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Saturday, June 7

BUS TRIP

DO NOT MISS THIS ONE

Another great bus trip has been planned by Casey Funk, Vince Herring and the rest of her committee.

This will be a chance to visit some great Minnesota gardens and there will be lots of buying opportunities.

Budget accordingly

The cost will be $30. for members and $35. for non members.

Sign up early to reserve a spot. The bus will load at 6:45 am and leave at 7am from the parking lot by Gander Mountain by Sam’s Club off 55th ST NW, Rochester.

This will be a full day of touring.

We will be visiting: Global Gardens by Zimmerman, MN. Pat Ferguson visited here last summer and came away quite impressed. Global is a retail and mail order outlet for over 800 different hostas and many perennials as well. They have about 2 acres of display gardens featuring mature hostas. Get some great ideas. Visit their web site for a taste: Venero Gardens: located west of Minneapolis in Shorewood. They have beautiful gardens with sun loving and shade tolerant perennials and shade loving hostas plus a water feature surrounding their personal residence. They also have retail sales. Last time there they had a striking border of Hosta plantaginea and many mature specimen plants.

Gowan’s Gardens: Just a couple miles away are the gardens of Ben and Hideko Gowan. Hideko has introduced several wonderful hostas including: H. ‘Bridegroom and H. ‘Silk Kimono’. As a long time hosta fan she has a huge selection of hostas to view and many you won’t see elsewhere due to her long association with early hosta hybridizers. There will probably also be hostas for sale here. This may be one of the last chances to view this garden as the Gowans are considering moving . The committee is working on lining up another private garden to view but details are not complete yet. Bring your own lunch and snacks. Water and some snacks will be provided.

form in a PDF format

Sign up for bus tour


Members SOGHS $30 Non Members $35.
Name (s) _________________________________________
Address ________________________________________
E-mail ________________________________________
Phone _________________________________________

Make check payable to: SOGHS
Number going _____ at $30.00 ____________
Number going _____ at $35.00 ____________
TOTAL enc. $ _____________

Send to: SOGHS Bus Tour
Casey Funk
1615 Teton CT NE
Rochester MN 55906
The above form can be copied and pasted into your Word program.

Plant Sale -- Saturday, May 17 8AM-Noon

Olmsted County Fairgrounds Horticulture Building

Plant Sale Set-Up -- Friday, May 16, 2008 1 PM-7 PM

No sale of plants before Saturday.

Digging tips

Photo Contest -- NEW IN 2008

Summer Fun Prizes

Garden tours are starting in June and it's time to get your cameras out. To make things more fun, we're adding incentives to get member photographs of SOGHS events for the scrapbook and early entries for the photo contest.

Each month in June, July, and August a name will be drawn from those who send in photos to win a prize (one chance per person per month, but feel free to send more photos.) You won't want to miss out on this opportunity to win 'fabulous' prizes!

Send your photos to Linda Orleff by email: linda@orleff.com

or by mail to: Linda Orleff

2116 8th Ave NE,

Rochester, MN 55906

   H. Sagae