Seed stating and wood block competion

We all had a great time at the March meeting. About 12 members and guests participated. Refreshments were provided by Kris H and Ruth A. Here are a few pictures of the evening.

Kris conducting the meeting

 Marilyn Kooiker speaking about the community garden at Faith Lutheran Church

Cedar plank competition judging by members. 

Lots of great entries.

Entries will be donated to the club to sell at our plant sale and Grantoberfest.

Pam's bird house won first prize while Mary G took second and third for her trivets and garden caddy!

Georgianne conducted the seed starting workshop while members nibbled!

Kris talked about watering plants from below, placing a perforated flat of seeded starter soil into another flat of water, thus allowing to soil to soak up the moisture. It is important to pour off the excess water from the bottom flat to avoid too much moisture which will encourage mold formation. Watering from the bottom prevents seeds from being washed around and a top hard crust forming on top of the soil. 

Georgianna talked about how to use items we have at home to help make seed starting easier such as milk cartons to get good roots on tomato plants, toilet tissue rolls to keep away cut worms and half of a gallon milk jug to protect transplants from cold night temps.

Keeping seedlings watered, exposed to sufficient light and warmth and adding a fan to toughen the stems and reduce mold are all key to successful seed starting!

Marigold seedling four days later!! 

It is so fun to watch the little plants grow!

Meeting Minutes, March 2015

The Burnett Garden Club March meeting was called to order by President Kris Henning at 6:40 p.m.  The November, 2014 meeting notes were approved and seconded.

Treasure’s Report
Georgianne Kleiss reported that $50.00 was paid to the Grantsburg Chamber of Commerce for the Garden Club yearly membership.  There is about $1,600.00 in the account.  She will have a written report at the next meeting.

Committees
- Holiday In The Park display is down and in storage.
- July Garden Tour – Sharon Danielson, Dean & Sue Faulhaber and Sandra Harmon will be the homes we will go to for this event, and we will stop at the Faith Lutheran Church gardens.
- Plant Sale – Seeds will be planted at tonight’s meeting for this.  The sale won’t be open on Friday night this year.  It will be open only on Saturday, unless the weather is bad.  The displays will be on the hay wagon and ground, and have color coded dots to determine the price of the plants.
- Library Garden planting - Pam Davies updated the attendees on the Library garden.  Part of it will be a rain garden.  She will contact a local High School Biology class and ask if they would like to video the garden.  There is a $2,500 budget given to her for this project.
- The Memory Lake Flag pole garden will also be planted, as well as the garden at Grantsburg sign on Hwy. 70.   Planting time depends on the weather.  Pam will notify the club of when this can be done, and anyone interested in helping plant these gardens is welcome.  Once these gardens are planted Pam will have a sign up sheet for club members to take a week or two to help maintain these gardens.
- Fairgrounds Planting – Lisa Slater and Audrey Edmunds will plant this again, asking the local Flower Shop for donations.  Planting time will also depend on the weather.  A 4-H group will maintain the planters.

Old Business
- The Treasure’s job description was updated and reviewed by each member.  A motion was made and approved to put the updated description into the Garden Club by-laws.

New Business
- Garden Club t-shirts:  Lisa Slater and Pamela Davies had sent emails to all members a few months ago, with designs and colors.  A sign up sheet was passed around to put your name, color and shirt size on.  Anyone who was not at the meeting and would like to order a t-shirt should contact Lisa to get one ordered.  The time of shirt ordering has not been determined.
- Lisa Slater will send emails to the Leader and the Burnett County Sentinel with information about Garden Club meetings and activities that the Garden Club is involved in.
- Pam Davies will set up a Garden Club face book page.
- Mary Griesbach suggests having an alternate Garden Club meeting date designated, for 1 week after the original date, in case the meeting is cancelled.   Mary Charmoli suggested not scheduling a meeting for the month of January due to the weather, travels and other factors.  After group discussion, a motion was made and seconded to have an alternate meeting date of one week after the original planned meeting date, if the original meeting date needs to be cancelled.  As far as not having a January meeting, this will be discussed further at future meetings.

Announcements
*April 30 – Blooming Gardeners Community Education class is being held.  Kris Henning is instructing this.   There is no charge for it.  Contact Kris for further details.
*March 21 - New Ventures Garden Seminar in Minong.  Pam sent an email.  If you need any more information, please contact her.
*April 25 – Grantsburg Library Gala.  If anyone has donations for the Silent Auction items, please contact Deb Norling, at the Grantsburg Public Library.

Brag Time
- Mary Griesbach informed us that she will no longer be making soap, and is liquidating her supplies.  She is now a Wisconsin realtor, working for the Realty Executive company.

Miscellaneous
Marilyn from the Faith Lutheran Church in Grantsburg talked to us about the church garden on the north side of this church.  Vegetables are planted for the food pantry, Sr. Housing and the community.  If anyone is interested in helping to promote this and can work at the gardens, please let her know.  Pam will post this information on the Garden Club website and make a flyer for distribution to promote this.  These gardens at the church will be included in the July garden tour.

Meeting adjourned at 7:20 p.m.

The evening program had voting for the wood block projects.  Georgianne and Kris demonstrated seed starting.

Meeting Reminder, Thursday March 12, 6:30 PM at Grantsburg High School

Please Note: If you get this announcement in your email, you can click it to get to the blog! Visit the blog to scroll through past posts and all kinds of links to interesting content!! 

