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.
June 13th 2014 – Feast of Will
The Club’s next big member event will be creating 140 table arrangements from the flowers and greens out of their personal gardens for the tables at the Lion’s Club Feast of Will event. This annual dinner barbecue is hosted by the Ashland Lion’s Club and celebrates the beginning of summer and the opening of the Elizabethan Stage.
The Feast of Will is held in Lithia Park at 6:00pm
Tickets for the event are $15.00 and available at the OSF Box Office
Ashland Prepares for Drought
The City of Ashland is preparing for the impending drought
and water curtailment for the summer of 2014.
For more information contact:
Julie Smitherman- City Water Conservation Specialist. 541-552-2062
Check out the city’s website on how to conserve water.
http://www.ashland.or.us/citynews.drought
Garden of the Month: May 2014
The First United Methodist Church of Ashland, at 175 N. Main Street, is especially lovely at this time of year when the dogwood is in bloom.
The gardens surrounding the church are lovingly tended by church members, notably Brad Inman, Beth Hite, Toby Deller, and Evelyn Moore. Last year, we caught pictures of Brad Inman and Charlie Brown manicuring the boxwood hedges out front. Volunteers from the congregation attend work parties at the church the last Saturday of each month, tending the facilities inside and outside.
The sanctuary of the church was built in 1908, but when more modern structures were added in 2008, a formal landscape plan was formulated by John Galbraith and Byron Williams of Galbraith & Associates and implemented by Seth Barnard of Solid Ground Landscaping.
The front of the church features Japanese maples, rhododendrons, maple and magnolia trees, in addition to the boxwood and dogwood. A courtyard on the Laurel street side has a lawn for people to gather on, a low wall, many Japanese maples and crepe myrtles. Also viburnum, azaleas, daylilllies, dogwood, iris, and hydrangeas. Annuals are added for color each year by the volunteers.
The garden on Laurel nearest the street is called the Memorial Garden, where church members’ ashes can be interred. Included there are more Japanese maples, mugo pine, false cypress, mock orange, kinnikinnick, barberry, nandina and sedum. Even the parking lot has been landscaped.
Submitted by Ruth Sloan
With thanks to Sherri Morgan for plant identification.