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June 5, 2007
Olivia White Hospice Project Workday 6/14/07
Our small crew accomplished many chores on our to-do list for the day on Thursday. Cynthia Katte stained part of a repaired bench, helped install some new memorial bricks and a hummingbird feeder pole, and added some streamers to keep Bambi out of her favorite roses south of the Gazebo. My Mom, Elsie Ellis, joined us again and helped us clean-up bird baths, droppings in the gazebo and swept out the patio. She also help make some soil for the last of 4 tomatoes planted, that were covered with remay due to the impending frost. Leslie Penick and Evelyn Haven worked on one of many weed patches. Judy Chen did some potting, fixed some loose flagstone on the back patio, and hand watered all the plants new to the garden. Nancy Palmer worked on her two projects - the Birdhouse Screen and the Faerie Garden. Our plan was to plant some annual color pots, but because of the possible frost we decided to wait until next Thursday. We were also joined by the sound of some small birds nesting in one of our old dead ponderosas. We were unable to identify them - too small and too far up the tree.
Thank-yous this week to:
Our regular crew - Nancy Palmer, Cynthia Katte, Judy Chen, Evelyn Haven, Leslie Penick, Elsie Ellis and David and Zane.
Thank you also to Cynthia and Allen Katte for a new much needed drill for the garden and to Evelyn Haven for a set of gloves for the summer auction/raffle.
New blooms this week:
Centaurea rothrockii (Basket Flower), Allium moly 'Jeannine', Penstemon linarioides (Mat), gaillardia (Blanket Flower) and Robusta Rose. The red runner beans planted on the new Birdhouse screen have taken off.
Plans for 6/14/07
Begin tagging the roses for identification
Pole one of our leaning fruit trees
Plant color pots with annuals and finish raised beds
Re-sanding the path between the parking lot and Rose garden
Continue work on Faerie Garden
As always - weeding
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 help 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 14 - Warner's 10% day (tentative schedule)
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 garden.
"This is June, the month of grass and leaves . . . already the aspens are trembling again,
and a new summer is offered me. I feel a little fluttered in my thoughts, as if I might be too
late. Each season is but an infinitesimal point. It no sooner comes than it is gone. It has
no duration. It simply gives a tone and hue to my thought. Each annual phenomena is
reminiscence and prompting. Our thoughts and sentiments answer to the revolution
of the seasons, as two cog-wheels fit into each other. We are conversant with only one
point of contact at a time, from which we receive a prompting and impulse and instantly
pass to a new season or point of contact. A year is made up of a certain series and
number of sensations and thoughts which have their language in nature. Now I am
ice, now I am sorrel. Each experience reduces itself to a mood of the mind."
- Henry David Thoreau, Journal, June 6, 1857
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 5, 2007 5:15 AM