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available at Marshall Library" J J J J J J J J J J J J Our April 15, 2004,
meeting will be held at Our program
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Wonder Dog garden work day will be on If you are not
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for our public pond tour on Ponds on this year’s tour are: Don and Ron and Joan Sanders Barbara Donna Springwater
Nursery, Roger and Lil Blakely Doug and Mica Newman-Koehn Bruce and Linda Brock Fred and Arline Borchers Blosser Ladies Home & & & & & & & & & &
& By Connie Rieth, Treasurer and Club Librarian Jean Gaddy Wilson, Club member The club appreciates the opportunity to work with the Marshall Public Library. The club’s gardening collection at the library will provide citizens with access to high-quality, readable and illustrated books and other materials. The collection will not only cover water gardening , but also landscaping, trees, shrubs, flowers, and vegetable production, herbs, annuals, perennials and other growing materials. The club will “tend” this collection of books on a continuous basis, much as we tend our gardens, meaning that the club shall add, subtract, and multiply material in the collection. Members of the water garden club may check out three books at a time from the collection without paying for a membership to the Marshall Public Library. Many of our members are from out of the county. The club has arranged for members to show their current Water Garden Club membership card at the library desk when checking out books from the collection. A few of the books should not be checked out because they are very large and very expensive. These will be marked as such and will remain in the library as reference books. We need more books on a continuous basis. If any of our club members have books that they are not using and would like to donate to the library, please contact Connie Rieth or Jean Wilson. The club will buy and install appropriate bookplates for all contributions in this collection. Each book will have a bookplate that will say “This book donated by (your name) to the Saline County Water Garden Club memorial for Judge Rick R. Wilson”. This memorial combines the club’s active community service with the excellent community service the Marshall Public Library provides. We are pleased to grow this memorial with this collection. z z z z z z z z z z z z z We had a great Christmas party at Mr. B’s in December. Larry did a bang up job with all his gag gifts. Door prizes were donated by Fred Geisler, Springwater Nursery, Melinda Gibbs, Village Cellar Second Chance Shop, Country Floral and Keepsakes. We had several center pieces entered in the center piece contest. The winners were: First place---Arline Borchers and Katye Elsea. Third place---Sandy Hendrix. The winners will receive a gift certificate from Grandaddy’s Garden
The Lotus Blossom Award was presented to Arline Borchers at the Christmas party. As one of the founding members of the club, Arline has been very active. Arline and Fred have been on the public pond tour two times and will be on it again this year. They have worked on each tour and attended most of the club activities. Arline served as Hospitality Chair and served on that committee for several years. She has worked on the Jim Garden cleaning and signs up to maintain the garden for 4 weeks each summer. She has donated door prizes, plants for the gardens, and fish food for the Jim Garden. Arline is the Vice-President of the club for 2004 and will serve as chair of the Jim Garden Committee. Fred and Arline have been real assets to the club. They help wherever they are needed. We are very pleased to present the Lotus Blossom Award to Arline. ² ²
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² ² Since we have not had a regular newsletter since the photo contest, we have not announced the winners. We had 44 pictures entered in the contest at the November meeting. Here are the winners: Best over all ----Fred Borchers Pond Views----Fred Borchers Fish and Frogs---Fred Geisler People in the garden---- Dewey Hendrix, Ladonna Arrowood (tie) Garden Features----Fred Geisler Flowers----Fred Geisler Most Unusual----Katye Elsea The winners received gift certificates from Springwater Nursery of Malta Bend, MO. Click here to see the winning photos !!! J J J J J J J J J J J J Our special thanks go to Leta Robb for wading in the cold water at the Jim the Wonder Dog garden to remove the rocks that were thrown in the pond by vandals. The pond looks much better until we can fix it permanently on our work day in April. ? ?
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? Minutes of the March 2004
Meeting ·
Larry Arrowood
called the ·
Larry discussed the
vandalism that has occurred at the Jim Garden. There was a discussion on trying to use
a surveillance camera to catch the person(s) responsible. Also the possibility of approaching
the city for help. ·
The Jim Garden clean
up day will be April 17th at ·
Some of the Master
Gardeners present mentioned their program for the year “Plant a row for the hungry”. This is to encourage gardeners to
plant extra vegetables and donate it to local food pantries. ·
The Master Gardeners
are also collecting extra plants to donate to “Habitat for
Humanity” homes for landscaping. ·
The Blosser home community service project will be done early
this year and it should be a one-day digging project. ·
The Golf coarse
community service project will not begin until after the pond tour. They are trying to create an area that
people will want to come to and take pictures. ·
Linda Siler,
President of the Springfield Water garden club, will present the program at
the April meeting. ·
(Linda
is unable to be here in April) ·
The May meeting will
be a potluck dinner at Jeanne Wilson’s home and the annual plant
exchange. ·
The flyers are
printed for the pond tour and need to be placed at garden centers. A sign up sheet was available. ·
The public pond tour
will be held in June. ·
Larry is working on a
tour at the Stoutland Fish Hatchery for the July
activity. ·
An individual in
Waverly has a railroad garden that will be visited in August. ·
Larry Arrowood and Kayte Elsea presented the
program on “Garden Makeovers”. ·
Leta Robb won the door prize – Garden Primer Book ·
Bill Rieth won the door prize – Birdhouse ·
The hospitality
committee provided refreshments. Polly Ponders If you have any gardening
problems you need help with, write Polly. With years of experience with both
flower gardening and water gardening, she possesses a wealth of information
and wisdom! Send your
questions to: Polly Ponder Saline County
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