Weird! Sorry for the late post. I tried to post this last night and the Blogger site was down and I thought this post was lost. It just popped up (without the text) so I thought I'd send it along. To catch up on Thursday, we had lots of wonderful help (see below) for tagging, sorting, moving and staging the entire sale. Marianne and Janice did a great job coordinating all the efforts and we're thankful for having such awesome volunteers.
Big John, Larry, Janice, Marianne and I were all involved with plant sale related tasks as well as gardening duties. Jenny was in to match up labels to our big order of tropi
cals and it's nice to have the labels ready to go out with the plants. For many years, we were very retroactive with catching up with labeling once the plants were out in the gardens. That was a tough thing to keep up with and Jenny has truly streamlined the process and with all of our plant record updates (Luis, Janice, etc.), our
labeling is the best it has ever been. With the new engraver and efforts by Gary, Mandy, Jenny and the Grumpies (stake processing), we're way ahead of where I'd thought we'd be with the new labels. To the right is a cool gravel pattern that one of Jumbo Jim's RECAPPERS raked in to the gravel sea. That looks really neat to me and Jim has been our "go to" guy for this and it's nice that he's teaching new "grasshoppers" to do this task that does require talent (I've never done it...). To the left is Shirley showing off 1 of 40,000 labels that the volunteers have matched to our plants over the past three days. Below is a close-up of redbut (
Cercis canadensis) blooms starting up out in the gardens. We have about 10 redbuds, the biggest (25'?) of which is in the center of the Japanese garden. Further below is our vertical planter starting to fill in and at the bottom are the yellow tulips peaking in front of the Parker Education Center.
Weird! Sorry for the late post. I tried to post this last night and the Blogger site was down and I thought this post was lost. It just popped up (without the text) so I thought I'd send it along. To catch up on Thursday, we had lots of wonderful help (see below) for tagging, sorting, moving and staging the entire sale. Marianne and Janice did a great job coordinating all the efforts and we're thankful for having such awesome volunteers. 
cals and it's nice to have the labels ready to go out with the plants. For many years, we were very retroactive with catching up with labeling once the plants were out in the gardens. That was a tough thing to keep up with and Jenny has truly streamlined the process and with all of our plant record updates (Luis, Janice, etc.), our
labeling is the best it has ever been. With the new engraver and efforts by Gary, Mandy, Jenny and the Grumpies (stake processing), we're way ahead of where I'd thought we'd be with the new labels. To the right is a cool gravel pattern that one of Jumbo Jim's RECAPPERS raked in to the gravel sea. That looks really neat to me and Jim has been our "go to" guy for this and it's nice that he's teaching new "grasshoppers" to do this task that does require talent (I've never done it...). To the left is Shirley showing off 1 of 40,000 labels that the volunteers have matched to our plants over the past three days. Below is a close-up of redbut (Cercis canadensis) blooms starting up out in the gardens. We have about 10 redbuds, the biggest (25'?) of which is in the center of the Japanese garden. Further below is our vertical planter starting to fill in and at the bottom are the yellow tulips peaking in front of the Parker Education Center. 
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