Wanda's Garden, Homestead Perennials and lunch at the Grant House in Rush City

Georgianne, Lucille, Pam and Wanda enjoyed the tour of Wanda's gardens, Homestead Perennials and lunch at Granthouse in Rush City. Plans to visit Peterson's and Treasured Haven Farm had to be postponed to another time.

 Wanda's gardens have grown and matured since we were last here.

New plants and new beds.

 Wanda and her yellow Siberians 

 The biggest jack in the pulpits I have ever seen!

Wanda's potting shed. I'm having potting shed envy!!

Ducks and Cornish game hens, yum!

 Chickens, yum, yum!

 Lisa will appreciate this picture!! 

Lots of crowing to be heard from the vicinity of the hen house!

We snacked on strawberries right out of the garden, visited the pond and the fire pit.

We moved on to Homestead Perennials

Such a welcoming entrance

 A real treat for hosta lovers!

 Lovely gardens surround the green houses.

 Everything is so healthy, neat and well kept.

 Selection of hostas is fantastic

 Heucheras, heucherellas and tiarellas too!

 Georgianne contemplating her choices.

 Georgianne, Wanda and Lucille.

Cute little frog on the price list!

Thanks Wanda for having us to your gardens and thank you Georgianne for driving!!

Great place to shop for hostas!

Remember Homestead Perennials in North Branch? The club visited there in 2014. They have a fabulous collection of hostas, over 400 varieties, and lots of other stuff too. Here is a link of our visit to refresh your memories as well as a link to their website.

http://burnettgardenclub.blogspot.com/search?q=homestead+perennials
https://www.homesteadperennials.com/

Georgianne and I visited them last week and thought we'd remind everyone what a wonderful place it is. They have beautiful gardens as well as a very nice selection, and some stuff is on sale now too!!

Hope to see everyone at Becky and Linnea's Monday evening July 15!

February, 2011 Meeting Minutes

February 10, 2011 Meeting

Kristie Henning called the meeting to order at 7pm. We had 9 members present.

Kristie read the minutes of the January meeting. The minutes were approved as read.

Becky Tessman gave the Treasurer's report. We have $1,988.16 in our account.

We discussed the upcoming garden seminars for March. They are:

"Burst Into Spring" seminar on March 5 at North Isanti Baptist Church by Cambridge.

The Chisago County garden seminar in Center City is on March 12.

The "New Ventures" garden seminar in Minong is on March 19.

The Pine County garden seminar in Pine City is on March 26.

Old Business discussed:

Becky Tessman passed around a sign up sheet for volunteers to weed and water this summer at the

Welcome to Grantsburg sign on Hwy. 70.

New Business discussed:

There was some discussion about organizing a Circle Nursery Tour the weekend of May 21 or May 28.

Some options are to go to Homestead Perennials in North Branch, Kent's Perennials in St. Croix Falls and/or

Sunshine Gardens by Cushing on the way to St. Croix Falls. Please email Kristie Henning if you are interested.

There was a brief discussion about the annual Plant Sale at Espresso Cabin on June 4th. Set up at 6:30 am.

We discussed the June 16th "Garden Jaunt" to see Wanda Biorn's new place by Rush City, possibly visiting

a private garden along the way and Melon Vine Farm and to have dessert at the Grant House in Rush City.

We would meet at the Grantsburg High School to car pool and leave Grantsburg at 5:30 pm.

We discussed the Community Garden Tour on July 14th. The first stop would be at the Burnett Medical

Center and CCC gardens, then to Georgianne Kleiss home (Georgianne has since declined) then to finish

up and have refreshments at the home of Teresa Halls. Janet will be contacting a couple of other gardeners

to see if they would be willing to be on the tour to fill in for the second garden.

We also discussed the Spirit Lake Daylilies Open House on July 30th at Kris Henning's home.There will

be a Potluck and Container/Bouquet Contest at Seume's cabin on August 11th at 5:30 pm.

There was some discussion about planning an over night trip for next year. Possibly going to Madison

in the Spring or early Summer?? We can discuss that further at a later date.

There was a motion to adjourn the meeting.

Refreshments were provided by Georgianne and Pam.

Mary Griesbach introduced our Guest Speaker- Chet Anderson. Chet had a fabulous slide show presentation

on "Wildflowers of the West". Chet presented slides featuring his hiking/camping travels on the Arizona Trail

from March 27, 2010 to May 18, 2010 and the Colorado Trail from July 9, 2010 to August 2, 2010. On the

Arizona Trail he encountered lots of cactus, of course, also beautiful California poppies, rattlesnake weed,

many varieties of beautiful un-identified flowering desert plants, as well as golf ball pin cushion plants, barrel

cactus, compass cactus, mariposa lilies, yuccas, Juniper trees, prickly pear cactus in bloom, and more. He

also encountered rattlesnakes, gila monsters, elk, deer, California condors, turkey vultures, and lizards. He

was also able to visit the Grand Canyon during this hike.

On the Colorado Trail, Chet saw lots of amazing and beautiful scenery as well as mule deer, beaver ponds in

the valleys, Cooper's hawks, mountain goats and gorgeous flowers such as rosy paint brush, penstemon,

blue columbine, Alpine lousewort and much, much more.

Chet was a very good and very interesting speaker. He has many more hiking adventures planned for the future.

Reminder: Tour Wanda's garden in Rush city and on to other adventures!!

On Saturday, June 21, 9 AM we will leave Grantsburg and head to Wanda's in Rush City to tour her gardens. We were there a few years back and are anxious to see what new things Wanda has added.

