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Sheboygan County Master Gardener S pring is right around the corner! If I have heard that phrase once, I have heard it repeated at least 10 times in the past few days. Truth be told, that must be one heck of a camouflaged corner, because I can’t find it. I know that spring is indeed coming, I would just appreciate it coming a bit faster! Dorothy Parker wrote, “Every year, back comes spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground is all mucked up with plants”. Well excuse me Dorothy, but some of us like that mucked up ground. I can relate to Margaret Atwood’s words of wisdom, “In spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt”. Frankly Margaret, I can’t wait for that day. Then my personal favorite from Doug Larson, “Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush”. Until those spring days actually come, we just need to remember, “The beauty of winter, is that it makes you appreciate spring! (L.M. Montgomery) Well, Bless My Bloomers! Ruth Davis President Master Gardener Volunteers Sheboygan County Message From the President Ruth Davis Spring 2018 University of Wisconsin-Extension Sheboygan County 5 University Drive, Sheboygan, WI 53081 · (920) 459-5904 2018 Board Members and WIMGA Representative President: Ruth Davis Vice-President: Barb Retlich Secretary: Lynn Thornton Treasurer: Debbie Ott Board Members: Val Gillman Niles Klaves Marty Steinbruecker WIMGA Representative: Pat Mersberger March 2018 March 5 - Master Gardener Board Meeting, UW-Extension March 10 - Your Garden Can Feed You All Year, 10:00 am, UW-Extension March 13 - Master Gardener Potluck and Project Sign Up, 6:00 pm, UW-Extension April 2018 April 24 - Tour of the Greenhouses LTC, 4:00 - 5:00 pm or 6:00 - 7:00 pm April 26 - Tour of the Greenhouses LTC, 6:00 - 7:00 pm May 2018 May 15 - Invasive Plant Controls for Gardeners, 6:30 pm, UW-Extension

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Page 1: Sheboygan County Master Gardener...Sheboygan County Master Gardener S pring is right around the corner! If I have heard that phrase once, I have heard it repeated at least 10 times

Sheboygan County

Master Gardener

S pring is right around the corner! If I have heard that phrase once, I have heard it repeated at least 10 times in the past few days. Truth be told, that

must be one heck of a camouflaged corner, because I can’t find it. I know that spring is indeed coming, I would just appreciate it coming a bit faster!

Dorothy Parker wrote, “Every year, back comes spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground is all mucked up with plants”. Well excuse me Dorothy, but some of us like that mucked up ground. I can relate to Margaret Atwood’s words of

wisdom, “In spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt”. Frankly Margaret, I can’t wait for that day. Then my personal favorite from Doug Larson, “Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush”. Until those spring days actually come, we just need to remember, “The beauty of winter, is that it makes you appreciate spring! (L.M. Montgomery) Well, Bless My Bloomers! Ruth Davis President Master Gardener Volunteers Sheboygan County

Message From the President Ruth Davis

Spring 2018

University of Wisconsin-Extension Sheboygan County 5 University Drive, Sheboygan, WI 53081 · (920) 459-5904

2018 Board Members and WIMGA Representative

President: Ruth Davis Vice-President: Barb Retlich Secretary: Lynn Thornton Treasurer: Debbie Ott

Board Members: Val Gillman Niles Klaves Marty Steinbruecker

WIMGA Representative: Pat Mersberger

March 2018 March 5 - Master Gardener Board Meeting, UW-Extension March 10 - Your Garden Can Feed You All Year, 10:00 am, UW-Extension March 13 - Master Gardener Potluck and Project Sign Up, 6:00 pm, UW-Extension April 2018 April 24 - Tour of the Greenhouses LTC, 4:00 - 5:00 pm or 6:00 - 7:00 pm April 26 - Tour of the Greenhouses LTC, 6:00 - 7:00 pm May 2018 May 15 - Invasive Plant Controls for Gardeners, 6:30 pm, UW-Extension

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Page 2 Master Gardener Volunteers - Spring 2018

S heboygan County Master Gardeners are sponsoring four programs that you may attend to help fulfill your 10 hours of continuing education

requirement. March 10 (Saturday) 10:00 a.m.at UWEX Megan Cain

Your Garden Can Feed You All Year This Madison gardener and author will present a program on how to plan a vegetable garden so it feeds you throughout the year. She will teach you to have your earliest harvest ever in spring, keep the momentum going in summer through succession planting, and have a robust fall garden that feeds you all the way to holiday gatherings. Using simple

techniques, you can extend the fruits (and vegetables) of your labor into more months of the year. Check out Megan at The Creative Vegetable Gardener. March 13 (Tuesday) 6:00 p.m.

