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June 19, 2007
Olivia White Hospice Garden Project 6/21/07
This has been a busy week in our gardens. On Wednesday, Cynthia Katte and her Master Gardener crew were busy re-mapping the gardens. This is a long overdue project since the gardens are now 5 years old. The original maps no longer reflect the structure or plants in the garden.
On Thursday our regular crew was in attendance even in the heat. Evelyn Haven, Leslie Penick and a new volunteer Collene Barnhart weeded and added a few plants to the north Inferno Strip. Collene also watered the east side gardens. Linda Daugherty returned from Ash Fork to finish feeding the trees and re-working their wells and planted a few more perennials/annuals. Elsie Ellis was back to clean bird baths, the gazebo floor, and make soil for planting some more annual pots. Karen Kent did her usual deadheading and getting the roses outside the rose garden ready to grow. Cynthia Katte helped supervise the first couple of hours in my absence, while planting some new color in the old inferno strip. Several residents spent time in the garden with David and Zane.
If that wasn't enough we had a whole new crew on Friday. Laura Davis help supervise a crew from GORE. They did 4 hours of their 8 hours of yearly community service in our garden. We had 8 people that accomplished our list for the day and then some. Hattie Braun stopped by to help decide on where to plant some donated aspens. The crew of 8 planted 8 trees, one shrub, and 3 color pots. They also cleaned several areas - the back of the Faerie Garden, the shed and surrounding area, and our pile of leftover wood and pots. Two of the crew hauled materials out to the dump, another watered the back garden, and several people sanded the gazebo in prepartion for re-staining
Thank-yous this week to:
Our regular crew - Karen Kent, Cynthia Katte, Evelyn Haven, Leslie Penick, Linda Daugherty, Elsie Ellis, David and Zane, and our new volunteer Collene Barnhart.
Cynthia Katte and her MG crew for mapping.
GORE for a successful community service day.
Nick Lipinski for a donation of gladiola bulbs from his mom.
New blooms this week:
Lilies, dianthus, many volunteer larkspur surrounding the birdbath in the rose garden.
New plantings:
6 Aspen, 2 popular and one Three Leaf Sumac shrub
Plans for 6/28/07
Begin tagging the roses for identification
Pole one of our leaning fruit trees
Plant baskets for Hodge Podge
Continue work on Faerie Garden
Clean and fill birdbaths
Clean remaining pots
As always - weeding (but very little this week)
Watering? depends on current weather but if continues to be dry we will need extra help watering..
Upcoming Plans
June 1 - Paintings on display for the month at the Arboretum at Flagstaff.
Paintings to be raffled/auctioned on August 18th at our Garden Tea. Come see some
additional painting of gardens/flowers/butterflies by Mary Swanson, Lynn Overend, and
Catherine Sickafoose in the display this month.
June 30 - Fundraising table for Run for Your Life
Allen Katte to man a table on the morning of the race.
June 30 - Fundraising table for Radisson RN Conference
Loni Shapiro to man a table for sales of note cards/bookmarks/raffle tickets.
July 1 - Paintings on display at the Artists Gallery for the month
July 21 - Warner's & Flagstaff Native Plant & Seed - 10% day
August 18 - Garden Tea - Auction/Raffle at Olivia White Hospice Garden
2:30-4:30 pm in the garden
Tours, food, music, and raffle-auction at 3:30pm
Parking at the 1st Congregational Church
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 gardens.
Get out in your garden or find one to visit or help in.
Come join us next week and/or drop by and purchase some cards to benefit the garden.
Thanks, Loni Shapiro
Posted by maxmaddy at June 19, 2007 7:37 PM