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August 3, 2007

Olivia White Hospice Project Workday 8/16/07

Tea Garden in full bloom in it's second season. Photo by Loni Shapiro.

Our regular workcrew was in the garden on Thursday with some extra help weeding from Carol. Karen Kent continued to work on the Native Garden pathway on the north end of the house. She also planted a couple of miniture roses for the fairy garden and treated some roses with powdery mildew. Nancy Palmer and Marcia Lamkin worked on planting and hardscape in the Faerie Garden. David Hockman moved another plant and worked on weeding in preparation for the Tea next week. Allen Katte came to repair and clean our fountain and Cynthia weeded and deadheaded. Our new helper Carol did a superb job on weeding a large long neglected area just west of the Rose garden. I spent my day cleaning birdbaths, doing some transplanting, and weeding. If we wanted to go into business we could start a Russian elm tree farm. We must have several thousand seedlings in the garden.

Thank-yous this week to:
Our regular crew - Nancy Palmer, Marcia Lamkin, Karen Kent, David Hockman, Cynthia & Allen Katte, Cynthia Davis and Carol a new volunteer.

New blooms:
Clematis, pink and white cleome, asters.

Seeds from Jacki Hainsworth's Mom - cleome from Pennsylvania. Photo by Loni Shapiro. Return of asters planted in 2006. Photo by Loni Shapiro.

Plans for 8/9/07
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
Place ID tags for trees and shrubs

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.. 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 3, 2007 5:06 AM