Potluck and Project Sign Up This is your chance to hear project leaders talk about their projects and sign up to help out on one or two or more. Bring a dish to pass. Everything else is provided. April 24 (Tuesday) 4:00-5:00 p.m. or 6:00-7:00 p.m April 26 (Thursday) 6:00-7:00 p.m. Ray Rogers, LTC Horticulture Instructor

Tour of the Greenhouses at Lakeshore Technical College Highlights will include the hundreds of plants propagated by the students in their Greenhouse and Nursery Production class as well as the general plant collection, which includes pelargoniums, cacti and other succulents, and many other foliage and flowering plants. Ray tries to maintain a fairly broad range of plants for LTC students to learn,

Spring Programs

maintain, prepare for display and propagate in the program’s two greenhouse classes. When we visit there will be well over a thousand plants in the greenhouse.

Sign up for one of the three tours listed above. (MGVs Only)

Please note that there is limited availability for the Tuesday tours. The third tour was rescheduled for Thursday as the original Wednesday tour had no one signed up. If you would like to sign up for a tour (or if you are already signed up for a Tuesday tour and would prefer or be willing to sign up for Thursday), contact Tammy …459-5904 or [email protected] May 15 (Tuesday) 6:30 p.m. Kelly Kearns DNR Invasive Plant Coordinator

Invasive Plant Control for Gardeners This is a topic that is relevant to many of our Master Gardener project gardens that are threatened by invasives or have native plants (weeds) that encroach on the cultivated areas that frequently feature more preferred natives. Kelly’s discussion will discuss the definition and impacts of invasive plants, common invasives in east central Wisconsin, ornamentals that can become invasive, new species to be aware of in Sheboygan County and what to do if they are found. She will also present an overview of control methods. Note: The March and May programs are open to the public and free of charge. So, bring a friend.

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Page 3 Master Gardener Volunteers - Spring 2018

If you have ever visited Sherry Speth’s garden you know that she and her husband Dave are big fans of conifers. Every year they add a few choice specimens to their landscape. They are “coniferites. They have also become active in the American Conifer Society Central Region. Recently Sherry shared with me a special edition of Coniferite, the Society’s publication. This special edition is an introduction to the amazing world of conifers. What’s to like about conifers? Why does John Vrablic have 580 different dwarves and miniatures on his ½ acre lot near Toledo. What is it that attracts so many collectors and casual gardeners? Firstly, they add interest to your garden in all seasons…even the dead of winter. Nothing beats the artistry of snow on an evergreen, when nothing else is happening in your garden. Plus, they are available in a wide range of colors-- a full spectrum of greens (of course) and also blue, yellow, gold and gray plus many variegated versions with stripes, spots, and blotches of white, cream and yellow.

What’s a Coniferite? By Sue Mathews

One of the most intriguing aspects of dwarf conifers is the incredible variety of shapes and textures. “These include upright (narrow or wide), globe, bun, vase, mound, conical, weeping, oval, horizontal, ground hugging and irregular”. Most of these are interesting in their natural shapes and need no pruning or training to maintain. But if you are of a more creative mind they can be altered and pruned and trained into more formal or imaginative or, even, crazy shapes. If you are interested in adding more conifers to your garden you might want to learn a little more about them; and this small publication can help you do that. It’s 35 pages are chock full of the kind of information you need to successfully add growing conifers, especially dwarf conifers, to your gardening bag of tricks. In addition to basic conifer info Coniferite includes tips on sourcing, pruning and caring for dwarves, propagating conifers, the relationship between witch’s brooms and dwarf conifers, threats to our conifer forests and much more. Sherry has copies of this nifty publication, which is available at no cost to anyone interested in joining the ACS. Check with her if you want to learn more about conifers or are interested in visiting her garden and seeing the diversity of conifers for yourself. For more information about the American Conifer Society, see the ACS website http://conifersociety.org/

Dave & Sherry Speth’s garden

L evel 1 Training will be offered in the fall. In hopes of inspiring future Master Gardeners, we would like to feature our projects on our

Facebook page this summer. So, when you go out to work on a project take a few pictures and send them to Sue Mathews ([email protected]). We would especially like pictures of Master

Wanted: Project Photos

Gardeners happily at work.

