Feb - Mar
- Apr - May - June -
July - Aug - Sept
- Oct - Nov - Dec
Meeting Time and Place - Handouts/Literature
- Past Years Programs
Monday, February 3, 2003
Building a Backyard Waterfall Feature
Speaker: Dick Hinke
Dick and Darlene Hinke's waterfall garden was featured at both the Artful Gardens Tour 2000 and in Wisconsin Public Television's video of Wisconsin
Gardener "Uncommon Wisconsin Gardens." This video was recently purchased by the Garden Club as a donation to the River Falls Public Library. Dick is a
self-taught gardener and he and his wife, Darlene built and planted their spectacular Somerset waterfall garden
themselves. The waterfall features 120 tons of rock and the gardens feature over 400 different plant
species. Following a WPT video clip of their garden, Dick will explain the basics involved in creating a waterfall feature including plumbing, piping,
electricity, liners, laying rocks, plant and rock shelving, and cleaning. Dick is teaching a 6 week landscape design class at WITC in the spring.
Monday, March 3, 2003
Vegetable gardening basics and expert potato
growing
Speaker: Dr. Brian Smith, UWRF
Dr. Smith, who has spoken to the Garden Club previously about small fruits, will cover the basics of vegetable gardening and then focus on successfully
growing potatoes. Dr. Smith is not only Wisconsin's premier small fruit expert, he is also very knowledgeable in vegetables. Potatoes are of
special interest and he has been to the International Center for potato germ plasm in South America, the continent where potatoes originated and
grow in the wild.
Monday, April 7, 2003
Growing Home- Stories of Ethnic
Gardening
Speaker: Susan Davis Price
Nationally known gardening author and writer, Susan Davis Price, will talk about more than 30 Minnesotans who have imported the style and tradition of
their native or ancestral lands into their gardening. Ms. Price has lived and gardened in Minnesota for more than 20 years. She has had numerous
articles appear in local and national publications, including Minnesota Horticulturist, Urban Forests, and Victorian Homes, and has given numerous
lectures on historic and present gardens. Ms. Price will be available for questions and her book will be available for purchase and signing. Last
year, thanks to member Kay Wilson, the Garden Club donated Ms. Price's book, Growing Home, to the River Falls Public Library.
Monday, May 5, 2003
Japanese Gardens
Speaker: Joni Garbe
The basics of Japanese gardening will be covered in this talk by Master Gardener Joni Garbe. Joni has a degree in design and works in the summer
at the Como Japanese Garden in St. Paul. This year she will also be assisting the training at Como for Guide volunteers as a refresher course
for their summer schedule. In her presentation, Joni will cover the basics of Japanese gardens and creating simplicity, serenity and balance, all of
great importance in Japanese garden design.
Monday, June 2, 2003
Basics of Rock and Alpine Gardening
Speaker: Chuck Griffith, North American Rock Gardening Society
Chuck Griffith, who has belonged to the North American Rock Gardening Society for approximately 15 years, will cover a brief history of rock and
alpine gardening followed by construction and plant choices. He himself has an alpine garden, a shade garden, a pond and conifer garden utilizing
rock garden plants. Chuck was raised in Illinois, moved to Minneapolis in 1985 and has worked on the North American Rock Gardening Society's web site
and on the computerization of their seed exchange.
Saturday, July 26, 2003
Fox Fire Garden Tour
A joint venture with St. Croix
Valley Master Gardeners Association- join fellow gardeners and Master Gardeners for a daylong trip and tour of these marvelous gardens in central
Wisconsin. Details: RFGC Trudy Ohnsorg (425-0602)
Monday, September 8, 2003
How did your garden grow? Ask Your Gardening
Questions
Speakers: Diana Alfuth, Dr. Brian Smith
In response to requests to have a session to ask our gardening questions, bring up gardening problems, find out which pesky insects or diseases are
decimating or attacking our plants, Diana Alfuth and Dr. Brian Smith will be available to answer our questions. Diana teaches landscape design and
knows perennials inside and out and answers calls about plant problems as part of her job as Extension Agent. Dr. Smith is well known across the
state and in research universities for his fruit and vegetable expertise. So, bring in your garden questions, those diseased leaves, your
problems or situations which cause you concern or dilemma, or whatever garden question or issue you would like to know more about.
Monday, October 6, 2003
Crafts from Your Garden: Making wreaths
Speaker: Andrea Christiansen
An avid vegetable, flower and fruit gardener for 20 years, Andi Christansen especially enjoys growing and drying her own perennial and annual flowers,
herbs and fruits for wreath making. She is also fond of finding and using nature's bounty in seasonal wreaths, selling wreaths through the Red Wing
confectionary as well as the Red Wing Arts Association. Andi will demonstrate the basics of wreath making using a variety of materials from
her garden.
Monday, November 3, 2003
Garden Paths
Speaker: Diana Alfuth
Diana, U of MN Instructor of Landscape Design and Pierce County UW Extension Horticulturist, returns to talk about garden paths: Good design,
different paths for different needs, which path materials are best in different situations. Diana spoke to the club in 2001 about garden
entries, and in 2002 about Home landscaping: tying it all together, and Home Landscaping: success in the details.
Monday, December 1, 2003
Designing for pets and children
Speaker: Fran Kiesling
Owner of Dirty Dog Landscape Consulting and Design Services, Inc., Fran will discuss designing gardens that are safe and welcoming for children and
pets. Gardens which are beautiful and durable, non-toxic and welcoming are definitely doable and enjoyable for all to enjoy.
Meetings: First Monday of the month (except September)
Place: River Falls Public Library meeting room
When: 7:00 PM
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.
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