot outside. Are your plants getting enough water? A handy Arizona Cooperative Extension brochure is available to help you figure out when, how much and how often you should irrigate your landscape plants.
Watering Trees and Shrubs: Simple Techniques for Efficient Landscape Watering covers irrigation needs related to weather, soil type, plant maturity, mulching, and other factors. A section is included to help you identify signs of over- and underwatering.
The brochure can be downloaded at cals.arizona.edu/pubs/water/az1298.pdf
Posted by hbraun at 9:53 AM
June 13, 2006
Oliva White Hospice Garden Workday 7/6/06
We had a busy day at the garden last week and much was accomplished before the rains came down. It is amazing what rain can do for a garden. Plants that were looking stressed and not growing last week have perked up and begun to grow again. Most of our regular crew were in attendance: Cynthia Katte, Karen Kent, Elsie Ellis, Leslie Penick and David Hockman. We cleaned and filled birdbaths and feeders, watered a lttle, weeded,and planted Rosemary for the "Fair for Life".
We also began creating a path from the parking lot to the Rose Garden. Unfortunately this involved moving two big piles of aggregate and compost. Sorry about the dark photo but the light was not ideal - yet we wanted a photo of the space before the work started. We used a hose to mark the approximate path, and then began moving piles and digging the path.
Thank-yous:
Cynthia Katte for planting Rosemary, helping with the birdbaths and new path.
Elsie Ellis for planting Rosemary and watering.
David Hockman for bringing his golden shovel to begin the path to the Rose Garden.
Leslie Penick for helping with the path design and hauling sandstone.
Karen Kent for deadheading and caring for roses.
Barbara Rice for a donation of $100 for perennials
Arthur Daubenspeck for a donation of $1000 for the wish list.
New blooms in the garden:
Red Husker penstemon and poppy mallow.
Butterflies seen in the garden:
Mourning Cloak
To do list for 7/6/06:
Continue work on the brick/sandstone path from the parking lot to the Rose garden.
Water as needed.
Clean birdbaths and fill feeders.
Weed the Inferno Strip.
Repot annual in some of color pots.
Other news::
July 27 1-4pm Special workday with Americorp on Fairy Garden hardscape/weeding.
July 29 8am-5pm 10% day at Warner's Nursery and Flagstaff Native Plant and Seed.
Coconino County Probation Crew with John Gordon to build a "sitting raised bed".
Coconino Community College building trades to provide a small greenhouse.
Roberta Rogers and Lynn Overend to do a watercolor of the garden for auction and notecards.
Come join us on July 6 for our weekly garden day. As usual park on Turquoise or in the lot at the Congregational Church on Turquoise just past Switcher Canyon. Come with a hat, gloves and sun screen and any tools you like to work with.
"Perhaps our best hope for gardening as an art is that gardening is an activity whose never-achieved aim is progress towards a never-completed art."
Geoffrey Charlesworth The Opinionated Gardener (1988)
Thanks,
Loni (maxmaddy@infomagic.net)
Posted by maxmaddy at 7:49 PM
June 1, 2006
Olivia White Hospice Garden Workday 6/27
Question for the week. Does anyone know what kind of caterpiller this colorful little thing is?
Work in the garden this week included weeding the Inferno Strip, planting herbs in the Tea Garden, watering (Will it ever rain?), and cleaning our shed so we can find our tools. We also mapped out a path from the parking lot to the Rose Garden that we will begin digging next week. We had 4-legged visitors again that ate the tops of phlox and echinacea and then mowed down the roses. I hope it rains soon so they will move on to greener pastures. We continue to have 2-winged animals dropping food and bones in the birdbaths. We had our regular crew (Nancy Palmer, Elsie Ellis, Leslie Penick) and Cynthia Katte returned after a long spell of being unable to work in the garden.
New plants in the garden:
From Mountain Meadow Farm we added herbs for the Tea Garden - Clary Sage, Lemon Hyssop, Lemon Catnip, Lemon Verbena, Borage, Hidcote lavender, Pineapple Sage, Valerian, Sweet Cicley, Wild Bee Balm and Alpine Strawberries.
Golden Current and Mountain Mahogany were purchased at the Arboretum plant sale along with some Indian Rice Grass and Meadow Rue.
New blooming this week:
We also have Moonshine Yarrow and Shasta Daisy beginning to bloom.
Thank yous:
Leslie Penick and Nancy Palmer for weeding
Elsie Ellis and Cynthia Katte for watering
Elsie Ellis for help cleaning the shed
Plans for this week:
Potting rosemary in mugs to sell at the Fair for Life
Begin work digging a path for a brick path from the parking lot to the Rose Garden
Weeding and watering
Upcoming events:
July 27 12pm-400pm Americorp Crew - work on the Fairie Garden
July 29 8am-500pm Warner's and Native Plant & Seed 10% Day (info to follow)
We meed extra help on both days - if you want to participate please contact Loni Shapiro (522-8635 or maxmaddy@infomagic.net_
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.
"I am found of my garden for the trouble it gives me."
Reginald Farrer My Rock Garden (1907)
Thanks,
Loni
Posted by maxmaddy at 6:30 AM