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Page 4 Master Gardener Volunteers - Spring 2018

Tidbits from my Garden Reading By Sue Mathews

W hen

spring comes and snow melts many gardeners discover that they have a problem with voles which regularly destroy lawns and gardens. If you discover a vole problem, here is your plan of attack: 1. Modify their habitat…by removing piles of

debris, weeds, groundcover and leaves in your yard. Voles are tasty feast for many predators. Make them easy to find. Also, cultivate your beds to destroy vole runways and habitats.

2. Install fences…easier to do around small areas or individual plants. Use ¼ inch hardware cloth to construct barriers and sink them 6 inches deep into the ground.

3. Reduce the population…with traps and poisons. These also will do a better job in a small area but, even so, voles are rapid reproducers. Place mouse traps near a tunnel entrance hole. Home gardeners can also look for anticoagulant baits but be sure to use them in child/pet proof bait boxes.

4. Plant some flowers that may deter voles, spec. alliums (ornamental onions), daffodils, and grape hyacinth.

Fine Gardening, Nov/Dec 2017 If you garden on the edge of a woodland, you need to be vigilant about ticks which can spread Lyme and other diseases. Dr. Neeta Connally recommends permethrin-treated clothing. You can buy clothing already treated, send your clothes away for treatment, or do it yourself. All U.S. military uniforms are treated by a company that will also treat your clothes which are then effective through 70 washings. If you want to treat your clothes yourself, look in camping supply stores for one of many products that will work on your garment for 4-6 washings. Read instructions carefully. Then apply it to your garment…not your skin. These products are EPA-registered and approved for use. The Latest on Backyard Tick Research with Dr. Neeta Connally. https://awaytogarden.com/latest-backyard-tick-research-dr-neeta-connally/

We are all thinking about crabgrass as spring approaches. Here are a few tips for controlling this nuisance. 1. Be sure you really

have crabgrass. Apparently most people don’t!

2. Crabgrass is an annual plant whose seeds start germinating after the soil temperature reaches 55º F for at least 5 consecutive days. It will continue sprouting through the summer until the soil temperature reaches 95º F.

3. Preventive chemicals must be applied before the soils warms to 55º. A rule of thumb we have all heard is apply it when the forsythia is blooming. Or when the dandelions, redbuds and dogwood trees are in bloom.

4. Some preventive chemicals will be effective for a month or two after application. For continued control through the end of summer, you may need to make a second application.

Chicagoland Gardening March/April 2018 The Chicago Botanic Garden has a 2.5 acre sunny plant evaluation garden. The Plant Evaluation Program is one of the most extensive in the nation and one of the few that evaluates perennials. The goals is to determine which plants are superior for gardens in the Upper Midwest. Numerous genera of a plant are grown side by side and compared. Plants are judged on ornamental appeal, winter hardiness and disease and pest resistance. Care is what the average home owner would do…some watering, mulching and weeding. The evaluation studies are continued for years. 4 years for perennials 6 years for shrubs/vines 7 to 10 years for trees Results are published in “Plant Evaluation Notes.” The most recent (#42) covers lavenders for northern gardens. Check out all of the notes on the CBG website. From a talk given by Plant Evaluation Manager, Richard Hawke on February 23, 2018 at UWEX Landscape & Grounds Maintenance Short Course

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Page 7 Master Gardener Volunteers - Spring 2018

2018 Wausau Garden Visions/WPT’s Madison Garden Expo

The third lecturer was the Director of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Alan J. Branhagen. He talked on native plants that would do well in a semi-shady setting such as a forest edge, including many plants that are generally considered to be full-sun plantings such as Purple coneflowers. Garden Visions was a good experience and educational opportunity. Wisconsin Public Television’s Madison Garden Expo was held 2 weeks after Wausau’s conference. The Garden Expo is a whole other experience with 16,000+ attendees, 350 vendors, 3 days of seminars, demonstrations, and a farmers market on the last day. The ACS again had a booth in Madison. The best part of this booth experience was talking to all the people who stopped at our booth wanting to know where they could buy the small and unusual conifers that we displayed in the posters decorating the booth. I think the three of us did a good job getting the word out. By Sunday, UW-Extension staff and the Hardy Plant Society were sending attendees with conifer questions to our booth. Because of booth activity, I was only able to take in 4 seminars. I listened to Mike Maddox talk on pruning of ornamental bushes. He does most of his pruning between Valentine’s Day and Tax Day. Mark Dwyer talked about great examples of new shrubs for color. One take away piece of advice from Mark’s presentation is if you have a dark leaf shrub such as Diablo Ninebark in you garden, always plant something yellow near it or you will not notice the dark leaf bush. The Flower Factory’s Nancy Nedveck talked about the many new perennials to tempt gardeners. My head was swimming with ideas I wanted to try. The last session that I attended was on sedges that are being used at Olbrich Botanic Garden to replace lawns. I would encourage anyone who has an interest in gardening to attend next year’s event. Both conferences provided Continuing Education Hours to meet our annual requirement.

