New Willow Bench in the Faerie Garden. Photo by Loni Shapiro.
On another sunny cool morning we were able to get much accomplished in the garden. Laura Davis and Marcia Lamkin worked on placing the new willow bench. Appropiately it will reside in the Faerie Garden. It is not only beautiful , but fits into the whimsy of the garden. This bench has been on our wish list for several years and was donated earlier this summer by Susan Roe and family in memory of her father. It will be a special place to sit and enjoy the view of the canyon from the Faerie Garden.
David Hockman continued his digging ways - transpanting two large shrubs in our front north garden. We have been busy for several weeks moving plants to make this a smaller/more compact garden for more efficient watering. Kay Balzer transplanted some more day lilies and penstemon ,and I spent some time defining the end with malapais rock. Next week we will try to move one more shrub into the area - weather permitting.
Linda Guarino and Cynthia Katte worked on the compost. Cynthia brought her sifter from home and the resulting compost looked like black gold, ready for Home & Garden magazine.
Linda also worked on transplanting some Sneezeweed into the new Native Medicinal Garden and Cynthia began cleaning and cutting back the iris. Becky Lewis helped her do that and also deadheaded the roses. Marilynn V. returned from her busy life and watered the front gardens for us. Crys Wells stopped in and helped to deadhead and weed.
New in the garden:
Willow Bench in the Faerie Garden
A smaller north bed on Switzer Canyon Drive
Some of the first plants added to the Michael Moore Native Medicinal Garden
Plans for September:
Weeding Party this Saturday morning 9/11/10 from 9am-12pm
Regular Thursday workdays for the month from 8am-12pm
Plans for October:
Saturday 10/23/10 from 9am-12pm Bulb Planting
Next week our work on fall cleaning and some transplanting dependent on weather/forecast.
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, when Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike." John Muir
Thanks,
Loni Shapiro
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