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July 1, 2006

Olivia White Hospice Garden Workday 7/13/06

Most of our regular crew attended the garden workday this week - David Hockman, Karen Kent, Nancy Palmer, Elsie Ellis, Cynthia Katte and Leslie Pennick. We weeded the inferno strip, watered, planted hanging baskets for Hodge Podge,
Cynthia Katte did these hanging baskets for the Hodge Podge Store. Photo by Loni Shapiro.
and continued work on the path from the Rose Garden to the parking lot.
Karen Kent and David Hockman working on the new brick path. Photo by Loni Shapiro.
Zane and David visited with a resident, and another resident came out to try some of the touch and smell pots in the the garden.

Thank-yous:
Karen Kent for her usual dead heading.
Karen and David Hockman for work on the brick path.
Elsie Ellis for watering and sweeping.
Cynthia Katte for planting the hanging pots for Hodge Podge.
Thanks to all who participated in the "Fair for Life". We met many people, sold several bricks, cards, bookmarks and plants. Next year we hope to do even more.
Nancy, Laura, Loni and Leslie for hard work on weeding.
Zane and David for making our day more enjoyable.

New blooms in the garden:
Annuals added to color pots (Salvia (red & purple), Wave Petunias, Lobelia, Marigolds and Alyssum).

To do list for 7/13/06:
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.
Place solar light in the garden.
Thin the lettuce and radish bed.

New in the garden:
Half of a brick path from the Rose Garden to the parking lot.
Solar lights for the evening, purchased through a donation by Arthur Daubenspeck.
Lettuce, radishes and spinach finally coming up in the raised bed.

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 13 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.

"My garden claims a good part of my spare time in the fiddle of the day, when I am not engaged at home or taking a walk; there is always something to interest me even in the very sight of the weeds and litter, for then I think how much improved the place will be when they are removed." Thomas Arnold, Letter to J. T. Coleridge, 1819

Thanks, Loni (maxmaddy@infomagic.net)

Posted by hargers at July 1, 2006 7:46 PM