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August 2, 2007
Olivia White Garden Project Workday 8/9/07
On Thursday, many of our regular crew came to help in the garden. Karen Kent and David Hockman continued work on the brick pathway on the north end of the house. Leslie Penick came later and helped them haul bricks. Cynthia Katte worked on Wed. and Thurs. She is working with Kathy Pate on finishing the re-mapping of the garden and helped us weed today. Nancy Palmer did some planting in the new beds of the Faerie Garden, and Elsie Ellis did her usual cleaning and filling birdbaths and general cleaning of the garden areas. We had a couple of visitors from the Arboretum (Nathan McLeod and Hanna Raiter). They both offered ideas for the new greenhouse project. We all began work on deadheading many of the spent lambs ears that have been battered by heavy rains. We finished up with a short meeting about our scheduled August 18th Tea and enjoyed some zucchini bread made from our first crop of squashes.
Thank-yous this week to:
Our regular crew - Leslie Penick, Nancy Palmer, Karen Kent, David Hockman, Elsie Ellis, Cynthia Katte, Cynthia Davis and Kathy Pate.
New blooms:
Many colors of coneflower, aster, and the clary sage in the Tea Garden.
New plantings in the Faerie Garden:
Coral bells, miniture roses, black bugbane, prairie smoke, columbine, sweet woodruff, bleeding heart, lily of the valley and Rodgersia.
Plans for 8/9/07
Finishing planting the Faerie garden
Weeding many parts of the garden - due to all the wonderful rain
Deadheading and general garden clean-up in preparation for the tea
Continuing work on the brick pathway
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
Tickets $20 - available through the Northland Hospice Office and Hodge Podge
779-1227
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 August 2, 2007 6:14 AM