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April 26, 2007
Olivia White Garden Project Update/Scheduled Workday 5/3
On April 26th we had a large crew in the garden and much was accomplished. Laura Davis and Judy Chen worked on the Tea Garden. Over the winter, mint had taken over the garden and it was removed and put back in large buried pots to avoid spreading. David Hockman repaired benches, leveled our birdbaths, and weeded a large area near the new screen. He and Alan Katte reworked tree water wells and leveled the sheep troughs. Alan is working on a way to help keep benches from turning over in the wind and repairing 2 signs in the front garden. Leslie Penick, Evelyn Haven, Cynthia Katte, Paula Andress and I weeded. Paula also found time to deep water our roses garden between weeding. Nancy Palmer and Marcia Lamkin did planning for the Faerie Garden.
Thank-yous this week to:
Our regular crew - Nancy Palmer, Laura Davis, Cynthia Katte, David Hockman, Marcia Lamkin and Leslie Penick
New master gardeners who joined us: Judy Chen and Evelyn Haven
Paula Andress
Alan Katte
Plans for 5/3/07
Get fountain up and running
Plant Rose of Sharon
Move some of the larkspur in rose garden to other parts of garden (sheep trough, etc)
Finish tree well repair at North end of garden
Continue work on Tea Garden
Finish painting the greenhouse
Re-sand path from parking lot to rose garden
As always - weeding
Watering? depends on current weather
Upcoming Plans
May 1/9am-12pm - Garden workday with Coconino High School students.
Cynthia Davis supervising - contact her at 527-7548 if you would like to help.
May 1 - First showing of original watercolors at the East Side Public Library
Paintings to be raffled/auctioned on August 18th at our Garden Tea.
June 1 - Paintings on display for the month at the Arboretum at Flagstaff
July 1 - Paintings on display at the Artists Gallery for the month
August 18 - Garden Tea - Auction/Raffle at Olivia White Hospice Garden
Details to be added later
Fundraising
We do have note cards (prints of the paintings of the garden) and raffle tickets for 2 of the paintings available for sale at the Northland Hospice Office, the Olivia White Hospice Home, and Hodge Podge. The cards come in a package of 4 for $10. The raffle tickets for original watercolors by Mary Swanson and Lynn Overend are $3 each or 6 for $15. The paintings by Roberta Rogers and Catherine Sickafoose will be auctioned at our tea in August.
We still have photo note cards and bookmarks with flowers from the garden available at the Northland Hospice office.
Profits from all items are used for creating our beautiful garden.
"More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows."
Spanish Proverb
Come join us next week or drop by and purchase some cards to benefit the garden. I will be at the National Master Gardener Conference in Little Rock for the next two weeks. Posting will resume when I return.
Thanks, Loni
Posted by maxmaddy at April 26, 2007 4:48 PM