May 2025 garden clippings

Just a friendly reminder: Membership dues for the 2025/2026 calendar year are encouraged to be paid at the May or June club meetings. A table will be set-up next to the Membership sign-in table as you enter the meeting.

We accept Cash or Check. Individuals are $25, and Couples are $40.

If you can’t attend the meetings, please send your check addressed to the:

• McMinnville Garden Club
• PO Box 386,
• McMinnville OR 97128

Thank you.

Our May field trip will be to Adelman Peony Gardens, Bauman’s Farm and Garden, and Schreiner’s Gardens. Let Elaine know if you plan to join us.

• • When: Meet at on May 14. @ 9 am

• • Where: At the Baker Creek Community Church parking lot (to form carpools)

FIRST STOP

Adelman Peony Gardens where we can stroll through two acres of display gardens, 30 acres of production fields, indoor peony bloom displays and opportunities to buy cut flowers or peony plants.

SECOND STOP

Bauman’s Farm and Garden where we will have lunch. They have a bakery, a deli and tables. You may bring you own food or purchase something there. After lunch we can wander through their 40,000 sq. ft. of retail space and shop for annuals, perennials, succulents, flowering and fruit trees, edibles, house plants, conifers, and hanging baskets

THIRD STOP

Schreiner’s Gardens with larger display gardens and 150 acres of
irises and day lilies and opportunities to buy cut flowers or plants. Admission is $6 online and $8 at the gate.

We are heading to the home stretch for the Garden Tour and Faire on June 8, 2025. The tickets are ready to be promoted, sold and purchased by all! Our Tour gardens are blooming and getting spruced up and the Tour and Faire committees are looking for a few more volunteers to fill up their sign-up lists and make their final schedules.

And remember, all volunteers will have the special opportunity to view the five gardens prior to the Tour on Saturday, June 7 between 9:30-11:30a.m. soon, we should be seeing our Garden Tour and Faire banner strung across 3rd Street, and the excitement begins. Please remember to bring your cash or check books to the May Garden Club meeting to purchase your tickets and spread the word. This is a group effort, and it will take 100% participation from our wonderful Club members to make this year a success: whether by volunteering or buying and selling tickets.

Please send your articles to Christine HERE by the 25th of each month.

The members will be voting during the May meeting. Installation of officers will take place at our June meeting. Executive committee nominees are as follows:

• President-Rita Canales
• Vice President-Dorothea Lee
• Treasurer-Linda Hansen and Lisa Binner
• Secretary-Norman Jean Williams

Thanks to Colleen & Kirsten for offering Mosaic Rocks as the April Crafting Event, the last craft event until next October. This “sold out” event was A Rumbling Rockslide of Fun!

The 22 members !! who attended can now call themselves mosaicists.

. . . And then there were the “Grouting Groupies” who came back a few days later, to serve as volunteer grouters. They were willing to get down & dirty as they applied the oozy grout to everyone’s rock creations. You’ll never know which person grouted your rock: just to be safe, thank them all.

Take a look – Just a few of the many attending members and a plethora of their beautiful mosaic rocks!

We’re so proud of the McMinnville Garden Club for getting serious about recycling single-use plastics. The April recycling theme word was REDUCE.

Here are just a few of many ideas shared about how to REDUCE single-use plastic use.

• Bring your own reusable containers, coffee cups, and cutlery to meetings, etc.
• Bring your own container for leftovers at a restaurant.
• Avoid buying prepackaged foods in the grocery produce, meat, seafood sections.
• BYOB: Bring your own bags for grocery shopping (and other shopping too).
• Stop purchasing plastic bottles of H2O, instead bring your reusable container.
• Stop purchasing liquid laundry detergent in plastic jugs: switch to laundry sheets.
• Avoid using plastic wrap and baggies: Use silicon lids or bags, or beeswax wrap.

Mark Freeman is organizing a 2 volunteer day for help with sprucing up the plantings in front of our Post Office. Please bring a few necessities to help: weeding tool, gloves, a bucket, kneeling pad, and a sense of friendship and humor. Mark will bring his truck, so the haul-off is covered.
When: May 7 , 10-12:00. Where: The McMinnville Post Office.
Contact Mark for more information.

On April 20, fourteen Garden Club members converged on the 3 St. Historical District to do some serious sprucing up.

Everyone came packing lots of tools, and likely used every one of them all, while cleaning up the tree wells from Adams St. all the way to the railroad tracks, with a few special request side streets added in. All trimmings were stuffed into Peter’s truck to full capacity. By the end of the day Peter made two trips to Recology, dropping off one and 3/4 truckloads of ivy and various other trimmings.

