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At our October meeting, we made toad houses by recycling old clay pots by adding a hole and painting on them. The event was lead by Kathy C. We also learned about toads in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Glacial Gardeners toured a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) garden in June 2007. More photos are in the June issue of the GG Grapevine. All photos by Karen.
 Some of the GG members standing with garden owner Mary Jane Richmond and her granddaughter behind one of the solar cookers that they use on the farm. |
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 4 platforms for honey bees that the farm has. |
| Mary Jane Richmond of Marjaymik's Acres in a field of her soybeans |
At our April 2007 meeting we decorated the containers for the centerpeices for the 1st Annual North Stars Garden Conference that was held on April 21st, 2007. Several of the area Garden club's helped to make the event a success.
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The 2006 wreath program included making Kissing Balls on Tuesday evening and making centerpieces on Wednesday evening, along with the wreaths both nights. Fleurette (left) taught the wreath program and kissing ball during the Tuesday program and Arlene (center) was in charge of doing the instructing on the centerpieces Wednesday night and Kathy B did the wreaths. |
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| Most of the members from the Glacial Gardeners participated at some point during the two day event, either by gathering materials for either the item or the decorations for the items; helping set-up; helping with the programs; helping clean up; bringing in items for the refreshments table, or for promotions. The evenings were a success with 23 people on Tuesday evening and 28 people on Wednesday. Those attending could get a $1 off the cost if they brought in a canned item for the local food pantry. Several bags of groceries were collected. | ||
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| Clean up after Wednesday nights workshop: Roberta and Mary Beth hauled out some of the tarps. Everyone there pitched in on cleanup and it went really fast... Jean was part of vacuum duty. Good work by all the Glacial Gardeners' involved! | ||
| At the October 2005 meeting Fleurette
showed everyone how to decorate a log wedge to make it look like a
watermelon..Mary Jane, Arlene and Mary Beth are hard at work painting their
Log Watermelons.
Meanwhile, the rest of the group made a herb hanger out of birch branches. Karen had one on display at the Iron County Fair Booth and showed us all how to make them. She even had all of the holes drilled for us ahead of time! The herb collection included oregano, thyme, some tansy and pearly everlasting among others. |
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(L) Karen is holding some of the herbs used on the hangers. (C) Arlene working on her herb hanger and (R) Inga holding up her completed project.
At the September meeting we have our annual 'funny money' plant auction for our members. Members earn auction dollars throughout the year by helping out at programs, attending meeting, donating plants, attending conferences and other events. The money can then be spend for plants and other items that members donate for the auction. This years items included, among other things, herbs, perennials, bouquets of annuals, a bag of shredded llama fertilizer, vegetables and a jar of plum jelly.
Our Annual Members garden tour in August 2005 was a bit soggy.
Fleurette, Arlene, Betsy and Mary Jane arrived at Karen's house in the rain.
Mary Beth and Mary Jane relaxed on Fleurette's porch of the 'garden shed'. More
garden tour photos can be seen in the August 2005 issue of
the Glacial Gardener Grapevine.
We went on a tour to The Flower Farm in July 2005. (L) The group
included members Chris, Betsy, Karen, Inga, Arlene, and Fleurette, pictured here
in the gardens at The Flower Farm. (C) The Flower Farm owner Amy Cousineau
standing in part of her garden. (R) Members enjoyed a pot luck dinner after the
tour. More photos of The Flower Farm can be found in the
July 2005 issue of the Grapevine.
UW-Extension Marinette Co. Ag Agent Scott Reuss presented a program on Gardening in the North in April 2005 . We had a meeting beforehand and then joined his program along with the general public. Members in the photo are Mary Beth, Deb, Karen, Chris, Scott, Inga, Arlene, and Betsy.
Some GG members attended the Northern Lights MG Conference in Marinette, WI in March 2005. They took the class on Copper Trellis making. Below is the class photo and Arlene working on her trellis while Fleurette and one of the instructors look on.
The program at our October 2004 meeting was 'Autumn Accent' led by Karen. We made small fall arrangements in baby pumpkins (both orange and white) and in gourds.
Our August 2004 meeting was a Garden Tour and Potluck. The first stop was at Deb and Chris' new garden north of Florence. We also got to tour Chris' dome home which he had built last fall (2003). From Deb's garden we traveled to Crystal Falls, MI and visited the Gardens at the Lutheran Church .and then down the hill to the Contemporary Center Gardens.
We then crossed the Paint River and then went north to Betsy's old family homestead. Some of the buildings are 100 years old along with the large White Pine in the front yard. After touring around Betsy's yard, we had a stop over at a yard landscaped by JaMi's this spring. It will be interesting to see how everything over winters.
From there it was on to Karen's for a tour of her yard including the vegetable garden and flower gardens. Then we decided to head in for the evening to dry ourselves off and to enjoy some good food.
All photos by Karen Groop. A group photo can be viewed in the August issue of the Glacial Gardener Grapevine.
| At our April 2003 meeting we had a
hands-on twig trellis making class where participants assembled their own
unique trellises from a variety of woods. Twigs available included
willow, box elder, Elder, Aspen, cedar, red twigged dogwood, and others. (Photo at right): Stacks of twigs ready to be selected for making a trellis. |
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| L-R: Donna arranging branches to get the right look; Helga doing some trimming on her trellis; Karen and her tall trellis structure in the making; and Corrin connecting another branch to her trellis. | ||
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Our September 2002 meeting included a demonstration on propagating Streptocarpus and Streptocarpella. Deb ran the demo with help from Inga (who at one time had over 100 African Violets and Streptocarpus plants).
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| Betsy, Fleurette, Brenda, Karen, and Kay look over their plant cuttings. | Mary Jane and Sherry listen as Inga talks about the Streptocarpus. | |
