Greenhouse Workshop & Tour
presented by the Banbury Institute and Idaho’s Bounty

EcologyPears

Saturday March 6th & Sunday March 7th

With Dale Bates of Living Architecture
& James Reed of Onsen Farm: Winter Gardens

Workshop: Saturday March 6th – 9:30am to 5:00pm
Dale and James will facilitate this two day Greenhouse Workshop and Tour. Bring your projects or ideas and share them with others in the group. You will be exploring a variety of greenhouse concepts, along with looking at several existing working greenhouses in the area.
The workshop will be located at Steve and Kathleen Wilson’s home in Bellevue Farms (South of Bellevue) at 122 Quarter Horse Dr.

Tour: Sunday March 7th – 12:30pm to 4:00 pm
We will meet at Arden Schmit’s farm in Gooding at 12:30 to explore his greenhouse, then we will drive to Onsen Farm: Winter Gardens, from where we will start a walking greenhouse tour.

Cost:
$35 for the whole weekend or $25 for Saturday’s workshop only, payable to James Reed. Please call James to register at 208.543.9987 or 208.720.0673 or email jamescreed@mindspring.com

$10 for Sunday’s tour only, payable to Idaho’s Bounty Co-op.
Please call Julia Augustus to register at 208.721.1412 or email jaugustus@idahosbounty.org

Carpooling to the tour will take place from the Wood River Valley and Treasure Valley. Please bring water, a sack lunch or snacks if needed, and wear appropriate outdoor clothing.

EcologyPears

Please contact me with any questions or comments.

Sincerely,

Julia Augustus
Idaho’s Bounty
208.721.1412
jaugustus@idahosbounty.org

To all my fellow Idaho gardeners/garden bloggers, I hope you are doing the Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. Its not too late to run out side, snap some picks and link over to May Dreams Gardens. Come on!

Here’s my offering for June:

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Yes, there’s more: penstemon barbatus, penstemon psueudospectabilis, veronica Royal Candles, rosa chinensis mutabilis, calendula, and verbena bonariensis.

And it’s stopped raining for a few minutes~!

Reader, let me be the first to apologize for leaving you turning in the wind, without ballast, these last few weeks. I know, I KNOW! It’s prime gardening season and I have been MIA. Sorry. So sorry. We all get busy busy this time of the year. Seems we always go from a frosty standstill to 100 miles an hour overnight. Just a month ago, it was 27 on a Tuesday night and the next Monday registered 94 degrees. This is why it’s called the Wild Wild West.

Top it off with a pollen count of 360 a couple weeks ago and yours truly couldn’t take it another minute. Long story short, I’ve been under the weather, and mostly under the radar. But I have some garden snaps to share with you.

First up, I crawled onto an airplane on May 28th for the trip to Chicago. I was lucky enough to attend the first annual Garden Bloggers’ Spring Fling in Austin last April. It was decided then, to meet up in Chicago in 2009. Meet up we did, all 51 of us. (Blotanical shows 600+ gardeners, I don’t know how many in the US).

We were squired around and hosted by the Chicago Botanic Gardens, saw Rick Bayless’s garden, the Lurie at Millenium Park, conservatories, and private gardens. Here are some photos and comments on Rick Bayless’s garden.

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Next: the incredible Lurie Garden at Millenium Park.