GGG Visit at Kathy's site - August 16, 2013

The site of the back- backyard rearrangement (septic tank replacement last fall)!

 

 

 Ligularia grown from seed three or so years ago.  This is the first blossom EVER!

 

And then along comes Joan!  Yea!

 

 She's the veritable Peddler Opening Her Pack (trunk)

 

Dried allium (spray paint it and place back in ground!) and dried money plant!

 

 

TOAD HOUSES

Enter the Challenge-of-the-Day!  Not enough research on the Outdoor Adhesive (my fault)...  but we used 4" flimsy nursery pots with terra cotta saucers glued to the bottom.  Turn upside down after glue sets.  Cut out door for toad entrance.  Glue an assortment of items on the saucer and sides... allow to dry.

 

 Tah Dah!  This might be the winner!!  Sphagnum Moss.... glued everywhere! 

 

 The toad might have to search for the entrance, but he'd be well hidden and secluded!!

Getting Together at Carolyn's - August 6, 2013

First we checked out part of a fun collection!

 

 It wasn't long until we were all together and began our "circle tour!"

 

Close-up of the above peony.

 

 Carolyn's water garden! It's a beautiful feature!



 

Moneywort?

 

 We were told that moneywort can also be used as an oxygenator in a pond.

 

Carolyn's husband is definitely one of two unofficial members of our

GGG Garden club!

 

What a beautiful day!  We enjoyed some Great Conversation, Gardening, and Comradery!

JCHC Healing Gareen

Photos taken this morning after weeding and watering!  This is year number two for this garden!

 

 

 

 

I also dead-headed almost everything today... did not get to the yarrow. 

 I will also cut back the iris a bit, next time.  :-)

 

Thanks to Joan for her earlier caretaking!!

GGG Visits Nancy!

My, it was a hot day yesterday!  But we intrepid GGG members (those of us that could be there) visited Nancy anyway!

Just take a peek at some of the things we saw... even though we've been without rain for three weeks!!

First on the agenda was a peek at her fairy garden... created in an old metal fire pit!

 

Next, the Hosta Bed!

 

Praying Hands hosta

 

At the end of the Hosta Bed sits a nice bench

painted black and yellow, for University of Iowa Hawkeyes.

Check out the matching petunias!

 

Enjoy more of the yard and gardens below!

 You'll find whimsy every "here and there!"  :-)

 Blackberry Lilies

 

Apologies to Eileen!  (I neglected to take photos!)

Eileen brought several Fairy Gardens she and members of her family had created.

Shown at the fair, they each won a blue ribbon!

 

We were so glad to Finally be able to meet!

Thank you, Nancy!

 

August 6 at 2:00 P.M. at Carolyn's and

August 16 at 9:00 A.M. at my house!!

 

 

Have a great day!

SG

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.