Sherry Speth

T his year, I had the opportunity of participating in the Garden Visions MGV event in Wausau, not as an attendee but as a vendor.

My husband, another member of the American Conifer Society (ACS), and I purchased a booth to promote the use of conifers and the ACS. We offered for sale 6 book titles covering a variety of conifer related topics and a special edition of our ACS newsletter. Our ACS newsletter editor had made several large posters highlighting the color and shapes of conifer cultivars that are available commercially. We also displayed a number of conifer branches showing the diversity of needle patterns and colors. To attract attention to our booth, we offered a free hand out explaining how to identify different conifer species based on its needles. The event was a test for us since we are also signed up for the Garden Expo in Madison. The Wausau Garden Visions was a sell out with 300 attendees for this one day event. The Wausau show key note speaker was Ellen Ecker Ogden, who spoke on designing kitchen gardens for beauty and utility. Her talk was informative and accompanied by beautiful photos. Later in the afternoon, I listened to Rob Zimmer speak on ‘Easy Fun Landscaping Ideas’. His talk covered basic design elements, which complemented the 2016 Level 2 Design Course offered through the Extension. His beautiful photos provided me with many ideas for the UW-Sheboygan campus gardens. One major take-away idea from his talk was to always have a focal point and use cobalt blue. He pointed out how one’s eye is immediately drawn to a blue pot, door, fence or what have you. He also identified the 2018 horticultural color of the year is purple and there are a number of new cultivars available in this color. He had some stellar pot combinations in his presentation.

Sherry Speth at Garden Visions Wausau

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Meals on Wheels Vegetable Garden Faith Gruber Barb Nyenhuis 458-7502 980-4820 [email protected] [email protected]

October 11th Memorial and Dutch Settlement Historical Marker Lori Walker 946-6512 [email protected]

Plank Road Trail Trailhead Maintenance Erie Avenue—David Eiden 457-8627 [email protected] Greenbush—Val Gillman 893-8215 [email protected] Plymouth—Hwy 57—Sarah Britt 226-9027 [email protected] Sheboygan Falls—Teresa Claerbout 918-0466 [email protected]

Plymouth Arts Center Pamela Hailer 892-8390 [email protected]

Sensory Gardens Barb Pence 459-7962 [email protected]

Sharon S. Richardson Community Hospice Ruth Davis 912-8917 [email protected]

Sheboygan County Fair Sue Droll Sherry Speth 946-3064 467-2002 [email protected] [email protected]

Social/Sunshine Committee - Annual Mtg, Picnic, Potluck & Parties

Lori Walker 946-6512 [email protected]

UW-Sheboygan Campus Landscaping Sherry Speth 467-2002 [email protected]

Wade House Kathy Schneider 526-3235 [email protected]

Yankee Garden—Sheboygan Falls Vickie Lindstrom 565-2521 [email protected]

Bookworm Garden Sherry Speth 467-2002 [email protected]

Camp Y-Koda Stephanie Larson Teresa Claerbout 207-1951 918-0466 [email protected] [email protected]

Children’s Museum Garden Marty Steinbruecker 946-0206 [email protected]

Education & Program Committee Sue Mathews 458-1848 [email protected]

Garden Walk - Doris Weber Connie Gross 467-3266 400-1273 [email protected] [email protected]

Generations—Plymouth Sue Droll 946-3064 [email protected]

Horticultural Hotline Connie Gross 400-1273 [email protected]

John Michael Kohler Arts Center Indoor Garden Christina Wilke-Burbach 889-1318 [email protected]

Kohler Andre State Park Sue Mathews 458-1848 [email protected]

Kohler Foundation/Waelderhaus Herb Garden Lynn Thornton 980-6545 [email protected]

Lakefront Garden Lori Walker 946-6512 [email protected]

Marsh Park Tower Project Nancy Themar 894-3660 [email protected]

Master Gardener Newsletter Sue Mathews 458-1848 [email protected]

Maywood Rain Garden Marty Steinbruecker 946-0206 [email protected]

2018 Project Chairs & Co-Chairs

Please contact any committee chair or Ruth Davis (912-8917) if you

have questions or are interested in signing up for one of the committee

projects.