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July 13, 2007
Olivia White Garden Project Workday 7/26
On Thursday our regular crew (Cynthia Katte, Nancy Palmer, Marcia Lamkin, Evelyn Haven, Leslie Penick, Elsie Ellis and David Hockman) worked in the hospice garden. In addition Cynthia had her mapping crew (Erin Fink & ) working on finishing touches for the new garden map. As usual much was accomplished in 3-4 hours. David did his usual digging and managed to plant 5 new roses. He also worked at repairing one of our paths that had sunk during the rain. Cynthia worked with the mapping crew. Elsie cleaned all the bird baths. Maybe now that the rain has begun the crows will stop washing their food in them. Evelyn and Leslie did some weeding and planting in the Inferno Strip. Marcia worked on the fairy garden, stopping occasionally to feed some baby birds that she is rescuing.
Nancy planted some new perennials, worked with the mapping crew, and did some planning with Marcia. I spent my time helping David and transplanting yarrow.
Thank-yous this week to:
Our regular crew - Evelyn Haven, Leslie Penick, Marcia Lamkin, David Hockman, Nancy Palmer, Elsie Ellis and David and Zane.
Mapping crew - Cynthia Katte, Erin Fink and Kathy Pate
New blooms:
Purple coneflower, Hummingbird Trumpet (Zauschneria), and many more Shasta daisy.
New plantings:
4 Carpet roses and one miniture rose, several new salvias and artemisia, cora bell, fireweed, mountain pea, orange agastache, new variety of yarrow, Maltese cross and vinca.
Plans for 7/26/07
We have a crew of Americorp volunteers coming so we will work on some large projects
Weeding a small area south of Faerie Garden and planting some hollyhocks
Begin re-staining the gazebo
Begin pathway on north end of house
Assist Marcia & Nancy with creating beds in the Faerie Garden
July 2 - Paintings on display at the Artists Gallery for the month. Stop by on the 1st Friday Artwalk to see them.
July 26 - Americorp Workday
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. Tickets are available through Northland Hospice.
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 tickets for our summer Tea.
Thanks, Loni Shapiro
Posted by maxmaddy at July 13, 2007 5:19 AM