(Carpool from the High School at 9 AM).

Then we will head to:

Homestead Perennials North Branch
Peterson's Country Mill North Branch

We will have lunch (at our own expense) at the Grant House in Rush City

Come and join the fun.

Address and directions will be emailed.

The Circle Tour is ON!! Join us!

We are headed out on Saturday, early, on an 82 mile round trip shopping spree to greenhouses in North Branch, and St. Croix Falls.  We will visit Homestead Perennials  in North Branch first then take 95 to Saint Croix Falls and visit Abrahamson Nursery and Sunshine Gardens.  (Click on the name of the locations to get a link).


If we have time and are not too tired, we could stop at Chateau St Croix to say hello to Mary G and check out the Fete des Fleurs Art Festival on our way home! 

We will eat lunch  in St Croix Falls--bring your own lunch or eat out. 

Bring a hat and sun screen and a beverage and snack to keep your blood sugar up. I will bring a small cooler for beverages--we don't want to get dehydrated! 

Also, bring a few bucks to pitch in for gas.

If you can't make the 8 am carpool, meet us along the way!!  Check our location at 612 978 0234 

We should be to St Croix Falls by 10:30 or 11:00

May 2012 Meeting Minutes

Burnett Garden Club

May 10, 2012 meeting

6:30 PM @ Crex Meadows Wildlife Visitor Center

1. President Pam Davies called the meeting to order at 6:40 PM.
2. The Secretary’s report on the Garden Club Blog was approved as posted.
3. The Treasurer being absent, the President read the Treasurer’s Report. Our beginning balance last month was $2,136.09. After expenses, which included payment of the hotel bill to Kris Henning for the Garden Expo trip, our balance is now $1,482.73.
4. Kris Henning, Plant Sale Chair, led the discussion on the Plant Sale.
   1. We will need at least 5 transportation vehicles to pick up the plants at Kris’ house on Friday evening, June 1^st, and deliver them to the sale tent in front of T’Dawgs by 6:30 AM on Saturday. Kris will not be home, but the plants will be behind the pumphouse and it is okay to drive on the lawn.
   2. Kris will contact Rosemary and Mary C. for the use of their canopies again.
   3. We need 4-5 more tables for setup. Kris has 3 @ 8’ tables plus a card table. Pam will bring sawhorse table. Bring what you can.
   4. We need a larger variety of plants to sell; our donations this year are way down. We have no annuals or vegetables or herbs. If you can bring some of these or pot some perennials up at your home and bring them at 6:30 AM to the sale, we can attract more customers and make better sales. We have a lot of obedient plant, named variety daylilies, evening primrose, yellow/dwarf/mixed irises, curly onion, yellow loosestrife, native switchgrass, tall blue spiderwort, mixed Asiatic & tiger lilies, common green and variegated hosta, and short sedums/sempervivums. We need whatever you have that is not above, please!
   5. Kris will bring marking pens, plant stakes, pens & notepads.
   6. Pam will create a poster to be emailed to the members so they can print and distribute them. She will also bring the Garden Club sign.
   7. The Treasurer will need to bring a cashbox and cash for the sale. We will need quarters, ones, fives, and tens.
   8. We will keep our prices the same as last year.
   9. We will also need boxes and paper or grocery bags for customers to take plants.
   10. Bring bug spray and sunscreen and a lawn chair for yourself.
   11. Please contact Kris or Pam if you can help with any of the above items; thanks!
5. Sign planting will be May 31^st at 5:30 PM. Becky has the plants ordered and will get Osmocote. Bring your trowels and planting tools.
6. The President brought up that no final decision was made on joining the Chamber of Commerce. The Executive Committee has now met and approved the expenditure contingent upon approval by the membership. Discussion followed. Tim motioned, Becky seconded to join the C of C; motion approved.
7. The President also brought up that no final decision was made on whether or not to offer partial reimbursement on any club member taking the Master Gardener Volunteer course. The Executive Committee approved the expenditure at their meeting contingent upon approval by the membership. The rule would be that the partial reimbursement of $75 would go to the first person applying for the money and who completely fulfills the requirements for volunteering (which takes almost a year). If the first person applying does not complete the volunteer requirements, the money would go to the second person applying for the money. Discussion followed. Kris motioned, Sue A. seconded to approve the expense; motion approved.
8. The President brought up an item from the Executive Committee meeting regarding a thank you to Mark Johnson for using his classroom for our meetings. Becky motioned to approve a $20 Gift Certificate to Village Floral for him and Lucille seconded; motion approved for the Treasurer to purchase this.
9. Club “Circle Nursery Tour” on June 9^th to Homestead Gardens in North Branch, St. Croix Falls Greenhouse, and Sunshine Gardens, Cushing will leave at 8 AM from the High School. We will carpool and stop for lunch somewhere for lunch on our own. Please RSVP to Pam or Janet Byers (Tours Chair) by June 2 if you wish to go. If not enough interest, this tour will be cancelled.
10. Meeting adjourned at 7:05 PM.
11. After a short refreshment break, we had a wonderful presentation on “Photographing Flowers in our Gardens” by Dr. Dale Bohlke, President of Friends of Crex Meadows, in the Visitor Center auditorium. We learned all about correct exposure, backgrounds, focusing techniques, composition, point of view, and light. Dale had a great Powerpoint show and discussed not only the above, but also how to choose which pictures to keep or delete. We had a very interesting discussion with Dale.
12. Attending: Pam , Kris H, Lucille, Cindy K, Sue A, Tim & Becky T.

Respectfully submitted,

Kris Henning,

Acting Secretary