Annual Summer Potluck and Container Garden/Cut Flowers Competition!! Thursday, August 8, 5:30 PM

We will be having our annual Summer Potluck at the Nelson/Seume cabin on Wood Lake on Thursday, August 8, at 5:30 PM, rain or shine--and most of us wouldn't mind some rain, it's been so dry!! Last year we had a little sun shower and a double rainbow!

We will also have our Container Garden Competition with 2 prizes, first and second place. Container gardens can include fairy gardens as well as pots and hanging baskets.

We will also have our Cut Flowers in a Vase Competition, 1 prize.   

Bring a dish to share. The club will provide meat and buns. 

This is a fun event for old and new members!! Everyone welcome.

Watch this blog or your email for any changes to this event. 

Where:  11601 North Shore Drive

Directions: HWY 70 to County Road Y (west of Alpha), south to North Shore Drive (left turn), about a quarter to half mile along the North Shore Drive look for cabin with lots of cars. That will be us!

The 2013 Community Garden Tour, a great success!!

Twelve members turned out for the 2013 Community Garden Tour. 

We began at 6:00 at Pam's where we discussed the extensive storm damage of 2011 and all the changes and challenges that brought. 

We then headed to Kris's where we got to see the results of the apple and grape trimming seminar she held at her place in the spring as well as her perennial beds.  She took time out of her very busy schedule to show us around then headed back to her duties as co-chair of the 2013 American Hemerocallis Association National Convention on July 24-27.

We finished at Ruthie's extensive gardens on Little Wood Lake. Ruthie has been putting in gardens at their lake home for almost twenty years. The large sloping lot with varied sun and shade areas has given her a wonderful canvas. Ruthie has combined hardscaping and plantings throughout to create a veritable wonderland. Ruthie treated us to homemade strawberry shortcake and lemonade. Nori and Jim brought banana bread and Janet brought watermelon. We had a lovely time chatting around the fire pit enjoying a beautiful view of the lake and the great company of gardening enthusiasts! 

Thank you to everyone who made the 2013 Community Garden Tour a success!!

Sign Weeding and Community Garden Tour, Thursday July 11 beginning at 6:00

Please check the sign weeding schedule on the blog for your assigned week to weed.  Here is the link:  http://burnettgardenclub.blogspot.com/p/weeding.html

Our Community Garden Tour will consist of three gardens.  We will visit the gardens of:

Pam Davies 216 N Pine Street at 6:00 (car pool from Pam's house)
Kris Henning 22163 Spirit Lake Road E. at 6:45
Ruth Anderson 22918 Wood Lake Drive at 7:15 or so where we will have refreshments.

We need volunteers to bring refreshments.  Please let Pam know if you would like to bring a refreshment to share at Ruthie's



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Como Park visited by one member on a rainy day!!

I visited the Como Park Conservatory and Japanese Garden on Sunday, June 23. The morning had been rainy and remained heavily overcast yet the park was full of families. The Conservatory was as lovely and well kept as ever and the Japanese garden was peaceful and serene. There was a wonderful display of bonsai as well which is part of their permanent collection. Here are a few pictures including this amazing orchid.

Annual Plant Sale Saturday June 8

Saturday June 8 is our Annual Plant Sale to benefit the club and make possible all our activities.

We will start setting up at 6 am (sale officially starts at 8 am). We need folks to pick up plants at Kris's the night before or earlier if need be and you have a shady place to park the truck!! Becky may also need help transporting plants. Their phone numbers are in the printed Garden Club program.

Kris may also need more tables so if you have tables or sawhorses and plywood, give her a call.

If you can't come to setup, come to sell and/or to tear down and by all means come to buy!! Get first shot early or come at the end for half price left overs.  Tear down is a noon.

Hope to see you all there!!!

PS: Jim of Jim and Nori said they would make a pancake breakfast run for us!! And there is coffee and breakfast at TDawg's. We are in TDawg's parking lot again this year. Thanks TDawg's

Correction from Becky!

Becky corrected me on some of the plants she brought to the potting party. She did have plants up in her gardens after the warm spell we had the previous week.  She brought FIVE types of flowers from her home including or in addition to ferns and fringed bleeding heart. 

From the Grantsburg sign she brought latris and aster.

Last evening was so conducive to gardening that she potted up two types of grasses from the sign (13 pots). She also started two type of sunflowers from seeds (24 pot) and potted up sedum (six pots) and prim rose (six pots).

Wow!! Lets all get out there and pot like crazy!! Becky has given us a really great start!!
 
Thank you so much Becky. 

Remember, if you need pots or potting soil, contact Kris or me.

Update on Potting Party

We has a cold bluster day for the potting party. Nonetheless Kris, Nori and Jim, Mary G, and Pam arrived ready to work but without any plants! We all settled in around Kris' dining room table to drink wine and coffee, eat goodies and commiserate on our situation.... Well, the weather, you know, couldn't be helped (as my Grandmother used to say). Nothing was quite ready in any of our gardens to be dug up and separated. Even with the extra week and a couple of nice warm sunny days, the return of the cold slowed everything down again.

Then Becky arrived to save the day! Becky brought plants!

Becky spent an hour and a half cleaning up the Grantsburg sign.  She couldn't stand it looking so raggedy!. She found plants needing separating and since her garden wasn't ready to dig up yet, brought big clumps of stuff from the sign. Great thinking Becky!  We should start using the sign gardens as a space to propagate plants for our sale, mostly everything we've put in does quite well there.

We were able to pot up 70 plants from the items Becky brought.  Thank you so much Becky!!

We will need lots, lots, lots more for the sale so please, please, please set aside plants for the sale.

You can pick up premixed potting soil and pots from Kris or Pam to pot up what you have or if we get requests for another potting party we could work on setting that up.