June Garden Tour

A Gathering of Gardeners Passionate About Growing Things in Ashland, Oregon

On Monday club members toured six member’s gardens and discovered the creativity, passion and diversity in each member’s landscaping style!  The tour included two small gardens tastefully landscaped with flowering plants & art, a medium-sized garden revamped and transformed into an tranquil garden, a splendid pollinator & waterwise garden full of color and pollinators, a lovely Ashland hills landscape surrounded by trees with lots of rockery and cool private sitting areas, and a colorful English-style garden nestled along a  babbling creek.

It was a beautiful fun day.

SOU Botanical Tour

Southern Oregon University Botanical Tour features 107 trees, pollinator gardens, and the SOU Farm.  Some trees on the tour are older than the school itself.

In 2014, the Arbor Day Foundation accredited SOU with its  Tree Campus  award, and in 2015 the University became the first Bee Campus in the nation by providing pollinator beds and bee habitats throughout the campus.  SOU has pledged with the Friends of the Earth Bee Cause Campaign to stop the use of all neonicotinoids on campus in an effort to help protect pollinators . Neonicotinoids are harmful systemic insecticides.

SOU offers guided tours and self-guided tours. Brochures can be picked up at the SOU Landscape Services located at 351 Walker Avenue.  Tel: 541-552-6117

Landscape Services Mike Oxendine
Mike Oxendine is SOU’s Landscape Services Supervisor

https://landscape.sou.edu/sou-botanical-tour/

 

Ashland Garden Club members on a guided tour with Mike.

Nan Quick’s Diaries for Armchair Travelers

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My newest travel article,
A WELL-SPENT WEEK IN SOUTHERN DEVON, PART ONE
has just been published. Here’s the link:
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Nan Quick’s Diaries for Armchair Travelers

Nan Quick’s Diaries for Armchair Travelers

The Gardens & Great House of the Crane Estate, in Ipswich,MA
~Nan Quick

The Crane Estate at Castle Hill, in Ipswich, MA. A Tour of the House & Gardens which exemplify the American Country Place Era.