JCHC Healing Garden - May 2013

In April, Karin H and dead-headed and performed a little weeding.  We noticed the garden was in need of a little more mulch.

Nancy B and I visited the garden May 7th.  We weeded, added a couple of bags of mulch and a bird bath!
Looking good!  We need to mark the tulips and daffodils, so we can add more in the Fall.

Yes, there's a note in the mailbox!  YOU can add one, when you visit.

:-)

 The lilac bush is budded, as is the flowering crab.

We look forwarded to adding a couple of new clematis next to the beautiful trellis.

Won't it be fun to have a birdbath?

(I admit, I couldn't pass by the orange lilies... had to add a couple!)

Everything has begun growing so nicely!  We can anticipate good things to come.  We can also soon anticipate the addition of a nice-sized concrete bench.

We hope this garden truly provides inspiration and lives up to its name:  JCHC Healing Garden.

ABC Wednesday - G is for Gardening "Friends!"

ABC Wednesday Meme.  Click here to be able to view other peoples' posts.

 My Gardening friend Gladys has long been a major Gardening influence, here.  She has appeared in others of my posts.  You can see she is a Great Garden Gathering planner!  (Click here for details)

Howevermuch she has been helpful in overseeing Garden parties and events, it is in the perusal of the winter catalogs and making future plans that I find her advice quite valuable.  She has a knack at planning a setting in which conversations might well take place in the future.

Now, I know you're thinking that Gladys is probably not helpful when it comes to actually wielding a shovel and/or hoe.  And you would be right.  But we anticipate the help of some of Gladys' friends this summer.

Perhaps you remember Susie Scare-the-Birds?  She, too, has appeared in a number of posts here.  Yes, she's one of Gladys' friends.  Gardener?  Frankly, no.  Not our Susie.  She has, however, 

Generously Guarded our perennial beds to the south for a number of years.

       August 19, 2008   (click for post that explains change of clothing)                 August 21, 2008

 See one more post with a new outfit that year! (Click here)

No, we may look to those friends of Gladys that Grace the Gardeners in the Gabby Garden Gals club.  Here they are, at a public "Support the Area Community Center" function.  They realize their civic duty!

 L to R:  Agnes, friend of Becky; Myrtle, friend of Carolyn; Matilda, friend of Nancy; my friend Gladys; Francine, friend of Joan, Bertha, friend of Cindy; Harry and Hazel reside in Oklahoma, and Rosalie, below, friend of Cindy P.

 Yes, it's a Gaggle of Gardening Gals.  Don't we look forward to Spring?

SG

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A Late Fall Addition to the JCHC Garden

A beautiful trellis.  

Added via contributions by GGG members in memory of both Cindy's and Karin's mothers.

Here's a good photo of the mailbox in which we'll have garden gloves, extra tools, and a journal for recording notes, dates worked, etc.

I imagine it's time for the hummingbird feeders to be taken down.

JCHC Garden!

This is a photo that will soon appear in the Fairfield Ledger.  Thank you, Ginny!  :-)

Isn't it amazing to think this was the result of ONE year?  Looking forward to next Spring!!!  :-)

Looking at the JCHC Garden

From the beginning stages on September 16, 2011

 

to Planted by November 11, 2011

and the 2012 "look" on September 25, 2012.

Won't we be excited to see how things develop next Spring??  (look forward to another trellis between the fence and Karl Foerster grass (at left).  :-)

Happy Days!

Our JCHC Garden Bed

 The Jefferson County Health Center Garden Bed is now completing its first full year of being in existence!  We need to pat ourselves on the back, as maintenance was a shared responsibility this summer... and look how the garden looks now that it's Fall.  Marvelous - especially for its first year!

 Red Admiral butterfly found the asters today.

This flower bed is 40 feet long!  Too long to capture in a "straight-on" photo.  A few more plants were sunk in the ground today... a salvia (I'll add the name later) now resides in the back left-hand (west) corner behind the lilac bush.  It will be pretty there.  I wonder if Julie can locate another trellis like the one we already have?  It would be great between the wooden fence and the Karl Foerster grass.  I even purchased a smaller trellis that might be nice behind the lilac (there's plenty of room).

Someone in the hospital decided it would be good to have hummingbird feeders here and there around the grounds.  As long as someone is maintaining them, WE won't mind.  And the hummers have already located them!  

 

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A few Fall-ish touches...

I'll update these photos if anyone would like to add a couple of pumpkins and something "cute" to sit on each of the bales.  (These are small bales.)  Whatever sits on them should be stuck into the bale somehow.

The three pink coreopsis are also residing in the garden as of today.  The mums and small asters will be relocated later.  The mums will go in a garden node downtown, but the asters will be placed in this bed.

Happy September 15!
"Shady Gardener"

Speaking of Umbrellas...

... here are the beginnings of the "Great Artists of the Garden series!"

And the lengths to which we go to aid and abet our gardens in the extreme heat and dry weather!  ;-)

Perhaps I'll be able to provide photos of each of the finished products!