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VOLUNTEER - Building and Grounds and
the Buxton Memorial Woodland Garden |
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Life Began In A Garden...
Consider helping the garden angels breathe new
life into our church home gardens this Spring and Summer.
Beginning in April, when the snow melts and the winds arm, pruning
will begin to help re-shape the gangly bushes around the building.
Watch for spring bulbs, planted last fall, to begin popping up all
over. Help out on one of the work days, to bring all the
gardens into full beauty. Volunteer to care for a specific
garden this summer.
Want to know more? Contact Mary Paull at
mpaull@wi.rr.com or
414-354-7692 to
volunteer weather-permitting. Come play in the dirt with us! |
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Buxton Memorial Woodland Garden
This lovely garden was created in 1977 in memory of our former
pastor, Rev. James Buxton, who served as pastor here for 26
years.
The
garden is ever changing, a place of peace, where you are invited
to sit, rest, observe, and pray, or enjoy conversation.
Contact
Diane Wais at
dwais03@sbcglobal.net to use your green thumb in the Buxton
Memorial Woodland Garden.
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A woodland garden is different from a formal garden. The
Buxton garden contains plants which grow naturally in
Wisconsin and which you might see in a Wisconsin woods.
There are
plantings for all seasons in the garden. It is common for
flowering in a woodland garden to be in spring, before the
leaves come out on trees. In the summer, we commonly see
plants of texture such as ferns, or meadow rue. During the
winter, leaves need to remain on the plants, to provide them
with a winter protection and mulch for the next growing season.
The
loss of plants can be a great problem, since it generally takes
three years for a plant to 'take' when it is planted.
Consequently we encourage folks to stay on the path. We
generally add new wood chips to the path yearly. We are in the
process of replacing the railroad ties that have marked the
path.
Seasonal plantings include:
| Early
Spring
Early Meadowrue
Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia
virginica)
Tricyrtis Empress) |
Late
Spring
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Great Solomon's Seal
Columbine |
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spring and Early Summer:
Buttercup
Mayapple
Anemone
Wild Strawberry
Wild Geranium
Wild Ginger (Asarum canadaense)
Starry Solomon's Plume
Foam Flower (Tiarella) |
Mid-summer
Turtlehead (Chelone glaabra)
Phlox
Bug bane (Cimicifuga Racemosa) |
| Late
Summer
Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Woodland Sunflower
Zig Zag Goldenrod
Bee Balm
Short's Aster (Aster shortii)
Sweet Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia
subtomentosa) |
All
Season Plantings
Ostrich Ferns
Maidenhair Fern
Wood Fern |
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