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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 June 13, 2006 7:49 PM