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June 5, 2008
Olivia White Hospice Garden Project
Our Thursday workday was busy as usual. Our regular gardeners (Karen Kent, Nancy Palmer, Marcia Lamkin and Elsie Ellis) came and Linda Guarino (MG), Gus Delgadillo and Sara Clancy a new volunteer from the recent hospice training also helped.
Karen did her usual pruning, deadheading and began to use her compost from the garden to plant some red runner beans (Aztec White) that were donated by Native Seed Search. The compost has done well considering our strange weather this year. We have a couple of open cinder block areas and some composters from the city of Flagstaff thanks to Karen's persistance.
Linda and Sara planted annuals in many of our pots and added some of the vegetables/flowers from the local CSA seedling project to existing beds and sensory pots. Linda also planted a large munstead lavender. We have been replacing artemesia in our rose garden with lavender. It helps to deter the deer away from roses and replaces a troublesome plant. The artemesias after a couple of years become sink holes and eventually die. Any advice on this plant would be appreciated. Gus came and cleaned the gazebo floor, replaced a brick and planted a "Nearly Wild" rose for his wife Lucy. Elsie watered the back garden and some new plants, and cleaned birdbaths. Marcia and Nancy worked on adding annual pots to the Faerie Garden. The 'black gold" Dana Prom Smith provided last fall did wonders for that garden. All the plants returned and look very happy to be there.
Zane and David brought some residents from the home out to visit.
Jacki Hainsworth stopped by to give us some starts from Mary Lou Parliman's greenhouse.
New plantings:
Munstead lavender
Many annuals: dianthus, lobelia, dahlia, cleome, bunnytail grass, alyssum, red salvia, geraniums, wave petunias, periwinkle, sweet potato vine,
Vegetables: broccoli, brussel sprouts, kale, peppers, lettuce
Herbs: lemon verbena, orange mint, pineapple sage
New blooms:
More iris (pink/yellow), Austrian copper rose, scarlet bugler penstemon, dessert penstemon, columbine and the Faerie Garden is looking beautiful.. All the succulents donated by Jean Hockman returned, along with the dianthus, snow in summer, a variety of thyme, sweet woodruff, etc.
Thank you:
Watercolor by Mary E. Swanson for Garden Party
Plants from Jacki Hainsworth and Mary Lou Parliman
Trellis from Karen Kent
Events:
June 1, 2008
Art display for the month at the Arboretum at Flagstaff
Judi Hartman, Catherine Sickafoose, Lynn Overend, Roberta Rogers and Mary Swanson
June 6, 2008 6pm-900pm
Raffle and Garden Party ticket sales at First Friday Artwalk
August 2, 2008 8am-500pm
10% Day for Northland Hospice at Warner's Nursery
August 17, 2008 230pm-500pm
Garden Party at Olivia White Hospice Home
Raffle/auction, hat contest, music, food, garden tours
Come join us this week on Thursday (8am-12pm). Our plans include continuing to work on drip lines to make sure they are on plants (Faerie Garden, Inferno Strips), weeding, watering east gardens, cleaning bird baths and feeders, planting some more annual pots, working the compost pile and cleaning the shed and greenhouse. Park in the 1st Congregational Church lot on Turquoise just past Switzer Canyon Drive. Bring a hat, gloves and any tools you prefer (we do have both) and sun screen (it should be hot). We will provide water and snacks.
Thanks,
Loni Shapiro
Posted by maxmaddy at June 5, 2008 8:17 PM