The first week of June was a warm and busy week for the gardens at Olivia White Home. On Tuesday, we had our first visit from a group of highschoolers from throughout the state (Upward Bound). There were 11 from Coconino High, schools in Williams, Winslow, Window Rock and Hopi, along with their supervisor for the month. They are living at NAU, taking classes and doing volunteer work. On Tues & Thurs. they watered, weeded, fed the birds, planted, and helped the house clean the garage.
On Thursday, many of our regular crew came and 10 college students from CREC that Laura Davis supervised. The crew from CREC got our new Michael Moore Native Medicinal Garden started - weeding and moving some non-native shrubs and plants. They also helped Linda Guarino unload some compost from Equestrian Estates. Linda also set the timers on our drip system and planted some perennials. Vicki Goodwin worked on weeding, Cindy Murray, Cynthia Katte, and Judith Chaddock watered and moved mulch from the roses, Carol Lease worked on the drip and the roses, Marcia Lamkin on the Faerie Garden, Marilynn V. watered & weeded, Crys Wells planted potted some red hot pokers and iris taken out of the beds by CREC, and David Hockman dug a hole and worked on a bench that needs to be repaired. I spent most of my time trying to keep everyone busy.
New blooms:
Dutch Iris, Evening Primrose, several succulents in the rock garden, and some penstemons.
New plants:
Too numerus to list, but many annuals in pots.
Come join us next week. We will be planting more annuals, and digging up some plants for our planned Plant & Garden Sale on June 26th. If you have any garden plants or tools you want to contribute, please contact Loni Shapiro at 928-522-8635 or cnslds@q.com.
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