Jeff and Julian Jones entertained garden club members yesterday during AGC’s Holiday Celebration. This father and son group has entertained club members often over the last 20 years, and they always delight us. Julian performed for garden member’s when he was just 9 years old. He has mastered his musical talents!
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October: N. Mt. Park’s Heirloom Garden
Heirloom Gardeners: October in North Mountain Park’s Heirloom Garden
Pictures by Lynn McDonald, AGC Member
Garden of the Month: July 2023
500 Holly Street.
Notice the welcoming stone entrance to the garden at 500 Holly Street. This is the Ashland Garden Club’s Garden of the Month for July 2023, home to Kathy and Stephen French.
A massive redesign of the entire yard in 2009 was conducted by Kerry KenCairn of KenCairn Landscape Architecture, with graceful curved stairs featured in both front and back gardens.
The Frenches purchased the property in 2021 from Nina and Paul Winans who had masterminded the earlier redesign. Kathy French especially appreciates the sequential blooming times for different components of the garden which include iris, rhododendron, tulip, and hydrangea. And both Frenches enjoy the bounty of the many fruit trees that the Winans had specified in working with KenCairn, only two of which were already on the property and now include two apples, pear, sour cherry, and fig.
Before the 2009 overhaul, Paul Winans personally dug up many rocks on the steeply sloped lot, which were later incorporated into the retaining walls in back. Raised beds in the side yard allow for a fine kitchen garden, currently filled with tomato plants and an essential assortment of fresh herbs—including thyme, basil, rosemary, and chives—to season any meal.
Currently, Rudolfo Ramirez and his crew mow the lawns and do the more routine maintenance. Kathy French averages about an hour a day more closely grooming the garden. And Stephen French does the occasional big jobs, including pruning the many trees.
With thanks to Marilyn Love for suggesting this garden.
Article by: Ruth Sloan, AGC Garden of the Month Chairperson
May flowers in a rock garden
Photos & flowers by Lynn McDonald, AGC Member
Today in the Garden
AGC member, Carol Walker, provided photos of her front yard where red poppies (Papaver) and Bachelor buttons (Centaurea cyanus) are in full bloom.
Blast from the past photo
Ashland Garden Club member, Peter Finkle came across this photo while doing research about 4th of July celebrations at the Southern Oregon Historical Society. This photo was taken of an article in the Medford Mail Tribune dated July 5, 1976; it’s about Ashland’s 4th of July parade Grand Prize winner, the Ashland Garden Club. All flowers on the float were real. They were contributed by garden club members and friends!
“Ashland Garden Club took the top prize of all the entries in Sunday’s parade through downtown Ashland.”
Float: Betsy Ross sewing on the first US flag
