Feb - March - April
- May - June - July
- Aug - Sept - Oct
- Nov - Dec
Meeting Time and Place - About the Speakers -
Handouts/Literature
from programs
Monday, February 4, 2002
Trees, Shrubs and Evergreens for our area
Speaker: Jim Stolzenberg, Bailey's Nursery
Discover the new trees, shrubs and evergreens which are
now available in the market, learn about their seasonal interest, disease
resistance, and unique beauty and features.
Monday, March 4, 2002
Seed Starting and Seed Saving
Speaker: Jim Barron, Master Gardener, Ag. Seed production
Come and learn tips from a seed starting and seed saving
pro. Jim will cover the basics plus tips for more advanced gardeners. Jim starts
all his plants by seed and has been saving seed for the past 12-15 years.
Monday, April 1, 2002
Garden Photography: Tips for great photos
Speaker: Don Breneman, A professional garden photographer
Don speaks to many garden clubs about taking great photos.
Learn how to create pleasing compositions as well as basic information about
using a 35mm camera.
Monday, May 6, 2002
Native Plants for Home Gardens
Speakers: Wayne Huhnke, Michelle Bredahl, Owners of
Kinnickinnic Natives
Wayne and Michele will highlight the many beautiful native
plants which can be used in either sun or shade in home landscapes. Native
plants are beautiful, ecologically beneficial, and help tie our home landscapes
into the existing countryside so our home landscapes don't look out-of- place.
Monday, June 3, 2002
Flower Arrangements: Tips from a Pro
Speaker: Ardith Beveridge, AAF,AIFD,PFCI
Ardith is Director of Education at Koehler and Dramm's
Institute of Floristry. She will demonstrate the basic tips and techniques of
creating beautiful arrangements no matter what the flower or the container. This
will be helpful for both home and for the arrangements we do for the CAB art
show at the library in June. July, August 2002 - No meetings
Monday, September 9, 2002 (2nd Monday)
Lawn Care for Home Landscapes
Speaker: Mike Deneen, Master Gardener Owner of Deneen Seed and Sod
Mike will discuss the basics of lawn care including
mowing, watering, fertilizing, grass seeds and types, as well as irrigation
system basics.
Monday, October 7, 2002
Home Landscaping: Tying it all together
Speaker: Diana Alfuth, Hort. Educator, U of MN landscape teacher
The first of a 2 part series, Diana will address the
components of the home landscape and how to use them to create unity and
cohesiveness in all the areas surrounding your home.
Monday, November 4, 2002
Home Landscaping: Success in the Details
Speaker: Diana Alfuth
Creating garden rooms, garden structures, placing garden
art, creating paths etc will be covered in the 2ndsession in the series about
basic home landscape techniques.
Monday, December 2, 2002
Gifts for the Gardener: Stepping stones
and Garden Books
Speaker: Peg Wastell, WI Master Gardener
and Kim Kiiskinen, Reference Librarian and Master Gardener
Peg will demonstrate how to make unique stepping stones
for your garden using concrete and various materials. Kim will review the garden
books in the library's collection (including those donated by the RFGC) as well
as those published this year. If you're looking to enhance a garden with unique
stepping stones, or take a walk through the world of books, or looking to give a
great gift for Christmas to a fellow gardener, this meeting will be full of
wonderful ideas. (Kim's Book Handout)
Meetings: First Monday of the month (except September) Place: River Falls Public Library Community Room When: 7 pm Guest fee $2
Diana Alfuth
October 7 - Home Landscaping: Tying it All Together and
November 4: Home Landscaping: Success in the Details
Diana teaches Landscape Design at the University of MN and
is also UW-Extension Horticulture educator for the area. Part of her extension
job includes training Master Gardeners and working with commercial growers and
farmers. She also has a landscape design business.
Jim Barron
March 4 - Seed Starting and Seed Saving
Jim is a Wisconsin Master Gardener, receiving a B.S. in Agriculture from UW-RF
and has been in agricultural seed production for over 25 years. He has
been saving seeds for the past 12-15 years and all of his gardening is done
strictly from using his own seed-grown plants. Jim presented the
seed saving portion of this presentation to the Wisconsin Master Gardeners.
Ardith Beveridge
June 3 - Flower Arrangements: Tips from a Pro
Director of Education at Koehler and Dramm's Institute of Floristry in
Minneapolis, and garden column contributor to the Northern Gardener Magazine
("A Cut Above"), Ardith has many international achievements as a
floral designer, consultant, commentator (TV), panel designer and floral design
judge. She has designed for the Tournament of Roses, Presidential Inaugurations,
Presidential Easter Celebrations, and the MN State Governor's office. She
is active in teaching, presenting programs and taking courses nationally and
internationally to stay current with design trends.
Michele Bredahl and Wayne Huhnke
May 6 - Native Plants for Home Gardens
Husband and wife owners of Kinnickinnic Natives, a plant nursery 2.5 miles
north of River Falls on Hwy 65. Wayne has been interested in native plants
and prairies for 15 years and has volunteered as a site steward of the St. Croix
Savanna in Bayport, MN and the Foster Cemetery in River Falls (with the Prairie
Enthusiasts). He was a B.S. in Horticulture from UW-RF. Michele is a
Wisconsin Master Gardener and RF Garden Club member with a B.S. in Business
Administration and and M.B.A. for the University of St. Thomas.
Don Brenneman
April 1 - Garden Photography: Tips for Great Photos
Don is a Associate Professor at U of MN and teaches a credit photography course
on the St. Paul campus plus a non-credit extension class in Garden
Photography. He is the Extension Visual Production Manager for the U of
MN-Extension and produces the Minnesota Gardening Calendar plus does photography
for other publications and wen sites.
Mike Deneen
September 9 - Lawn Care for Home Landscapes
Mike is a Wisconsin Master Gardener and is the owner of Deneen Seed and
Sod. Mike is a speaker for the Wisconsin Master Gardener Association and
is a member of many landscape associations. He is also involved in an
effort to rid the area of buckthorn.
Kim Kiiskinen
December 2 - Garden Books: A review of what's new in
the market as well as the library's collection
Kim recieved her MLS in Library Science from North Carolina Central University
in 1996. She became a Wisconsin Master Gardener in 2001 and has a life
long interest in books, vegetable gardening for the last 12 years, flower
gardening for the last 5 years, and weeding gardens since she was old enough to
do so. She has been the Reference Librarian since November 1996 at the
River Falls Public Library and has designed and updated the River Falls Garden
Club web page which includes links to many horticulture web sites.
Jim Stolzenberg
February 4 - Tress, Shrubs and Evergreens for our Area
Jim has been in the nursery business for 30 years, the past 23 at
Bailey's. He coordinates the production of 900 varieties of woody plants
at the Bailey's farms in Oregon, Washington, and Minnesota. Jim makes many
trips across the US searching for and evaluating new varieties of woody 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.