2018 Public Gardens Volunteer Weekly Newsletter Vol. 2 Garden Gab Tuesday May 22nd & Thursday May 24th Previous Week: Last week we covered annual installation & design in Sunken Gardens. Tuesday’s group helped with prepping the D street entrance and pavilion beds by harvesting tulips. We also installed the annuals in the Pavilion bed and the Caladium backdrop beds along the gravel pathway. Thursday’s group harvested all the Tulips from the Healing Garden, along with installing caladiums and chlorophytums in between the Healing Garden and the 26th St sidewalk. THANK YOU to all the volunteers who helped out with Garden Gab last week! Topic of the Week: Using Mulch in the Gardens We will cover the benefits of using different types of mulch in the Gardens. We will then continue mulching some of the annual beds that have already been installed. Weekly Goals/Activities: -Continue with annual installation in ledges -Harvest the last of the tulip bulbs in the ledges -Pull weeds in non-prepped beds -Mulch all annual beds with grass clippings

2018 Public Gardens Volunteer Weekly Newsletter Vol. 1 Thank You to all the volunteers who helped with the “Wake Up the Beds” Event last Saturday! The transformation of the garden in a short time is always amazing! We really appreciate all your help in making this Event so successful! Garden Gab Tuesday May 15th & Thursday May 17th Topic of the Week: Annual Installation & Design The 2018 Garden Gab Season kicks off this morning at 9:00 a.m. at Sunken Gardens. The weekly topic, which will be discussed at the start of this morning’s session, will be Annual Installation & Design. We will cover everything from soil prep, planting, maintenance, the 2018 Theme of Sunken Gardens, and any questions you might have. We will then pick up where we left off on Saturday and continue with installing annuals in the remaining beds in Sunken Gardens. Weekly Goals: -Continue with annual installation in prepped beds -Harvest tulip bulbs in remaining display beds -Pull weeds in non-prepped beds

Volunteers and staff are laying out the plants for the annual Wake Up the Beds planting this morning. This year's theme is Sun Salutations!!!

Tulips! The majority of the Tulip display beds are now in bloom at Sunken Gardens!

Spring Blooms! We’ve received quite a few questions inquiring on spring blooms in the Gardens. Due to the colder spring, we are still waiting on the Tulip display beds to bloom at Sunken Gardens. A couple of the beds are really close though and might be blooming this weekend with the warmer temperatures in store. As for currently, there are a few daffodils, wild tulips, and quince blooming throughout the Hamann Rose Garden and Sunken Gardens!

THANK YOU to all the Volunteers who helped with the Rose Garden Pruning Event this last weekend! It’s always amazing to see the transformation of the garden in such a short time. THANK YOU for making the Rose Garden Clean-Up such a success again this year! Now all we need is some warmer weather for the roses to take off!

Rose Garden Event Postponement: Due to inclement weather the Rose Garden Event is postponed until the following Saturday on April 21st. The event will be at the same time from 1:00 p.m. to 4 p.m. Let’s hope this is the final weekend we will see snow for a while! Sorry for the inconvenience, and we’re looking forward to seeing everyone April 21st.

Every first Saturday of November, we have an amazing group of staff and volunteers that make the "Put the Beds to Bed" event a success. Thank you to the over 50 very special volunteers that helped our staff prepare the Sunken Gardens beds ready for winter.

2017 Public Gardens Volunteer Weekly Newsletter Vol. 24 Garden Gab Previous Week: Garden Gab continued working on harvesting the annuals in Sunken Gardens on both Tuesday and Thursday last week. The majority of the annuals were all harvested after Thursday’s Garden Gab. Thank you once again to all the volunteers who helped out last week! Weekly Agenda: All of the annuals in Sunken Gardens are now harvested, thus the Garden Gab season has come to an end. THANK YOU so much to everyone that helped out with Garden Gab this season! We appreciate each volunteer’s gardening efforts in Sunken Gardens, Hamann Rose Garden, Strolling Garden, and the Cascade Fountain this season! There are many projects in the Gardens that we simply would not be able to achieve without the help of volunteers. Once again, Thank You and we’ll hopefully see some of you this Saturday morning at the Put the Beds to Bed Event!

2017 Public Gardens Volunteer Weekly Newsletter Vol. 22 Garden Gab Tuesday October 17th & Thursday October 19th 9:00 a.m. to Noon Previous Week: On Tuesday the Garden Gab was cancelled due to the cold and rainy conditions. Last Thursday’s Garden Gab worked on harvesting red caladiums and elephant ears at Sunken Gardens after the first frost last Wednesday morning. Weekly Agenda: Garden Gab will be at Sunken Gardens both Tuesday and Thursday harvesting the remaining plants that will be overwintered in the greenhouse. There are still a variety of plants that still need harvested and prepped for the greenhouse, such as the banana plants, mandevilla, variegated ginger, and a few more elephant ears.

Due to the wet conditions and thunderstorms Garden Gab is cancelled for 10/5/2017.