Looking for a great way to spend Mother's Day with the whole family? Come to our first ever Baby Animals Days at the USU Botanical Center in Kaysville. This fun event will be on Friday evening and all day Saturday.
Come see some cute baby goats, ducks, chicks, llamas, and lambs. There will be train rides, a rock wall, and a putting green with prizes. Go here for more information. Hope to see you and the family there!
Buy your tickets online here or at the gate and remember to bring a non-perishable food item and receive $5 off the $25 family ticket price.
Baby Animal Days Poster (2)
Ogden's premier garden nestled at the mouth of Ogden Canyon along the scenic Ogden River Parkway. Located at 1750 Monroe Blvd. (801) 399-8080
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
How to Register for the Get Growing Classes
I apologize for any problems people have been experiencing with trying to register for our upcoming classes using my past blog posts.
Here is the updated and working links to the registration sites. Thanks Kathy!
Here is the updated and working links to the registration sites. Thanks Kathy!
Get Growing Gardening Classes
New this year we
are offering a great Saturday morning of classes on some of our most requested
topics:
►
Raised Beds (for vegetables, herbs, berries and even fruit trees)
►
Composting
►
Planting & Selecting Trees & Shrubs
Each class is
taught by an expert, and you will take home free vegetables for your
garden. Attached is the flyer with information about the classes and
registering. Cost for all three classes only: $20/public,
$14/member
To register Click
Here or call 801-399-8201
● NOTE: If
you haven’t become a “Friend of the Gardens” for both the Ogden Botanical
Gardens & USU Botanical, here is a link where you can read more and get an
application. Click
Here Over the growing season a membership pays for itself in
discounts on all classes, discounts on plants at the “Members Only” Plant Sale
(including plants grown only for members), discounts on merchandise, and
special invitations to events planned just for members.
What does
membership do for the gardens? It allows us to continue developing new
areas in the gardens such as the outdoor classroom installed last year with
funds from memberships. We need you, and we do our best to make
membership valuable to you. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to
call 801-399-8201.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
April To-Do List
Okay, it's April and with all this warm weather that we've been having, we can get gardening sooner this year than last!
Here are some things that can do this month in the garden!
Here are some things that can do this month in the garden!
► Remove weeds from the garden and
ornamental beds early.
► Start a new compost pile for use later
in the season. Come to our Get Growing Gardening Classes on April 14th. We'll be teaching about composting, raised bed gardening, and how to select and plant trees and shrubs. For more information go here and register here.
► Plant semi-cool crops such as
cauliflower, carrots, beets, lettuce, potatoes and Swiss chard.
► Start an asparagus bed in a trench
composed of the existing soil mixed with organic matter and an all-purpose
fertilizer.
► Aerate the lawn to promote air and water
movement, decrease thatch, increase fertilizer penetration and prepare to apply
pre-emergent.
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| Core aeration before you apply a pre-emgerent herbicide. |
► Apply a pre-emergent to turfgrass the
first of April, and again the first of
June, to control crabgrass and spurge.
► Wait to cut back foliage of spring
blooming bulbs such as daffodils and tulips until the leaves turn yellow or die
back.
► Prune shrubs that bloom after June 1st.
► Get some new strawberry plants for the
berry patch.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Get Growing Class Flyer
If you saw Jerry on Studio 5 a few weeks ago, he mentioned our Get Growing Classes that we'll be having on April 14th. Here is the flyer with more information about each of the classes. We have put together a great set of classes with some awesome instructors. Hope that you want to come and learn from the experts about composting, raised bed gardening, and selecting and planting trees and shrubs. The workshops are $20 for the public or $14 for Members of the Gardens. Each participant will go home with some veggie starts for their own gardens. You can register here.
Get Growing Gardening Classes Big Flyer
Get Growing Gardening Classes Big Flyer
How to Prune Fruit Trees, Grapes & Raspberries Power Point
Here is Jerry's fruit pruning power point from Saturday's pruning classes. It covers fruit trees, grapes, and raspberries. Thanks for sharing Jerry!
Pruning All Fruits
Pruning All Fruits
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Ogden Standard Examiner Newspaper Article About our New Addition
Here is the new addition to the Ogden Botanical Gardens. Thanks Dennis for all your hard work and donated time to the gardens. We truly have the best Master Gardeners in the world!
Carved bears court wedding proposals at MTC Park
OGDEN — An addition to the MTC Park in Ogden is a cute attraction
as well as a monument to the volunteers who serve there each week.
A carved female and a male bear, facing each other with a bench between them, are adorned with the words “Love Hill” encased in a heart and the instructions “propose here.” Both bears have the wide eyes of those contemplating marriage.
“I thought because they are posing for pictures all the time and weddings, something romantic would fit in,” said Dennis Miller, who carved the bears and made the bench between them, then built steps up the hill to the creation.
“I didn’t want people to have to walk up the hill in the mud,” Miller said.
Miller is known for his creations throughout several Riverdale parks, which he completed when he worked for that city. But now he’s retired and spreading the love he has for carving in a place where his heart is.
“My wife and I have each put in 850 hours of volunteer work apiece,” he said. “We are master gardeners.”
Miller and his wife, Ardie, conduct plant diagnostic sessions Wednesday nights through the spring and summer months.
Miller said this work of art came to him as he studied the trees he used to create them.
“I was thinking of it all the time,” he said. “I would wake up in the middle of the night.”
Miller said whenever he makes a carved work of art, he looks at the trees or pieces of wood and they seem to speak to him, telling him what they should become.
This creation was made from two Siberian elm trees that park organizers wanted to remove.
“They really are junk trees,” Miller said. “They grow wild all over the hills, (but) they are not native to the area.”
