Above Photos by Member Paul Kintscher
Above Photo by David Lambert, Ashland Visitor
Author Archives: Ashland Garden Club
Ashland Pond Project – Helman School
Thank you Ashland Garden Club
“Thank you so much for your generous donation to Helman School!!!”
“We have been using the binoculars down at the Pond. They are highly effective and very user friendly. Attached are some pictures of students using the binoculars to view birds in the bird houses that kindergarteners and 5th graders constructed together. The bird houses were donated by the Siskiyou District Garden Club.
When classes went down to the Ashland Pond for our spring field trips the students were thrilled to see their bird houses hung on native trees.
The tr
ees are still waiting for the tree plaques, as we are constructing the wooden mounts. We look forward to mounting those in the fall.
Thank you again for helping us grow our Pond Project. We feel extremely fortunate to have such a wonderful community that supports the experiential learning that occurs in an outdoor classroom.” Tia McLean 
Leyland Cypress
“Cypress foliage is very flammable. It is sticky and aromatic, two signs that is contains volatile waxes, oils and other substances that burn hot. Flammability may not be an issue in a situation where the trees are isolated from other plants and flammable material (like fences), but consider that in recent years Leyland cypress plantings have contributed to damaging fires in southern Oregon.”
Siskiyou Woodlander
Leyland cypress: requiem for a hybrid? Posted on March 25, 2014 by bennemax
Read more here:
http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/sworwoods/2014/03/25/leyland-cypress-requiem-hybrid/
Nan Quick’s Diaries for Armchair Travelers
All- I’ve just published the fifth and final chapter about my explorations of the
gardens and estates of Kent, England.
Here’s the link.
Very Best- Nan Quick
The Gardeners Pen
The Gardeners Pen, Oregon Master Gardener Association newsletter is available: http://www.oregonmastergardeners.org/docs/GardenersPen/2014April.pdf
“I would particularly like to draw your attention to the information in the Gardeners Pen, about the annual OMGA Gardeners MiniCollege which will be held on July 12th-13th at the LaSell’s Stewart Center on the Oregon State University Campus. Details about the MiniCollege are at http://extension.oregonstate.edu/mg/minicollege.”
Bob Reynolds, Master Gardener Coordinator
Oregon State University Extension Service Jackson County
541-776-7371
robert.reynolds@oregonstate.edu
extension.oregonstate.edu/sorec/mg
2014 – AGC Plant Sale
The rain put a “damper” on our annual plant sale, but members and community members alike braved the rain to come out to buy plants and flowers. Sales were not as strong as they were in the past two years, but the Club managed to make enough to fund our SOU scholarship! Thank you to all those who participated.
