HAPPENINGS IN THE ROSE AND PERENNIAL GARDENS
By Clair Martin
Check out the newly pruned and laced Montezuma cypress trees in the Rose Garden. Four days dedicated to cleaning and pruning these important landscape trees paid off in that they are now less likely to lose branches in the wind and rain and present a lovely open and lacy vista in the garden. We now have light to help the roses and lawns under them! Check out the 'before and after' pictures.
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Montzuma Cypress before pruning |
Montezuma Cypress after pruning |
We have a new addition to our garden staff. Beverly Lepak will be filling in temporarily in the Herb Garden until Juan is well enough to come back to work. Katarina has removed all the plants in the Herb Garden's Salad Bed so that she can renovate the soil and replant at a later date.
Several rose nurseries have donated a number of exciting new roses for planting this season. Currently we are utilizing our new Rose Garden bed maps to make sure we take full advantage of these generous gifts of new roses. We should start planting as soon as the roses arrive starting in mid-December. Our bed maps and rose inventory will be brought up to date to include the new plantings.
We are going to be doing a lot of planting out of winter annuals in the next few weeks in the Shakespeare, Herb, and Rose Garden Café Gardens. Katarina would appreciate any extra help you could give us! We are planting winter color for our busy season coming up between Christmas and New Years. No need to call ahead--just show up on any week day with gloves and appropriate garden clothing and shoes. Any help at all is welcome.
Just a reminder but rose pruning will commence in just a little over a month. With the added time necessary to prepare for The Great Rosarians Lecture we will need all the help our Volunteers can provide. Pruning will commence on Monday, January 3rd and continue until all the roses are pruned. Weather permitting we should be finished by late January. We will be offering training sessions for new and seasoned volunteers so if you want to volunteer please call or email Clair at 626.405.3507 or cmartin@huntington.org. Rose pruners need to bring their own hand pruners and gloves and, if you have your own loppers or a hand saw, it would be a good idea to bring them as well. Volunteers need to wear garden appropriate clothing and shoes while working in the garden.
Tickets are still available for the Great Rosarians of the World Lecture to be held January 23, 2005. For information on ordering tickets and related events, click here: Rose Garden Events
Clair Martin, Curator, Rose and Perennial Gardens
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