Healing Garden Tour at St. Mary's Janesville Hospital

St. Mary’s Janesville Hospital invites you to tour our Healing Garden (currently under development) and hear from the lead designer, Richard Slayton, Senior Landscape Architect with Erdman in Madison, Wisconsin.  Richard will share the background, and his design concepts for the Healing Garden.  St. Mary’s Janesville Hospital opened on January 9, 2012 and the Healing Garden is the first fund raising project of the St. Mary’s Janesville Foundation.  The garden is tucked between the Dean Clinic and St. Mary’s Janesville on their shared campus on Racine Street in Janesville, just east of I-94. The Healing Garden is being created to serve our patients, their families, visitors, staff and physicians.  The garden will be a restorative healing garden with plant material, hardscape features and water to soothe and help with the healing process.

Efforts to raise the necessary funds to build out the healing garden began in October of 2011.  The St. Mary’s Janesville Foundation Board approved the release of funds to begin the landscape work and plantings to create the first segment of the garden this summer. Plans call for completion of the garden in the fall of 2013.  It is the hospital’s goal to have the garden be a true community project.  Already hospital volunteers tend to the container plants on the terrace just outside of the building.  Hospital staff are also ready to volunteer to help plant the garden and maintain it on a regular basis.  Youth groups and individual volunteers have also volunteered to help.  And our goal is to have UW Extension Master Gardeners work with our volunteers by sharing their knowledge and leading garden projects to keep our garden healthy and beautiful.

Please join us on:

Thursday, September 13, 2012

5:30 – 6:30 in the evening

St. Mary’s Janesville Hospital Healing Garden

(off the Town Square and our café dining area)

3400 E Racine Street

Janesville Wisconsin

Speaker:  Richard Slayton, Senior Landscape Architect

Refreshments and light snacks will be served

Please RSVP for this event, so we can plan for the evening, with your name and the number of persons attending

You mail e-mail Dianne Coopman, Foundation Director at dianne_coopman@ssmhc.com

Or call her at 608-373-8015 to RSVP or ask questions. 

Thank you. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Lily Walk

A large contingency of  Walworth County MGVs joined us for our June tour of Blooming of Beloit.  In exchange, they have invited Rock County MGVs to join in their July Lily Walk, details below:

Our Lily Walk is Wed July 11, 2012  6pm

Dr Robert Griesbach
N 5024 Delaney Road
Delavan, WI

He is a retired Professor from DePaul University and a world renowned hybridizer of lilies. He grows more than 10,000 hemmerocallis.  Several which Klehm's Song Sparrow and Wayside Gardens sell. His liliums are of great interest.  I really love the guy.  Look him up for more info for your group. He is out in the country surrounded by corn fields.
We look forward in seeing your group in Delavan. My number is 262 279-2039 should you have any questions.

Happy gardening,

Barb Gudowicz

As a reminder, there is no July meeting or education program in Rock County so this is another good opportunity for continuing education.



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June Events

The following events were just passed along to me.  Click on the hyperlinks below for more information.

• Hoard Museum Garden Tour in Fort Atkinson, Saturday, June 9, 11-4
• Evansville Storybook Garden Tour, June 23, 24

Field Trip: Blooming of Beloit

For our June 7, 2012, monthly business meeting and continuing education program well will do a field trip to the largest in-ground cut flower wholesale producer in the midwest, Blooming of Beloit.

Blooming of Beloit is over 100 acres of decorative and flowering woody and herbaceous plants and are major suppliers to national floral chains.

The program will consist of a tour of the facility and a look at their extensive plant collection.

Dress for the weather and for a walk across the grounds.

A brief business meeting will be at 5:30pm, with the tour of the facility and grounds following.

Please RSVP to Kim Mork (608 757 5696 or kim.mork@ces.uwex.edu).


Blooming of Beloit
2220 West Creedy Road, Beloit, WI

 
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Plant Health Advisor Training and Volunteer Opportunity

MGVs interested in enrolling in the Plant Health Advisor (PHA) program may now do so via Kenosha County UW-Extension.

In Rock County, PHA’s may volunteer:

• In the Rock County UWEX office
• At the local farm market
• At special events

I’m also looking into ways for us to communicate incoming questions via Google Docs if you want to answer questions from home.

Enroll! Contact Mike Maddox if you are interested in becoming a PHA