Two More Talks Scheduled

Next week I'll be ordering our seeds for the year and will have a busy month of preparations that also includes organizing my talks and organizing seminars for RBG. In previous blog postings, I've mentioned Moss Gardening on January 19th and Woody Plants on February 23rd. We'll also have Herb Gardening on March 30th and Perennials on May 25th. The April 20th date will likely be Perennial Division but that has not been "firmed up" yet. Patty Bailey of Patty's Plants - Natural & Organic Garden Supply (Milton, WI) will be giving the seminar on March 30th from 6 pm until 8 pm. As a reminder, for all 12 of these monthly seminars, all RBG members are admitted free, all others will be $5 (per seminar). Patty will focus on a wide range of herbs and talk about how to incorporate organic growing methods in to your herb gardening approaches in the yard and container. Check out Patty's business at www.pattysplants.com/ and I should mention that her business was named "Small Business of the Year" for 2010 by the Milton Area Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Tourism. RBG has a nice herb garden maintained by the Janesville Area Herb Society and we look forward to including more herbs in not only that garden space but throughout the gardens as well. Our Children's Garden next year will incorporate lots of "smelly" plants including plenty of herbs.

On May 25th, we'll have a seminar on perennials given by Dr. Frank Greer from Madison, WI. Dr. Greer has been President of the Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society for many years (12+) and is extremely knowledgeable regarding all manner of perennials. He'll use his home garden has an example on how to develop a space with appropriate perennials. I've been to Dr. Greer's garden and it is superb. As always, I'll have more information on all of these upcoming talks and our website will also include additional information. We're hoping for a great turnout for all 12 of these seminars as well as our symposia and bus tours.

Larry and Bill were here today doing some touch up snow removal and were making sure the paths are good for the Holiday Lights Show tonight. My parents and brother (with his wife) were in town last night and we came down to the lights show. Everything looked great and with only five more nights, we hope for some good attendance numbers. However, the weather will be getting quite warm and damp towards the end of the week which may affect the show. We'll see. Dr. Gredler was here today painting while Dave, Bob A. and Jim continued to work on our 2011 butterfly art projects. We also saw Maury, Gary, Big John and Rollie over today.