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July 13, 2007
Olivia White Garden Project Workday 8/2
On Thursday afternoon we had a crew of 8 AmeriCorp volunteers from throughout Arizona helping with large projects in the garden. Several of our regular crew came to help and supervise (Leslie Penick, Evelyn Haven, Marcia Lamkin and Nancy Palmer). Nancy and Doug Grant, the volunteer coordinator, helped with transporting them from NAU.
One project worked on was weeding and terracing the Faerie Garden. Surprisingly the soil looks good there, unlike other parts of the garden. Because of all the rain we actually had a running stream just below the garden. This garden is finally coming together after a couple of years work. Last year AmeriCorp actually got us started by clearing out weeds and moving large rocks to circle the garden.
Several others worked on beginning to create a brick pathway on the north end of the house. They were able to finish about 1/3 of it and managed to get the hard part done - the beginning curve. We will continue to work laying brick on this path for several weeks.
A couple of volunteers worked on tree well improvement for watering and planting a few perennials. Leslie and Evelyn both worked on Norm Erickson's bind weed on the Switzer Canyon bed. All in all it was a very productive day.
Thank-yous this week to:
Our regular crew - Evelyn Haven, Leslie Penick, Marcia Lamkin, Nancy Palmer & Doug Grant
8 AmeriCorp volunteers
New blooms:
White bellflower, new rose (Rockin Robin), Whipple's penstemon & daylilies
New plantings:
More Munstead lavender and another unusual dark pink double coneflower (Razzmatazz).
Plans for 7/26/07
Weeding a small area south of Faerie Garden and planting some hollyhocks
Working on the back pathway at the north end of the house
Moving more yarrow to dry parts of the garden
Continued work on the Faerie Garden
Harvesting some greens and veggies
Cleaning and refilling bird baths - feeders
Weeding as needed with all the wonderful rains
July 2 - Paintings on display at the Artists Gallery for the month. Stop by on the 1st Friday Artwalk to see them.
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 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 5:51 AM