He said when park officials decided to get rid of the two trees, he agreed to carve them.
“I’d been promising Jerry Goodspeed, when I retired I would carve something,” he said, noting that he retired in December 2010. “Last year, we decided on the trees with Jerry.”
Goodspeed is the director of the Ogden Botanical Gardens located in the park and is a Utah State University Extension horticulturalist.
Goodspeed is excited about the creation because it adds to the park and honors volunteers.
“It’s very nice to have a representative of all the volunteers,” Goodspeed said. “The (Millers) have volunteered all of this and done it on their own time.”
And Goodspeed said the carving adds a great deal to the park.
“Part of the idea of the gardens is to beautify and also create interest,” Goodspeed said.
Miller said he started his hobby out of a desire to save money.
“My wife loves bears,” Miller said, explaining how he started on his chain-saw carving hobby. “Carved bears are quite pricey.”
Miller said he took up the carving hobby in 2004 when his wife, who wanted some of the pricey masterpieces herself, bought him a how-to video and a chain saw.
MTC Park is on the east side of Monroe Boulevard at about 1800 South. The new bears are west of the easternmost bowery in the park.
A carved female and a male bear, facing each other with a bench between them, are adorned with the words “Love Hill” encased in a heart and the instructions “propose here.” Both bears have the wide eyes of those contemplating marriage.
“I thought because they are posing for pictures all the time and weddings, something romantic would fit in,” said Dennis Miller, who carved the bears and made the bench between them, then built steps up the hill to the creation.
“I didn’t want people to have to walk up the hill in the mud,” Miller said.
Miller is known for his creations throughout several Riverdale parks, which he completed when he worked for that city. But now he’s retired and spreading the love he has for carving in a place where his heart is.
“My wife and I have each put in 850 hours of volunteer work apiece,” he said. “We are master gardeners.”
Miller and his wife, Ardie, conduct plant diagnostic sessions Wednesday nights through the spring and summer months.
Miller said this work of art came to him as he studied the trees he used to create them.
“I was thinking of it all the time,” he said. “I would wake up in the middle of the night.”
Miller said whenever he makes a carved work of art, he looks at the trees or pieces of wood and they seem to speak to him, telling him what they should become.
This creation was made from two Siberian elm trees that park organizers wanted to remove.
“They really are junk trees,” Miller said. “They grow wild all over the hills, (but) they are not native to the area.”
He said when park officials decided to get rid of the two trees, he agreed to carve them.
“I’d been promising Jerry Goodspeed, when I retired I would carve something,” he said, noting that he retired in December 2010. “Last year, we decided on the trees with Jerry.”
Goodspeed is the director of the Ogden Botanical Gardens located in the park and is a Utah State University Extension horticulturalist.
Goodspeed is excited about the creation because it adds to the park and honors volunteers.
“It’s very nice to have a representative of all the volunteers,” Goodspeed said. “The (Millers) have volunteered all of this and done it on their own time.”
And Goodspeed said the carving adds a great deal to the park.
“Part of the idea of the gardens is to beautify and also create interest,” Goodspeed said.
Miller said he started his hobby out of a desire to save money.
“My wife loves bears,” Miller said, explaining how he started on his chain-saw carving hobby. “Carved bears are quite pricey.”
Miller said he took up the carving hobby in 2004 when his wife, who wanted some of the pricey masterpieces herself, bought him a how-to video and a chain saw.
MTC Park is on the east side of Monroe Boulevard at about 1800 South. The new bears are west of the easternmost bowery in the park.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Jerry on Studio 5: Planting Veggies Now & Upcoming Class
Our favorite horticulturist was on Studio 5 last week. If you missed him, here he is in all his plant glory! Good job Jerry! He mentions our upcoming mini workshops:
Gardening Mini Classes: Raised Beds, Planting Trees and Shrubs, Growing Perennials & Composting
Learn how to build and use a successful raised bed for vegetables, raspberries, strawberries and even fruit trees. Includes selecting and planting ornamental trees, shrubs and perennials, and composting methods.
When: April 14th 9am - 12pm
Where: Ogden Botanical Gardens
Cost: $14 Members, $20 Public
To register click here
9am Compost Class
Get the most out of your growing space by learning the basics of composting. Compost is a rich soil amendment that will benefit your garden plants and the environment. Instructor: Bob Saunders, Weber County Master Gardener.
Learn how to select and properly plant the right trees and shrubs for your landscape. Instructor: Monte Stewart, Ogden City Urban Forester
Gardening Mini Classes: Raised Beds, Planting Trees and Shrubs, Growing Perennials & Composting
Learn how to build and use a successful raised bed for vegetables, raspberries, strawberries and even fruit trees. Includes selecting and planting ornamental trees, shrubs and perennials, and composting methods.
When: April 14th 9am - 12pm
Where: Ogden Botanical Gardens
Cost: $14 Members, $20 Public
To register click here
9am Compost Class
Get the most out of your growing space by learning the basics of composting. Compost is a rich soil amendment that will benefit your garden plants and the environment. Instructor: Bob Saunders, Weber County Master Gardener.
10am Raised Beds Class
Learn how to build and plant a successful raised bed for vegetables, flowers, berries, grapes and even fruit trees. Instructor: Karen Bastow, Weber County Master Gardener.
11am Planting Trees and ShrubsLearn how to build and plant a successful raised bed for vegetables, flowers, berries, grapes and even fruit trees. Instructor: Karen Bastow, Weber County Master Gardener.
Learn how to select and properly plant the right trees and shrubs for your landscape. Instructor: Monte Stewart, Ogden City Urban Forester
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