Our next meeting:

March 12, Thursday 6:30 PM Grantsburg High School room 111

• Starting Plants from Seeds Indoors Workshop. Georgianne and Kris leading
• Each participant who wishes to nurture plants for the plant sale will get a small flat of planted seeds to start at home with instructions!! 
• Refreshments: Kris H and Ruthie A
• Agenda: Potting Party, Plant Sale, Sign planting, Memory Lake planting, Library Gardens project, Summer garden tours

Cedar Board Competition judging will also take place at this meeting so bring your cedar board projects!!  

http://burnettgardenclub.blogspot.com/2015/01/cedar-wood-block-competition-win.html

2015 Valentine Tea, a delightful afternoon!

Thank you Carrie, Janet, Teresa and Molly for hosting the 2015 Valentine Tea. And thank you to Georgianne for providing photos! Please email any photos you wish to share of the tea to Pam and I will post them here!

Click on the photos to get a larger image.

Our lovely hostesses Carrie, Janet, Teresa and Molly

Mary C, Audrey and Wanda! Notice the sumptuously laid table!!

Delightful sweets and savories served at the tea!

Here are some links to previous teas!
http://burnettgardenclub.blogspot.com/2014/05/annual-garden-club-tea-great-success.html
http://burnettgardenclub.blogspot.com/2013/05/wonderful-afternoon-at-victorian-tea.html

Marie Selby Gardens in Sarasota Florida

Marie Selby Gardens in Sarasota Florida is not to be missed! These fabulous gardens and green houses bring to mind Como Park Conservatory in St. Paul. Come to find out, a membership at Selby Gardens comes with reciprocity at hundreds of other gardens nationwide including the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and the Munsinger Garden to name a few! A big thank you to Trish for introducing me to these wonderful gardens and to Mary G for suggesting them before I left home!

Click on highlighted text above for links and on the images below for a larger view.

Entry to Selby Gardens

Sidewalk outside Selby Gardens

Selby Gardens is known for its amazing collection of orchids and bromeliads 

Take a good camera. A phone camera just doesn't cut it!!

Lady slipper type orchids. There are 22,000 orchid varieties world wide!

Click on the image for a closer view of these curly orchids

Sitting Buddha tucked into the foliage

Love the Fu Manchu mustache of this specimen!

The colors of the fabulous orchids are just amazing

Air roots hang from the base of the plant

Koi pond and Buddha!

A new children's area with tree houses and bridges brought out the child in me!

Love the cactus gardens! 

Amazing tree lined walkway

Outstretched limbs of a majestic live oak hung with Spanish moss

More orchids in amazing colors!

We were also lucky enough to visit during the Clyde Butcher exhibit of Florida photos entitled Preserving Eden. If you love Ansel Adams, you will love Clyde Butcher! Check out his work at  http://www.clydebutcher.com/

Please share your photos of travels to spots of interest to the club and I will post them!!

Cedar wood block competition!! Win fabulous prizes!

Just a reminder that all club members are invited to compete in our latest Garden Club competition. Your task if you want to win fabulous prizes is to create something using this piece of wood. Anything. You can even use more than one piece of wood.

Prizes will be awarded at the March meeting so bring your creation!! Judging will be similar to the summer container garden competition. Prizes will be $20.00 for first place, $15.00 for second place and $10.00 for third place. But more importantly, you will be held in high esteem by your fellow garden club members!!

Here are some ideas on Pinterest if you are stumped:
https://www.pinterest.com/kbdixiegirl/wood-blocks/

Log in or register with pinterest if you want lots more ideas!!

Get your pieces of wood from Pam. You can pick up one or more pieces at any time you are in Grantsburg. They are outside the side door on the west side of the garage (my garage is at the dead end of Pine Street half a block north of the post office in Grantsburg--216 N Pine Street). Stop by and help yourself, no need to call ahead.  I have plenty of these pieces of wood so take as many as you like.

We will also be using these pieces of wood to make quilt blocks in November but feel free to make quilt blocks if you so choose.

We are hoping the club can come up with some really fun ideas that we can use to make things to sell at Grantoberfest. Scour Pinterest, crafter websites and magazines or just let your mind go wild!! then get to work. You can incorporate anything you want to, to create your masterpiece, even electricity. But it must include at least one piece of wood (or part of the piece of wood or all of it cut in pieces or....)

Bring your finished product or products to the March meeting for show and tell and prizes!! You may submit up to 3 entries.

And don't forget to RSVP for the Valentine's Day tea!!

Valentine's Day Tea! Get your reservation in

Our annual tea is being held on Valentine's Day this year!!

The tea is an annual event and is open to members and non-members.  Members are encouraged to bring a friend, especially a friend who is considering joining the club!! We also welcome the public and hope you will be interested in membership in our club.

When: Saturday, February 14 at 2:00 pm

Where: Molly Byers' home, Grantsburg

Hosts: Teresa Halls, Janet Byers, Molly Byers and Carrie Byers. 

Cost:
$10.00 for members 
$15.00 for the public which include 1 year of membership in the club!!

Dressing for the event is optional but oh so much fun!! Some dress up items such as hats will be available at the tea.

Make your reservations and prepayment to Janet or Teresa. Or mail your check made out to Molly Byers addressed to Teresa Halls, 113 West Broadway, Grantsburg WI 54840

Deadline for Reservations: January 31, 2015.