The Yamhill Master Gardener’s Plant sale is the place to go for finding plants & ideas. There you’ll find thousands of ornamental and vegetable plants, on-sale and grown
by Master Gardeners! Also offered: FREE Soil pH testing, Plant Help Clinic, Plant Selection Assistance, Plant information, Specialty Vendor Booths.

• WHEN: Saturday, May 3 , 9am-4:00pm and Sunday May 4 , 10am-2:00pm.
• WHERE: Yamhill County Fairgrounds.

May’s Yard of the Month is a lovely and unusual front yard that will delight any walker. (Note: It might escape your eye if you just drive by because the yard is bordered by a solid 3 foot high, solid fence.) The owner, Heather has somehow managed to design an amazing garden that appears to be several years mature. Yet, the astonishing fact is this: She began planting it only one year ago, in the spring of 2024! Her design uses landscape rope and a wide variety of perennials, large in size, all labeled with botanical names, and most in bloom at this time. Be sure to send Heather your good vibes when you go to see this beauty, located at:

489 SW Mt Rainer, in McMinnville.

You can also read all about it in our Local News Register newspaper. Columnist Starla Pointer usually graciously gives our Yard of the Month a full page of interview and photos.

Yard of the Month is not a one-person committee. If you are reading this: Tag, you’re on this committee too! We want to honor and encourage our neighbors who are beautifying our community with their efforts.

All club members are requested to notice interesting front yards and to nominate them for Yard of the Month. Look for yards that are unique in some way and primarily owner-designed and maintained. If you see a garden that fits this description, please send the info. to Christine Pritts

Mark your calendars for our May 20 planting at the Serenity Garden at 9:30 am. We are trying to accumulate enough money to put in another walkway. So, we are asking for your partnership to help us with some of the plants we need.

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

The Serenity Garden trees are growing well and filling in, but more ground covers and shrubs need to be added to the existing beds. Below is a list of the plants we need to fill in these beds!

You can help us by sharing this list with possible donors, or by getting together with family or friends to buy a Mother’s Day gift for the Serenity Garden, or if you have extras of these plants in your garden. Please contact Barb Hilty  to coordinate repurposing your plants or to let her know which item(s) you would like to donate money for, so she can update her list.

For donations, you can write a check made out to “ The Serenity Garden”, including a notation about which item(s) you are “sponsoring” for the garden. Send checks to: McMinnville Garden Club, P.O. Box 386, prior to May 15.

You may bring the items from your yard (or monetary donations) to the garden club’s May meeting before the meeting. Find Patty: she will gladly receive them. The prices below are wholesale prices as of April 26, 2025.

Serenity Garden Wish/Need List for The Spring Beautification Project

• Qty: 10 – 4-inch, Carpet Bugle (Ajuga reptans ‘Caitlin’s Giant’ ): $3.50
• Qty: 3 – #1, gallon Silver Brocade Artemisia (Artemisia stelleriana ‘Silver Brocade’): $10.95
• Qty: 7 – #1, Winterglow Elephant’s Ears (Bergenia Winterglut): $14.95
• Qty: 5 – #1, Boulder Blue Fescue (Festuca glauca “Boulder Blue’): $10.95
• Qty: 7 – #1, Rozanne Hardy Geranium (Geranium ‘Rozanne’): $14.95
• Qty: 5 – #2, Soft CaressThreadleaf Mahonia (Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Soft Caress’): $29.50
• Qty: 1 – #1, Chief Joseph Shore Pine(Pinus contorta ‘Chief Joseph’): $90
• Qty: 5 – #1, (Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldstrum’): $9.95
• Qty: 10 – 4 inch, Angelina Sedum(Sedum ruprenstre ‘Angelina’): $4.95
• Qty: 5 – #1, Autumn Joy Sedum (Sedum spectabile ‘Autumn Joy’): $9.95
• Qty: 5 – #1, Daisy Bush (Senecio greyii): $14.95
• Qty: 1 – #1, Seargent’s weeping hemlock (Tsuga canadensus ‘Pendula’): $12.95
• Qty: 10 – #1, Georgia Blue Speedwell (Veronica peduncularis ‘Georgia Blue’): $10.95
• Qty: 3 – 4 inch Zauschneria californica $5.95
• Qty: 3 pkg seeds, California Poppy (Escholzia californica)
• Qty: 20 bulbs, Allium giganteum: 10 for $67.50
• Qty: 3 pkg. seeds, Nasturtium
• Substitute for Chief Joseph (Pinus contorta ‘Taylors Sunburst’)