Daylily Society of Minnesota garden tour Sunday, July 18

The Daylily Society of Minnesota garden tour is this Sunday, July 18. If anyone would like to attend and ride with Kristie, she would love to have company on the drive to meet the bus!

From Kristie:

The tour costs $10 for members, $15 for non-members, and DSM membership only costs $5/year. We travel on a deluxe motorcoach bus, the trip includes lunch and refreshments, and we will be seeing 4 very nice gardens for the day. We are touring the northwest quadrant of the Twin Cities this year in the Buffalo and Monticello area. We will meet the bus in the Wayzata area, and would probably have to leave our area around 6-6:30 AM; the tour probably gets done around 3-3:30 PM, so we would be back before supper.

I personally toured the gardens this spring and they include Gary Schaben (a well-known MN. Hybridizer with lots of interesting seedlings), Darrell Johnson (former Board member and budding hybridizer with a beautiful rock/water garden, vegetables, & apples in a former apple orchard property), and Mick Raeker (budding hybridizer and maniacal gardener of five acres), plus Mick’s neighbor, who has a large water garden, pretty garden beds, and fun ‘antique-filled playhouses’ in her back yard.

Please let me know asap if you’d like to come with me; I will work out the arrangements with you later this week.

I know there was still room on the bus as of last Friday. You will have to email President & Tour Leader Amanda Engstrom at: amandaengstrom@netscape.net to register and find out how she would like you to pay (mail or bring check?).

Hope you can make it!

As of yesterday there were ten seats on the bus. Email Kristie at khenning@barronmutual.com or call her at 715-689-2333

Reminder: pick up your rhubarb leaf project at Mary's

Some projects still need to be picked up at Mary's. One piece of Cynthia's is in the garage. Theresa and Janet have pieces to pick up and there is a rhubarb leaf in the gazebo--not sure who that one belongs to. No need to call ahead to pickup except for Cynthia.

Pictures of your rhubarb leaf birdbath and hyper-tufa pots wanted!

Our first picture of a completed rhubarb leaf project was sent in by Kimberly McDonald.

She used diluted acrylic paint in numerous coats and a spray-on sealer that seemed to work fine on the concrete.

Send me your snaps at pameladavies@yahoo.com and I will post them!!

Community Garden Tour, Thursday, July 15, 5:30 PM

The annual Community Garden Tour will take place on Thursday, July 15, beginning at 5:30 PM. Our first stop will be Becky and Tim Tessman's gardens. Then we can go to Linnea and Rick Seume’s and Shirley Nelson, Linnea's mom next door. And finally, refreshments will be served at Pam Davies's.

Becky says Tim has a lot of new hostas since we were last there. Shirley Nelson no longer has a woods behind her-- she now has sun gardens. Linnea also now has more sun gardens, so things are different at her place, also.

Tessman's are at 369 W Olson Dr

Seume's and Shirley are at 415 E Madison Ave

Pam Davies is at 216 N Pine Street

Members and anyone interested in the Burnett Garden Club are invited to attend. Hope to see you all there!!

Making quikrete and hyper-tufa, June 10, 2010

The threat of rain did not stop the Burnett Garden Club from creating what we hope will be fabulous rhubarb leaf birdbaths and various sizes and shapes of stepping stones and planters. Thursday is the unveiling. We have our fingers crossed that our creations are stunning. We had a great time regardless! Thanks for the pictures Kristie.

2010 Garden Club Plant Sale Pictures!!

Getting set up at 6 am is always fun. Rosemary's canopy went up without a hitch, no thanks to the mice that ate the directions!! Thanks to the internet, we got the thing set up but Rosemary still can't figure out why there are more extra parts every year!?


Mary C., our plant sale committee chair, expects another successful event. Thanks Mary for all your hard work. And thanks to everyone that came out to help, both today and at the potting party last month.

Hyper-tufa/Rhubarb Leaf Workshop reminder and directions

If you plan to attend, please respond by email to pameladavies@yahoo.com If you forget to RSVP come anyway!!

The Hyper-tufa/Rhubarb leaf workshop will be held at Mary G's (463 5877)

25337 County Road F, North of Grantsburg

Directions: In Grantsburg follow the Crex Meadows goose silhouettes on the street to County Road F. Watch for Mary's planter and trellis on the left side of the road, about 3.5 miles or so.

Bring what you have of the following (if you don't have these things, come anyway!!):

Cement dust is caustic.
gloves (to keep cement dust off your hands)
goggles (to avoid getting cement dust in your eyes)
mask or bandana (breathing in cement dust can be hard on your lungs)

Mold and texture materials depending on the project you have in mind. See How-To links on this website for hyper-tufa -- on the left column (scroll down)

wheel barrow or large bucket (for mixing)
shovel or trowel (for mixing)
plastic garbage bags (for lining your molds for easy release and for wrapping project to cure)

Email any quetions you have about the workshop to pameladavies@yahoo.com