Meeting Minutes, September 2014

BURNETT GARDEN CLUB
MEETING MINUTES
September 11, 2014

The meeting was called to order at 6:45 pm. by Kris Henning. Pam was not present for the meeting.

May 2014 was our last meeting official meeting. The minutes from that meeting are online. Janet made a motion to approve the minutes from the May meeting and Wanda seconded the motion. The minutes were approved.

The treasurer was not at the meeting so there was no treasurer's report. Kris stated that we should have about $1500 in our club account.

Grantoberfest will be held at the Grantsburg Fairgrounds on Sept. 20th. The garden club will have a booth. We still need donations of items to sell at our booth. We have a nice mixture of items so far.

We discussed the plant sale that we had in June. This year we had the sale start on Friday eve for a couple of hours and then again on Saturday for quite a few hours. We will need to speak to the treasurer to find out how much money was raised this year. Also need to discuss if we think it was profitable to have the sale both Friday evening and Saturday.

We discussed the excursion to Wanda's home in Rush City earlier this year. Only three people showed up for this. Wanda put a lot of time and effort into getting ready for this tour. Attendance was disappointing.  Do we want to try this again next year? Maybe that day just did not work for most members?

The local garden tour in July was a great success. We had over a dozen people for the tour. First we went to the home of Sandra and Butch Harmon. Sandra has many small  gardens and very interesting features in her gardens. Next, we went to the home of Becky and Wayne Lake. Becky has LOTS of HUGE gardens that were filled with many varieties of perennials, annuals, grasses and wonderful features that spark a lot of interest and conversation. The final destination was at the home of Jim and Mary Charmoli. Mary has many beautiful gardens, also, including a large veggie garden, which included a tomato plant that bears BLACK tomatoes. Wow. It will be interesting to find out if they are as tasty as the usual ones. Mary has many varieties of hostas, daylilies and other perennials. We got to see her wonderful potting shed, too. We had our treats in their very lovely home. A big THANK YOU to all of the garden hosts. We all had a great time.

We have information from Kevin Schoessow, Spooner Ag. representative,  about Master Gardener classes that will be offered in Grantsburg and Spooner this Fall, Winter and next Spring. Please check your email for details from Pam and forms to sign up.

Next meeting we will need to discuss the weeding schedule. If the schedule from this year worked for everyone, we may be able to keep that one for next year. We may tweek it a little if we get new members.

Lists were passed out to write down our ideas for future speakers and ideas for future meetings. The list will get passed around a couple more times to give enough ideas to choose from for next year. The officers will review our ideas, get speakers lined up and the booklet will be printed later.

The October meeting will be at the Harvey Allen Outdoor Sports, just outside of Grantsburg, on Hwy 70 on October 9th at 6:30 pm. Lisa will do a demonstration on how to create a barn quilt. Sounds very interesting and lots of fun! Janet and Rosemary will provide the refreshments.

Refreshments tonight were provided by Linnea and Sue A. Yummy.

Motion to adjourn the meeting was made by Wanda and seconded by Sue A.

Our feature presentation is a slide show of the daylily convention in Ohio that Kris Henning attended. Kris did a wonderful job of creating this slide show with many photos of fabulous gardens full of daylilies and other perennials. It had been very hot and dry there prior to the tour so some of the gardens were not at their peak, but they were all very interesting to look at with lovely plants. Thanks so much Kris for a great presentation and guiding us through the tour.

Thank you,
Janet Byers