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!!

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!  

 

 Click on the photos to see larger images.

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"

Well, one more little May Report. :-)

Hello!  Over the last two days, just a little more work has been done.

The dirt area was scarified today, grass seed sown, straw added and the entire seeded areas were watered.

Don't we hope it rains tomorrow (Friday)??

How is this looking today?

I purchased some inexpensive (non-sturdy) shepherd's hooks today...

the only ones I could find in town!!

(Will swap out if I find better ones)

And added a couple of hanging plants.

A water receptacle under each pot will hold excess water,

meaning we can wait up to a week before watering - 

if it doesn't rain...

One of our clematis is blooming!

Stop by and enjoy!

What about planting a little something in that back corner?   Be thinking about it!  :-)

See you Wednesday, June 6 at my house!!  1:00 p.m.  Be there or be square! lol

SG

JCHC Garden - End of May 2012 Progress Report

My friend Marty and I visited the garden this morning.  I hadn't been there in awhile.  She and I took care of the weeds that greeted us.  It was very painless as there were few of them.  :-)

I'm hoping to be able to water tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon!

Would you like photos?  Okay!  Your wish is my command.

Someone waved at us this morning while we were working! 

JCHC Garden

The Master Gardener Garden at JCHC - it's "First Spring!"

We Gabby Garden Gals claim it, too.
Especially since Cindy has contributed so much in Doc's name,
and because we are fortunate to be able to maintain it!

I believe nearly everything is growing - and looking good, so far! The concern was last year's drought. We did water often. I'm sure that pulled it through! 

I'm not sure this "panoramic" shot will work... but click on any photo to enlarge it! 

See the cute little muscari (grape hyacinths) in the lower right hand corner? Hopefully they'll sow seeds and multiply! :-) And yes, Joan and I planted some hyacinth. They were a little droopy after a couple of days, but perhaps the bit of rain helped today (Saturday, April 7th).

Look how great Doc Dunn's flowering crab apple - Malus 'Sargentii' - aka 'Sargent Flowering Crabapple' - looks!!

Doc Dunn's Korean Lilac in the back. Cristen Shipman-Steinbeck's evergreen boxwood is in front.

You might take notice of the edging that "Tim the Concrete Man" created. He is located across from Casey's on Hwy 1 south. He did a great job.

It should help keep things neat and tidy. It was also paid for by C. Steinbeck's memorial fund.

Don't we have such good memories in getting this planted, etc., etc.?!  Check out 2011 posts, beginning in September.  (These are on the right sidebar.)

Happy Spring!

Happy October!

So Far, So Good!

Monday, September 19 marks the final planting date.

It also marked the wonderful help we had in setting the fence panel in place!

Jacob, Cindy and Nancy

 

Joan

Me (and my hat!)  Jan and Cindy

Jacob and Pete

Smile for Sandi!  (Hi Jim!)

 Back to the fence work with Jacob, Jim and Pete!

Adding the birdhouses - Jan, Jim and Becky

Someone has to supervise, right Becky?  :-)

 by Eleanor

by me

by Eleanor

And on Tuesday, September 20, 

Cindy D brought her wagon wheel - which I quickly wired to the fence!

Looking good!!

It's a beautiful garden.  Many hands made light work.

Our Master Gardener friend, Jan, was truly a hard worker!

Perhaps she'd like to join our Gabby Garden Gals?

I'm going to water a bit today...

hopefully it will rain before long.

The edging should be ready within 10 days or so, now.