Feb - Mar
- Apr - May - June
- July - Aug - Sept
- Oct - Nov - Dec
Meeting Time and Place - About the Speakers
- Handouts/Literature
Monday, February 5, 2001
Entry Gardens and Welcoming Guests to your
garden
Speaker: Diana Alfuth,
Come and find out how to add a sense of welcome to your entry and direct people
to your front door and through your garden using landscaping and landscaping
cues.
Monday, March 5, 2001
Enjoying Wisconsin butterflies (Click
here for handout)
Speaker: Dean Hanson
Dean has studied butterflies and their habitats and created a movie about
butterflies native to our area and the plants they need to survive and
reproduce. Come learn how to attract butterflies to your garden and learn more
about our disappearing native fauna and the habitats they live in.
Monday, April 2, 2001
Raised beds: Best uses and how to build
Speaker: Diana Alfuth
Diana will talk about how raised beds are best used in different areas of
gardens, the problems they can solve (and create), as well as give how-to's for
various raised bed materials.
Monday, May 7, 2001
Home Water Gardens
(Click here for handout)
Speaker: Soni Forsman
Owner of Water Lilies by Forsman, Soni will discuss the basics of in-ground as
well as container water gardens. She will cover basic equipment and how-tos of
building water gardens as well as plants which do well in small and large water
gardens.
Saturday, May 19, 2001
Plant Sale
Place: WellHaven Apts Covered garage
Time: 9:00am - Noon
Monday, June 4, 2001
A Natural Harmony: Using Feng Shui
Principles in the Garden
Speaker: Elaine Anderson
This talk will introduce the concepts of Feng Shui, ancient Chinese principles
of harmony and chi. Elaine will discuss how Feng Shui principles of placement
and design can be used in gardens to invite repose or excitement and restore
harmony and balance.
Monday, September 10, 2001 (2nd
Monday)
Chrysanthemums: What's New, What's
Hot, What's hardy in our area
Speaker: Dr. Peter Ascher, U of MN
Pete Ascher, one of the club's favorite speakers, returns to talk about hardy
chrysanthemums, and how to successfully grow and overwinter them. Pete was
involved with U of M's chrysanthemum breeding program and will bring samples of
hardy mums. Following his talk will be his plant sale of unusual sun and shade
plants.
(Click
here for University of Minnesota chrysanthemum information)
Monday, October 1, 2001
Tried and True Perennials (Click
here for handout)
Speaker: Dr. Terry Ferriss, UW-RF
Not just for beginners, the tried and true perennials are the workhorses of the
garden. Come find out which perennials grow easily, perform well, and are
perfectly hardy to our area.
Monday, November 5, 2001
New and Unusual Hardy Perennials
Speaker: Debbie Lonnee, Bailey's Nursery
The second in our perennial series, Debbie will show slides of the new and
unusual perennials which are available or will be available in our area in the
next few years. Debbie travels all over the world for Bailey's looking for
perennials which are likely to do well in our area.
Monday, December 3, 2001
Making things from your garden for your
garden
Speaker: Melanie Elling
Melanie, an RFGC member, will show us how to make trellises and topiary and
other things which can be used in our gardens. Melanie and her husband use
materials from their gardens and property for their trellises.
Meetings: First Monday of the month
(except September and January)
Place: River Falls Public Library Community Room
When: 7pm
Dues: $10 Regular - $5 (age 65 and over)
Send dues, payable to River Falls Garden Club to:
Mae Wolfe, 117 County Rd. JJ, River Falls WI 54022
Questions, call Margaret Smith 426-5755
About our Speakers (2001)
Diana Alfuth
(February 5: Entry Gardens and Welcoming Guests to your garden and April 2, :
Raised beds: Best uses and how to build)
Diana is currently UW-Extension Horticulture Educator for St. Croix, Pierce and
Polk counties. Part of her job entails training Master Gardeners, and also
involves working with commercial growers and farmers. Prior to her current
position, Diana taught Landscape Design at the University of MN and has a
landscape design business.
Elaine Anderson
(June 4,- A Natural Harmony: Using Feng Shui Principles in the Garden)
Elaine has a BS in Nursing, is an RN, and is founder of Red Tortoise Inc., a
Feng Shui consultation service. She is a graduate of the two year Associate
Program with Carol Hyder, author of Wind and Water: Your Personal Feng Shui
Journey, and is a founding member of the Feng Shui Institute of MN.
Peter Ascher,
PhD.
(September 10: Chrysanthemums: What's new, what's hot, what's hardy in our area)
One of the garden club's most popular speakers, Pete was involved in U of M's
chrysanthemum breeding programs. Pete taught U of MN graduate horticulture
students for many years and is extremely knowledgeable in many horticulture
areas and can explain concepts in layman's terms. He also has a great sense of
humor and is fun to listen to.
Melanie Elling
(December 3: Making things from your garden for your garden)
Melanie has been a member of RFGC for several years and enjoys gardening and
making things from her garden (you may also have purchased some of her many
plants she brings to the plant sale!). She harvests saplings and twigs from her
property for her trellises. Melanie is also a Master Gardener.
Terry Ferriss,
PhD.
(October 1: Tried and True Perennials)
Terry teaches the perennials class at UW- RF and was our October 2000 speaker on
perennials for different sites and situations. She has been a regular and
popular speaker for the garden club. She also arranged the pruning workshop we
sponsored last spring and had her students prune Heritage Park as part of their
hands-on learning experience. She was named Teacher of the Year a couple of
years ago at UW-RF.
Soni Forsman
(May 7: Home Water Gardens)
Owner of Water Lilies by Forsman, Soni has been in the aquatic business for
almost 12 years. She is knowledgeable about in-ground as well as container water
gardens. She has written for the MN Horticulturist Magazine (now called Northern
Gardener) and is also a water garden consultant. She is a popular speaker at
garden clubs and horticulture events.
Dean Hanson
(March 5: Enjoying Wisconsin butterflies)
Dean's interest and love of butterflies and their disappearing habitats led him
to make this labor of love - a movie about the many butterflies native to our
area. He has shown this movie to many garden clubs in the Twin Cities as well as
to Master Gardeners in Wisconsin. Dean has a deep interest in native prairie
plants and created a sand prairie on his property.
Debbie Lonnee
(November 5: New and Unusual Hardy Perennials)
Debbie has a BS in horticulture from the University of MN. For the past 8 years
she has worked for Bailey's Nursery, one of the country's largest wholesale
suppliers of plants as the Production Coordinator for bedding plants and
perennials. She is an avid gardener with an especially keen interest in hostas
and other plants.
Copies of handouts/literature from the
meetings are at the River Falls Public Library in the pamphlet file (PAM Garden
Club).
Call or email Kim Kiiskinen (715-425-0905
ext 104) for copies.