From Director’s Notes: Hired Keri Leymaster as full-time summer gardener

Tiled areas for better drainage and upgraded irrigation system

There are several photos of lots of folks working on the gardens in what looks like early spring, so I am going to say this is one of our annual events where we start the growing season by grooming the plant beds. As you can see some are stirring already.

Petals and Blooms: This looks like it was a one-time event, found a couple of photos that had petals and blooms written on the back

Apparently, we held a bug camp but this is the only evidence I have

These look like events to me, but no idea what, but someone took photos and put them with our archive documents. Perhaps someone reading this will recognize someone?

Everyone recognizes the Fall Harvest Festival

This year Initial plans are being made for the creation of a shade garden. The expectation is that this project will carry over into 2005. This is another garden that is on the Master Plan Garden index

The planned location for the proposed garden in this project was to be in the small grove of Honey Locust trees that were original to the site. They are Northeast of the Herb Garden, which puts them almost directly North of the Sesquicentennial Forrest. 

Here is the proposal put forth for the garden and a sketch of the layout.

The following notes are from the Shade Garden site file.

“Sharon Jordan and other volunteers started the Shade Garden with just a small collection around Locust trees. There used to be a Hosta Club (Rhonda and Mike Deeds) very prominent in the area.”

Sharon Weiss from Country Bloomers donated many Hostas.

The records show that there are 68 different cultivars in the original hosta collection that were planted in this garden.

There is another project this year to relocate the little pink mouse house in the Children’s Garden and to put in that space a model railroad. Principal Financial Group donated $328 to buy tracks.

The information source is our newsletter

From Director’s Notes: Clean-out, re-formed and re-shaped Forget-Me-Not Pond

Now let’s walk around and enjoy the beauty of this place!

From Directors Notes: inventoried tree collection

Transplanted all nursery bed perennials and shrubs to the gardens, planted

We must ever be mindful of the people!!

Lauren Holst

Maurine Crisp

And all the un-named but equally important individuals making an impact on the Arboretum

Until we meet again glorious green space